Before OpenTDD was ready, the improved signals and etc were originally part of "TTDPatch", which made the original 'model railroad' much more fun. So I stuck with that for a long time. They should at least ship the patch with the original game.

> legendary Digg slip up

I wasn't a digg user, but this was done to combat 'voting rings' (bots), and the reddit migration was memed partially because it was/is far more open to manipulation. So at least their principles have been somewhat consistent.

IMO this is inevitable. HN is freaking about about the end of the anonymous internet, but it's already over and we're just figuring it out. Eventually the bots will find their 90s cyberpunk cosplay IRC channel too.

> Eventually the bots will find their 90s cyberpunk cosplay IRC channel too.

How do you figure? If these bots are driven by commercial interests that seems an unlikely outcome.

Because they can. There's no real commercial motivation for these HN bots either.

"The cathedral" was originally GNU and GCC. (raymond's site is super slow.)

Or usecase: developer X stopped using Maps/etc N years ago, and is long gone, and then developer Y stumbles into the company's google api console.

Of course, Google is full of smart anti-fraud experts, they just handle 80% of this shit on the back-end, so they don't care about the front-end pain.

Wired Magazine famously agreed with you. Usenet was where it was at then.

Internet commercialization wasn't really on until 1994. Then anyone could get dial-up IP, they could put ads on their webpages, and etc.

A lot of this discussion actually more about "use baremetal" or "put servers in your closet". HN tells Americans to do the same thing (and hire them to do it).

Good take. Even back in the 1990s, OpenStep was thought to be the best way to develop a Windows app. But NeXT charged per-seat licenses, so it didn't get much use outside of Wall Street or other places where Jobs would personally show up. And of course something like iPhone is easier when they already had a UI framework and an IDE and etc.

It's a shame to see you get downvoted (presumably because you don't cite any evidence for your assertions). As a counter-point, I will give the oft-quoted-by-me 1990s promotional video of the use of IBM CallPath on an AS/400 which should get you all misty-eyed https://youtu.be/5pY6Xxptp9A?t=2058

Enjoy.

IBM = heathen technology. The entire point is fetishization of not that.

IBM it's a special case. You often have the exact tools under the terminal interface and the GUI 1:1. You can do the same task in the CLI, TUI or with a GUI, now it can perfectly be over a web. But for minimum latency the CLI and TUI are essential and even a 9front user as me I acknowedge that. But 9front it's a special case too; it was basically made to be modular from day one and you can just set a CPU server and connect anything into it over 9p, be physical or not. No SSH needed, everything works the same everywhere.

Funny, I had a job where everyone called it "N-Jinx", so I said that at another job and everyone looked at me like an idiot.

Huh? Guess you do learn something new everyday - I've been calling it that for ever too but apparently it is "engine-x" ... (thanks to you, I guess I won't sound like an idiot any more, to some ;).