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softwarebouwer | 3 years ago | on: Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum

Same here, still have mine too and sometimes play a bit with it for old times' sake. I still remember how mesmerised I was when an uncle let me play with his Spectrum, and how happy I was when I got my own for my 10th birthday and my dad made me work through the basic manual.

softwarebouwer | 4 years ago | on: Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers

Thanks for that link, I've read something about that before but haven't thought about it since I've been prescribed it myself since March.

For me since then most of the symptoms in the list on that page have actually improved. The only thing my doctor (in The Netherlands) warned me about was the bad/vivid dream part, before Montelukast I could hardly remember dreaming but now I do almost daily (but I am also sleeping much better).

softwarebouwer | 4 years ago | on: Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)

I did have that and the Yaroze (Sony's official homebrew development). I can't recall exactly how or why, but I do remember that compiling/running stuff with the Gameshark was easier than with the Yaroze.

softwarebouwer | 4 years ago | on: Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs

https://archive.is/7jOHG

softwarebouwer | 5 years ago | on: I can only think that modern front end development has failed

Me too. Recently I was visiting what should have been a "simple" site, but for some reason maxing out my cpu because of some refresh loop. Maybe a bug, but the whole site could have been static html.

rsneekes | 5 years ago | on: Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died

According to this [1] interview because it's approx the same size as a cassette tape.

[1] (pdf, dutch) http://docs.mfbfreaks.com/div/De_Ingenieur_Lou_Ottens.pdf

rsneekes | 6 years ago | on: Wacom tablets track every app you open

In my experience they turn it back on each driver update, I also believe they mentioned it somewhere during the setup but I’m not sure.

rsneekes | 7 years ago | on: Sinclair ZX Spectrum Prototype

For me too, got one for my 10th birthday (and got it working again a couple of years ago). For me it was my father who "forced" me to read the Basic manual before I was allowed to use it by my self.

rsneekes | 9 years ago | on: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

It's available in the Xcode 8 betas, so probably with the release of the iOS10/macOS GMs.

rsneekes | 9 years ago | on: How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

The page says: "Enhanced Digital Downloads of the BBS Documentary series are planned. Please sign up here: [email protected] if you wish to be notified."

But it appears to be on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B9EF89CE228ED0A

rsneekes | 10 years ago | on: iPhone SE

US price is $499 for 64GB, but that's without tax. NL price is €588 inc 21% VAT.

rsneekes | 10 years ago | on: ExDOS is developed by Omar, “almost 14 years old”

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M3XYon_...

rsneekes | 11 years ago | on: The Apple Watch does not play nicely with some tattoos

Don't know if it's the same sensor, and in the article comments they say hairy wrists shouldn't be a problem, but last year I tried a TomTom Cardio watch for a week which also had problems with my hairy/sweaty wrists during a run. On the product forum I read a lot of similar stories, don't know if it was a faulty batch or if the combination of the technology and my wrist was the problem.

rsneekes | 13 years ago | on: Swap Your Laptop for an iPad + Linode

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Mission Control -> Switch To Desktop (1..x)

rsneekes | 13 years ago | on: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

Architecture reference manual can be found here: http://www.adapteva.com/support/docs/e3-reference-manual/

rsneekes | 13 years ago | on: OS X Mountain Lion available on the Mac App Store

After I used that on Mountain Lion (GM) and a Crucial M4, my MBP often froze during boot. Disabled TRIM again with Trim enabled and booting problem was solved.

rsneekes | 14 years ago | on: Sinclair's ZX Spectrum turns 30

> but I feel like it's a great loss that computers no longer come with a book that explains how they work.

That, and the fact it started with a basic "editor" begging for my input and then doing what I told it to seemed magic at the time.

My brother on the other hand, was only interested in playing games and didn't/doesn't care for programming.

rsneekes | 14 years ago | on: Sinclair's ZX Spectrum turns 30

After playing with one at a uncles house, and not shut up about it, I got one for my 10th birthday and I felt like I was king of the world. My parents first made me work through the manual, which was how I started and fell in love with programming.

Still have the original keyboard (the rest was sold in other case/keyboard), maybe I'll try to use it as a Raspberry Pi case.

rsneekes | 14 years ago | on: Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarc.info%2F%3F...