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Thirty years old. Hard to believe

I don't know why people hold on to all this extra software and features when with the tools its easier than ever to strip that out and refactor the end product in to a much more compact deliverable. Maybe once upon a time it was useful to keep legacy parts of the software solution around, but it can be recreated with fresh eyes if needed given the power of the new LLM models. My philosophy is if its not needed, it needs to be removed.

It is so much easier to add internationalization to a touchscreen over physical buttons

I just do iOS development and my opinion is this: Start with XCode then use an LLM to design and develop it out from there its great. The newer models work great with project files where they used to struggle. Using the Visual Code development tools alongside XCode, claude skills and 3rd party libraries and frameworks with SwiftUI and Swift 5/6 is really convincing me I should make apps full time again. Coding apps has become my dream job.

https://github.com/LeoMobileDeveloper/ios-developer-tools

https://github.com/AvdLee/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill

That's a lot of money just for network topography, but may someone let them in and it has a whole map of an otherwise hidden or inaccessible network.

Do you have a link to the note app? Just curious what could make it unique, not criticizing anyone.

But who will buy it? No knocks against building old projects, but the market will be flooded with extremely speciality projects. I miss when every app had a spec on the box. I think we need something like that for usage. A new modeling language or something.

Feels like from the before times.

Thanks for showing this. What would you say the differences between the classic version of oleo and your neoleo version?

I'm guessing willingly Maduro surrendered as he took the cash offer from Dec 1, 2025 while publicly rejecting it. After all, he left with his wife.

“You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” Trump reportedly said, offering safe passage for Maduro, his wife and his son “only if he agreed to resign right away”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/trump-maduro-u...

It was Firebird. Thanks for correcting me.

Maybe it hit trademark issues, but the reason I remember from slashdot was that phoenix was already a semi-popular open source project in the debian repository, so firefox had to be named from phoenix to mozilla-phoenix. But firefox at the time still named phoenix just ran so much better on windows than linux, it was funny.

Are those still being used? I haven't used Konqueror in awhile.

I have Objective-C software for iOS that was built for iOS 3 that still runs on the latest version of iOS and people still pay for it. Strange how language stability is an achievable goal.

How would you compare this to say, writing WinForm applications in Visual Basic 6?

Its seems like a combination of 90's seo spam pages combined with running unsigned/unchecked executables. I think we're going to have certifications and positions for AI Tools Security Officers in the near future if we don't already.

I have a hard time believing that, but if that website says so, it must be true. I would wonder if they are including gmail users as well as all android users, but I don't know their methodology. If they include all android users, they should include all ios users for Apple Music and iTunes since Apple stores their music on Microsoft Azure, which last I checked is the same thing OneDrive uses.

People don't like advertising. Google is an advertising company. The more these AI models get corrupted with advertising the more likely they are to take a lead. That the reason they don't dominate in cloud storage. Where's the competitive advantage in embedding advertising in people's personal and publicly shared documents?

I use brave search and usually end up clicking on the google button midway down on the page. Every search engine is inferior and if google wasn't the default search on iOS it would hurt the brand, especially since google is the default search on android. I'm a little older and using bing just feels like altavista in the 90's. Its good enough, but it feels like its selling me something I don't want. Just give me a good search result or I'll have to stop using the phone's web browser to look things up (or manually change the browser search engine with every release).

I think it is undergoing a resurgence due to the LLM prolifereating, but I haven't seen how Prolog is being used in the LLM creation. Of course, I don't really understand the whole process of the creation. I do remember someone on a academic/programmer forum stating Prolog regarding research was big in academics in Europe whereas Lisp was more popular in America academics for research. It would make sense as Richard Stallman was big into AI Lisp as a consultant.

The site itself is 'dated' as it has a massive right margin of blank space, a texture background and the following code:

<!--[if !IE]>

            <script>fixScale(document);</script>

        <![endif]-->

GUI applications are only as responsive as the framework allows them to be. Because Notepad2 and the later Notepad3 were built with win32, they will start the fastest. Applications with a lot of plugins will only load as fast as those plugins can be checked and loaded to prevent exceptions. Personally, I like AkelPad since it still uses a proper MDI like Visual Studio 2008.

As much as I hate to say it, XCode is a really good C development environment that also works with C++. I've never had to mess with a makefile.

I thought it was replaced. The developer posted on discus, but I found the comment on slashdot quoted.

https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7543887&cid=499003...

> When the Amiga system originally went in it was controlling well over 100 buildings throughout the district, including the entire GRCC campus at the time. The Amiga replaced the head-end of the system, which was experiencing expensive hardware failures every year ... and you couldn't get parts for that mini-computer on e-bay. It is essentially acting as a huge database (schedules, configurations, control programs, history, etc.), system manager, and monitoring system ("head-end") for the remaining 19 buildings HVAC systems. If the Amiga goes down, the buildings will continue to operate using the configurations last received, with most of the individual device controls being able to be manually overridden inside each building, albeit with less energy efficiency. What you will loose is the ability to change schedules/custom control code/configurations and the ability to centrally monitor the performance of the buildings.

> Each building has one or more local control systems, and those systems communicate back to the central head-end over radio-modem (there was no district-wide network back then). Schedule and other control changes are sent to the buildings and alerts/reports are sent back. That old equipment in the buildings, even older than the Amiga, is what dictates the radio communications link. They incorporate specific protocols for keying up the radio that are not directly compatible with a newer serial to Ethernet type device that would seem like a logical replacement.

> The control systems themselves gather temperatures, both inside and outside the building, look at trends and do predictive control of the equipment to accomodate scheduled use of various areas of each building. For the day, this was very advanced building control and offered significant energy savings, as well as comfort in the buildings.

> Over time, as buildings have been updated, sold or replaced, the local controls withing those buildings have been replaced with newer/more modern controls that communicate with newer central control systems. Replacing these controls that are local to the buildings is what is responsible for the majority of the cost I would say.

> As far as the Amiga system itself, I believe most of the components are still the original. The hard drive may have failed twice over the years, requiring a rebuild from backups. They did pick up or have donated a few Amiga systems to use as parts as needed, but the system has proven to be very resilient. Obviously, Monitors, Keyboards and Mice can only take so much use without needing to be replaced. Without this, the system likely would have become inoperable and unservicable many years ago, or been incredibly expensive to keep running.

> From a technical stand point, the Amiga was selected because at the time it was the only "Personal Computer" (PC) that had a true pre-emptive multi-taskng operating system. It needed to be able to handle multiple processes simultaneously, including interfacing with the systems, maintaining settings in the database, monitoring the system as well as support for both local and remote access to the system simultaneously. Basically, its capabilities fit the need. While for nostalgia reasons I would hate to see it go, it has been 30 years and I think the system has done its job. Replacing a building's control system doesn't happen overnight, and when you are talking 19 buildings with ancient (yes I am calling myself ancient I guess) control systems, it is going to take money and time. The payback in energy savings, comfort and safe control of the buildings though I think justifies the cost.

Three reasons, 1) Easier to line up barrel with target, 2) Easier to clear jams especially given the colder air temperature at altitude (up to 12k feet), 3) Easier to replace belt when out of ammo with a box of ammo behind the pilot.

I haven't seen an OS/2 based interface on an ATM since 2007. I know that Kroger used OS/2 around the same time period, but I haven't been in a Kroger since 2011.

I think it means per person working and then one providing childcare.

I got a few second hand, vintage android and windows mobile devices with those pop out keyboards and getting used to the physical keyboard was more difficult than I remember. For instance everytime I pushed the keyboard with my thumb the device moved ever so slightly. It was difficult to press the keyboard and not slightly shift the screen

Watchwomen by a process called nagging.

The author of the post seems like an evangelist for the Go programming language.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, but if you can code Python but not Go (or another decent programming language), you probably have no business writing software for a living.