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by cogburnd02 12y ago
That's how I read BYTE. It's also a good source/reference for (some (specific)) WP articles. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CHIP-
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
Well, we have access to letters written by Thomas Jefferson and letters written by Emily Dickinson they probably didn't think we should have. (They were private letters, after all.) But we have a more comprehensive view of these peopl
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
There's a forum here: https://archive.org/post/406632/why-does-the-wayback-machine... Maybe if it gets enough attention, and/or the Internet Archive people get enough e-mails about this problem (Wayback
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
Except _internet_history_ is no-one's to control; once something is on the internet, it belongs to The People.
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
The argument against ads (and thus, for ad-blockers) goes like this: Bob (the person providing/selling ad-space) is selling Alice (the advertiser) something (the reader's attention) that doesn't belong to Bob in the first pl
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
Sometimes if you Google something with the keyword 'torrent' (e.g. "sia 1000 forms of fear torrent") even if Google doesn't give you anything relevant, you might get a Google results page that has a DMCA notice at t
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
(1) Site takes too long to load on Chromium built for XP--so long that I gave up & exited the tab. (2) Is the site name a homophone of 'pissed'?
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
[ @JetSpiegel ] Challenge: (1) write an 8-page (or more) document with 32 (or more) hyperlinks in it in both txt2tags and any other format. (2) Print out the plain-ASCII source files. (3) Wait until you forget the whole text of what you&#x2
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
No. I didn't say anyone was a "script kiddie." I merely stated that the manner in which Perl and Python function is different than the manner in which C and C++ function and that's enough of a difference that they be
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
> What does that "talking to people from" mean? I think he meant "I'm always tweeting and talking to people from one account with ≈4,000 followers."
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
I do; of all the lightweight markup languages, it seems like only txt2tags has a sane representation of HTML links. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language#Lin...
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
ROT47 solves this exact problem.
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
Basically perl, Python, sh/bash, and so on. Not C or C++. (Well, there's '#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run' [1] which can do C but, you know, that's the exception to the rule.) Moar here: [2] [1] http:
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
get-flash-videos supports Hulu; I've been meaning to try it out [1] because flash is Satan's anus. But I'd still keep youtube-dl for downloading & converting YouTube videos. [1] https://gitorious.org/get-f
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
Another example for you: libcaca. [1] However, the GNU people recommend the X11 license for small programs and Apache 2.0 if you've already decided to use a permissive license on a large program [2] [1] http://caca.zoy.org&#
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by cogburnd02 12y ago
> for millenia authors just wrote for free. Yes; a good read is "The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World" [1] which I think is from Karl Fogel, the author of the (Free, Libre, CC-BY-SA) boo