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Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

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is nearly miraculous, computers are so damn fast and cheap these days, the quality of resources, much of it free, is off the charts, and the talent pool has exploded, and shows ev
This is part 2 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of my asking a bunch of folks about the current state of software engineering, the sense

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

https://apple-tree.life/~michael/blog/2009/

happen to have spare computers lying around that you are not using and feeling pretty guilty about, this is prolly not the right oil for your snake. Also, please note the OpenSUSE

Windows XP @ cidoku.net

http://cidoku.net/notes/windows_xp

as the high cost of new computers, the unwillingness to upgrade old machines that work just fine, poverty, or simply stubbornness. I was part of that 1% for a few months in 2021-2

the Computer Graphics Museum

http://computergraphmuseum.free.fr/magi.htm

phone lines from the computers at MAGI in Elmsford, N.Y.,? came the easy reply. ?It?s my job or part of my job as computer image choreographer [C.I.C.].? ?Oh. And what is ?. ? ??
The computer graphics museum ,magi synthavision that created the movie tron from walt dysney pictures

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

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tasks performed on computers. The distinction lies in rigidity versus reasoning. RPA is excellent at following a strict script: if X happens, do Y. It mimics human hands. Agentic

/retro/ - Y2K - Page 1

https://trashchan.xyz/retro/index.html

paean to the era when computers were named Stacy and Lisa, and tech loyalists fought bitter battles over the superiority of Ataris to Amigas". Not that I care about Wired, but a d
1990s and 2000s Nostalgia

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 14th, 2008

http://techrights.org/o/2008/11/15/irc-log-14112008/

MinceR well, crApple "computers" are usually bought as room ornaments for gay people Nov 14 17:36 PetoKraus well nice... is there anything he could do? Nov 14 17:36 schestowitz Th
IRC Log for November 14th, 2008

School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital Environments - Amplifying Empowerment or Propagating Stupidity?

http://sigwait.tk/~alex/doc/bunz%2Cmercedes__school-will-never-end/

Ever since personal computers had become mainstream, designers had tried to give them an air of being friendly and fun. Apple’s appeal to non-technical people was intentionally fo

CyberXXX -- Internet Pornography Update

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with access to computers are sometimes getting addicted to porn, he says. McPherson says she feels sorry for the spouses of people who struggle with sexual addiction, but she also

The System of the World Wide Web

https://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-Services/system.html

so much that when computers got cheap enough, they took whatever they could find and built a World Wide Web out of it. As it happened, the web faced two main Internet rivals: a pr

Spyware Warrior

http://www.netrn.net/spywareblog/

onto consumers’ computers. It then sent advertisements for the Mailwiper and Spy Deleter programs. One advertisement, for example, caused the CD-ROM tray on computers to ope

Adobe Flash and JavaScript

https://jacobwsmith.xyz/stories/javascript.html

ever done, sell cheap computers only capable of running your most popular program that already has thousands of developers working on it. Now of course Chromebooks aren't the only


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