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by 01572 9y ago
"And yet a great many of our institutions are set up to discourage, distract, destroy and derail the making of anything." This may not be obvious to everyone writing software. Or maybe authors today just do not care. They are to
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by 01572 9y ago
Will companies now save more money on toner? Is there anyone selling a reverse-engineered, refillable pod for the coffee machines that only accept pre-filled proprietary ones? Do these coffee machine vendors seek to use patents to protect
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by 01572 9y ago
My comment had a handful of upvotes over the holiday weekend then has been downvoted as the CS grads return to work. I have long believed the weekend HN crowd is wiser than the weekday crowd. I have also believed that CS may contribute to t
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by 01572 9y ago
Difference between 1. computer scientists who are by nature of their CS training able to write high quality software and 2. the presence of CS subject matter in programs or the role of algorithms in today's Western societies. No one
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by 01572 9y ago
In fact, I am an unusual case and I do not consciously choose to use those Google, Microsoft or Apple offerings, nor do I value and rely on the ones I occasionally come in contact with. In many cases I view those are necessary evils, not h
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by 01572 9y ago
To an audience of CS majors this will probably sound like trolling but honestly I have never used any software written by a "computer scientist" that I came to value and rely on -- software that I consciously chose to use. Whereas
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by 01572 9y ago
"The internet is a copy machine." This truth is often hidden by some given abstraction. (file, save, download, streaming, etc.) Businesses have been built on such abstractions. Success stories. On the flipside, existing businesse
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by 01572 9y ago
Since commenters are weighing in on packet construction libraries, what say you in re: libnet1.0/libnet1.1? libnet-based modular utilities that can be used in shell scripts: http://nemesis.sourceforge.net/docs.html Als
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by 01572 9y ago
What if the user wants to run a different OS besides Linux? Seems like the only option is Linux? No Plan9, BSD, etc.?