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My first hard drive was two 5 and 1/4's
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Marc Clifton wrote: when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space
I remember the first hard disk I ever saw on a personal computer.. it was a stunning 5MB. It was larger than the computer it was connected to. It was an staggering amount of space when significant programs could be measured in 10s of K. Visiting the friends who had it was also the first all-nigher I ever did.
Marc Clifton wrote: Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left
I also remember when NT could install to my 150MB Wren 3, and still have significant space for user data left over. Ahh.. now that was a disk drive. Turning it on made a sound like a small jet engine starting up. I used to joke about having the only jet-powered PC  .
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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5 MB TRS-80 Hard Drive. nuf said. Now I have a pair of 1 TB SSDs in my laptop... I haven't got that red message though.
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I think the first PC I owned was 1GB. (It was huge) The first company PC the whole office shared was 2 floppy drives and a 10MB drive. I had to support two different OSs, so I partitioned the drive into 2 and 8 MB and used the floppy to switch the primary partition or just booted from floppy. I'm not sure but I think this was the biggest HD available at the time. (I was one of two "techies" in the office and I was appointed head keeper of the monster.)
I hated it so much, I used my own money to build a custom computer desk when such a thing couldn't be bought. Who knows, the sales reps were so impressed, they invited clients to see software (their job) and they just "had" to come over and see what I built. So I might have invented the computer desk, because it was on the market a few months after I built it. (Idiot. I hated the PC so much, didn't even think of copywriting something that made it more bearable.)
My laptop I'm writing on is sitting on (where else?) my lap. OK, Sometimes I pull out a foldable desk (TV tray??), but usually it is more trouble than it is worth.
Also, the 16 bit PC was a joke. I'd supported and used 60 bit mainframes (real computers) for 20 years. I looked down on the IBM mainframes because they were 32 bit devices and I supported the scientific world where accuracy was supreme. (CDC supported double, but its real was 2 digits more accurate than IBM's double. Integer had 18 vs. 9 place accuracy.) The last few years I'd also supported the Cray. (64 bit, integer was only 1 digit more accurate, real was the same accuracy - more accurate than today's double. MUCH faster, maybe could keep up with today's PC.)
Today's PC is 64 bit, but you have to use long to get 18 place accuracy.
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when I had to enter my bios by hand
when my clock speed jumped from 1MHz to 2MHz
when my HD was 5M
when my RAM was 32K
http://www.imsai.net/
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Terrible situation hope they get it fixed soon.
Followed a link from there and found this[^] disturbing report. OMG
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4 generations of idgits...some real sickos!
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Wasn't that the plot for the Hills Have Eyes...off to imdb I go!
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I reckon they were originally from Tasmania ...
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Hi,
I have noticed that some frameworks like Sencha use JavaScript to write HTML and be part of the mobile hybrid (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) platform while others like KendoUI, JMobile use HTML tags that are translated by the linked JavaScript framework to achieve the same result.
Which way would you go and why?
This is not a question about individual frameworks or hybrid in general but about the methodology and reasons for choice.
SuperRoo
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I have deployed Android apps that are currently available for download on Google Play,Opera Mobile store and Samsung Apps. I built the hybrid apps by using intel XDK. It is truly cross-platform and has a lot of libraries like Cordova,LefletJS,jQuery etc.
The platform also allows you to bring any external javascript library and embedded it in your app.
Did I forget to inform you that it's also open-source!
Links to my apps
http://bit.ly/conback
http://bit.ly/ibarcodereader
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Man goes to shrink and say "I keep having weird dreams".
"Last night I dreamed I was a Tee Pee on a hill in a storm with a native family cowering inside."
"The night before, I dreamed I was a camping dining shelter and a family was enjoying dinner inside."
"I'm trouble by these dreams".
"Ah, not to worry", say the shrink, "you are just too tense."
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This is the version I remember;
Patient: Doc, I keep having these dreams. First I’m a teepee; then I’m a wigwam; then I’m a teepee; then I’m a wigwam. It’s driving me crazy. What’s wrong with me?
Doctor: You need to relax. You’re two tents.
Old Boy Scout joke.
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you told it better 
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That joke was used to death in my Boy Scout troop. That seemed to be the only joke one guy knew. He wasn't well liked, as he told that joke over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I know what you mean my step dad knew 3 jokes and I heard them so many times...yeah I get the idea. BTW he wasn't/isn't like very well liked either, by anyone!
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He must be related to my step dad! His three jokes are the three-legged pig, the faith healer, and the duck / "got any bread".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I probably drove my stepkids crazy with "Pancho Villa" and "The man who was born with a silver screw in his navel."
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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16.40: Make last minute change to code base
16.42: Check in
16.44: Go home
16.46: CI server gets around to completing the build from your check in
17.16: I look at the CI server and discover that you broke it
17.35: I finish cleaning up the tests you should have done (and aren't around to fix tomorrow)
(It's almost okay because he's had a hard time on other things today. Still a bit irksome though.)
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You don't have the plug in that cuts off the water supply at the developer's house when they break the build?
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There's always bottled water to make some coffee. Just keep your paws of my internetz, and we can get along nicely.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: You don't have the plug in that cuts off the water gin supply at the developer's house when they break the build?
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You might be onto something, a certain someone has been pretty quiet today. 
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