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I was a big fan of glider pro, having been born long after apple ][s: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/glider-pro I would download it, but I wanted to be productive today.

Right. Good luck finding people who want to maintain that. It just seems incredibly short-sighted unless the current batch of maintainers intend to live forever.

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Notably, they forgot to improve on readability and maintability, both of which are markedly worse with perl. Look I get people use the tools they use and perl is fine , i guess, it…

Eh, finger pointing does nobody any good, emphatically including this comment. Finger pointing towards someone who actually found a vulnerability is just bleak. I would not willing…

I agree with all of this. I want to offer a tiny bit more hope, though: > There have been a lot of bold promises (and genuine advances), but I don't see a world in the next 5 years…

Readers should note that it's super buggy. Occasionally your music will be unavailable, even though it can match it to tracks that ARE available on apple music (it just says "not a…

> Even a relatively minor hit on the radio is valued more than a super-popular song in clubs because it is guaranteed to have a higher play count. Well that just seems broken.

Eh i've also used since the beginning. People love to complain. I put zero weight on this hypothesis. Other interfaces at the time were just as bad if not worse.

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> They've turned it around Eh, the same complaints are the same as always. Expectations have improved, tho! I think that's what we're seeing here.

Yea but this only matters if you're considering fatness as a factor. This factor disappeared long before the headphone jack did. I have never in my life heard "i won't use that pho…

Excel needs to default its export to this. Unfortunately excel is proprietary software and therefore fucked.

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> An incredible amount of effort and ingenuity has gone into CSV parsing because of its ubiquity. Yea and it's still a partially-parseable shit show with guessed values. But we can…

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Yes, that is a single spec with correspondingly-small importance. Generally parsing html remains extremely difficult.

Schemaless can be accomplished with well-formed formats like json, xml, yaml, toml, etc. from the producer side these are roughly equivalent interfaces. There's zero upside to usin…

How do you recommend vetting brands? This is simply not a problem wired technology ever had. I can't imagine ever trusting a brand to get things right without my fixing their mista…

> It's simple My experience has indicated the exact opposite. CSVs are the only "structured" format nobody can claim to parse 100% (ok probably not true thinking about html etc, ju…