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if you use a 12 hour clock ur probably the sort of assjacket that writes programs that write local times to persistent storage
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your avatar is excellent btw
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Aug 14, 2017 18:12
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don't get your hopes up, the ending of windows 3 really sucked
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Aug 16, 2017 21:46
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reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee fs
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Aug 22, 2017 15:45
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:lol a two year lifespan was android-grade horseshit 10 years ago do not justify this ten years ago, you say?
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Aug 28, 2017 15:21
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ads in the operating system lol tempting though since the ssds my gaming pc came with run something like 100x faster under windows 10 than they do under windows 7.
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Aug 31, 2017 19:25
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if an app begs for a rating then rate it 1 if it demands a reason write "begs for ratings"
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Sep 4, 2017 19:35
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infernal machines posted:hey guys lets run random bullshit found on the internet with full administrative rights! there is literally no way this could go wrong because i know and trust the vendors of this free utility same $ sudo npm install -g fotm-shitboat
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Sep 6, 2017 21:32
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if you want to interactively run commands then use a shell if you want to automate a task then use a programming language if you try to converge the two you're going to get something that is poo poo at both but then this is the same company that gave us metro windows does need a shell that isn't a 30 year old fossilized turd like cmd.exe but one thing that shell definitely does not need is a type system
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Sep 12, 2017 17:23
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:powershell good. types good. parsing strings all day in bash is hot garbage if you are parsing strings in bash you hosed up. why did you not write a python script.
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Sep 12, 2017 18:58
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honestly, with the proper historical context, com and vb and vbscript were really not that bad. i dare say they were, in fact, actually fairly good. now, com automation was an absolute horrorshow, and it was probably the main reason why c++ com component development was the stuff of nightmares, but the funny thing is it was totally unnecessary; real vb didn't give a gently caress and could just consume a lot of com stuff directly. it's only vbscript that insisted that everything it interact with be an IDispatch, VARIANT, BSTR, or SAFEARRAY. but hey, ms didn't want the built-in vbscript to cannibalize vb. or something.
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Sep 12, 2017 20:13
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I'm assuming that clip was from the late 80s/early 90s, and at that time Microsoft was a well oiled technical powerhouse while Apple was circling the loving drain (at least in the late 90s) due to their objectively shittier engineering. but i mean yeah i guess apple always had better font rendering. Old stevie j was that one kid in the playground who loved to talk poo poo constantly whether or not there was any substance to back it up at the time.
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Sep 26, 2017 18:38
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1995? christ. apple was a has-been, next was a wank exercise first and an actual marketable product second (although it did admittedly have a decent ui toolkit i guess? just one that wasn't very practical to run on the hardware of the day) meanwhile the dude talks poo poo about the guys who were actually revolutionizing the world by providing functional computing technology to every single home and business, today, with actual pragmatic considerations leading the charge. dude had a gigantic messiah complex and was so incredibly butthurt that it wasn't him making it happen lol taste, loving lol.
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Sep 26, 2017 20:11
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rjmccall posted:ibm designs a pc that can be cheaply made out of commodity parts rofl drat, fruit company employees just get absolutely enraged any time somebody criticizes
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Sep 26, 2017 21:26
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microsoft, fail idiots, smelling absolutely awful: ok, our target market in 1995 is PCs with 8MB of RAM and a 486 processor, and we have a strongly established ecosystem of third party DOS and Win16 applications. Let's make an OS to bridge us to the Win32 future that still works with every insane hack that people did with DOS-based systems and fits into a thimbleful of RAM. It'll be a really difficult engineering challenge but it has to be done, then when the time is right and computer systems are more powerful we can move everybody onto our more powerful NT platform that was designed and built by the best minds in the field. apple, refined, discerning intellectuals: HEY GUYS CHECK OUT THIS THING CALLED RHAPSODY ITS GONNA BE PRETTY SWEET LOL *eight year long reverberating farting noise* god drat it taligent and opendoc and copland were going to be so good ...
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Sep 26, 2017 21:33
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rjmccall posted:lol, which part of the brilliant microsoft puppetmaster plan was it to have win95/98/me spontaneously crash multiple times a day, completely tank the brand, and turn microsoft into a laughingstock the part where raymond chen writes an alternative memory allocator for simcity so that it can use memory after freeing it, because who's going to get blamed for crashes, simcity or windows? or the part where win95 performed insane back-breaking contortions to allow real-mode dos drivers to work while the protected mode os was running. or the part where the shell had a ruthlessly optimized subset of COM that could seamlessly reinitialize to the real version of COM because this saved nearly an entire megabyte of ram in the common case. or the part where ie was in fact by far the technically superior browser compared to netscape. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41363 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063 microsoft in the 90s had absolutely the best software developers and the best management to realize their maximum potential. yeah there was a lot of cut throat and extremely shady business shennanigans too, but there was a rock solid core product underneath it all. apple sent the decade jerking off to enterprise pie-in-the-sky bullshit instead, and also taking the fishmech approach of "well your software doesn't obey the guidelines clearly laid out in the technical reference manual so you're at fault" when it came to application compatibility, which swiftly relieved them of the burden of having paying customers in fairly short order. except for the ones who had an emotional rather than a pragmatic attachment to apple, which it turns out was not that many! jobs could talk about taste all he liked. he had his shot, he blew it, nobody was impressed by him whining and being a sore loser. here's to the misfits lmao
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i'm not, you're just making poo poo up in your desperation to win the argument lmao i'm illustrating the fundamental differences in the outlooks of the two companies at the time. apple was all about pretty ideas, microsoft was about pragmatic realities. personal computers were way too limited to have actual robust operating systems in those days, but even then the systems we did have mostly worked if you remained on the rails. the problem is that programmers never remain on the rails, they always do dumb, awful poo poo. then they'd go out of business after a few months. or just make things like video games that had short life cycles, then laugh at you and tell you to go gently caress yourself if you asked them to fix their poo poo. well you're not legally allowed to kill these people so unfortunately you have to accommodate them. and that means doing boring, icky, lame compatibility hacks to keep the whole shitshow going. microsoft would not have survived if they had done otherwise and their management was smart enough to appreciate this; theywould not have remained a going concern if they tried to force everyone onto nt 4 back in 1995. none of their customers' poo poo would have worked! but of course that has consequences. chiefly the adverse effects of giving drivers and applications such free rein to bypass the os and gently caress with hardware (or each other!) directly. it still worked pretty well in spite of that. winme was kind of a piece of poo poo though, yeah, that was a misstep. nobody is perfect. now, yeah you have ios and when apple says jump an isv says how high. or at least it does if it wants to still be in business tomorrow.
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it's all good, i just felt consumed by the urge to furiously shitpost on this topic Being all serious for a moment though, while Win95 was by no means a good operating system I do think the team behind it were a skilled and motivated bunch. There were definitely some flaws in the end product and it was certainly uh, inspired, by things that Mac OS had done previously, but I can still appreciate the cleverness that went into making it work under such tight constraints (both hardware and development time! Computing was poo poo but it was also moving at an absolutely breakneck speed that will never be matched again)
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Sep 27, 2017 03:37
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everything to do with videogaming is gross and weird and twitch.tv's fetid orbit is no exception
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Sep 27, 2017 17:22
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I want one of the new X1s Carbon but I can't really justify the > $2k price tag just yet. My current X1 probably has another year or two of life left in it once I finally get around to installing this replacement keyboard (which is to say, transplant the screen and all the PCBs into a new chassis pmuch)
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Sep 29, 2017 19:06
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Millstone posted:lol if you record yourself playing video games. double lol if you loving sit down and watch someone else play video games on the internet. i mean quite a few speed runs are entertaining to watch you bash your head against a particular part of a game for hours on end and then you watch a dude break that poo poo over his knee and you're like oh.
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Sep 30, 2017 04:58
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*eats entire can of chili* *blast processing intensifies*
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Oct 2, 2017 23:14
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infernal machines posted:
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Oct 3, 2017 01:45
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lol this loving thread
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Oct 6, 2017 17:03
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posting to say that microsoft is still bad
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Oct 6, 2017 17:14
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i love sniffing farts in the phantom zone
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Oct 6, 2017 18:08
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perhaps post 25 will allow us to escape from the bone zone
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toot toot all aboard the shitpost express 
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