Apple has something similar. One has to delete out of the hidden deleted items area — unless they want to wait a full month!

So it’s back to as before in 10 years?

I’ve certainly lost a lot of the small scripts and utilities I wrote long ago. Can’t remember any usernames, much less passwords, from 20 years ago…

However, I really wonder if this scales to real applications…

I’ve seen too many people get initially mesmerized by “event driven” programming only to find the system eventually becomes a steaming mess that nobody can comprehend or debug. Or it manages to work but has serious performance issues (in an exclusively “push” design)…

Maybe in a single process, single threaded environment, it is more difficult to screw up?

It’s no longer the C++ from 20 years ago.

Raising exceptions in a destructor sounds even more fun than a “return” statement inside a Python “finally” block of a method.

The footgun store will never go out of business!!!

But yeah, I think only the digital counter circuits made sense to me then.

Wish Mimms had made books showing biasing and calculations for transistors and op-amps. Maybe too much math for too little space…

I feel like the designs could have been kept simple (a not relied on part characteristics) where almost any transistor of a particular type could be have been used.

Surely a simple audio amp or light detector need not be critically dependent on the exact parameters of a specific part…

Oddly, I remember the books covering SCRs and TRIACs, but those were never covered in my university courses… Think we skipped JFETs too…

In a product where a customer has to apply (or be aware of updates), it’s easier to excite them about new features instead of bug fixes.

Especially for winning over new customers.

If the changelog for a product’s last 5 releases are only bug fixes (or worse “refactoring” that isn’t externally visible), most will assume either development is dead or the product is horribly bug ridden - a bad look either way.

Simple weather radar image on Compuserve took about a minute to load. Billing was by the minute too!

What’s more amazing is with 10000x the communication speed and about 1000x the CPU, 1/20th the latency, things now are only about 30x faster…

Today, that damn weather page should have been fully loaded and rendered before one even realized they pressed the enter key.

Of course the endianness only matters to C programmers who take endless pleasure in casting raw data from external sources into structs.