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511.
by cpr 10y ago
X is also Java in Gosling's case. ;-)
512.
by cpr 10y ago
Washer/dryer combos using a single tub are commercially available.
513.
by cpr 10y ago
And how do you store the carry bits (this machine only has 2 bits of state)? Or do you encode carries by pure branching?
514.
by cpr 10y ago
News flash: medieval people could be humorous. Man, makes you realize just how negatively the so-called enlightenment era (self-named as an implicit critique of previous eras) slandered the so-called dark ages, even in naming.
515.
by cpr 10y ago
The free trial period is a huge win for developers, something we've been wanting since the beginning. (Though admittedly it's only for subscription-based pricing, but, let's admit it, one-time software purchases seem to be
516.
by cpr 10y ago
One of the likely contributors is the unhealthy long-chain long-shelf-life fats of most prepared foods, which didn't arrive until the 30's and 40's. Given that most people don't make the time to make fresh meals from scr
517.
by cpr 10y ago
Well, at least Harvard has the swimming competence requirement to graduate, installed as a condition of the Widener Library family bequest (since their son Harry Widener died on the Titanic). At least they did in 1976. ;-) I wonder if they
518.
by cpr 10y ago
Pretty impressive leverage here: only a few dozen lines of code in total, using other OSS libraries.
519.
by cpr 10y ago
Great history! Yes, sorry, Shamus was not associated with UniPress, but his own company Unilogic, started to commercialize Scribe (Reid's CMU PhD project). My only excuse is it's been a long time. Ah, happy memories of terminal mu
520.
by cpr 10y ago
What many people don't realize is that the Federal Reserve Banks are private, for-profit banks, with only very tenuous oversight by Congress. It's a very strange set-up and I think high time for a serious audit of what they'v
521.
by cpr 10y ago
The "good private universities" may be "non-profit" in some strict sense, but in the case of the big Ivies (e.g., Harvard, my alma mater), they could be described as a hedge fund with, oh, yes, by the way, a school attac
522.
by cpr 10y ago
Not to nit-pick but it was Burrough's Algol systems programming dialect rather than straight Algol60. Damned impressive, yep. (See Alan Kay's various talks about computer history.)
523.
by cpr 10y ago
I'm well aware of UniPress (didn't they start out selling Brian Reid's Scribe commercially?) and Michael Shamus' rather jailhouse-lawyer-ish behavior. But hearing that GNU Emacs started from Gosmacs is just hard to belie
524.
by cpr 10y ago
Though the author is confused about Emacs history, talking about Stallman's and Gosling's Emacs as if they were the same thing. IIRC (I was around the AI Lab a bit after the fact) Richard Gabriel and Guy Steele (MIT AI Lab) wrote
525.
by cpr 10y ago
From the US, but I agree. It's part of the "police bureaucratic mentality" to Latinize and inflate common concepts to make them sound more important (to uneducated ears, at least).
526.
by cpr 10y ago
The first few flaming wrecks with self-driving trucks involving particularly ugly (complete crushing, burn-out, etc.) passenger car deaths are going to trigger a massive backlash. I don't think at that point that any arguments about ho
527.
by cpr 10y ago
Some years back, when taking a local taxi in the Shoreline Connecticut area (Old Saybrook, Westbrook, Clinton, etc.), the taxi company owner told me she would buy only certain years of Audio 5000's at 200-300K for not much at auction,
528.
by cpr 10y ago
Is the "env" really necessary? I thought if you just prefixed the eventual 'man "$@"' with those environment variable settings that it would have the same result.
529.
by cpr 10y ago
No, you're right. The Opera House is a visual disaster.
530.
by cpr 10y ago
John Taylor Gatto, the NY State Teacher of the Year in 2000-ish (not sure of year), wrote "Dumbing Us Down" from years teaching in some of the worst (and best) NYC classrooms, and doing wonderful things for his kids all the while.
531.
by cpr 10y ago
You're probably right, but you can't imagine the thrill of using the very early Unix system releases (I was an undergrad when the first Bell-external releases were shipped to my office-mate Geoff Steckel at Harvard): imagine an OS
532.
by cpr 10y ago
I think the AI Lab folks had LispM booting over CHAOSnet at MIT around the same time. (Yes, CHAOSnet was a copy of the ideas from PARC's Ethernet, but IIRC (I was around) it was very close to the same time period.)
533.
Siri plays dumb about documentary “Hillary's America”(twitter.com)
1 points by cpr 10y ago|1 comments
534.
by cpr 10y ago
Actually, what we have now in the US is full blown fascism, which technically means the government and corporations together in a "fasces," a bundle of sticks. Calls for caution in the face of the madness of our current immigratio
535.
by cpr 10y ago
Best marketing would include some sample videos.
536.
by cpr 10y ago
Perhaps better, the father of timesharing.
537.
by cpr 10y ago
Sometimes it's useful to have a separate .app for a website, at least under macOS. But then Fluid.app solves that problem without the pain of coding up Electron wrapping.
538.
by cpr 10y ago
"First there was nothing, and then it exploded." ;-) It's really a metaphysical question: since all matter is contingent being, and therefore doesn't exist by necessity, what brought it into being?
539.
by cpr 10y ago
It's certainly fascist in the original sense of the word: government and corporations operating as a single bundle of fasces (sticks). And also clearly becoming fascist in the popular sense of the word.
540.
by cpr 10y ago
On the contrary, this was just released: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evid...

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