Who says you’ll have that choice?

There's already more recorded music in existence than you could listen to in a lifetime. There is also a vast amount of music being created today which is not pop music and is not following current pop trends.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My vinyl player.

soundcloud

I'm working on a new programming language and every point resonates with me on a spiritual level. One thing that helped me a lot was writing more integration tests at the outer edges of the application, opposed to unit tests of individual modules. Usually the logic doesn't change between rewrites, so keeping a somewhat stable interface keeps me from breaking stuff in between grand rewrites.

Susan Kare talked about the backstory in this presentation: https://vimeo.com/97583369#t=493s

A lot more backstories to many design, technical and political aspects of early Macintosh development can be found at https://www.folklore.org/ - it's a real treasure trove for people interested in how the Mac came to be.

I agree, and it is one of those things where buying the printed version makes so much sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Valley

TIL there's a book on this, which I didn't know - thanks for the heads up!

No love for Windows 2000? NT kernel with the classic Windows interface. It ran pretty well on Windows 98 machines and was extremely stable.

So long as you didn't play games. 2000 meant abandoning the vast majority of your PC game library, early on.

You could hack around that and get DirectX working, I was doing all my gaming on Windows 2000 back in the day.

Though I think I may have had a proper dos boot disk for some games, hard to remember, it was quite awhile back. :)

You would've needed a DOS boot disk, yes; while Win98SE was fairly great for playing DOS games, 2000 was most certainly not.

I ran Windows 2000 in high school and never had trouble running any of my games. That said, I didn't have any DOS games in my library, which I'm guessing is what you are referring to.

I tried once. Kinda liked it but it was heavy on my built-for-98-se machine and lacked some things a teenager wanted in a computer - like DirectX.

But I've tried anyway. Then I got owned so hard by Nimda that it is still the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Windows 2000.

Win 2000 Professional was my favorite windows ever.

Fast and light as Windows 98 but more stable than Windows XP.

2000 and original XP are almost identical (IIRC one is NT 5.0 and the other is NT 5.1). IMHO, The reason hackers loved 2000 and not XP is because of the toy-like XP theme - which shows hackers can be shallow too.

Win2K, good memories. Used it for Delphi and some C++ Builder development between 2000 and 2001; pretty solid, probably more than XP (at least until XPSP2) but needed some more horsepower to use it properly.

It looks like they request these permissions: user-top-read, playlist-read-private, playlist-read-collaborative and they also gets your your name, username and profile picture.

Seems a neat way to collect information for their startup. Maybe a Spotify competitor, or a datamarket for selling people's music preferences.

The Pudding is, per the footer on that page, "a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays". It's been around for a few years already. https://pudding.cool/archives/