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Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

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Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

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There's a reason why nothing, but nothing , of any importance or popularity uses white text on a black background.

Ok, I'll bite. What's that reason? Because as long as the contrast is there, there is no obvious reason why using that color scheme would lead to less importance or popularity.

Because objective studies have repeatedly shown it's harder to read white text on a black screen, compared to the dark-on-light text that 99.9% of everything else on the planet uses.

It's a way of sending the message, "It's my site, not yours. I don't care if you don't find it legible. Everybody else is wrong, and I'm right."

Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

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Apple buying NeXT worked out pretty well for NeXT. Youtube also seems to be doing well under Google.

Siemens doesnt even know hackaday exists. Supplyframe will probably be fine, but RIP hackaday.

GP said "What fraction of all acquisitions end well for the acquired company?"

Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

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I respect your idea of trying to make dates valid for 10x the duration of 4 digit dates; however prefix with a leading zero also often implies octal parsing. Current date formats ignore that for fields of fixed with, and make various assumptions in cases of dynamic width. There doesn't appear to be a notation similar to the C style prefixes 0x and 0 (hex and octal), nor like the mentioned assembly language post-fixes…

Five digit years is a Long Now foundation thing. Saying "it looks like octal" is new to me though.

I've never heard the foundation until now. I'm on octal side since here's HN.

Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

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Five digit years is a Long Now foundation thing. Saying "it looks like octal" is new to me though.

I've never heard the foundation until now. I'm on octal side since here's HN.

Hey, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand. You're in for a real treat if you like hacking — there may have lived hackers greater than Danny Hillis, but probably no more than a few dozen, perhaps none alive today. And almost none of those had access to the means to realize their potential.

The story begins:

"There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before. The Clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years. Most times the Clock rings when a visitor has wound it, but the Clock hoards energy from a different source and occasionally it will ring itself when no one is around to hear it. It’s anyone’s guess how many beautiful songs will never be heard over the Clock’s 10 millennial lifespan.

"The Clock is real. It is now being built inside a mountain in western Texas. ..."

https://longnow.org/clock/

https://rosettaproject.org/

Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

#175

There is a lot of FUD and speculation here. Hackaday isn't going anywhere. Ask me how I know: https://hackaday.io/hexagon5un

Is that why hackaday havent bothered posting "great news"? And comments about it get deleted? :) Doesnt exactly inspire confidence.
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