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The storage, the spam filtering, the interface were massive improvements over the status quo of the day.

Sure, but Fuchs sometimes went to far. Nothing in the original should have triggered her to make Donald and Daisy cousins, who were dating after all. Relocating Duckburg, California, to Entenhausen, somewhere in Germany, also made things pretty awkward. I remember a picture of a map showing some kind of grand tour around towns spread over the entire continental USA. In Fuch's translation this turned into a few villages around some local hill in her neighborhood... You need to change quite a lot to cover up such a decision, but it will never be very convincing. :)

Carl Barks absolutely invented, defined, and developed the character of Scrooge / Dagobert. For decades the _good_ Dagobert stories appearing in "Micky Maus" and the other periodicals on the German market were exclusively from his pen. Later, Don Rosa stepped into his footsteps and at some point in the 1980s or 1990s this second _good_ artist started to appear. He just wasn't ever as productive as Barks, who has left us 6000+ pages of awesome duck stories.

Of course Bark's work seeded a secondary tradition of Italian artists with stories set in some alternative universe Duckburg. They are popular in Germany as well, but generally of lesser importance and historical value.

These matters are very important to some serious people, https://www.donald.org/ ;-)

Awesome, they included the Vatican with Latin.

I love reading classic Carl Barks comics in Erika Fuchs's translations, but one should acknowledge that her very liberal variations did not always improve on the original text, but also resulted in some unnecessary obsfuscation. Still, her writing and editorial work made comics culturally acceptable in post-Nazi Germany and she really had an extreme impact on popular culture.

Translations straying from the source material to make it more popular with German speaking audiences were very popular in dubbed movies and TV shows, too. I was kind of dismayed to learn that Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill aren't all that funny in the original Italian. This might be kind of interesting to non-German readers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_humour#Humorous_dubbing

I found one charge of 0.89 Eur in April 2013. Probably the first year was free and then I paid once. Maybe they charged me just a single time after all. Quite a bargain to be honest (before the Facebook acquisition at least).

I paid that Euro a couple of times.

When instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, Jabber, or MSN were in heavy use, there was a very popular web based client for those services. It used the same type of UI quite effectively. Here's a screenshot from 15 years ago: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/06/meebo-all-in-one-on... Meebo was acquired by Google and killed off in 2012, when its utility was waning anyway.

I switched from a Fire TV Stick and a Valve Stream Link to an Nvidia Shield Pro. Very happy as well.

But to be honest I miss Amazon's voice search. It worked much better to find thing from the Netflix and Prime Video catalogs than Google assistant does now.

And on the other hand I actually would like to get the new Google TV interface of the most recent Chromecast. It looks way prettier than the plain Shield home screen and its universal watch list sounds very useful.

A sizable portion of the Jetbrains IDE functionality can be accessed by the keyboard. Moreover, the keybindings can be configured very similar to Emacs quite easily (I don't want to live without C-x C-2 etc. for splits for instance). There's a couple of helpful plugins, too. And for hardcore, straightforward editing I've bound Cmd-e to launch emacsclient right at cursor position. This goes quite a long way, IMHO.

That's awesome. I missed that stretch of years when DOS games were sold with PDF manuals stored on disk, but not everybody was launching them from Windows 95...

My pre-teen self didn't get to run games from CD-ROM before 1997 or so. :-(

This one is quite fascinating. It comes with a highres GUI mimicking Windows 3.1. I wonder how big the market was in 1993 for graphical applications running on pure DOS.

Screenshots: https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/106ec2b0-c389-1cc3-8411-c3...

But if you expect an upper bound of the required size of that stay, it may be worthwhile to explicitly set the capacity of the vector to avoid these reallocations.

Projector: https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/i...

I've been using this to develop in CLion running on a beefy remote Linux server from my Mac. Overall it works quite well, with just a few teething issues.

Not everybody has gigabit FTTH. On a 25 Mbit connection waiting for humongous downloads really sucked when I wanted to play a bit of GTA 5 (not even online!) after not touching it for a few weeks.

One could argue that this would be a bad abstraction because it hides the network layer.

It's not on Netflix Germany.

Yes, laying out roller coaster tracks was the major thing that made Theme Park so exciting to us in 1994. I am sure Roller Coaster Tycoon did a much better job at everything, but the genre was already defined. :-)

Edit: I kind of enjoyed reading this flame war from 1999 between fan boys and girls from both camps https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic/...

I have never played Roller Coaster Tycoon, but Bullfrog's Theme Park (1994) was a massive hit with us kids on the Amiga. That one really defined the genre five years earlier, to be fair.

Disney and Amazon are some of Netflix's direct competitors, though.

It isn't though :) -- just try https://www.city.cologne

The company behind .cologne and .koeln is from Vienna BTW: https://nic.koeln/en How could they let .vienna slip through the cracks?

I like how there are two top level domains for my city of about a million people: .cologne and .koeln

Is there any other town represented twice? OK, places like Berlin, Hamburg, London or Paris don't have the advantage of different spellings in English and a local language. But there's only .wien, no .vienna. How about .tokyo -- is there a puny-coded Japanese version?

(2014)

The dictionaries are stored offline and will work fine in airplane mode. Wikipedia won't, though.

That's a fun one, but it's about Klaus not Hans.

Forklift simulator is a game you can buy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/939450/Forklift_Simulator...

> Very clean. Also, changing the slightest things required to go through 5-6 files.

Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" is a great book (I only know the 2nd edition from 2019). From a naive understanding of the "clean code" school of thought one might assume that splitting up everything into small functions, classes, modules is always the way to go. But Fowler's advice is much more nuanced than that. His list of bad code smells includes the aptly named "Shotgun Surgery", which describes just your quoted situation. The suggested way to go is then to first inline all the scattered stuff, next to extract parts such that the logic is more contained.

Your rewrite sounds very similar. And of course you are right: School and books probably don't do a good job of transferring this knowledge. That "Shotgun Surgery" paragraph is easy to discard by a reader who hasn't experienced the pain themselves.

I felt that the old print statement sometimes was handy when I wanted to quickly throw some debugging lines into the code -- just less hassle with parentheses. But I wouldn't want any of the ambiguity GvR's suggestion would bring.

For debugging comfort the print statement is half measures anyway: Give us Julia's @show macro!

Could those be non-breakable space characters? Alt+Space generates them in many environments. That caused a lot of grief on MacOS for me until I added a rule in Karabiner to disable the feature.

When I try to sign in, there is a threatening banner "This app hasn’t been reviewed or approved by Slack. Learn more." But nothing happens when I click on "Learn more". I decided to quit then. :(

One possible reason to downvote is that the question was the top comment for this post, but it does not directly discuss the new technology introduced in the post. I don't know how HN ranking works, but I'd assume that the top comment to a front-page topping article has already collected a sizable share of upvotes.