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I was so impressed with remove.bg in Dec 2018; awesome to see the progress in this area, so cool.
I wonder if self-driving cars and massively improved safety will solve this.
5 kids in a car, held, seated, seatbelted, any-which-way. Like on a train.
Ahh BBS's: where I learned the difference between a local call and a "local toll call" (parents were not happy)
Me too! With Sendkeys and some Win32 API calls, I wrote an AOL add-on (available through Keyword: addons) called AoLOL!. It was my first software business.
Q: How do you identify the AOL window?
A: Look for an app with titlebar = "America[space][space]Online"
This is awesome, great work!
Remember Accompany.com and Mercata and other group-buying websites from the 90's dotcom boom? Time for those again?
Nielsen's "Usability Engineering" was my FIRST EVER Amazon.com purchase in June 1998.
Ha, reminds me of XTREE GOLD, from the late 80's / early 90's. A time where the default file explorer was unbearable.
I absolutely loved VB3 thru VB6!
Roblox studio. My son is a sound designer for some of the top games there. He's also learning programming in Lua for Roblox platform.
It is a small community of mostly kids aged 15-25 as far as I can tell. It doesn't seem like any professional adult game developers are part of the community (I got an inside view when I took my son to RDC this year).
The top game developers are making millions of dollars per year (they're paid in Robux and converted to USD).
In short, thriving ecosystem with lots of kids having fun doing creative work including creating games, writing code, designing graphics, designing sound effects.
And car driver.
When I heard about how Tesla was training it's AI - without describing objects but instead through direct observation - it reminded me of Heinlein's "Door Into Summer" (1956). Heinlein's character teaches a multipurpose robot how to do any tedious human task through direct observation.
Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for example.
Ha, back in 1995 I could HEAR in advance when my PC was going to crash. I could tell from the certain crunching / grinding sounds of the hard disk. I could hear it and think "Uh oh, here comes a crash..." And then blue screen of death.
From Heinlein's Waldo & Magic Inc, a fun and worthwhile read (and audiobook)
I used VB 3.0 thru VB 6.0 and I echo the sentiment: those were fun and productive times. Really solid integrated development environment centered around the desktop UI / form design / UI controls like buttons, textboxes, combo boxes, etc.
I also agree that the web changed everything and that is the major reason for the shift away.
Ha, that scene is how I learned to program. Built a shareware tool called AoLOL! (available by going to keyword "Addon"), $14.95, got paper checks from all over the country! Then I met the ICQ founders...
We learned about affixing a camera to the data input / output LED's on a network interface card and by doing that capturing the ENTIRE data stream.
I learned about this exact exploit in my computer security class at University circa 1999 or 2000: "power LED is connected directly to the power line of the electrical circuit"
It's like traversing a bad "mega menu."
Did you know that "double-click" on early Windows literally meant "click the same pixel twice in rapid succession"?
I had the same thought!
Then, my next thought was:
Who (in industry) wrote this? (and got FTC to publish it? wanting to drive some agenda forward).
I remember a similar app - way less sophisticated - at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
As a kid in 1994 ish, through trial and error I learned that ZMODEM was the far more reliable way to download stuff (from a user POV).
I'm with you guys here. My first program was an AOL...program. Learned how to program by copying some kids I met in private AOL chat rooms.
My first commercial program (shareware) was a legit AOL add-on (AoLOL!). Designed, built, and redesigned several times before I had the courage to ship it. Visual Basic 3.0. Used Win32 API to attach my program to the AOL toolbar (for AOL 2.5 and AOL 3.0). Had folks from all around the country send me a $14.95 check via US mail.
Me too, been using it for 10 years.