Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems
Date	2015-10-26 08:20 +0300
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On 2015-10-26 07:40:12 +0300, Paul Sture said:

> On 2015-10-25, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
> That also contained a link to the mystery of the missing "Polish S",
> which I'd come across before, itself an interesting read.
> 
> <https://medium.com/medium-eng/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4df> 
> 

This author does a good job of telling the story of the Polish S, so it 
is indeed a compelling read.

I conclude however that at this stage, even simple applications in the 
Web era are built on so many overlapping layers of software that 
debugging becomes difficult and requires excruciatingly deep knowledge 
of disparate systems/layers.  But debugging hairy javascript is the 
price you pay for using something like Medium.  Compose your piece in 
emacs, and FTP it up to an Apache server and you've got significantly 
less complexity to hash out.  But hey, the market has spoken and they 
want shiny web apps.  Good luck, folks.

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[CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-25 07:17 +0000
  Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-10-26 05:40 +0100
    Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern   systems RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-26 08:20 +0300
      Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern   systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-10-27 11:40 +0100
        Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-27 12:51 +0200
          Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-27 11:00 +0000
            Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-04 11:06 +0100
              Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-20 14:10 +0000
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-22 11:59 +0100
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock']     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-11-22 03:43 -0800
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-23 11:47 +0100
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock']     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-11-23 07:31 -0800
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-29 21:52 +0100
          Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-27 14:54 -0300
          Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-04 10:45 +0100
            Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-11-04 03:46 -0800

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