The Dutch East India company was worth 78 million Dutch guilders at its peak in 1637, which translates to around $8 Trillion USD in today's money when adjusted for inflation. So while the headline...
I feel like it's unfair to compare nationally proctored companies with private companies. Especially given the monopolistic nature of the economy back in those days.
I feel like it's unfair to compare nationally proctored companies with private companies. Especially given the monopolistic nature of the economy back in those days.
Completely agreed, however, this is also a neat fact that I had no idea of. Makes me wonder how rich the richest governments were (adjusted for inflation) throughout history in today's standards.
Completely agreed, however, this is also a neat fact that I had no idea of. Makes me wonder how rich the richest governments were (adjusted for inflation) throughout history in today's standards.
What always boggled me about the MAcbooks was this - It was a brilliant idea. They took a Unix based OS and threw a lot of money and time at it. The had endless resources to polish it. Then, they...
What always boggled me about the MAcbooks was this - It was a brilliant idea. They took a Unix based OS and threw a lot of money and time at it. The had endless resources to polish it. Then, they made is possible to get proprietary software on it. So you could have Photoshop, Solidworks, etc on a Unix OS and still get the built ins like grep. Obviously a lot of programmer and web devs buy Macs for this reason. But what always got me was, thse computers were marketed as hip and cool. So all these people bought one just because it was the IT computer to have. And not one of them understood this let alone could tell you what grep or vim or a repo were. Apple never marketed a huge selling point of the mac book.
I mean, MacOS is weird in a lot of ways. Stuff like tar and sed aren't the GNU versions most people are used to. And it doesn't have a package manager at all. You can install Brew, which is the...
I mean, MacOS is weird in a lot of ways. Stuff like tar and sed aren't the GNU versions most people are used to. And it doesn't have a package manager at all. You can install Brew, which is the closest thing there is, but it's mostly just a collection of shell scripts. It's not as robust as something like apt or dnf or what have you.
MacOS is a unix-like, and a polished one at that, but all the idiosyncrasies keep me on the Linux side.
I’m happy to be corrected, but AFAIK, these idiosyncrasies are due to the BSD heritage of macOS and Apple’s avoidance of GPL. For those who are comfortable with Linux’s GNU core utils, I recommend...
the idiosyncrasies
I’m happy to be corrected, but AFAIK, these idiosyncrasies are due to the BSD heritage of macOS and Apple’s avoidance of GPL. For those who are comfortable with Linux’s GNU core utils, I recommend installing coreutils and moreutils to get the GNU core utils you’re used to.
Yeah, they do a good job of communicating that aspect, I agree. Apple marketing clearly worked, but they have more to offer than they let people know about I think.
Yeah, they do a good job of communicating that aspect, I agree. Apple marketing clearly worked, but they have more to offer than they let people know about I think.
The Dutch East India company was worth 78 million Dutch guilders at its peak in 1637, which translates to around $8 Trillion USD in today's money when adjusted for inflation. So while the headline is technically true, it is a bit disingenuous, IMO.
I feel like it's unfair to compare nationally proctored companies with private companies. Especially given the monopolistic nature of the economy back in those days.
Completely agreed, however, this is also a neat fact that I had no idea of. Makes me wonder how rich the richest governments were (adjusted for inflation) throughout history in today's standards.
Especially since the Dutch East India company was pretty damn close to being a private nation state.
What always boggled me about the MAcbooks was this - It was a brilliant idea. They took a Unix based OS and threw a lot of money and time at it. The had endless resources to polish it. Then, they made is possible to get proprietary software on it. So you could have Photoshop, Solidworks, etc on a Unix OS and still get the built ins like grep. Obviously a lot of programmer and web devs buy Macs for this reason. But what always got me was, thse computers were marketed as hip and cool. So all these people bought one just because it was the IT computer to have. And not one of them understood this let alone could tell you what grep or vim or a repo were. Apple never marketed a huge selling point of the mac book.
I mean, MacOS is weird in a lot of ways. Stuff like tar and sed aren't the GNU versions most people are used to. And it doesn't have a package manager at all. You can install Brew, which is the closest thing there is, but it's mostly just a collection of shell scripts. It's not as robust as something like apt or dnf or what have you.
MacOS is a unix-like, and a polished one at that, but all the idiosyncrasies keep me on the Linux side.
I’m happy to be corrected, but AFAIK, these idiosyncrasies are due to the BSD heritage of macOS and Apple’s avoidance of GPL. For those who are comfortable with Linux’s GNU core utils, I recommend installing
coreutilsandmoreutilsto get the GNU core utils you’re used to.I really like dnf. When it rolled out to Fedora and I tried it for the first time I was hooked. It is so clean and intuitive.
Yeah, they do a good job of communicating that aspect, I agree. Apple marketing clearly worked, but they have more to offer than they let people know about I think.
Apple did play up the UNIX underpinnings of OS X in the early 00’s.