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by csixty4 12y ago
> people would see fever dreams at best and unwholesome value-destroying privacy-invading witchcraft at worst Oh yes. The hacker subculture, even parts of the tech industry in general at the time was dealing with things like the Clipper
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by csixty4 12y ago
I kind of like that. If you don't get the reference, you have nothing to worry about yet. :)
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by csixty4 12y ago
I love the cute, organic design. It'll make it more approachable for a lot of everyday users. But I wonder if they're shooting themselves in the foot with the automotive set: people passionate about their cars, who have a lot of t
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by csixty4 12y ago
> many 'innovations' by Apple, like thunderbolt or retina, are really just 'one-upping' the competition and attempting to lock the consumer in to something that's no more than a gimmick. Sure thunderbolt is fast,
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by csixty4 12y ago
Two reasons spring to mind: 1. Legacy systems. The system that was built 15 years ago might have limited the field for performance or storage reasons and it was never updated. Or maybe the Palm Pilot app only supports 20 characters in a tex
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by csixty4 12y ago
I love Dokku for my Node apps. Still trying to find a good setup for WordPress installs that need to be able to upload media.
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by csixty4 12y ago
> I don't know how the business model works exactly, but I would imagine that paying people to narrate would be fairly expensive. They sell premium memberships now that allow for things like offline listening and better playlist man
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by csixty4 12y ago
I miss TDL. I'm sure the format was time-consuming to produce, and I know Mo's cancer diagnosis took top priority. But it was a real gem of a podcast.
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by csixty4 13y ago
As long as it scans, they're happy. I saw someone pay with an image of their barcode on a smartwatch and the baristas were going nuts over how cool it was.
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by csixty4 13y ago
* Running - I try for 3x a week, usually 5k but sometimes I got 6k or 7k on the weekend. * Volunteering - I socialize feral and semi-feral cats for 3-4 hours a week at a local animal shelter. I get a lot of cuts and scars from it, but it&#x
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by csixty4 13y ago
That's the fun of Apple "Kremlinology", finding meaning in the smallest, stupidest details of their invitations. It's like when my friends and I would hang out in diners and try to prove the Discordian Law of Fives by fi
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by csixty4 13y ago
You just described a Pick or "multivalue" database. They were a nightmare to work on, but I'll admit that's mostly because of the tools (or lack thereof). It led to people storing all sorts of different data in one table
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by csixty4 13y ago
Sorry, that should say "PETSCII and ATASCII"
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by csixty4 13y ago
TSV/CSV characters were also pretty much guaranteed to exist no matter what kind of terminal was used, and not cause any side-effects. No doubt some teletypes & dumb terminals used those FS, GS, RS etc. characters for special featu
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by csixty4 13y ago
For anyone wondering, X-ON and X-OFF are flow control characters. A device sends X-OFF to say "my buffer is full, stop sending data" and X-ON when it's ready to resume. On most Unix terminals, these have the effect of pausing
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by csixty4 13y ago
Pick databases have used record marks, attribute marks, value marks, sub-value marks, and sometimes sub-sub-value marks in ASCII 251-255 since the late 1960s. Like the control characters this blog post recommends, the biggest obstacle for P
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by csixty4 13y ago
Yes. Separate Carriage Return & Line Feed date back to Murray's 1901 variant of Baudot encoding, and ASCII was created to standardize the various teletype encodings out there so it inherited this way of doing things.
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by csixty4 13y ago
And echoed in the 90s by the likes of the Sun Ray series of thin clients. Wait…thin clients…virtual reality goggles…are we back in 1995 again?
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by csixty4 13y ago
I think you're mixing up a couple stories there, but it doesn't really matter that much. Just to fill in the details (and because the alternative is for me to start responding to work emails which I just don't feel like doing
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by csixty4 13y ago
Exactly. Just like how history doesn't celebrate the names of everybody who worked for Thomas Edison, there were hundreds if not thousands of people toiling away in anonymity underneath these giants. Edit: And many more "giants&qu
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by csixty4 13y ago
The work in the late 40s was interesting, too. First, you had specialized systems, then Eckert, Mauchly, and von Neumann started working on stored program computers. They had to figure out what opcodes were needed and how they were going to
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by csixty4 13y ago
My grade school had a Big Trak. Loved that thing. I saw there was a new version coming out that works with a phone app and thought about getting it for my great-nephews. But there's so many interactive toys out there like it I have to
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by csixty4 13y ago
That's not always what employers want. I've been reprimanded for not visibly freaking out enough during a server outage.
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by csixty4 13y ago
The functionality this is exploiting, pingbacks, is the kind of dynamic, API-driven feature you can't get on a static site. It's a trade-off you have to be comfortable making.
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by csixty4 13y ago
The mechanism this attack uses is interesting. So way back in the early "web 2.0" days, "trackbacks" were a big deal. You'd mention someone else's blog post on your blog, your blogging software did an XML-RPC c
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by csixty4 13y ago
It's like the joke "How do you make $1000 fast? Well, you start with $1,000,000…"
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by csixty4 13y ago
Make sure you're on the desktop site (link in the footer). That looks much more WB 3.9/4.0-ish.
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by csixty4 13y ago
It would be really cool if they could make it work.
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by csixty4 13y ago
Zite has been my app of choice when I'm catching up on the news over breakfast. It sounds like Flipboard is going to integrate Zite's personalization algorithms into Flipboard, but I'm skeptical. Hoping for the best.
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by csixty4 13y ago
Self-deprecation has been part of CodeKit's branding since the beginning, when nobody had heard of it and the author had to put up his first fake testimonials.

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