StephenFalken

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by StephenFalken 14y ago
I remember seeing a Discovery documentary named "Extreme Engineering: Trans-Atlantic Tunnel" that precisely details this concept. It's available online in five parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYWTrEfPRs http://www.youtube.com/watc
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Facebook colonization of the world progress report(news.cnet.com)
1 points by StephenFalken 14y ago|0 comments
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Why C Is a Great Language
7 points by StephenFalken 14y ago|4 comments
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by StephenFalken 14y ago
Steve Reeding, one of the creators of IPv6, shares his crucial insight on how some networks adapt, survive, and impose themselves: "I have a different take on that. Yes, a lot of people were dissing tunnels yesterday. I'm actually a big fan
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Internet as a 'Hostile Overlay'(youtube.com)
1 points by StephenFalken 14y ago|1 comments
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by StephenFalken 14y ago
In recent years, it's been interesting to watch the rise of Dwolla ( https://www.dwolla.com/ ) as an alternative payment network. It charges nothing for under $10 transactions, and only $0.25 for any transaction over $10, no matter how larg
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by StephenFalken 14y ago
By far, the sound of ZX Spectrum's games loading back in 1982 , when I was a kid, is definitely the greatest and most favourite digital sound of my whole life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6uwfM8F5uU
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by StephenFalken 14y ago
For those that haven't yet had the chance of reading a foundational text related to Cypherpunks and Crypto-Anarchy, there is "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" by Tim May (back then a Chief Scientist at Intel) -> http://www.activism.net/
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by StephenFalken 14y ago
Try to check SystemC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemC ).
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by StephenFalken 15y ago
It's interesting to note the bumpy road that lead to the final standardization of C as ANSI X3.159-1989, as documented on the following post: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/991b9116ffa83... Dennis Ritchie spend part of tha
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by StephenFalken 15y ago
I guess some people have found more sustainable healthier ways of living inside a city: "Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) III" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M
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by StephenFalken 15y ago
Back in April 2006, the great Al Kossow of Bitsavers uncovered some unknown papers and documented his findings on The Unix Heritage Society mailing list: "Preliminary Relase of UNIX Implentation Document" -> http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipe