bohol

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by bohol 12y ago
I don't disagree over all, but I'm not sure it works that way anymore. Systems have become super complex and the measurement for what is impressive have gone up. I think the power of a lot of those early system was that they were
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by bohol 12y ago
In my experience a lot of this isn't becuase it can't work on windows, but because the developer didn't take the time to make it work on Windows. I also had my fair share on build and dependency problems on Linux when wanting
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by bohol 12y ago
Makes sense. My concern really is if Linux gets any better for these use cases. I think a lot of Linux development is to much software and to little real world "science". You hear a lot how powerful Linux is, but in a lot of cases
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by bohol 12y ago
What do you mean by scientific? There's a lot of Windows only software for research. Mostly for applied things. But also things like data collection. There's even more if you look at development in things like engineering. Even in
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by bohol 12y ago
You can of course also make quite convincing BIOS password prompts with QBasic.
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by bohol 12y ago
But a dissembler doesn't produce the same information that a datasheets provides? Unless he means to physically disassemble, but that isn't very easy.
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by bohol 12y ago
Considering that what you consider 'IoT' and what Microsoft considers 'IoT' isn't the same thing it might be your comment that is irrelevant. http://image.slidesharecdn.com/iot-whatisit-140607104402-
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by bohol 12y ago
I know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the PC scene from early nineties to today that made up many of the founders and employees at today's games companies. You're have some high horse argument that the scene a
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by bohol 12y ago
Sure. I don't refute that Microsoft is, simplified, evil. That doesn't change the fact that people with positions in the Linux community don't really care about those things. I don't really see any move of note toward th
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by bohol 12y ago
I'm not talking about pre-90s and I've been to many demoparties. Do you want to refute that the PC demoscene have had a huge impact on the modern games industry? Because if you read my original comment, that is my point. Oh, and m
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by bohol 12y ago
The state of Linux is far more a hindrances for it's success as a learning tool than Windows ever was. I've been using Linux since '98, it's great for learning systems administration or networking. It's however lack
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by bohol 12y ago
No, while nostalgic, the Commodore and Atari scene were tiny in comparison. Since the mid nineties people have learned graphics programming and reverse engineering primarily on Windows. It's not like OS programming is going away, but i
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by bohol 12y ago
I think you overestimate the need for access to the OS for learning things. The cracking scene, demoscene and games industry was almost exclusively built on Windows. A lot of that was just as, if not more, advanced as what a Linux programme
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by bohol 12y ago
Somewhat surprised that there are around 20 comments and all of the seem to be from more or less a consumer perspective. The Raspberry Pi is one of the few embedded devices with aspires to be used as a desktop computer and on top of that as
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by bohol 12y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what a disassembler has to do with datasheets?
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by bohol 12y ago
This is more cheap dismissal than a "superficial investigation". The author writes "Google News Archives are dead, killed off in 2011, now directing searchers to just use Google." and you have discovered that this is tru
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by bohol 12y ago
The bigger problem is being infected by a trojan. You have all the time in the world to get infected, but would only take a single time when your files are unencrypted to expose them.
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by bohol 12y ago
The whole thing seem really strange to me, almost like a parody. In the technology center of the world secular community movements, which SF used to be famous for, are being replaced by churches and networking events. Why not get together a
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by bohol 12y ago
I get that people are excited, but it seems like time and time again these abstractions fail to solve the underlying problems. It's like how we never got a fix for making cross platform applications. And regardless how much people want