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Subject: Re: [OT] The old days [Was:Re: Reminder: LowEndMac lists rules]
On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote:
Hmm. I worked on the project that put SPSS together
On Feb 10, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote:
You've lived an awesome life man, I'm envious! Is there any copy of
SPSS around in the open-source for Mac?
SPSS is a commercial product http://www.spss.com
There's R http://www.r-project.org/, and here's a bunch of OSS
stuff
Hmm. I worked on the project that put SPSS together. Cards. Stacks of
cards.
Awesome! It's amazing that this list has the talented minds that put
together such monolithically programs as that beast. I doubt that we
would have the forecasting abilities we have today without those pains
you
On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote:
Hmm. I worked on the project that put SPSS together. Cards. Stacks of
cards.
Awesome! It's amazing that this list has the talented minds that put
together such monolithically programs as that beast. I doubt that we
would have the
At 10:32 AM -0500 02/03/2006, Kurt Cypher wrote:
yes, there are lazy programmers out there
I miss the days of hauling three racks of cards up and down two
flights of stairs, from my desk to the machine room and back, each
time I had a run to do. It kept us codespinners in good shape!
Of
At 12:25 AM -0500 02/03/2006, phoenix wrote:
Lazy programmers and feature creep. Having worked for a software
development firm, I can tell you these are the two biggest reasons we have
such Big Fat Hairy programs out there today.
I have to disagree.
It's not laziness - it's incompetence.
On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:25 AM -0500 02/03/2006, phoenix wrote:
Lazy programmers and feature creep. Having worked for a software
development firm, I can tell you these are the two biggest reasons
we have
such Big Fat Hairy programs out there today.
I
At 6:04 AM +1100 02/07/2006, Geoffrey Peters wrote:
These days, I'm so anti-commandline, I delete Terminal.app from all
my OSX installs.
Ouch. There are so many iface problems with Aqua and Finder, Teminal
is an essential app IMO.
//You used a bubble sort for what?//
... and mention
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These days, I'm so anti-commandline, I delete Terminal.app from all my OSX
installs.
Ouch. There are so many iface problems with Aqua and Finder, Teminal is an
essential app IMO.
Depends on what you do. OSX
Hmm. I worked on the project that put SPSS together. Cards. Stacks of
cards. Hated keying those cards; probably two bad ones for every one
that came out right. Big IBM 360/67 in a building the size of
gymnasium. One day, I loaded a stack in, went into the snack bar, put
in change for a
We still use SPSS here at the college I work at part-time, Peter--had
it on Apple II floppy, and then migrated to the IBM versions. Your
legacy lives on. :)
Later.Howard
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I have a friend at Portland State, and she used it for a class.
Almost dropped her teeth when I told her I'd worked on the original.
Ugh: scattergraphs!
On Feb 6, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Howard Katz wrote:
We still use SPSS here at the college I work at part-time, Peter--had
it on Apple II
On 2/3/06, phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lazy programmers and feature creep. Having worked for a software
development firm, I can tell you these are the two biggest reasons we have
such Big Fat Hairy programs out there today.
In a previous life as a programmer, any bloat in the apps we
On Feb 3, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Kurt Cypher wrote:
My point is that yes, there are lazy programmers out there (I've
worked with some of them), but unfortunately, a lot of times the
programmers are forced to take shortcuts that cause bloat, merely
because they have no choice. Someone much higher
On 2/3/06, Peter Apockotos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without violating any of my NDA's. The testing phase is also rushed
too quickly.
Peter Apockotos
Rushed and lacking resources to do more comprehensive testing.
Kurt
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On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Kurt Cypher wrote:
On 2/3/06, Peter Apockotos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without violating any of my NDA's. The testing phase is also rushed
too quickly.
Peter Apockotos
Rushed and lacking resources to do more comprehensive testing.
Kurt
I think rushing is
On 2/3/06 10:46 AM, Peter Apockotos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without violating any of my NDA's. The testing phase is also rushed
too quickly.
The testing phase - you mean that period after the application has been
given to the customer, right? evil grin
I look back on my days as a programmer
on 02/02/06 23:33, Michael A. Howard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Apockotos wrote:
No I remember those days and I am only thirty. Now gopher was a pain.
Archie and Gopher - great tools in their day but thankfully those days
are long gone. I almost remember setting up uucp to get my
On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
For those that are a little nostalgic of these old times, I just
found out
an unbelievable fun to use application for OS X. It's called
GLTerminal.
GLTerminal emulates a 1970¹s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in
brightness, warped
On Thursday 02 February 2006 22:50, Peter Apockotos wrote:
Oh I am not that nostalgic of those days. They can stay in the past.
But you would think the web would have grown a lot more since then.
But everything is really the same.
Well, I'll agree there. Add in the fact that we use word
On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:56 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:
On Thursday 02 February 2006 22:50, Peter Apockotos wrote:
Oh I am not that nostalgic of those days. They can stay in the past.
But you would think the web would have grown a lot more since then.
But everything is really the same.
Well,
On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:00, Peter Apockotos wrote:
The size of programs and the amount of memory and processing power
that is needed to run them has really gotten out of hand.
You would think it would be the reverse.
I could do 90% of what I do now with my Lombard running OS 9.2.2 with
Quoth Caleb Cupples :
The size of programs and the amount of memory and processing power
that is needed to run them has really gotten out of hand.
You would think it would be the reverse.
I could do 90% of what I do now with my Lombard running OS 9.2.2 with
192 MB of RAM on my 190 running
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