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I'm afraid to look at the state of my Amiga 3.5s, not to mention the older 5.25s. Sadly, they are probably lost to time.

Sir, this is the "Shockwave Rider" Readers Convention.

That's the way I've always overcome the problem of getting to bookmarks also. You give up a little real estate to keep the bookmarks bar visible, but it is a good way to organize t…

I've not fleshed out his angle on this, but the first thing that came to mind was the gamification of every social interaction. "Ratio-ing" on TWIT comes to mind. There was a time …

Wrong. Compaq had much higher DOA and other defects in the mid 90s. They relied on customer institutional memory from the 80s when they really were the best.

Compaq is what ruined HP after they ruined themselves by going from a quality-focused builder to pulling parts out of the seconds and thirds bins to cut costs in the early-mid 90s.…

Both come from the Compaq/HP chimera that absorbed DEC's name. The apple doesn't fall far from the other apple from the same tree.

Like Minsky, who I've been waiting to be referenced in this subject but haven't seen yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

This. IANAL but the eroding of taking mens rea (intent/knowledge) into account does not bode well for justice in the long-term.

I manage developers for the publishing arm of a professional association. While I did not have an office when I started as a dev here over a decade ago, all of our developers now h…

It depends on how you are running it, in my experience. We're forced, due to ISP restrictions, to use FastCGI. I've not tested this theory, so YMMV, but I've had more trouble doing…

When I transitioned back into programming from the arts, back in the very early 1990s, it was RTFM, Dr. Dobbs Journal, IRC, and picking the brain of every geek and "Computer Guy" t…

I stopped reading when it referred to SPF as "Sender Protection Framework." As usual, the discussion on HN is far better than R'ing TFA. We recently had a collision between the pra…

I've found that people tend to use public lists as a way to insult people that they don't like. "List of nutjobs", "List of {blankety blanks}", etc.