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by andyjpb 7y ago
Something similar to sxml? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXML XML has attributes which S-exprs don't. This can be solved by convention (as SXML does) and doesn't really represent a difference in expressibilit
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Improving how we manage spreadsheet data(dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
http://www.linusakesson.net/games/tethered/index.php
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by andyjpb 7y ago
The Gemini ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-... ) and the Cosmo ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator#/ ) are both nearly (but not quite) there.
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by andyjpb 7y ago
You don't have to be a GMail user for Google to end up with a copy of a large percentage of your eMail. Because lots of users do have GMail a lot of your messages will end up on their servers. However, that's not to say it's
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by andyjpb 7y ago
For Hangouts replacements there are quite a few WebRTC video conferencing sites that can work with URL sharing and either with or without accounts. I regularly use https://meet.jit.si https://appear.in/ and htt
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by andyjpb 7y ago
In the document he mentions that the eMail latency between EU/Japan and US was 2-3 days because of the number of uucp hops that the mail needed to make. He cites this as a reason why it was impractical to collaborate. Perhaps those iss
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Faces of Open Source(facesofopensource.com)
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by andyjpb 8y ago
The thing that makes Facebook different from the postal service is that Facebook provides an amplifier. You can send one message and it'll be received by many. Facebook may not have to take responsibility for users' content or wra
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Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?(vox.com)
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by andyjpb 8y ago
That's great! If you're interested in more detail about how a VFS (Virtual File System; the bit where it finds the file and then finds the data in the file) works, Chapter 17 (Another Level of Indirection) in Beautiful Code ( http
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by andyjpb 8y ago
I've seen it done (multiple times). I worked for a set top box manufacturer where the lead engineer wrote an OS and a GUI system, from scratch, for our platform in less than a year. It had a bunch of syscall personalities. One for vxwo
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by andyjpb 8y ago
Yeah... It makes more sense for /var and even /usr/local. / and /usr are both managed by the OS installation. /opt makes a little more sense because it's often used by large, third party packages any one o
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Google's AI Advisory Council Remains a Secret(forbes.com)
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One of the First Free Programs: A Snoopy Calendar in Fortran(gunkies.org)
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A line-printer Snoopy calendar in C++(vrichard86.wordpress.com)
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by andyjpb 8y ago
He was on MacOS so unfortunately couldn't do xterm. They do uxterm (which is a wrapper around xterm to put it into UTF-8 mode) here. https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ TL;DR: This quote sums it up: "The fi
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Terminal latency (2017)(danluu.com)
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Uber Is the New Sneakernet(statusq.org)
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by andyjpb 8y ago
Having a certain amount of Mechanical Sympathy ( https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mechani... ) is important for having a good intuitive feel for the appropriate way to implement something. For e
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Taco Bell Programming(widgetsandshit.com)
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by andyjpb 8y ago
What worries you about the 100K number and what would a better number be? As the article suggests, it's only 1,000 app servers with a connection pool of 100 each. Alternatively it's 100 servers with a connection pool of 1,000 each
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by andyjpb 8y ago
Slowing down traffic can, in fact, increase the throughput of the road, especially when it is busy. This is for two reasons: 1) slower traffic requires a smaller safety gap between each vehicle. 2) the dominating factor in traffic jams is o
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On the Reception of Blog Posts vs. Twitter Threads(twitter.com)
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Re-creating the “breathing” LED(sean.voisen.org)
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On Haskell, Ruby, and Cards Against Humanity(drmaciver.com)
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How to choose between equivalent options(wingolog.org)
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by andyjpb 8y ago
It's not as cynical as that. Microsoft provide the right tools at the right point in the business lifecycle. Have you ever been in a company where That Spreadsheet is rebuilt "properly" at great expense by "people who kn
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by andyjpb 8y ago
The Pentium FDIV bug aside, Excel has always been pretty good at maths. I wonder if there will be a new class of maths bugs as they integrate with the strange JS numbers model?
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by andyjpb 8y ago
It's a welcome addition but all was not lost on a Windows install before. write.exe has managed to do this even if notepad.exe couldn't.

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