rgacote

Joined 16 years ago

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Comment · 4 months ago
Sometimes you simply ignore asking why and sit in awe of the what of it all. Impressive and nostalgic.
Comment · 8 months ago
Robert's cover art set the tone for each issue. His covers danced a fine line between whimsical and informative.
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting that accessibility was not a theme (watched the online video, not the presentation). I'm interested to see what some low-sight folk might use this. Go shopping and have all the product labels magnified 20-30x?
Comment · 4 years ago
And some positions allow you to vote for "up to" some number of candidates. Town selectman is a typical example.
Comment · 4 years ago
First thing that came to my mind was something doing garbarge collection (obviously not RTOS).
Comment · 4 years ago
GitHub / GitLab pages? No RSS feed, but a popular way to share lists.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm also curious as to what is tiresome running as a regular user. I'm a developer and run two users (standard/admin) without any issue. Only issue I run into is having to switch to the admin user to run brew.
Comment · 4 years ago
Still my "go to" day-to-day text editor. My favorite editor when I used a Mac Quadra and my favorite editor today. Thanks Rich!
Comment · 4 years ago
Have two copies, one for each ScanSnap S510M connected to a Mac. It simply keeps working.
Comment · 4 years ago
Been doing a lot of internal documentation with Gilab pages, Sphinx, and Myst (markdown for Sphinx). There are pre-built templates for the Continuous Integration for rebuilding the pages.
Comment · 4 years ago
Worked at an OEM and Microsoft charged a license fee for every processor out the door regardless of whether the system had DOS, Novell, or nothing at all installed.
Comment · 5 years ago
Python 1.4: Desktop payment applications. Simple cgi-based dynamic website. System management scripts. Early Plone websites. Asynchronous desktop applications using Twisted.
Comment · 5 years ago
And given how tall Jim was, you could see his face floating over the Faire floor from across the entire hall.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not like there's not 42 different flavors of Linux...

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