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Krita is not a vector graphics editor so it is not an Adobe Illustrator replacement.

mepianon Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s

I guess the Rendition Vérité accelerator cards are also contenders.

mepianon Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s

> what do other folks think is a better candidate for the biggest flop [in tech] of the 1990s?

VAX 9000, OS/2 2.0, OS/2 Warp 3, OpenDoc, Kaleida, Apple Newton, Pippin, 3DO, Philips CD-i, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Amiga CD32…

mepianon The Anti-Social Century

I believe you’re overestimating my social skills and confidence. I created an event on a meetup site and people showed up.

mepianon The Anti-Social Century

>2. I'd search for some hobby/interest groups that would fit my interests, but nothing really fits.

You can just start your own group in this case. That's what I did with Lisp Ireland.

mepianon ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors

Linux started on the 386.

“It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.”

mepianon The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released

Is that boot tasty?

mepianon Boids, an artificial life program, which simulates flocking behavior of birds

“Artificial life” can be strictly algorithmic.

mepianon Boids, an artificial life program, which simulates flocking behavior of birds

The original Boids program was developed by Craig Reynolds at Symbolics Graphics Division for their Lisp machines: https://youtu.be/xBniZYiyrb4

mepianon The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

According to Ken Kocienda's book (he was one of the original developers of Safari), that email is a post-hoc rationalization. The "evaluation" was literally him and another guy trying to build Mozilla for weeks and failing, and then someone else joining the team and quickly building Konqueror instead.

mepianon The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

I wonder why exactly Copland went off the rails, do we have anyone from the Copland team here on HN who can share their view?

mepianon The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

I have an original "NeXTstep Concepts" manual with the NX prefix. I can't remember where I heard the "NeXT and Sun" explanation for the first time, but a Google search shows that the prefix change could've actually occurred before the collaboration with Sun. It could stand for NeXT Software, as it's closer to the transition to a software company.

mepianon The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

NS stood for NeXT and Sun. NX was the original prefix before OpenSTEP.

EDIT: I might be wrong about the first part, see my comment below.

mepianon The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

It’s funny that Apple originally wanted Mozilla (proto-Firefox) but couldn’t figure out how to build it on Mac OS X in a reasonable amount of time.

mepianon DOS APPEND

The PDP-10 was a mainframe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10#cite_note-1

mepianon Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)

"Palm now owns the former Siemens mobile patent portfolio"

Man, I miss Siemens phones, they were great at the time. I wonder what they would be like today if Siemens didn't quit the market.

mepianon John Carmack imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs

This is blogspam, just submit his tweet directly instead.

mepianon Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail

He has been posting them for years.

mepianon Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger

This link should cover everything: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea...

mepianon Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger

>His interim replacements don't seem to have that expertise.

MJ has a pretty good reputation inside the company.

mepianon Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger

The market already figured out that it doesn't want leading edge manufacturing in the US.

mepianon Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger

I remembered Andy Grove's quote: "If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?"

Pat didn't do that, I guess.

mepianon Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

I worked on this in the first year, on the gameplay code. Glad it’s finally bearing some fruit.

mepianon Maybe Bluesky has "won"

HN is also social media…

mepianon Memory64

I agree, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

mepianon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

  Location: Dublin, Ireland
  Remote: Depends on the commute
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C, C++, Python, Assembly (x86, RISC-V), CUDA, MPI, L2/L3 Network Programming, Linux, Git, Jenkins, Common Lisp, Unreal Engine
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDDdW3QEB1U3U2xfMik7zko0kKpzmo9p/view
  Email: mepian.hn@outlook.com

A software engineer with 10 years of experience in systems programming and game development. Recently I have been working in high-performance computing, dealing with GPU-enabled clusters.

mepianon Medley Loops: The Basic System (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) [pdf]

The only way to improve GenAI-slop comments is to delete them, please stop polluting HN.

EDIT: The comments I was referring to got sneakily edited. Another thing that is not nice to do.

mepianon Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

>what else is Lisp being used for commonly these days?

It is being used for formal verification in the semiconductor industry by companies like AMD, Arm, Intel, and IBM: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/

mepianon Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard

Thank you, that's interesting. The classic Lisp machine systems are very compact by modern standards but not 2100 lines compact, although they had about two decades of continuous development to accumulate cruft (and useful features like various network protocols support and sophisticated graphics as well).