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rbanffy
194,610karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
email: username at that google mail thing
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I hope you eventually installed a proper OS.
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It’s a lot more fun when you don’t live on the same planet. Oh wait.
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> Clapping politely is Constitutionally protected free speech So is clapping impolitely, and yet here we are.
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In the Windows 2000 time, I got an IBM PC Server 320 with two Pentium 200-ish CPUs. The level of responsiveness was nothing I have ever seen back then, comparable to the single-CPU Suns and SGIs we ha…
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> If you're offering me $300/hr and the other guy is offering me $400/hr, a whole lot of things start to matter more than the differential. I’m not sure which Catholic saint said tha…
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I think he did that only to impress his hacker friends. ;-) And because laser printers were often the fastest computer in the office.
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> anti-democracy propaganda As in when the president (who was elected) claims widespread election fraud without any evidence?
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> that's a misunderstanding on the part of those who look at these activities and then think they know what's going on So, bombing civilian boats rather than intercepting them, then bombi…
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One interesting and rare feature of NT was the ability to use more than one processor. In that, it was much better than the early dual PPC Macs running MacOS classic, which used one processor as a sla…
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Considering I'm not that fond of what currently is, I'm ok with checking what comes next.