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Nice! That Windows 95/98 GUI design wasn't the most beautiful ever made, but it was quite usable. You never had trouble telling what was what.

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avant-hierdiscuss

Ooh, nice! This very much appeals to the historian and former GUI developer in me.

Update: The Pixel Perfect checkbox makes a noticeable difference in appearance. I presume this is because older systems were developed before the advent of anti-aliasing, and were designed pixel by pixel.

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avant-hierdiscuss

Interesting site. As a non-Web developer, I've vaguely wondered about the various frameworks and where the "look and feel" that I see on different sites' user controls come from. This be will fun to explore.

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il y a 7 joursdiscuss

For tools that don't support -0, you can add the NULs yourself without much fuss. It's a one-liner in awk/perl/sed. Very handy.

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il y a 10 joursdiscuss

That's a new one for me. Do you happen to have any pointers to more info? I found a few mentions, but nothing substantial.

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il y a 20 joursdiscuss

In fact, he loves us!

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il y a 27 joursdiscuss

> time is now part of the io interface [...]

Nice, didn't know that! Sounds like this could be extremely useful for some of the simulators we work on (though we mostly work in C/C++).

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le mois dernierdiscuss

> Why? Because I can.

Always the best reason.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

That brings back some memories. Just glad I eventually learned better.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

It was amazing to read the original account in the alumni newsletter, and it was great to see the photo. The legend is real! Heh heh.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

> 1948 was an interesting time for computing.

Not a commonly seen statement :-)

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Dammit, another horrifying yet entirely realistic near-future scenario to keep me up at night.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Oh, absolutely. For instance I never thought Lysenkoism would happen again, but the conditions are ripe for it.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Same here. The Teams meeting page layout pisses me off on a regular basis, with way too much useless space around everything, tons of unhideable icons and crap filling half the screen, and all the actual content crammed into a little box. I'm sitting here with a 4K 27" monitor and all that space and resolution is just wasted. Yeah you can work around it, but what a PITA.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Ratarmount is so cool. Recently I wanted to look at a couple random files in a > 300G compressed tarball. It just wouldn't have been worth doing without it.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

  - Terrorist Bomb Pierces Bob Dole's Outer Hull
  - Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?
  - Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast
  - Clinton Deploys Vowels To Bosnia
  - Rescue Chip Sent In To Save Broken Tostito Submerged In 7 Layer Dip

That last one in particular was absolutely epic.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Correct.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Docs like this make playing space engineer so much more fun.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Very sad to hear. As an already-addicted computer nerd when The Soul of a New Machine came out, his book put me inside an utterly fascinating alternate world, a world where brilliant people fought incomprehensible difficulties to create the hardware that made my software come to life. Better yet, he brought those people, not just their machines, to life. Still one of my favorite books.

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