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by Hoff 16y ago
An example from long before IDEs existed: DECtalk (a very early text-to-speech voice synthesizer from circa 1988) with the standard text editors and the command line.
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by Hoff 16y ago
While I understand your comments and that this can get hairy, also consider a softmodem-like implementation as a counter-example. A softmodem (variously also called a Winmodem) is a partial or full software implementation of a modem, and he
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by Hoff 16y ago
It's certainly a balance. Think too about the "crippling long-term debt" on the other side of the contract, too. Loans are built on standard contract law. There are penalty clauses and associated costs with exiting the contract, and you (f
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by Hoff 16y ago
Hype aside, one of the key pieces of American technology development is a very simple one. Bankruptcy. The legal ability for an individual or a business to fail. Seriously. If I don't get buried in a mountain of business debt from a (legiti
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by Hoff 16y ago
To add to the potential for confusion in that example, one of the DEC engineers that worked on the Bliss compilers was named John. (Seriously.)
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by Hoff 16y ago
Then why not connect all those thoughts together? If it was so easy and if the hardware was so widely available and if the stuff here is a commodity and if user interface design and fit and finish was so easy, then why is Apple the bunch t
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by Hoff 16y ago
Analogous to mandatory access control security, though labeling objects (outside of a compiler) isn't particularly new, and keeping a multilevel-enabled server from getting its access tangled is not a trivial undertaking.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Apple plays a long game, and they're not afraid to toss stuff under the bus. Now consider what these Apple engineers might now be working on, if not Oracle's Java and JVM pieces. Some language past Java? A replacement for Objective C? B
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by Hoff 16y ago
Microsoft Windows on Itanium was once marketed as the path forward for x86 applications, too. Intel hasn't had particular success with microprocessor designs outside of its core x86 business. Examples of other designs include iAPX432, i860
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by Hoff 16y ago
That isn't Ajay Bhatt. That's an actor. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/intel_a...
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by Hoff 16y ago
So we have 2010's version of the immemorial text editor wars^Wdiscussions? Yawn. Pick whatever editor^WIDE works best for you, and for the task at hand. Don't expect to convince anybody else. Don't expect to have one universal solution. And
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by Hoff 16y ago
For what looks to be a GTD-focused app (guessing?), the website description is surprisingly lackadaisical; rather far away from a GTD-focused package. Six web pages into a pretty (and slow) web site, and I still can't sort out why I'd even
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by Hoff 16y ago
And they have real-world experiences and the volumes of data and the programming skills that are necessary to look for purchase patterns indicating fraud, too.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Reducing the traditional ten-button numeric keypad for entering your access code can be simplified for law enforcement use by removing nine of the buttons. Unfortunately, this LE optimization also eases the effort required by the burglars.
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by Hoff 16y ago
This looks to have the hallmarks of a rather successful troll, and I really wish I hadn't gone near the article.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Low-E window glass is reportedly triggering problems. Press reports include melted house siding resulting from reflections. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24342726/detail.html
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by Hoff 16y ago
It's more than just footage, the hardware itself can be a problem. In this same vein, here are some other old and NASA media- and hardware-related materials that may be of interest: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/22/nation/na-lunar22
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by Hoff 16y ago
Why? Because different folks tend to want different subsets with their tools. This then leads to the existence of different tools for different folks, of different UIs, and (particularly for gonzo-class tools such as Microsoft Office) vari
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by Hoff 16y ago
Not enough at this site to be worth reading. Filler. Link-bait. If this topic is interesting, here's the original source for the article over at Pew, and which has a little more detail: http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/when_techn
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by Hoff 16y ago
It's easier, and a pass-through model is not entirely new. DEC's fx!32 emulator was running Windows x86 code on Windows Alpha way back in 1996. And yes, fx!32 passed calls through to native Windows code, too.
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by Hoff 16y ago
And following LeCarré, I could easily envision some entities searching for and holding certain of these acquired credit card numbers in reserve, should there be a need to charge p*rn or some financially questionable charges onto those accou
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by Hoff 16y ago
It's a compromise between what the rights-holders want for security (eg: usually more), and what the hardware vendors can reasonably implement and profit from (eg: usually less), and the degree of hassles and adverts that the end users will
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by Hoff 16y ago
In an interview some years ago, director John Hughes (and I wish I could find a citation) commented that the (made-up) slang he incorporated into his dialog was expressly invented to keep the movies fresh (longer); that (real) slang tended
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by Hoff 16y ago
For what should be simple, it's not. After creating roughly twelve hundred lines of C and hundred or so lines of command language to get OpenSSL working for network connections and to get a CA and signed certs a few weeks back, I can well a
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by Hoff 16y ago
Here's the Borkware NSLog replacement: http://www.borkware.com/rants/agentm/mlog/ There are others.
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Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook Posts(wmur.com)
4 points by Hoff 16y ago|3 comments
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by Hoff 16y ago
Stock prices, agency ratings, and short-term versus long-term, the efficacy of tranches, credit and collateral paper, and various other metrics have all been found, um, somewhat unreliable in recent years. Most anywhere outside of what you
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by Hoff 16y ago
NASA publications indicate a microwave absorption peak due to water vapor occurs at 22.234 GHz and peaks due to oxygen occur lear 60 GHz and 118 GHz (..). Below 10 GHz absorption caused by atmospheric gases is small. The associated absorpti
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by Hoff 16y ago
ITAR (munitions) compliance is not a particularly new aspect of software export; if you were exporting encryption, you need(ed) to work within the rules. In my experience, ITAR compliance has gotten easier, too. Using existing and available
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by Hoff 16y ago
Here's the "Hello, World" written in VAX Macro32 assembler: http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1435 And if you're so inclined, there are (free) OpenVMS licenses for hobbyists, US$30 CD media kits, and (free) VAX hardware emulators for most

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