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The speed of it on the low end machines was not good even though it was advertised as speedy.

It _worked_ on 286 machines but it was slow to use. Kind of annoying to use but so was Windows 3.0 on the same machines. I remember selling the idea of faster UI to our school's IT guy and it was used until the the already old then machines were put of use.

So maybe it was success but it didn't feel like it...

Last time a headhunter managed snatch me was weird. I wasn't really active before deadline because I was on a holiday trip and the headhunter said "it's okay, let's call after your holidays". I wasn't actually looking for a new job but couple of the buzzwords sounded promising so I ended up having calling one of those chitchat calls with the headhunter which then led to a chitchat with the company guys.

When I was meeting the company guys, I'd updated and printed my puny resume in case they would've wanted it but realised they had "my resume" already. Basically the headhunter had copy pasted my puny LinkedIn profile data into their some sort of resume template and the guys were thinking I was actively looking for a new job.

Weird coincidences but ended up taking the job and haven't regretted after 2,5 years.

One old developer colleague once said wisely that if you find a good manager follow them through the job switches if possible.

I remember playing some CGA games with some Hercules graphics card. There was two TSR programs which made it possible to run CGA color games with the yellow-on-black Hercules display.

Can't remember the name of the other one but one of them was definitively SIMCGA [https://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/SIMCGA41.ZIP/INFO/]

Without that awesome program my childhood would've been a lot less intresting.

Did most of if out of curiosity. Really nicely done and well written. Really approachable for a total golang-newbie.

I kinda relived parts of my own childhood with the story. Funnily written for childhood memoirs :)

In my case the magical Windows version was Windows 95 Final Beta (AKA Chicago), which I managed to get through my fathers connections. Oh boy it was exciting for a fouth-grader to install it and figure out what went wrong etc.

(Although I strongly was in the OS/2 and Mac camps at the time;-)

And we're talking about whole country which already censors and blocks internet traffic so the telemetry being sent to the US wouldn't be a real problem anyway except for saving internal bandwidth / firewall capacity.

And my lasting impression is that LibreOffice is trying to make CSV import/export as easy as possible when MS Office is trying to make it actively harder and harder in every version.

My dad had 300Mhz beige G3 tower and it was always rock solid. Of course Photoshop and Pagemaker were a bit crashy apps...

Yeah they were slow and had limitations but on the other hand G3 iMacs were the cheapest DV-video-editing setups for schools and other lowend usage. Editing with them felt really good compared to some P3/K6 PCs I and my friend had. And of course the editing experience was a lot more easier with iMovie than with some ~~pirated~~loaned Premiere.

Or you just didn't know about similar Mac models then? :)

Apple had LC|Performa 500 series of which the first models were sold in 1993 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC_500_series]

And don't forget the the classic Macintosh, SE, Classic etc models had everything integrated since 1984.

I agree. The metaphor for manipulating files, drivers etc has been the pinnacle of the desktop metaphor (maybe with the exception of BeOS but they just copied and made kinda better version of MacOS classic.

I recently bought a Powermac G4/553 DA model and it's really responsive with Classic. One of the last Classic-compatible models. But it feels really simple compared to any modern OS.

And something I've forgotten in 20 years since the last usage of Classic: There's no real multi-tasking. Uncompressing zip or sit packages basically blocks the whole OS until the work is done.

Oh and other things taken for granted nowadays I've forgotten: one can use _the same computer for other things when scanning photos_. Then even the fastest computer was blocked until the scanning was completed :D

It ran smooth enough on 486/33DX with 10 Mb of ram. Actually it ran better on that than on 66 DX2 with 4 megs of ram.

Haven't used desktop Linuxes or Windows for about decade as macOS + Linux servers has provided useful common ground for both use cases. But even ten years ago KDE was a lot more nicer to use than Windows and I would assume they have gone a lot further in the mean time. For HiDPI stuff that sound real PITA if that hasn't been yet worked out :/

Imagine, how much further Linux would be if people (and Microsoft) had used all the energy of trying to make Windows work like Linux instead of actually improving Linux.

There has been lots of projects with that goal like Cygwin, Mingw, WSL*. Different virtualization glue layers etc.

For most of the part there has been lots of effort to different runtimes (PHP, Python, Docker etc) to make them work better with Windows and the end result usually is that it's a lot more easier to have the same stuff running on top of Real Linux instad of different kind of kludges the Windows versions require.

Funny, how big part of the list are Linux-origin projects or WSL. How about really making the switch to Linux instead of trying to make Windows function like Linux?

Well, comparing m43 cameras with full frame is like comparing Phase 645 sensor with FF cameras. M43 cameras are really nice and lightweight but have their own limitations.

All the Leica m43 glass are so called Pana-Leica glass: Panasonic designed and manufactured but Leica rubber stamped. They still are really nice glass, though :)

Disclaimer: used Olympus 4/3 and m43 for reaally long time but the mirrorless full frame gear feels so much better in the closely same sized package.

I belive Sigma realized that they need to up their game and a lot because the Chinese cheapo manufacturers (and partially Samyang) are eating the really low end niche. Of course Samyang has upped their game with the AF-equipped Sony FE -lenses as well, but they are still low end compared to nowadays quite good Sigma mirrorless offerings.

For landscapes 400-600 mm are in some cases really nice.

Sounds like the m43 20mm f1.7, which is known for its good IQ, pancake design but annoyingly slow AF :)

Nikon was the second biggest camera manufacturer until recently when Sony ate their market.

Even in the early 2010s Nikon was thought as the innovator and techically better than Canon but Sony stole that title. Nikon fumbled with the mirrorless market quite spectacularly and nowadays its mirrorless cameras like Z6 and Z7 are basically copies of what Sony published year or two earlier but with quite bad native lens line-up.

The funny thing here is that Nikon outsourced the sensor development to Sony in the 2000s.

On day in my previous job our junior support guy started cursing loudly. He had done what he was asked for and did some some small, _almost_ day-to-day support request which was supposed to do some requested maintenance things for some credit card accounts our company was handling. He by some small accident ended up invalidating the cards with our CC operator and closing the accounts on our end.

He was so wrecked about it and we, the more senior guys started helping him and comforting him that "yeah, this kind of blunders can happen to anyone, no worries. Let's figure this out together.".

The other guys figured how to restore the data into correct setup on our end, and I found some unimplemented badly documented "undo invalidation" endpoint from the CC operator with which we could fix the stuff on the operators end.

So we spent nice and fun evening together figuring out the problem as a team, but damn the guy was so torn up about his small and completely understandable fumble that nobody else needed to critique him about it.

The funny thing is that with this kind of blunders one learns a lot more and a lot faster than usually. People need to make mistakes. It's usually the best way to learn.

Yes, Jobs and Apple are kind of sharks but on the other hand did you witness Flash running on Android phones? They were so slow that you didn't want to enable it even if you could :D

I would splice the argument in half:

A. Creative people creating games and other fun stuff with Flash in similar vein than HyperCard and Visual Basic allowed decades earlier

B. Bloody stupid web page enchancements and whole sites made in Flash for the effects and they were PITA to use and find. Ie. you cannot use the website without flash because the button animations have been done with Flash so the whole navigation doesn't work because Flash broken or disabled on purpose.

Most of the time I just ended up hating Flash-content because its randomness to work with Linux even on Mac and Windows was really, really annoying. Having fancy effects on a web page without any real added value didn't help.

FTL is available for iOS at least :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ftl-faster-than-light/id833951...

I have had Fractal Design's Node 304 as a home server / NAS for the last 3,5 years. It's quite reasonably priced, the provided fans are quiet enough and can be replaced later on with Noctuas. It doesn't offer disk hotswap but otherwise it's quiet and I can suffer the downtime ;-) + can handle 6 3,5 HDDs :)

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304/...

Sounds awfully familiar. Sony A7ii was really frustrating camera. Used it for for few years or so. The A7rII was a lot better and A7iii is already really good. In many cases I'm just using continuous focus and reframing the picture whenever I want without any stress about missing the focus. Tthis means I can concentrate on more important aspects of the portraits than the focus. Ofc difficult lighting situations requires more care but it's still easy compared to previous models. A7r4 feels even better.

Currently it looks like Sony is leading the mirrorless AF-race by 1-2 generations unless Canon manages to bring new flag ship model with something better as the rumors suggest but let's see how that really goes.

The article is probably from 2018 as the newest DSLRs like Nikon's D780 has about the same sensor PDAF capabilities as their Z-series mirrorless bodies.

It's funny, how in the beginning mirrorless cameras (and DSLRs in the liveview mode9 had really slow contrast based AF but nowadays the best models have already catched the DSLR PDAF systems and in some cases are better and more intelligent (like Sony's A7Riv, A6400 and A9* subject tracking which understands subject disappearing from the frame and reappearing etc).

Also, it's funnily telling which photographers have really gotten used to bad DSLR PDAF as they are using only the middle focus point with mirrorless cameras which have the same or better AF-capabilities even in the frame corners. They don't trust the mirrorless sensor PDAF and try to use it like the older DSLRs worked.

Please do remember that Torvalds worked for Transmeta which created and designed vliw CPUs from scratch.

He's also really practical guy if you happen to remember about Minix micro-kernel VS monolithic Linux-kernel ;)

Yep, the price published for Finland feels really weird. The operators are nowadays selling even even unlimited data prepaids for 20-30 euros or 1 eur per day. This of course makes gigabyte price comparison a bit hard as it depends how much you download.