ddelony

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Misogyny is alive and well in technology circles(boingboing.net)
5 points by ddelony 16y ago|1 comments
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Useful Awk one-liners(snap.nlc.dcccd.edu)
2 points by ddelony 16y ago|0 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
I wonder how close Mac OS X comes to the Anti-Mac interface, given that it includes a command line.
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by ddelony 16y ago
This article shows why Unix might be the greatest word processor ever invented.
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Unix for Poets(doc.cat-v.org)
1 points by ddelony 16y ago|1 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
This is exactly the kind of site I've been looking for as a freelance writer. A place like Mechanical Turk that lets me do short tasks, but actually pays something.
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The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature (theody.net)
3 points by ddelony 16y ago|0 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
A software program having a bug is news?
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by ddelony 16y ago
On writing concurrent programs: Why don't we make the interpreters/compilers do that automatically?
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by ddelony 16y ago
Modern Web design seems to focus too much on pretty visual designs. I think that designers should pay more attention to structure, like the original Gopher menus. One of the major reasons Apple's App Store has taken off is that most Web des
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Unix As Literature(theody.net)
15 points by ddelony 16y ago|0 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
Hacker News readers probably have at least a passing familiarity with Unix/Linux, but it's still refreshing to be reminded that you can move mountains with short commands.
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by ddelony 16y ago
The police found him and claim he's "in good health and self-sufficient" though his friends and colleagues are still looking for him. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/01/missing_i... He's written a lot of good stuff, thoug
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by ddelony 16y ago
Yeah, I probably should have done a search first. ;-) But the post about social problems in computing reminded me of this article.
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How to help someone use a computer(polaris.gseis.ucla.edu)
31 points by ddelony 16y ago|8 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
If your site causes other sites to crash, you know you've made it!
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by ddelony 16y ago
I have enormous respect for Bell Labs, at least until they decided to kill non telecommunications projects.
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by ddelony 16y ago
Great idea, even though I'm not a musician. What I'd really like to see would be a completely versioned filesystem like on VMS.
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by ddelony 16y ago
I'm not knocking Google in any way. It's just that, as the article says, Google seems to be developing their new products because thee engineers think they're cool, regardless of whether they're actually commercial. In this way, Google is t
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by ddelony 16y ago
Google's non-search products are really just research projects.
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by ddelony 16y ago
Does she have some specific criteria, or is it like the infamous Supreme Court definition of pornography? ;-)
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by ddelony 16y ago
How do you get a master's in computer science without knowing how to operate a computer?
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OpenVMS vs. Unix(www3.sympatico.ca)
6 points by ddelony 16y ago|1 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
Artists, writers, and other creative people have the same frustration of having to think about money when they'd rather be thinking about their work that Graham describes in the essay. I know we live in interesting economic times, but maybe
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by ddelony 16y ago
Sounds good in theory, but how would a newly-degreed person without any capital start a business?
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by ddelony 16y ago
Bucky Fuller invented one in the '40s.
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by ddelony 16y ago
I was thinking that if any company required photos with resumes, that they would get into trouble if they kept picking white males. It would be interesting if people could submit resumes anonymously, without a picture or name.
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Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming(pbs.org)
2 points by ddelony 16y ago|0 comments
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by ddelony 16y ago
I think that the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad platform has taken off because the mobile Web is just painful to use right now in those tiny browsers. Apple's fulfilling a niche that AOL did in the '90s. Where AOL provided training wheels for the I
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by ddelony 17y ago
Hmm, I think my life would be a sine wave or a saw-tooth wave pattern.

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