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Wasn't a lot of Snow Leopard an exercise in removing old cruft from the PowerPC architecture, and the last release to support 32-bit Intel machines? From my perspective at the time…

I first used an Apple IIe in an afterschool program when I was 7. I learned the rudiments of BASIC and wrote a bunch of spaghetti GOTOs. I woke up this morning and thought it'd be …

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/18/state-senator-eicho...

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I power up my Titanium Powerbook at least once a year or so. 23 years old and works just fine. I last opened it July 4, 2023, and there was a software update waiting for me.

In the Danish system, each mortgage is backed by a matching bond. Thus, mortgage holders have two ways to pay off their mortgage: 1) pay the monthly payments or 2) buy the matching…

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A few professors in my undergrad econ department have done a lot of actual academic research into this, and, in fact, started the American Association of Wine Economists ( https://…

Fair, but if you're teaching an entry-level undergraduate CS course, you have to to start somewhere, right? Giving them a set of best practices and a clear syntax does that. And th…

So…why is this named for Stigler?

I just wish someone would do this for iPad. I know the market is small, but there's nothing even attempting this for iPad.

I actually bought this, and got one from the first batch. Great book, my 3 year-old loves playing with it. Definitely recommend.

I actually bought this, and got one from the first batch. Great book, my 3 year-old loves playing with it.

1) Yes, and it was from a stock award for him hitting targets set in 2011 2) From https://www.ft.com/content/17ecb0a0-8e60-4d02-b1fc-f497c9e31... [paywall]: "Tim Cook’s triumph as …

Isn't this heavily "adapted" from this NYTimes article from last year?? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...