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It's basically a micro Unix implementation aimed at old and resource constrained systems. I've been following it for a few years. The documentation is terrible, there are hardy any updates, but it does seem to be making slows, steady progress behind the scenes. I think it just needs to reach a critical mass of functionality and we'll see it popping up on raspberry pi picos, 8-bit micros etc. Definitely needs some TLC in the comms department though. Oh, and don/t be fooled by the archived status - it moved to https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

4 ay öncediscuss

Frankly, if you think that, you're not exactly a power user of office suites. Apple apps are a complete joke in the professional world.

4 ay öncediscuss

The statement that Apple has been supporting businesses for decades is just the most self-serving bunch of crap. You can tell how thin this is by the way they push local ads on Maps as some kind of headline feature. What a joke.

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9 ay öncediscuss

I unexpectedly liked this. I thought the recommendations were actually useful.

12 ay öncediscuss

Wow, that is one ugly vehicle. It looks like it's been in an accident.

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JetBrains does a great job with this by actually rewarding users who report bugs with free licenses and such.

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Delusional.

2 yıl öncediscuss

They're still using CVS?

3 yıl öncediscuss

Why are the words 'Computer Vision' not above the fold on the front page? How am I supposed to know that CV stands for Computer Vision rather than Curriculum Vitae?

3 yıl öncediscuss

I've seen a bunch of companies do this. The problem is always that it isn't Excel. This means usually things like XLWings, Excel-DNA, etc. are actually more useful.

5 yıl öncediscuss

There probably _is_ something in the port compressed up against the back - try scraping around inside with a non-conductive pointy thing.

5 yıl öncediscuss

There has been several articles about this man recently. I come away from them wanting to help him financially. I feel if you're going to publish an article about him, and make money from adverts on your website, you have a responsibility to try and help this man. If not it's just exploitation.

6 yıl öncediscuss

The only thing that might make Apple improve their documentation is if there was evidence that people started actually abandoning Apple's platforms.

Currently it seems there is a never ending supply of developers ready to gamble years of their careers on Apples Terms & Conditions, and while these same people usually eventually realize that there's ultimately no money to be made, they are replaced with a new generation seeking an AppStore paved with gold. Until that stops, the docs will stay piss-poor.

While I have often used a Mac for development and enjoyed it, I don't often actually develop anything for macOS or iOS because, well, why would I risk my livelihood on Apple's whim? They regularly destroy developer's lives with no thought or consequence.

6 yıl öncediscuss

Bizarre, pretty misleading pages about electro-magnetic radiation were a huge turn-off.

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On the original ARM2 this design made a lot of sense because if you understood how the instruction timing worked, you could essentially perform as well as a specialized blitter. I never understood this at the time, and largely blame that on a popular ARM Assembly Language book I had that said that LDM/STM were just convenience instructions, essentially syntactic sugar. They most certainly were not. With the right alignment and using enough registers you could get 2-3x the throughput of using single word load/stores. I honestly think if that book hadn't gotten it so wrong there would have been a lot more decent games for the Archimedes machines.

6 yıl öncediscuss

Great book: computer architecture a quantitative approach

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You're making a mistake many engineers make in thinking that getting a startup off the ground is all about engineering. Frankly, engineering is often the easy part, and I say that as an engineer who co-founded a tech heavy successful venture backed startup. The hardest thing is choosing a compelling product and then selling it to paying customers. If you think business people undervalue techies, don't make the same mistake by under-valuing business people.

7 yıl öncediscuss

These examples actually were more obscure than the usual list.

7 yıl öncediscuss

When a blog about a collaboration tool devolves into a formal state machine definition and blocks of lisp syntax, I have my doubts about the project's ability to communicate with potential users.