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New comment by bombarolo in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7"

bombarolo — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:01:33 +0000

There was that “Turbo” button on my (self-made) 386sx, that magically doubled the CPU clock. This is what “turbo” meant in the 90s, weird.

bombarolo — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:41:09 +0000

I can see a difference that I can understand the Python’s error message, the Tcl’s one not so much.

bombarolo — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:04:14 +0000

… better lawyers

bombarolo — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:08:19 +0000

... and an Austrian city long before that

bombarolo — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 08:24:36 +0000

You don't even need to ask ddg for a private key, go straight to certification authority.

bombarolo — Mon, 27 May 2013 09:58:31 +0000

let's wait and see if proton grows too to keep the equation!

bombarolo — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:14:19 +0000

Not a single one is real acronym. Looks more like "made-up lols".

bombarolo — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:44:30 +0000

> thirty million emails sent by tens of thousands of users every day

Damn! Are these all spammers?

bombarolo — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:06:35 +0000

You guys are amazing!

> 6:30: Started coding backend > 8:00: Finished coding backend

Usually it takes me that much just to name my classes and variables.

bombarolo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:01:54 +0000

I guess even reading the internets for 40000 hours in 9 years will cause a similar effect.

bombarolo — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:53:34 +0000

i386sx?

bombarolo — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:55:07 +0000

Should I mention Goldman Sachs story here?

bombarolo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:21:28 +0000

These two are inversely proportional in most cases.

bombarolo — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:47:56 +0000