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I’m planning to write a text based social network for vintage computing enthusiasts, for CP/M. It’ll be written in Turbo Pascal. It’s my path to $2B. Don’t tell anyone my idea.

Related question: What “new” CP/M machines can be bought today? The closest I know is this kit: https://rc2014.co.uk/ Any others that can be bought off the shelf today?

Presumably this is rising because of the topical current Basecamp saga. But I don’t think Basecamp is like the simple model put forward here by Paul Graham, who is saying “if you’r…

Did he attend the #joshfight ?

Offering six months pay is a major own goal by Basecamp.

If yes, what are they?

“Ruining” is a bit strong, perhaps. Peharps “making the first few seconds of visiting most sites slightly annoying” is a better description.

It’s so tempting to make some snide remark about it being cancelled.

I’m not trying to win an argument, just stating what I believe.

I think no other justification is needed to end the death penalty than “it’s inhuman and barbaric”. Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core poin…

Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.

No I’m almost certain I haven’t. Because I’ve used it before and I don’t really have any questions about it so I ran out and I just go buy more. At this stage I’m just assuming it’…

How does google know I bought Voltaren? Is my bank purchase history shared with google somehow? I guess it could just be coincidence?

I worked at a company in finance markets in the mid 1990s that was paying the traders $2M bonuses.

Users expect signin to work the way they expect it to work. I once implemented a non standard signin where all that was needed was an email link which kept you signed in. Users hat…

Because the first half of the article was praising Java 8 and it’s various benefits. I didnt read the second half because I couldnt make sense of the negative headline with the pos…

Strange.... should the title be “You can’t afford NOT to run Java 8”?

I hang up as soon as I can when I hear the beep that gives away it is a sales call.

I choose to delete my posts/comments if I feel they’re too negative.