stevekemp

I guess this depends on location. I work in Finland and in all the jobs I've hard for Finnish companies they've either offered to pay for a new phone for me, or offered to pay my phone bill …

Thank you, that's very kind. I tried to make it more playable via the tiny-font, working around the narrow width of the Spectrum display, but I think I need to add word-wrapping to the text-outpu…

My overriding memories of SourceForge was that it was slow, buggy, and hard to use. There were mailing lists, issue-trackers, forums, and similar things but each page load took like five seconds and t…

It looks like the link you shared is working now. The links I have configured in my rss2email application are all showing HTTP 200 OK, with suitable content too. False alarm?

My wife has churned through a few video services, netflix, amazon, disney, etc. I've seen her frustration as series come and go from the catalogs, and the lack of things that we can watch togethe…

They added a chat application, so you can get daily spam from onlyfans promoters, or cryptocurrency schills, before you get so annoyed you disable it.

I have one digital watch, the Casio F-91W, along with a mechanical "jump hand" watch, which shows the time using a pair of rotating wheels which have digits written on them. Kinda cute, but…

I collect watches, and I have examples of various types (diver, pilot, etc, etc). The only thing I don't have is any watch with Roman Numerals, I don't like the way they look. That said I h…

Here in Finland the school finishes in the early afternoon, but we kinda trust the children to play outdoors, or walk back home when they've had enough. Our child, seven, only really received a m…

This is basically a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39686585

If you enjoyed this, as members of hacker news tend to do, then you might enjoy the followup piece: https://norvig.com/lispy2.html The followup expands the original to make it both mo…

Darcs is a name that always makes me a little nostalgic, it was such an obvious idea of approaching a VC system. Unfortunately when I used it 10+ years ago we did hit the "merge of doom" pr…

Your reply suprises me, when I run "grep --[TAB]" I go a whole bunch of flags. I'd probably suggest that bash-completion being a "third party" package is a good thing, it'…

> It's rare for bash to complete anything but filenames. zsh gives me subcommands and flags with descriptions. I think that hasn't been true for a very long time, although it might be tha…

I always feel nostalgic when I see references to +Orc, or Fravia (RIP). But I think there's still a lot of people doing the NOP-patching thing, albeit with more complexity. There continue to be …

Some things were identical, for example .com files were loaded at 0x0100 which meant that before the start of the loaded program there was space for the FCB: https://en.wikipedia.org/…

I think the instruction set, or the minimum number of primitives you need to implement in the "host" not the language itself is fascinating. I've looked at a lot of implementations that…

Write a list of three items you're working on. * One .. * Two .. * Three .. Now mark them as TODO items, with one being in-progress: * TODO One .. * TODO Two .. * INPROGRESS Three .. In Emacs you…

"gotten" would be less unusual for a Scottish person, although it is usually used in the context of "ill-gotten [gains]" it does crop up now and again outwith that.

I have fond memories of using edlin on MS-DOS 3.x. Similar system, but of course no remote access to the system there.

All the books I own are already present. (Yes I could download the "missing" ones I want too, in PDF, but I'd rather have real copies to flick through, randomly.)

I love that you're so passionate, and I hope the game continues for future generations, flying-car based addons, or not!

I've been trying to buy books related to the Spectrum, for the past few years. It's actually surprisingly hard to come across more than a few - now and again ebay has books, for example, but…

I guess it depends, I had to draw a family tree when I was at school, many years ago, and I stopped once I hit around fifty cousins. So on the one hand I have a huge family, but on the other hand, the…

Pretty cute, and it gets super fast pretty quickly. I got to level six on the first go, but after that I noticed if you move one pixel off the side of the screen you could just hold down "UP"…

Flattr tried to do something similar, but yes I agree. It's unfortunate that bitcoin became a hoarding/speculation thing, rather than a useful thing. Decentralized micro-transactions would …