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lurkinggrueon Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

"I dread opening the thing."

Hmm, that was my reaction to iTunes in 2003.

lurkinggrueon Inside the Plan to Pull Sprint Out of Its Death Spiral

I had been on Sprint since 1999/2000 (At least the moment it entered into California)

I just switched to ProjectFI and have been much happier.

lurkinggrueon Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare (2008)

OMG!

Please tell me you also have a Mud/Muck on your server?

lurkinggrueon Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare (2008)

There are some archives of gophers that can be had in torrent form. Amazing stuff in there.

lurkinggrueon Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us

Though many didn't see the seriously toxic credit default swaps going on and what exactly was going on with derivatives.

Many didn't know we had over leveraged the value of the entire world economy several times over.

lurkinggrueon Show HN: A fireplace for Emacs

Amazing!

Have they ported a good text editor to Emacs yet?

lurkinggrueon This Christmas, give the gift of a blameless life to someone you love

I've already purchased several indulgences from the church.

Fuck what Marten Luther had to say on this.... I'm all set!

lurkinggrueon AirBar: Brings touch to PCs – works with gloves/paintbrush

> WIMP is a baseline from the 70's that we need to move on.

Yeah! Screw accuracy and fine control.

lurkinggrueon AirBar: Brings touch to PCs – works with gloves/paintbrush

All those fingerprints on my monitor that will never wash off... Priceless.

lurkinggrueon Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped

Did you know Steam spy's on you? It saves your keystrokes (In steam instant messages) and tells people what game you are playing!

lurkinggrueon Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k software development [pdf]

Man, I thought I was an Amiga die hard when I gave up around 16 years ago.

lurkinggrueon Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years

I would prefer a pony over UEFI... possibly Rainbow Dash.

lurkinggrueon The Fukushima accident was preventable

Aren't all accidents preventable?

lurkinggrueon Are tarballs obsolete?

    'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
    operable program or batch file.

lurkinggrueon The Cold Logic of Drunk People (2014)

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1455/

lurkinggrueon Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (2013)

Just dealing wit the entertainment messy of modern cars I already came to the conclusion that the car industry has no damn clue how to write software.

It's like the worst internal shit code you see in the in house tools at many companies where the moment it ran it was considered done enough.

lurkinggrueon Show HN: LeadFinch – Find Anyone's Email Address

You need a "Delete my account" button. I just signed in to take a look and realized I needed an API to really test a few addresses and didn't want to bother.

lurkinggrueon Show HN: LeadFinch – Find Anyone's Email Address

Easy! Sign up and give them your email address.

lurkinggrueon Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”

Man, that article is texas.

lurkinggrueon The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease

"Government can't do anything" meme tends to be pushed by organizations that actively want less government.

The sort of groups that listen to people like Grover Norquest who said: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

While there is a lot to be said about the idea of efficiency in government it isn't the same as wanting to burn our infrastructure down.

lurkinggrueon Sadly, How Windows 10 Reveals Microsoft's Ethics Armageddon

Spotify, Skype before microsoft, Blizzard... It's not all that uncommon and seriously for updates this is not a bad thing.

It will share between your machines on your local network and SAVE you bandwidth.

lurkinggrueon Sadly, How Windows 10 Reveals Microsoft's Ethics Armageddon

I can tell if you are on a cellphone network.

lurkinggrueon Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

I had to deal with friends that were suddenly on yahoo and they didn't know why. So for a lot of people it was swapped out even if it was an accident.

lurkinggrueon Do we need browsers?

Yes.

lurkinggrueon Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch

Weren't there recent articles about the sales of the Apple Watch dropping off by 90%?

lurkinggrueon The Inevitable return of Cobol

All I remember about RPG was hating it with a passion. When I was learning COBOL it started off on a Sperry Univac and the school transitioned to an IBM/36 so for a few months I got to code on the Sperry which at the time did feel a bit dated.

Then again my Amiga at the time had about as much ram as the IBM/36.

lurkinggrueon The Inevitable return of Cobol

I learned COBOL in the late 80s but for the life of me can't remember much of it.

Is there anything like an IBM System 36 emulator out there?

lurkinggrueon I Hate the New Macbooks

You obviously have much younger eyes.

lurkinggrueon I Hate the New Macbooks

Ethernet and 17" and possibly some extra USB on the pro is good but yeah hardly anybody needs an optical drive.

lurkinggrueon I Hate the New Macbooks

Ethernet is great if you want network stability and speed.