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by bediger 17y ago
I believe he's got the "free climbing" metaphor mis=mangled, but oh, well. Even mangled, he's got a point, and it's basically that Charles Petzold did have it right: IDEs rot your mind. I know the author explicitly says otherwise, but if
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by bediger 17y ago
Well, yes. I didn't even think of Hulu, as I haven't ever used it. And I don't play Quake. Not much of an on-line gamer, I guess. But I did read my access_log file today to see what kind of crazy stuff showed up over the weekend.
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by bediger 17y ago
This is all great and stuff, but will I still be able to run my own web server, SMTP server and SSH server out of my basement? I regard this as imperative, and I've decided not to move to a faster service that filtered ports 22, 25, 80 and
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by bediger 17y ago
I'll believe this one. I used friend's addresses in testing a system years ago. It's worth having a "zoo" of addresses because they come in a dazzling variety of formats - Salt Lake City, for example, has 2 Temple Streets that run east-we
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by bediger 17y ago
Does this paper represent one of those "Only Nixon could go to China" moments?
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by bediger 17y ago
Isn't criticizing something (linux, Apache, Java, etc) for poor market share the favorite argument of the Microsoft Fanboy? It sure is in my experience. Those style of arguments show up in the "Windows has all the embarassing security pro
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by bediger 17y ago
Let the hyping of semi-vaporware commence! Haven't we learned anything at all from the W95 -> Chicago -> Memphis -> Cairo -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Longhorn -> Vista -> Windows 7 replacement hype cycle
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by bediger 17y ago
I, B.S., think that the overuse of academic titles in this article makes it very hard to read. Really, how medieval! It's not like the titles confer any extra knowledge to me, the uninitiated, yet interested reader. Does it matter that one
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by bediger 17y ago
Scare-mongering of the worst sort: the obvious sort. C'mon guys, if you're going to posit "doomsday" threats, use a little imagination.
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by bediger 17y ago
Hey, what's not to like? Enforcing a consistent font and no more than 3 bullet-points per slide on your lackeys I mean co-workers, all the money, the babes, the status, the happenin' clothes, why, all the cool kids want to be systems engin
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by bediger 17y ago
Google should obey the law. If they don't like the current law, they should work from within, talk to legislators, see if they can't drum up grassroots support to change the law. Oh, wait....
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by bediger 17y ago
Whose interests are served by denigrating polytheists, or agnostics, or atheists, or even Pastafarians? Who could logically or in good faith disagree with "under God" as the establisment of a monotheistic religion, with the US flag as its i
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by bediger 17y ago
The children who can think actually know that this is insanity, as do the Enforcers of this insanity who can think. Still, the insanity continues.
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by bediger 17y ago
Trying to get beyond the multiple problems with bias that the artice incurs, I think the article leaves a few questions unanswered. Most importantly, does anyone other than IE users need to worry about those "phishing" attacks? As an "alpi
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by bediger 17y ago
What did anyone expect from "Bing"? They claim to be a "decision engine", and at least in the commercials I've seen, they don't say that the users get to make the decisions. Disclaimer: I've only used "Bing" twice myself.
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by bediger 17y ago
I talked with the University of Colorado Comp Sci dept head a few years ago. He happened to mention losing Benjamin Zorn to Microsoft Research, and that it was a shame as MSR is a research "roach hotel": researchers go in, and nothing come
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by bediger 17y ago
Finally, someone that agrees with me on linguistic purity! Personally, I think that purity is for monks and hocky players! I use the word "hacker" to refer to Giant Amazonian Parrots, and the work "cracker" to refer to small, circular, non
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by bediger 17y ago
Oh no! Now that I've read the patent all the software I've written that uses linked lists (and that's rather a lot) is now in violation of the patent, and I'm liable for treble damages, right? Damn you, Hacker News!
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by bediger 17y ago
Is "keeping the pirates at bay" really really worth the effort, heartache, and whatever you didn't go (opportunity cost) because you were working on "protection" from something that will happen anyway? If so, does the rest of society agree
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by bediger 17y ago
Microsoft got legal approval for this. How many extra-legal, or grey-area "Operations b49" have taken place? I don't imagine Microsoft has done many (if any) extra-legal beheadings, but surely somebody has. All those academic papers abou
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by bediger 17y ago
This is exactly the same weird response that the first generation of email and usenet spammers gave me when I complained to them (they hadn't learned to forge "From:" addresses at first) directly: shut up or we'll spam you even more. There
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by bediger 17y ago
All this proves is that the several countries (USA, UK, others) have legal systems that are inconsistent, at least in the formal systems sense. Starting with "laws" as axioms, and some set of rules of deduction, you can get anywhere: Perso
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by bediger 17y ago
I think that Mundie's trial balloon has more to do with this part of his statement: the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance . I will go out on a limb here and propose that the "Internet Driver's
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by bediger 17y ago
If Windows were open sourced today, would Windows users be safe? No. Parts of Windows have such bad design that they'll never be safe. Big example: the silly "attributes" that don't include "executable". Having a file name determine
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by bediger 17y ago
Here's the key quote from that article: "Sun Microsystems acquired VPL and Lanier's patents in 1999." He had key, basic patents in 1999, and he had to sell them. I personally have never been able to take Lanier seriously.
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by bediger 17y ago
I believe you should be careful about pronouns. The "we" in "we'd want" must mean "the people of Texas", and when considered like that, isn't true. Polls show Texans overwhelmingly in favor of the death penalty, even when we (as in all o
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by bediger 17y ago
Isn't that anthropomorphizing NT a bit? I mean, it's an OS, not a being. And the "promise" turned out to be mostly hype, at least in the 1995-1996 time frame. "A better Unix than Unix", "The Best Designed Operatings System", stuff like t
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by bediger 17y ago
Didn't NeXT sell their hardware operation before they sold themselves to Apple? They did have a customer base, and it probably was larger than Be's, though.
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by bediger 17y ago
What th..? They left off "trolling"!!!
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by bediger 17y ago
I voted "YES", but I also think that trolling, sockpuppetry and composite entities are part of the charm of The Internet. I'd also like to note that this is the same question that people on Usenet were dealing with in 1993. I'm pretty sure

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