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Sit right back and I'll tell you a tale. Fortune is a parasite glommed over the original intents of the Architecture of what is now known as Fortune. Originally as the high gods in…

Reminds me of the old SmokePing.

Freshman year of high school I took a class called "Business Computer Applications". It was 1983 and I was 13. We were using Apple II+ computers or their clones. I had an Apple II+…

Back in middle school, like 1981-ish I had this hardback book with a title of something like "A Shocking Story". The inside was hollowed out to hold about the same but it was rigge…

Technically, yes for about seven years. We were introduced by a mutual friend because we were both staying on campus over the Christmas holiday. We hooked up on Christmas Eve and d…

I married my best friend of several years so she could get financial aid. Her financial aid counselor told her about the lengthy emancipation legal process or marriage. She came ov…

Back in the late 1980s when I was a teenager I found plans and built this little circuit with a LED that would light up if someone else in the house was trying to listen in on my p…

The first program I ever keyed in was the one dimensional lunar lander simulation on my dad's HP calculator. Must have been 6 or 7 years old (by 9 years old I was doing BASIC on an…

This is why you fail. Thirty years ago I could make a wire wrapped 68000k board that did nothing but play music. CE/CS was different back then. I'd cut pins and solder in chips to …

Tell them the object system was stolen from Python and they'll really freak out.

Something like `read` gives a better example. Like `man 1 read` is "read — read from standard input into shell variables", "read [-r] var...", a shell function. And `man 2 read` is…

My pre-internet 16yr old ancient self (late bloomer) who had to read books in libraries and bookstores who lost first girlfriend by not kissing her and second girlfriend pinned me …

I used to mess around with Anki many years ago while studying Japanese. The approach I took was to figure out the database structure, then write a bit of code to expand the informa…

$ perl -E 'my $f=[[{X=>{Y=>["FOO"]}}]]; say $f->[0][0]{X}{Y}[0];my $g=$f->[0][0]{X}{Y}; say $g->[0]' FOO FOO Seems pretty trivial.

Same, I had my books from 1986 (when I was 16) bought from Caltech's bookstore while I was there at a summer program (YESS, Young Engineer Summer Scholars) that went on for months …

Yeah, my org had a Kerberos setup for some DB/middleware/CLI tools. I inherited a bunch of random script tools that took the whole typing in passwords for everything. Screw that, f…

I think about half the comments I've ever made here on HN are about my Amiga 1000 that I got in 1985. By 1989 it had a 14MHz 68020/68881 with 4MB Fast RAM, an 80 MB SCSI drive, and…

I'm talking about AmigaOS. Bits and pieces were based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS and the kernel itself had a lot of UNIXy sort of features. In the late 1980s if your w…

Forth is a really nice language for learning raw machine code then adding an assembler then moving up to a HLL in a few printed pages of code. The ultimate macro assembler. Back in…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081181 The OS was close enough and wonderful under the hood. So many UNIX people bought one for home just because it was so easy to port UNIX…

Ah, the good old Crap and Crud (C&C) manual. Back in the day every EE/CE/CS/IT sort had a big 3-ring binder of everything that they learned once. Serial cable wiring CTE/DTE/Crosso…

I flip table rage quit my 15 year job at a university over a new C-suite from who knows where throwing HPE equipment/software/consultants at me for a big sort of project and findin…

I couldn't find a link anywhere to some sort of 'blank' PDF example, or to a fake filled out example. Double sided printing would be nice. So would formatting the output so you cou…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau

Lol, seems I have somehow actually been remembering the forerunner DKBTrace or something. Sometime around 1989 I had it on my Amiga from a Fred Fish PD software disk. Even on my bu…