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Oh, man. Where's the "like" button?
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I was going to suggest this[^], but then I realised I was doing it wrong and corrected to this[^]
If you recognise this number, you're probably as old as me. 
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I just defined a new measurement unit for digital data: Lb
That is Lunabytes - an insane number of bytes.
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Use it for you wind-up wristwatch - makes lunatics.
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It could also stand for a Ludicrous number of bytes.  
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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That breaks the association to Terabytes - often mis-spelled as Terrabytes.
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You have something against Earth Bytes? It's a great cereal. High in fiber.
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Member 7989122 wrote: I just defined a new measurement unit for digital data: Lb
Don't forget ub for Uselessbytes of data.
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You're a few centuries too late - "lb" as a unit has already been taken[^].
It will probably be a while before we need anything above the Yottabyte[^]. Maybe we could use "GoB" (Googol[^] bytes), or even "GrB" (Graham's number[^] bytes)?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Classic and apropos...still makes me laugh...though, here I think they would need to add IBM Project Contradictor to the mix 
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Good one. Yes, they would
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Speaking of Silverlight...
Was Macromedia just a Flash in the pan?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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It barely had the spark of a bright idea. Yet, whatever video, we still may end up installing these things.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: whatever video, we still may end up installing these things
I am withu on that!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Searching for some old notes, I came across an old printout from my student days: One of my fellow students, Jon E. Strømme, jotted down this list of references in 1979 or 1980, free to use wherever it might fit . It still makes me chukle, almost 40 years later. Published here with the explicit permission from Jon:
Pascal, Blaise : On the feasibility of computing machines.
Lejeune fils, Paris 685. 300 p.
Babbage, Charles : Analytical machines of today and tomorrow.
Oxford, London 1885. 400 p.
Zuse, Konrad : Digital analytical machines, Bomben und Granaten.
Springer Verlag, Berlin 1943. 500 p.
Backus, C. C. & al : FORmula TRANsgression language.
Wliley, New York 1957. 385 p.
Dreyfus, H. : What computers cannot do. 1st ed.
Harper and Row, Chicago 1974. 430 p.
Dreyfus, H. : What computers cannot do. 2nd ed.
Harper and Row, Chicago 1979. 225 p.
Dreyfus, H. : What computers cannot do. 3rd ed.
Harper and Row, Chicago 1984. 17 p.
MULTIVAC & al : What humans cannot do.
ARPA Network 1992. 26000 bytes.
MULTIVAC & al : What humans cannot do, and why they shouldn't.
COMPUTERS EXCLUSIVE 2005. 126 GB.
MULTIVAC III : Humans – myth or historical fact?
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Cool stuff! I must find the first two. I always thought it was FORmula TRANslation. Even Wikipedia agrees with me. But I guess yours was the very first acronym...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: I must find the first two.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 20-Jun-18 9:02am.
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Huh? Charles Babbage is back from the grave with fresh ransomware?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm guessing Pascal is 1685, not 685
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Ooops. Sorry for the typo. You are obviously right
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No books on JavaScript ..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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In 1979-80?
We did programming on punched cards at that time. I'm serious. That year interactive terminals were introduced in the introduction to programming course taught to all students at the tech.university, but for other courses, we used the punched cards for another year or two. Univac was in the process of developing terminal handling for its OS-1100 mainframe OS, but in 1979, the few terminals available was really clones of the operator console, intended for operators to load and unload open reel half-inch tapes. The OS was designed for so big installations that six to eight operators could be active at the same time, each with a separate console, but with disk taking over, many installations had only one "true" console, and the other seven where made avialable for starting (non-interactive) jobs and reading the result log before it arrived from the 1000 lpm line printer.
Univac didn't provide an interactive facility for code editing until 1981 or 82, and even then it was teletype style. Screen oriented editors for Univac 1100 series didn't arrive until later.
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