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by endgame 10y ago
My Cowon iAudio 7 is still going strong, and I don't know what I'll do when it dies. I like having a standalone music player that plays ogg-vorbis, and presents as a mass storage device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by endgame 10y ago
Nothing you said is wrong, and I don't really like what the modern web has become. But I can't see how you'd build a better platform, then build something that drives adoption of that platform while there's so much dev a
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by endgame 10y ago
The author has a decent opening point about how we Free Software Enthusiasts need to be aware of the world in which regular people are computing, otherwise we'll never be able to reach them. If my understanding of history is correct, t
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by endgame 10y ago
Also: Write a manpage.
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by endgame 10y ago
Ditaa link: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
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by endgame 10y ago
DON'T POP A NEWSLETTER FORM OVER THE TEXT I AM TRYING TO READ. I'm sure this is an interesting article but the only way we will stop this practice is if we stop giving user-hostile publications our eyeballs.
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by endgame 10y ago
Old apple stuff isn't my thing but I applaud any efforts to preserve our history. Jason makes a number of good points about the sorry state of modern OSes in his article, and it's worth a read for that alone.
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by endgame 10y ago
I think YC funded scribed at some point, and I can't for the life of me work out why.
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by endgame 10y ago
http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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by endgame 10y ago
DON'T POP A NEWSLETTER FORM OVER THE TEXT I AM TRYING TO READ. I'm sure this is an interesting article but the only way we will stop this practice is if we stop giving user-hostile publications our eyeballs.
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by endgame 10y ago
Can we also take a minute to notice that this is also closing the analog hole?
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by endgame 10y ago
I recall OpenMosix doing that years ago, but the tech never made it to 2.6 kernels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix
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by endgame 10y ago
It's beautiful, is what it is. It loads instantly, doesn't download megabytes of crap and is very information-dense.
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by endgame 10y ago
Am I the only one who misses the Program Manager? I've never found a reimplementation of the idea in any OS I've used since 3.1.
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BITMAP-45 – a zine issue discussing ZZT(drive.google.com)
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace(eff.org)
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by endgame 10y ago
The plaques are a really nice touch. Very respectful.
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by endgame 10y ago
I don't know NixOS, but this blog post and lecture might help you give emacs a fair trial: http://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by endgame 10y ago
Didn't libtool 2.0's autoconf macros do away with the need to check for CXX and F77 on totally irrelevant projects?
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by endgame 10y ago
Jason: you and your crew are under-appreciated heroes of our age.
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by endgame 10y ago
Gift? Not quite, but I enthusiastically offer my copies of Simon Singh's books up for loan when anyone sounds vaguely interested. "The Code Book" is a great history of cryptography and "Fermat's Last Theorem" i
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by endgame 10y ago
I found The Cuckoo's Egg second-hand for 50c. Easily the greatest enjoyment:price ratio of anything I own. Exploding the Phone is also phreaking awesome. I devoured that book over the space of a few hours.
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by endgame 10y ago
What the actual shit. Before I could read the text, I got hit with a "sign up for our bullshit newsletter" pop-up. Then after dismissing that I hit space to page down and got shown a SquareSpace login that I couldn't get out
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by endgame 10y ago
MS-DOS came with GW-Basic and later QBasic, and the latter lives on in QB64: http://www.qb64.net/
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by endgame 10y ago
Teaching JS to kids? Let's hook Dijkstra up to a dynamo, he'll be spinning in his grave fast enough!
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by endgame 10y ago
Shame?
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by endgame 10y ago
I think the person you are replying to will disagree that it is "breaking" the language.
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by endgame 10y ago
That page falls over with a JS error. Try: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/752190828798353408 > Misunderstanding of what "beta" means to Tesla for Autopilot: any system w less than 1B miles of rea
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by endgame 10y ago
You might find this article useful: http://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-... Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc
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by endgame 10y ago
If you want a deep dive on SMAC: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/

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