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I’m planning to write a text based social network for vintage computing enthusiasts, for CP/M. It’ll be written in Turbo Pascal.

It’s my path to $2B.

Don’t tell anyone my idea.

Related question:

What “new” CP/M machines can be bought today?

The closest I know is this kit:

https://rc2014.co.uk/

Any others that can be bought off the shelf today?

Presumably this is rising because of the topical current Basecamp saga.

But I don’t think Basecamp is like the simple model put forward here by Paul Graham, who is saying “if you’re famous you get fanboys and their opposite and that’s just an outcome of being famous”.

Basecamp and it’s founders have over many years taken extremely opinionated and contrarian positions, and it’s always been presented with an air of breathtakingly arrogant superiority. The tone of their communication has always to me seemed to be bursting with superiority and smugness. They haven’t just ended up with haters just because that’s what happens if you’re famous. They’ve ended up with haters because they almost appeared to actively be trying to create haters because they wanted to generate extreme opinions because it’s good publicity.

And now finally Basecamp founders have taken yet another contrarian arrogant position but this time it’s fallen flat and backfired severely. And now many former fanboys are haters and there’s no goodwill and all there is, is haters.

Did he attend the #joshfight ?

Offering six months pay is a major own goal by Basecamp.

“Ruining” is a bit strong, perhaps.

Peharps “making the first few seconds of visiting most sites slightly annoying” is a better description.

It’s so tempting to make some snide remark about it being cancelled.

I’m not trying to win an argument, just stating what I believe.

I think no other justification is needed to end the death penalty than “it’s inhuman and barbaric”.

Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core point that’s it’s straight up wrong unethical and inhuman to murder others in the name of the law.

Paul Graham has a valid point, but if you say “it’s wrong cause it’s inaccurate”, implies it’s right if it’s accurate. And it’s not... the death penalty is wrong no matter be it accurate or inaccurate.

Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.

No I’m almost certain I haven’t. Because I’ve used it before and I don’t really have any questions about it so I ran out and I just go buy more.

At this stage I’m just assuming it’s a coincidence.

It has made me realize the holy grail for google and advertisers is to access your bank transactions and advertise to you based on that.

I worked at a company in finance markets in the mid 1990s that was paying the traders $2M bonuses.

Users expect signin to work the way they expect it to work.

I once implemented a non standard signin where all that was needed was an email link which kept you signed in.

Users hated it.

They actually went to the trouble of complaining and no doubt it lost me potential signups.

These days I only ever do normal email and password signup.

Because the first half of the article was praising Java 8 and it’s various benefits.

I didnt read the second half because I couldnt make sense of the negative headline with the positive text.

Strange.... should the title be “You can’t afford NOT to run Java 8”?

I hang up as soon as I can when I hear the beep that gives away it is a sales call.

I choose to delete my posts/comments if I feel they’re too negative.

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Love this take.

You’ve changed my thinking.

Copying look and feel of software was fought out in the courts by Apple and Microsoft a very long time ago. It’s allowed.

I uploaded an image and it stayed waiting never completed.

Doesn’t work.

I’ve spent decades solving hard problems and there’s zero chance of me remembering any significant percentage of them.

The interesting thing about the universe is that it appears, as far as can be measured, to be flat. This implies that it’s either infinite or so large that if it’s curved then we can’t detect the curve over 90 billion light years.

Either way, the universe is unbelievably, vastly bigger even than the observable 90 billion light years we live in.

Daily stand ups seem a waste of time to me.

Maybe once a week or perhaps Monday and Friday.

Still, I’m being paid for what I see as a waste of time so that’s the upside..... and it’s the boss who values it, so if they want to pay me well whatever I guess.

I find it hard to understand that despite long term withering criticism of the XID Wraparound issue, a definitive solution does not seem to have been prioritized.

That’s a really negative, glass is half full viewpoint. How can anyone not see the incredible wealth of unbelievable awesome that is the modern web?

How can anyone use 200 popular websites and see shit instead of being astounded by how awesome it all is?

I look at the same thing and see unbelievably powerful web applications, the web browser as the most sophisticated fabulous software ever built (alongside Linux), a constant drive amongst front end developers/libraries/tools for new and better ways of doing things.

And I see so many websites that it’s impossible to make sweeping generalizations about front end development.

The world contains certain people who want to see the bad... this is what’s happening here.

What essential need does LinkedIn meet?

A company whose product is sufficiently inessential that they can just send everyone home and no one would know the difference.