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I remember we paid Circle CI ungodly amounts to host a dozen trash can Mac Pros to run our iOS CI. Early Swift versions caused huge spikes in build times.

A business I run depends heavily on Google Sheets that I inject values into and read computed values out of. That lets us define rather complex business logic in spreadsheet form, and business and finance people can easily tweak it. Everybody is very happy with this solution.

I played through the first three about a year ago, but I had to resort to walkthroughs for hints for a few things that I just don't get how you would figure out... except just trying everything. Great games for sure, but man were games hard back in the day.

This is giving me flashbacks to writing my thesis back in 2005 in lab in Germany. I remember spending almost a full working day on getting the logos of the two institutes I was working for aligned horizontally in LaTeX.

You can create amazingly beautiful publications in LaTeX and I'm not aware of anything equal for writing mathematical formulas, but I would probably not recommend anyone use LaTeX for a publication in 2023.

Xerox 914 4 years ago

Looks like the exact machine they get installed in Mad Men. I assume the prop department did their research.

Try living in Britain which uses alphanumerical postal codes. Confuses the hell out of everybody in the US.

(It does have the curious upside that your postal code + street number is almost always a unique identifier, so most forms start by asking for those and then autocomplete the rest.)

I moved one of my smaller projects from Heroku to AppEngine in the spring. Took me about a day to set up the infra and move the DNS. Hosting went from $30 to $1 a month.

Halligan Bar 4 years ago

That seems to be a common feeling, that I somehow don't share. I gutted and rebuilt my last house and everybody wanted to come help me demo. I didn't want to deal with the liabilities associated with that so I generally declined.

Heck, a pencil worked great back when I was a kid!

As someone who has to deal with IT security, I will never install anything local if I can avoid it.

They did for a long time, but they eventually switched to an Eclipse based system. I believe there was a Nokia team in Dallas that built that.

Sports Tracker was awesome. I used it for years before it stopped being competitive with Strava and more modern offerings.