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While not directly relevant, the scale and scope of such power transmission is illustrated in an awesome anecdote by "Thomas L. Mc Mahon". http://www.jwz.org/b
by HCIdivision17 14y ago
While not directly relevant, the scale and scope of such power transmission is illustrated in an awesome anecdote by "Thomas L. Mc Mahon".
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/
Like JWZ, this has become a favorite of mine to share.
- ajtaylor 14y agoI remember that from last year. It's a fascinating read!
- weaksauce 14y agoWow... that's impressive engineering. Thanks for sharing.
- alphakappa 14y agoOk, this is tangential, but how is it that one of the founders of Netscape/Mozilla has a website that is so painful to look at? Flourescent green on black.. my eyes!
- jleader 14y agoBrowse around his blog some more, I guarantee you'll find images far more painful than mere green text on black! That said, his recent "SOMA Nature Walk" series would appeal to people into big engineering.
- sneak 14y agoYou must be new here. http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
- dredmorbius 14y agoI'm not new here. That, however, is taking nostalgia far beyond any sense of probity. It definitely ain't what it used to be.
- sneak 14y agotlb of yc fame, turns out, is the guy who wrote the analog-tv-artifact-simulation code in jwz's xscreensaver: https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analogtv.c https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analo... I have little doubt that all of jwz.org text rendering will be fully analogue-simulated once the monstrosity that is the supermajority of the installed base of web browsers supports such folly.
- dredmorbius 14y agoI'm still trying to pry my jaw off the floor. Really, it's a thing of beauty. A sick, sadistic, twisted, nostalgic, mental beauty, but beauty all the same. And yes, I'm familiar with the xanalogtv screensaver. Among my faves.
- gnu8 14y ago$10 for a gimmick program that will get used once?
- jgeorge 14y agoI use Cathode as my regular terminal. What are you trying to say? :-)
- sneak 14y ago$10 to tell the person who made it that we approve of the choices he's made in his life. I bought it because it simply existing brings me joy. It has the best you-haven't-paid-yet nagware implementation ever conceived by man. I never even triggered it (I bought it instantly) and it gives me joy that it exists.