spatulon
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Comment · 1 month ago
One of the more unusual aspects is the naming convention for types. Most type names use the a_ prefix (e.g. a_statement_ptr), but names beginning with a vowel start with an_ instead (e.g. an_object_lifetime_ptr).
Comment · 8 months ago
Apple also put the music video for The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies on the Mac OS 8 CD.
Comment · 1 year ago
Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've never looked into the PDF format, but, does it not allow for annotations that say, "the glyphs in the rectangle ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) represent the text 'foobar'")? That's been my mental model for how they are text-searchable.
Comment · 2 years ago
After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York.
Looking that up on Google Maps and Street View, it appeared to be a small branch in Brooklyn, on a street that looked immediately familiar to me as the starting area in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Comment · 2 years ago
That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading before they start playing. It's very noticeably different from the near-instant loading of most videos I watch.
Comment · 2 years ago
Until a few decades ago, the term 'billion' actually meant one million million (1e12) in the UK, rather than the now commonly-accepted meaning of one thousand million (1e9). As a British paper, the FT may simply be trying to avoid the ambiguity.
Comment · 3 years ago
Two problems that have occurred in recent times when Dota tournaments have not used booths:
- the crowd whistling to tell their favourite team that the enemy team is making some kind of secret play (e.g. taking Roshan, or using a smoke).
- clearly hearing the play-by-play commentary that's being played to the crowd over the arena's loudspeakers, which can also give away information about what the enemy team's doing.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Any open file
Any file that was opened without specifying FILE_SHARE_DELETE in the call to CreateFile[1] (the Win32 equivalent of open(2)). Unfortunately, most language runtimes that wrap CreateFile tend not to pass that flag.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...
Comment · 3 years ago
The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appears 600ms after clicking on the dock icon. I would not call that immediate, and it only gets worse when you try more complex applications, especially those written in Electron.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.
Comment · 3 years ago
The classic MacOS's Finder was 'spatial'. Since each folder on disk could only be open in a single window, and that window remembered its position and layout, there was a certain physical consistency - it felt like the windows were the actual folders on disk, with the same kind of coherency and stability you expect of real-world objects.
Meanwhile, the Mac OS X Finder is not spatial. You can have the same folder open in multiple windows, each with different layouts. There's no longer that illusion that the window and the folder are one and the same – it's just a browser showing you the contents of the folder.
This article goes into a lot more detail. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
Comment · 3 years ago
Does it really have 2000 employees? I remember when they were owned by Conde Nast and had something like 5-10 people. I know they have a lot more users now, and have added features like image and photo hosting, but to go from that to 2000 employees is quite the blowup.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Platinum theme used by MacOS 8-9 was probably the closest-looking to that Windows 95 look and feel. And since Windows 2000 was a combination of that old look and feel on top of a modern kernel (NT), one might argue that the Mac OS X Developer Preview was the nearest Apple equivalent.
The first two Developer Preview versions of Mac OS X used the Platinum theme, not the Aqua theme that ultimately shipped with 10.0.
You can see screenshots here: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosxdp1