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In 1953, UNIVAC was basically the only company selling computers commercially. By 1956, IBM’s market share in computers was 85%.
In the late 70s and early 80s, after several industry transitions, the entry of smaller and more agile competitors like DEC and Control Data as well as larger and more resourceful ones like GE and Exxon, IBM’s market share was still 70%.
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Easily run Python at the shell! Magical, but never mysterious.
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Easily handle day to day CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs. 🇺🇦 #supporting
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The ultimate SwiftUI cheatsheet, to develop ios Applications on Xcode.
charlieharrington.com
How does one go from having zero vintage computers to… many of them? Gradually, and then suddenly.
paulgraham.com
Many kids experience the excitement of working on projects of their own. The hard part is making this converge with the work you do as an adult. And our customs make it harder. We treat “playing” and “hobbies” as qualitatively different from “work”. It’s not clear to a kid building a treehouse that there’s a direct (though long) route from that to architecture or engineering. And instead of pointing out the route, we conceal it, by implicitly treating the stuff kids do as different from real work. [1]
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It’s a bit sad to think of all the high school kids turning their backs on building treehouses and sitting in class dutifully learning about Darwin or Newton to pass some exam, when the work that made Darwin and Newton famous was actually closer in spirit to building treehouses than studying for exams.
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This is really the best-size vehicle that I can go out and use as a daily driver. It’s not a big RV. People love them because they’re small, but they’re really nicely set up where you have a kitchen. People are just madly in love with them.
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A simple yet powerful TUI framework for your Python (3.7+) applications.
ianthehenry.com
Peggi is an eight-key keyboard that fits on the back of your phone. While chording keyboards require you to press multiple keys at the same time, arpeggio keyboards only ask that you type multiple keys in sequence.