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If you read The Design of Everyday Things, you'd gladly remember that to each user-unfriendly design, the author sarcastically added "but it won a lot of design awards". Which impl…

I was lucky to have a book which introduced Windows 95 and 98 before I got my own computer in 2005. It never occurred to me that a total newb might not guess about alt+tab.

Will it help? These days, you either open the design as IBM famously did with their 5150 or earn enough to see yourself become Apple, the great hegemonist. (I'm clearly and biasedl…

(define contest "The Lyttle Lisper Contest") (print contest)

It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

Amd 2500 pages of documents does not look that impressive when you have 2500 people in staff.

Yes, but it was certainly written by a Russian and possibly even written in Russian and translated after the fact. Not every journalist from around here I know can write articles i…

Wow. The article's author has no Russian accent whatsoever. (Unless it was translated by an English speaker). Wish I had the same command of English. Somehow I doubt multilingual U…

BGB is the only emulator I know that emulated Pinball Deluxe without problems.

Maybe. Wikipedia page for 2600 mentions Fairchild Channel F, which is even simpler. It also gave me an idea to look at "List of early microcomputers" on Wikipedia.

After writing an emulator for Chip-8, most recommend emulating GameBoy. Let's suppose I'd like some intermediate options. What would they be?

I have not given it much thought, but it's very concise.