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Post by pjmlp »

rollcat wrote: post #328
pjmlp wrote: post #315

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No they didn't, signing was already common across Symbian, J2ME, Windows CE/Pocket PC, Newton, PalmOS, Blackberry, BREW. And game consoles naturally.

All of these platforms combined had less global impact over their lifetime than iPhone has had in its first five years. Apple is never first to do something.

Only from an American point of view, catching up to the mobile life in Europe, Asia, and some lucky African countries.

I started coding for J2ME on a Vodafone contest, based on Sharp GX20, which was using DOCOMO APIs in 2003.

Afterwards I joined Nokia, so I kind of had an idea how we, and our competition was doing in the market.

US was the only market that stayed PDA centric, with exception of Blackberry adoption, until the iPhone came to be.

Traditionally it was the only market where Nokia had issues.

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Post by hnlmorg »

hulitu wrote: post #239
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #225

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I took a screenshot and pasted it into the new Win11 Paint. Even minimized, Paint was constantly using 5% CPU and sitting at ~250MB of RAM. I guess I can begrudgingly get over the RAM, but squandering the CPU like that is ridiculous. What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

> What happened to pride or quality control or anything? We are talking about Microsoft here.

Exactly. Their software has always been shit.

Microsoft didn’t become dominant because of the quality of their software. They became dominant because they knew how to run a an aggressively successful business better than their competitors.

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Post by athom »

fsniper wrote: post #81

Microsoft loves to own general terminology like "edit" for their products. I have no idea how this flys. SqlServer like it's the one that found sql or it's the only product that serves sql.

The one I love is Microsoft's project manager, MS...

...wait for it...

...Project.

Was charged with managing a department-wide installation about fifteen years back, now. You want to have fun looking for relevant docs, try a search on "Microsoft Project". Good times!

I think the one exception to Microsoft's generic naming convention is Excel. Visio probably qualifies, too, but they bought that from someone else.

Oh, and I guess PowerPoint, too.

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Post by [deleted] »

paxcoder wrote: post #329
dang wrote: post #312

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Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum.…

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Post by antonvs »

shakna wrote: post #311
antonvs wrote: post #85

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Is that why the series ground to a halt

> “I’m 12 years late on this damn novel, and I’m struggling with it,” he said. “I have like 1,100 pages written, but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It’s a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should’ve started writing smaller books when I began this, but it’s tough.” He's averaging a hundred pages a year. Maybe not the fastest, but certainly not the slowest writer. With the size of his books...…

> 12 years late

Seems like people have cut him a lot of slack already. Of course he doesn’t really owe anything to anybody, but at some point he and everyone else has to face the reality - which is that if that book is ever published, it’ll be posthumously, finished by a ghostwriter.

Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by Gormo »

cool_beanz wrote: post #21
Gormo wrote: post #8

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There are already plenty of those, such as jed, mcedit, etc. This particular application is incredibly basic -- much more limited than even EDIT for DOS.

Nano gang

Nano's not CUA and doesn't support mouse control, though.

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Post by egorfine »

WorldMaker wrote: post #267
egorfine wrote: post #159

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I'm not against it. Absolutely go for it. I just wonder what was the reason to port it and then I would like to have a word with a real living person who is actually using that shell.

PowerShell lends itself really well to writing cross-platform shell scripts that run the same everywhere you can boot up PowerShell 7+. It's origins in .NET scripting mean that some higher-level idioms were already common in PowerShell script writing even before cross-platform existed, for instance using `$pathINeed = Join-Path $basePath ../sub-folder-name` will handle path separators smartly rather than just trying…

That's a very good and insightful comment. Thank you!
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