cbd1984

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721.
by cbd1984 11y ago
> Says who? Says most of the people who care, and who therefore use the term the most.
722.
by cbd1984 11y ago
Jason Scott works for archive.org now, BTW. His main site is http://www.textfiles.com and his blog is http://ascii.textfiles.com
723.
by cbd1984 11y ago
The Kenbak-1 is the world's first personal computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1
724.
by cbd1984 11y ago
Truth? No. Just a best guess based on evidence. And the people who disagree are free to provide more evidence in favor of their contention.
725.
by cbd1984 11y ago
Your response is totally non sequitur.
726.
by cbd1984 11y ago
So if the professor doesn't do that and has TAs to do it for them... then what? Designing the course is probably fairly high on the list of reasons, as is lecturing in a responsive fashion. Both of those are good, valid reasons to keep
727.
by cbd1984 11y ago
Which isn't how this works, philosophically speaking. The best argument for evolution isn't a listing of how badly-designed we are, it's a simple observation that the one simple principle of natural selection through modified
728.
by cbd1984 11y ago
More to the point: Text logs are just as structured as binary logs, but they have the additional property of not being as opaque and, therefore, being immediately usable with more preexisting, well-tested, well-known tooling.
729.
by cbd1984 11y ago
Believe it or not, there are meaningful differences between the parties in the US, and thinking there isn't is intellectually lazy, a way to justify not making a meaningful decision on political issues.
730.
by cbd1984 12y ago
People can launch all kinds of suits which can't possibly result in victory. The courts won't try a case before they try it to see if the plaintiff would win.
731.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Functional means that sequence doesn't matter. Haskell is functional, Lisp largely isn't.
732.
by cbd1984 12y ago
No, doing IT as a hobby is still very valid. After all, it's where Linux and Unix both came from, as well as the Web.
733.
by cbd1984 12y ago
This Prenda stuff is funnier than the "SCO vs Linux, IBM, and Basic Rationality" nonsense from a while back. It's a Three Stooges bit slowed down to litigation speed: Slapstick with all of the slow deliberation and unswerving
734.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Trolls are the ones trying to get people to kill themselves.
735.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Trolls try to get people to commit suicide. Is that what you want to defend?
736.
by cbd1984 12y ago
As if laws are never broken. Downvoting me doesn't mean UK laws are always obeyed.
737.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Functional means that sequence doesn't matter. Haskell is functional, Lisp largely isn't.
738.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> The company is in the UK so there are laws governing use of information. Are there laws against invading privacy via subverting cell phones in the UK? Did it happen?
739.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Had Sun not sued Microsoft for making an incompatible JVM, would the CLR exist?
740.
by cbd1984 12y ago
No, trolling is harassment. That has nothing to do with groupthink.
741.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Others mentioned COBOL already and one can also look at Fortran libraries like in astronomy, etc... If you do that, you might as well mention Algol, as currently instantiated as C++, C, Java, C#, and so on. COBOL from 1965 isn't t
742.
by cbd1984 12y ago
My HP-48GX is just as secret-weapon-ish in its fierce programmability. ;) I'm pretty sure you can access every feature the calculator has from its stack, which means they're all available for use in programs; it also comes with a
743.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> The point is that we have, at a macro level, a common, homogenous culture. Only if you focus on the mass-marketed commercial culture, which reduces your argument to a basic tautology: "We have a shared mass-market commercial cultu
744.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Nothing but Sun Glass Huts and McDonalds coast to coast. This is so amazingly wrong I don't know where to begin.
745.
by cbd1984 12y ago
It's about graphs. Their whole purpose is usability, and usability is almost entirely subjective.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
It's easy to blame the wealthy sponsors, but some blame also rests on the people who are convinced that literally all of the taxes they pay on their 250%-of-poverty-line income go to support those on 150%-of-poverty-line assistance pro
747.
by cbd1984 12y ago
I never claimed Linux was a Pinto. My point is, some things are just built well, and even if they're not used very often we can expect a certain level of quality, as opposed to saying that the only reason we don't see them stolen
748.
by cbd1984 12y ago
The thing about security is that it touches everything . Ease of use? If something's hard to use, it's easy to confuse people into doing insecure things. Security issue. Unreliable? Security depends on predictable behavior, and f
749.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Yes, and a Brinks armored truck is just as vulnerable to carjackings as a Ford Pinto, we just don't know about the vulnerability because nobody drives them. People were saying the same things about Linux. In the late 1990s and early
750.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Eh, most of the fun of alt.folklore.computers is listening to a bunch of geeks who were there from the time CTSS seemed like a novel idea moan about how everything was done before, either by DEC in the 1970s or IBM in the 1960s (or 1950s!).

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