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minus-squarelproven@social.vivaldi.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago@ChickenLadyLovesLife I was a big fan of BeOS. I reviewed it about quarter of a century ago: https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PCW%20200007%20July%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD%20%28No%20Cover%29/page/n50/mode/1up … and I liked it a lot:
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoYeah, BeOS was awesome. I remember a coworker showing it to me in 1996 - he also taught me how to wow the c-suite with giant printouts of insanely over-normalized databases, a parlor trick that has served me well over the years.
minus-squarelproven@social.vivaldi.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago@ChickenLadyLovesLife I am sorry but I don’t junderstand any of this. > the c-suite (?) > with giant printouts of insanely over-normalized databases (?) > a parlor trick (?) How is a database a trick? What does this stuff mean?
@ChickenLadyLovesLife I was a big fan of BeOS. I reviewed it about quarter of a century ago:
https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PCW%20200007%20July%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD%20%28No%20Cover%29/page/n50/mode/1up
… and I liked it a lot:
Yeah, BeOS was awesome. I remember a coworker showing it to me in 1996 - he also taught me how to wow the c-suite with giant printouts of insanely over-normalized databases, a parlor trick that has served me well over the years.
@ChickenLadyLovesLife
I am sorry but I don’t junderstand any of this.
> the c-suite
(?)
> with giant printouts of insanely over-normalized databases
(?)
> a parlor trick
(?) How is a database a trick?
What does this stuff mean?