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by cpr 12y ago
Oh, yes, sysadmin'd several DEC-20's, some at the Columbia University computing center, some at the MIT-EECS department (working for Joel Moses) (though the homegrown LISPMs were a lot more fun) and some at the Fairchild AI Labs (
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by cpr 12y ago
Evo-* people have always pretty much relied on "just-so" stories. Evolutionary biologists who claim that feathers evolved from scales by snakes jumping off trees for millions of years are falling into the same trap.
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by cpr 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9
724.
by cpr 12y ago
Why apologize? You thought it was a he. (Does anyone else find these kinds of reflexive auto-da-fe statements painful?)
725.
by cpr 12y ago
Yep, sounds familiar. At Imagen (a Stanford TeX project spin-off started by Knuth's sidekick Luis Trabb Pardo, building the first typesetting-capable commercial laser printers using, at first, wet-process Canon imaging engines (LBP-10)
726.
by cpr 12y ago
Nifty! Any plans for a self-hosted version?
727.
by cpr 12y ago
You mean metatastic prototype?
728.
by cpr 13y ago
Sadly, it won't help in the most tragic cases where a toddler is already under the car. (We had friends who had to suffer through such an incident some years back.)
729.
by cpr 13y ago
Funny, I'm what you'd call a paleoconservative, lived in Cambridge for 6 years (Harvard undergrad and MIT work after), but I think this "no one here but us liberals and loonies" rant is more or less right on. ;-)
730.
by cpr 13y ago
Ivan Illich had some good words to say on this topic: http://www.swaraj.org/illich_hell.htm
731.
by cpr 13y ago
Isn't yours just a manifestation of the general TLS bug? Or does it differ somehow?
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by cpr 13y ago
Backblaze.com continuously, and a nightly SuperDuper! image backup so I could get recover immediately after a disk crash. (Belt and suspenders. ;-)
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by cpr 13y ago
Actually, as Rand Paul himself said, defaulting on our debt is the last thing we should do, and by bringing it up, Obama was playing a very cynical card. The feds have no problem paying the debt service (though of course the growing debt is
734.
by cpr 13y ago
Does anyone know how this compares with VLIW designs like the original Yale/Multiflow machines? Seems very familiar. (I ask as a survivor of Multiflow in the late 80's. ;-)
735.
by cpr 13y ago
Nice, but the API seems pretty non-RESTifarian. /get/latest/dweet/for would more naturally be /get/dweet with a time parameter, or some such. /for/[device] would more naturally just be a device parame
736.
by cpr 13y ago
Typical mainstream propaganda. Nullification was used initially to resist federal laws about returning captured slaves. See Tom Wood's book http://tomwoods.com/books/nullification/ for the complete, surprisin
737.
by cpr 13y ago
You've gotta watch Steve Blank's "The Secret History of Silicon Valley". Goes back to its post-war roots in 40's and 50's. A real gem and quite surprising. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxW
738.
by cpr 13y ago
I ordered a fairly expensive lawnmower from Amazon, and it arrived slightly damaged (really horrible packaging with no real protection--I think it wasn't Amazon's packaging). I called Amazon, and they sent another overnight(!) and
739.
by cpr 13y ago
No, Apple requires apps to target at least iOS7, and as far back as is practical.
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by cpr 13y ago
You may need a DOCSIS 3 cable modem. I had this same situation, and had to get a newer modem. Now get 55/10 solidly.
741.
by cpr 13y ago
Not picking on the parent at all, but there's something that really puzzles me. Why do folks care about a $500 cost difference in the main computing tool that makes their daily bread? Seems like it's a matter of a few hours'
742.
by cpr 13y ago
Looks good at first blush, but please fix the embedded hyphens in the top screen shot. (Must have been a quick copy'n'paste from public domain text.)
743.
by cpr 13y ago
Why do they need the overhead of HTTPS for internal use like this?
744.
by cpr 13y ago
Why not import the text into sqlite and go from there? Full SQL language available, etc.
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by cpr 13y ago
When I was an undergrad (a year ahead of Gates, 72-76), Harvard had only "intro to programming" undergrad courses, so those of us CS (well, applied math) majors who arrived at college already competent at programming pretty much j
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by cpr 13y ago
From my experience, Gates is definitely a more-competitive-than-most kind of personality, but, let's face it, like most wildly successful folk, he was in the right place at the right time. (He drove hard to make sure he was there, it&#
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by cpr 13y ago
Hunh, seems pretty close to what I remember watching from the sidelines. (I used to tease Gates late at night in the computer room about playing with hobbyist computers, when there were so many powerful mainframes on the early ARPAnet (abou
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by cpr 13y ago
It wasn't Lisp all the way down in the Lisp Machine design--it was a microcoded engine, of course. Though, yes, the system software was written in Lisp. There was a front-end processor (designed by Howard Cannon, who also was the main
749.
by cpr 13y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=typing+special+characters+into+emacs ;-) I've used Option as Meta for years (been using Emacs since (gulp) 1977 on ITS/TOPS-20) and never had any trouble. You can use the M-x insert-char (M-x
750.
by cpr 13y ago
Brings back memories. I remember IBM 360 "large core storage" devices at the Naval Electronics Lab on Point Loma (San Diego, where I worked as a high school student)--boxes that held a MEGABYTE of core (I think several millisecond

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