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Comment · 7 days ago
I like the UI changers. But how do I select a different font?
Comment · 25 days ago
It was an interesting read because it's from a very different culture but at the same time "western" enough to be read comfortably. But it's "science" is just bullshit, both the physics and the sociology.
Comment · 25 days ago
Of course it is both, are you stupid?
Comment · 3 months ago
There was a Shareware tool called Executive that would manipulate task priorities to, amongst other things, prioritize the active application.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes, running software that is not authorized can get you fired.
Comment · 3 months ago
Over the past 15 years, I worked for 4 different companies in 4 different industries and I never had any trouble getting Emacs approved.

They were all rather smallish, always around 200 employees, though.

Comment · 3 months ago
Emacs is a LISP refugee in Unixland. It doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the LISP philosophy. But it integrates.

Forgot where I found this.

Comment · 4 months ago
Someone else here already pointed out the problem with that approach: After the second or third candidate, the interviewer is very familiar with the problem and may become unfairly judgemental with later candidates if they don't immediately see "the obvious". Which wasn't obvious at all to him as well, two weeks ago.
Comment · 5 months ago
Bullshit, and you know it.
Comment · 10 months ago
And an unlimited life span.
Comment · 11 months ago
How would you run a project like this? People come and go. People do a one-time contribution and then you never hear from them again. People work on a project for years and then just go silent. Honestly, credit where credit is due, but how is a project like this supposed to manage this?
Comment · 11 months ago
AmigaOS supported both. Each drive and in addition each medium had it's own name. If GAMEDISK was in floppy 0, you could reference it either as DF0: or as GAMEDISK:

You could even reference media that was not loaded at the time (e.g. GAMEDISK2:) and the OS would ask you to insert it into any drive. And there were "virtual" devices (assigns) that could point to a specific directory on a specific device, like LIBRARIES:

Comment · 11 months ago
It has been completely playable for the past 10 years, what exactly are you missing?
Comment · 11 months ago
Elegant, schmellegant. If you want your software to be usable in an enterprise environment, you have to support OIDC out of the box.

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