DerekL

The TRS-80 Model II used them. Some CP/M microcomputers did too.

It would be nice if the program would abort if a non-void function returns without a value. The only cost would be a slightly larger executable.

> A square mile is a huge chunk of land. It's nearly 640 acres.

By the way, a square mile is exactly 640 acres.

The complaint is about the leveraged buyout in 2005, not the restructuring happening right now.

> NeXT was the company that Steve Jobs founded in 1985 after he was fired by Apple. The company designed computer workstations and lasted through 1997, when Jobs was rehired at Apple.

This description is misleading. NeXT didn't go out of business. Apple acquired the company and its developers, put their executives in charge of software development, and turned NeXTSTEP into Mac OS X (and later iOS). Apple today is NeXT as much as its Apple.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20401078

Cool! Now let's make a FPGA clone of Super Sprint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_System

Well, you can construct a mechanical Turing machine out of wood. I saw it on HN a few weeks ago.

https://siamagazin.com/mechanical-turing-machine-in-wood/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219442

Actual title is “64 bit mobile device are actually a pretty stupid idea”.

Let me guess, Hacker News has decided that a numeral at the beginning of a title is always clickbait, so it was automatically removed.

That's right. It took Commodore seven years to ship a major revision to the Amiga graphics chips, which had four times the display bandwidth and twice the blitter performance. They should have had a 16-fold performance increase in all categories by that time.

Actual title is “We Found the Guy Behind the Viral ‘Drunk Pelosi’ Video”.

The airport is “LAX”, not “Lax”.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20120642

Title is misspelled. There should be an apostrophe at the end of “users”.

MacApp was a framework that ran on top of HIToolkit, similar to PowerPlant. Originally it was written for Object Pascal, but later it moved to C++.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20042421

Actual title is “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?” Why was it changed?

Here's a video related to this.

Is it Possible to Upload an Impossible Level in Super Mario Maker? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D5i3K5-QxM

Why? It doesn't do anything you couldn't do by taking a photo and spending the time to type it in manually.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998004

Title has two typos. Should be “Is Woodstock 50 Cancelled?”.

Title is misspelled: should be “VCs”, not “VCS”.

> Finally GoT ended and are we care more about the dog being patted?

Did a dog write this post title?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908196

The current title of the article is “US author loses book deal for tweet-shaming”.

Actual title is “Why Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47,000 Feet From the Moon”.

It should be “SEAL” (all caps), not “Seal”.

Reminds me of Crystal Pepsi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi

Too bad no one is making CRT displays anymore.

Title has a typo: should be “PCs”, not “PCS”.