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What you've said is pretty much what I always say about Notes, it was much more than Outlook and when Outlook took over I often wondered what folks did for all the things that Notes did that weren't just email and calendar. I wonder what is comparable now in the ability for someone not very technical to be able to knock up, say a simple change approval system? It sometimes seems with the loss of such things as Notes, Foxpro and Hypercard that it has become less easy for non-dev folks to create simple apps rather than more easy.

Before Outlook there were many, many options, which is kind of the point. You might be intrigued by something like All-In-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1 My own first email client was VMS Mail at uni in 1988, then pine when I started to use SunOS and Solaris every day for work. Lotus Notes was very big for a while too before the web killed it off.

That reminds me of the latter stages of Sun Microsystems, where it seemed like multiple teams were developing competing solutions for system management and patching. Seems a wasteful model and not one that is servicing customers.

So much this, I don't understand why cloud providers don't offer an easy way to view this sort of thing as really it should all be in the logging anyway.

Rick Beato musing on a Billy Corgan comment on how AI is going to replace musicians. Will we be just be left with a front person to present the music, whose vocals are auto tuned?

I sometimes have 3 - 1 at the normal time, interrupted by needing a pee (Age/male/kidney disease), then a second interrupted by the elder of my two dogs needing a pee and a third short one until work time. Not ideal!

Interesting in particular in the conclusion talking about jobs and automation, a familiar concern now as then.

Oh yeah, the Swiss French way is a lot less confusing.

Apart from the US, where else has middle schools? Here in Scotland there is (Optionally) nursery, primary school (5-12) and then secondary school (12-16/18), no middle.

Recommended https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_a...

Very much so, the build quality is amazing. I sold my late dad's 1983/4 DX7 MK1 in 2014 to someone who is now a pal - it was gigged for something like 20 year, more than once a week and all it needed was a new battery.

Oh yes, so much agree - almost completely pointless to search for something in a chat and only see the one line that contains the search terms, none of the context chat around it - dumb dumb dumb.

Reminds of all those times we are told that 'customers demanded X', as if we all stood outside supermarkets with placards saying, "We demand huge strawberries that don't taste of anything". The market does what helps the market, it often isn't good for people or the planet they inhabit - that's the story of our current era and customers need to demand change on that basis.

Biggest stand out in this article is the stats about declining free time for play - as has been said quite a few times on HN, humans need to be bored and to play in order to be creative. Stagnation awaits otherwise I fear.

I got asked a similar question from a devops/sysadmin point of view in an interview - If you enter 'ssh somehostnamethatisupandyoucansshto' what happens? I like this sort of question since it has no right or wrong answer, is a good way to get a feel for the breadth and depth of someone's knowledge and also how good they are at getting it across to others.

After my initial computing forays with BigTrak, a ZX Spectrum and some time on a BBC Micro and Apple Mac, my first multi user computer use was on the VAX Cluster at uni. I hated UNIX when I tried that on a Sun workstation as it seemed so much less friendly than VMS with it's hierarchical HELP command. Ironically I went onto to a 25 years and counting *NIX/Linux based infra career :)

"during the early eighties every school child in the United Kingdom was exposed to it, spawning a whole generation of bedroom programmers." Erm no. When I was at secondary school, only those deemed to be good at Maths were allowed to work with the BBC Micros, despite having some skills already from owning a ZX Spectrum at home. This maths centric view was partly why I didn't try to study Comp Sci at Uni and went to do Chem, and then fell into more IT classes and post grad and onto an IT career subsequently.

Correction, England (Outside London) and Wales has gone mad.

My partner is into knitting and what has struck me about it is the highly variable semantics and syntax of knitting patterns. Seems to be few standards as to how to describe how something should be knitted.

Agree. One series I've enjoyed, "You're the Worst", is not even legally available in the UK in any medium as far as I can find other than S1 and S2 - Both shown on one UK TV channel and available on DVD, the rest, forget it, out of luck, hence torrent.

I'd never done anything much with pam before but found it relatively easy to get PrivacyIDEA working on CentOS, it's even easier if you're using Ubuntu. https://www.privacyidea.org/ and Cornelius is really helpful.

Q - how do you multiply something like 25x63 example in your head? Personally, I'd break that down also, by doing -

5 x 63 = 315 x 5 = 1575

reminds me a little of the Feynman story about his duel with the abacus master. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5849665

I always forget that this was my first programming experience :)

Slightly older but there were BBCs at my school and a pal had one, but I was never allowed to use them at school as this was a privilege reserved for those that were better at maths than I :) Probably also the reason I ended up studying Chemistry at Uni and getting a hodge podge of credits Science BSc at the end of it. Exposure there to a VAX/VMS cluster ultimately took me on my journey from analyst/programmer to sysadmin/DBA/SAN/backup and now cloud IaC Devops engineer.

This is very much the premise of the Judge Dredd story 'Sob Story' about such a game show, in which the character Otto Sump first appears - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Sump http://dreddalert.blogspot.com/2013/12/judge-dredd-sob-story...

I think Mark (Sherlock, League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) Gatiss put it quite well - http://thebarofgold.tumblr.com/post/100646665073/gatissed-i-...

The problem with this stuff is it's all very amusing and cute until you end up with people that irrational making decisions about millions of people's lives.

Whilst I sympathise with this view, it does ignore AWS and the value it provides to the businesses that use it, many of whom are SMEs/startups that might have struggled to get going otherwise.

They sold off Boris' water cannon at a loss - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/19/boris-johnso...

2000AD had a go at Croydon too - https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/9116/3326...

It's interesting too that democracy is lauded in the west but companies are never run that way.