Viewing profile — julesallen

Thank you for sharing this.

Absolutely agree, have been looking for something like this for a while now. Did you build this yourself? Would love to know more if you’d be so kind to share. Used to do similar t…

There’s need and there’s want I suppose. My oldest computer book I won’t part with is Alan Simpson’s dBase III+ Programmer's reference guide, circa 1987. This book was transformati…

Glad I'm not the only lunatic who would do something like this. At least until I got my paws on dBASE. I worked with somebody with your name in the early 90s on a Sequent/Dynix sys…

Skimming this and thoroughly enjoying it, back in the mid to late 80s I worked in London's phototypesetting industry mostly serving ad agencies and others who needed high quality, …

I turned this on as well and all I've had are a few false positives when running up stairs or similar. Good feature and id rather have to unlock occasionally than error the other w…

Like that there's no ads but it's a big no on the "data shared with third parties". Assuming this is how they make money? I'd rather wait 10 more mins for the bus I just missed.

Android here. Have you looked at the amount of data this shares with third parties? No ads but holy hell. No thanks.

Go easy on calling yourselves "QI", the hugely entertaining BBC TV show might have some qualms about this. https://www.qi.com/

If it's any consolation you're really not missing much!

I had one of these and I think I bought it from Staples, Office Depot, or whatever the predecessor to this was. I can't remember the exact timing but I picked up an IBM Simon aroun…

Prodigy, haven't thought about that in a lot of years, thanks for the memory tickle. Even with the painted-with-bricks interface. GEnie was another that was kind of fun. And I stil…

It's a little anecdotal as nobody was really writing history down at that point but it feels about the right timing. The first time the FTP server I ran got broken into was about t…

If you actually read the article all will be much clearer.

"Here a busy New Yorker *can book a 5 minute time slot*, pay for a hat, stand in a spot under my window for 3 seconds, have a hat put on their head, and get on with their extremely…

So if I type hunter2 you see ****?

Did you consider the Planet Computers' Gemini? Martin Riddiford who designed the keyboards for the Psion 3 and 5 series did the magic again. https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/gemini…

"But because juvenile convictions in Finland don’t count towards determining whether somebody is a first-time offender, Kivimäki will end up serving approximately half of his sente…

It is, yes. You're moving (your) home, it's just what everybody says. Just as dropping 'on' from "let's meet Monday" equally baffles Brits.

Seems to be back up again, ~15 min outage.

Love reading the comments here and how these books changed lives. For me it was dBASE III PLUS programmer's reference guide from 1987 and it imparted enough knowledge to start a pr…

Redesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed. Before the three-step one pager it was a UX…

> All those real-time features are antipatterns that do nothing but create anxiety and a false sense of urgency. We use Slack at work... ...and I use other apps to keep in touch wi…

So many reasons not to use SMS: No indicators that the message was actually received (2023 and SMS is still flaky on deliveries), no read receipts, no presence notifications, no ty…

duckduckgo.com/?q=siriusxmoffices and pick the first one.