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richev··on Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
> The sad thing about the FT is how expensive it is.

Real journalism costs money, and ad revenues aren't what they used to be.

richev··on UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia ruled lawful
One of many reasons why I'm thankful I've been able to avoid working on software that has military applications. :-/
richev··on Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
Or, you can just purchase the game to get rid of the apps.
richev··on The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died
I remember being in awe just at the parallax scrolling on Shadow of the Beast on a friend's Amiga. At home we still just had a lowly C64.
richev··on What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)
For a while I had a paid subscription to CIX (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIX), which was pretty handy at times.

It's worth noting that in the pre-web era the proliferation rate of new frameworks/languages/platforms was a lot lower, so once you had mastered a toolset you could stay relevant a lot longer than is the case today.

richev··on Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back
...using the on-screen keyboard, or a physical one?
richev··on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
The real fun starts if you need to change the email address associated with your Microsoft account.

Six months and multiple support calls later and I'm still receiving Azure billing information and Xbox newsletters at the old address.

richev··on Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre-orders
It's being trialed in Sydney http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-new-opal-commuters-to-trial-sw...
richev··on “Australians First”: Australia abolishing 457 temporary skilled worker visa
I can't comment on the 457 requirements specifically, but I was granted a Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) last year, as a "Developer Programmer". In lieu of a degree that would be considered at least a major in Computer Science I had to supply detailed references going back ten years. Certainly not easy.
richev··on A visual brief on icon history through different GUIs and operating systems
Painful on the eyes.
richev··on A note-taking app for technical teams
It's good English, but it's not transparent as to what future costs I might encounter if I start using the product while it's in beta, and want to continue using it in the future.

I'm happy to pay to use good software, but it's better to know the pricing plan in advance. I think that https://octopus.com/purchase provides a good example:

> Community edition is free for small teams, even for commercial use. It allows you to deploy up to five projects to up to ten target machines, and is limited to five users.

richev··on A note-taking app for technical teams
> Memo is free for teams of all sizes while in beta.

Sounds ominous.

richev··on A note-taking app for technical teams
Because, at the point where the "sign up with Slack" button is placed, the proposition is not clear enough...
richev··on Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
Build something that you yourself find useful (and that you can reasonably assume will be useful to other people too).
richev··on 0.30000000000000004
I'm not sure why the round-trip formatter is used in the C# example (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110)....). If you omit it then you get the hoped-for result of 0.3.
richev··on Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray
C# & WinForms
richev··on “Banks are no place for coders”
Good Guinness
richev··on Why Some Cars Have Gas Tank Fillers on the Left or the Right
Not just on rentals - I own a Subaru Forester and it has such a handy little triangle on the dash.
richev··on Software developers who started after 35, 40 or 50
Inspiring article, but suffers from confirmation bias.
richev··on Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)
Easter egg at http://www.winamp.com

Click the llama's ass.

richev··on Windows Code Samples
From the footer on that page: "Windows maintained by Microsoft".

Cute...

richev··on How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey (2014)
The topic of fees vs grants (specifically in the UK) came up with a friend over the holiday period. I wish I'd read this article earlier, and had had this quote to hand:

“There has been a shift from the belief that we as a nation benefit from higher education, to a belief that it’s the people receiving the education who primarily benefit and so they should foot the bill,”

richev··on Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React
Mostly I'd agree, but Emirates ICE system is pretty decent https://www.emirates.com/au/english/flying/inflight_entertai...
richev··on Cascade – A library for creating modern user interfaces
My initial assumption that this was something to do with the design language formerly known as Metro...but seemingly not.
richev··on The New York Times to Offer Open Access on Web and Apps for the Election
Financial Times - http://ft.com
richev··on Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone
Easy to do != easy to discover
richev··on ​How to Send an Email in 1984
Originally stylized as HoTMaiL, the capitals spelling out HTML! :)
richev··on The Power of Company Mottoes
Wasn't the Microsoft mission statement "A computer on every desk and in every home"?
richev··on Everyone is quitting
And age
richev··on Ask HN: Apart from HN, what other websites you frequent for interesting content?
I get a daily email from http://www.codeproject.com, which sometimes have interesting tech news (not as much as in the past though). See http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Insider/
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