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lproven
8,776karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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recent activity (4,928 total)
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Nifty little vid. Good careful teardown and reassembly, complete with gloves. Couple of small cavils, though... There are a few mistakes in there to point out. * The OS that came with it... The origin…
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I do not understand the ramifications, but how come nobody ever answers "Tauthon" to this discussions? https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon Background:
https:/…
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Agreed. The original pre-Google Android was a Blackberry-killer, and I don't reckon that was a good way to go. You can see some early prototype devices here:
https://www.androidcentra…
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Indeed so. And NeXTstep isn't a 1990s OS. It's a 1980s OS. v0.8 first demoed 12 October 1988 when the NeXT cube was launched; v1.0 shipped 18 September 1989. NeXTstep influenced the Windows …
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And of course finally it went FOSS: https://github.com/SymbianSource I'm surprised nobody has even attempted to pick it up, AFAICT. A very good OS in its day.…
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Allow me to enlighten you a little bit. "The family link between OS/2 and Windows NT"
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/54138.html "Follow-up: the family links…
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Firstly, I think I have to say 'define "failed".' The company is sadly dead and gone, swallowed by PalmSource. BeOS tech was used to build the ARM-native, multitasking, media-savvy…
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Hi. Author of the piece here. It's a repurposed Quora answer; the original question might clarify what I was answering: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Apple-unable-to-complete-Copl…
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Is it CUA? If so, I'm interested. Reads page > modal
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> inspired by Vim Closes tab
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The people behind it could have saved about, oh, a decade's work if they knew about GNUstep before they began. But no. Instead, they invented yet another wheel...
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2 comments: * Only a mug buys Apple kit new. Same as only a mug buys cars or motorbikes new. (Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?) * Wait 'til he gets a …
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I came here to advocate much the same. Raspberry Pi Zero + Risc OS Pico. The fastest BASIC interpreter ever written, with local variables, recursion, inline ARM assembler, and more. Advantages over Py…
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Perhaps the seminal academic paper is "Oberon - the Overlooked Jewel" by Michael Franz of University of California at Irvine. A PDF is here: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/…
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As for the OS, I assembled some links here: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/46523.html This is a good overview: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04&#…
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The technical claims here are badly incorrect. Oberon is 2 things. It is a language and an OS, or even a family of OSes. Oberon the language has several versions and works on Linux on x86, x86-64, ARM…
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It looks just like NeXTstep. IMHO, i.e. like the most beautiful, elegant GUI ever designed.
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NTFS was NT 3.1 -- in 1993. Win 3.1 (1992) used only FAT.
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> some group tried to make a concurrent version of DOS I think you really do not know much about the history of PC operating systems. IBM licensed Digital Research's real-time OS, FlexOS, for …
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The first thing that struck me was to try to write, or port, some bare-metal emulators. E.g. extend an Atari TT/Falcon emulator to use as much as possible of the RasPi's resources -- all the…
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This is a real issue. In journalism, the career path is jr writer, writer, sr writer, jr editor, sr editor -- and then you go do management. I was the IT Manager of a London stockbroker in the City by…
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An acquaintance, a decade ago, took about 5y off to go on a world tour. When he returned to London, his skills were so stale, he couldn't find anything. After 6mth of hunting in vain, he wrote a …
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Not all, but most. It is endemic in the Anglophone world. I also speak a little German, French, Norwegian and at a push Spanish and Swedish, and I applied to anywhere that was hiring English speakers …
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Just so. Aggressive job-hunting is a nearly full-time job in itself. As I said, though, from 2010-2013 I became a lot more selective, meaning it was only an hour or 2 a day.
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Up to a point, yes. I tried to use as broad a range of places as I could find. I bought the Guardian every Thursday for the ads in the Tech pull-out, until they cancelled that. I subscribed to Computi…
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I signed up with every agency in sight -- Monster, Reed, Manpower, whatever. I had saved keyword queries on all the major agencies and sites. I joined mailing lists with job ads -- I recall https:&#x…
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Good for you. Seriously. It does seem to be better for programmers. I was primarily a support guy, but also systems admin, network architect/rollouts/installation, training, even project man…
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No, not really. For 2 reasons. [1] I only did broadcast/scattershot approach for the first year. After I got kicked off benefits the 2nd time (for attending a meeting of my startup -- an unpaid p…