feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
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#12Awesome compilation but two rendering problems: 1. scrolling, I can't see the right side 2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents
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#13just think of how many years of effort many of those dots represent. and how OS development is such a small fraction of overall software development. and how much of that software just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful. feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
Anyway, there are people that are perfectly willing to toil away on their labor of love because it's a hobby for them and they get some form of satisfaction from it all.
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#14Awesome compilation but two rendering problems: 1. scrolling, I can't see the right side 2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents
This would be a fun dataset to run an interactive visualization on – I presume the author used some kind of relational data structure to generate the SVG; I wonder if they'd mind sharing it.
On a separate note, it's great, but could do with a way to search.
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#16Awesome compilation but two rendering problems: 1. scrolling, I can't see the right side 2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents
This would be a fun dataset to run an interactive visualization on – I presume the author used some kind of relational data structure to generate the SVG; I wonder if they'd mind sharing it.
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#17clicking Back to Homepage we land on a curious selection of lists and articles: Who is "White"? Decline of White Demographics German Elections since 1871 What would the World look like if the Axis had won WW2? EU of Regions after Right-Wing Takeover Im sensing a bit of a theme here.
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#20But I'd expect to see NixOS on there - such a different way to interact with a (u|li)nix system, aside from GNU Guix System. I'd consider those more of an "Operating System" than say mandrake, which is on the list