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811.
by endgame 11y ago
If you're interested in reading/thinking more about tribalism and people reacting to displays like this, I found this essay really interesting: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/19/nerds-can-be-bees-
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by endgame 11y ago
I'm Australian but FWIW some friends and I were talking about this over breakfast. I personally think that while it's a bit jarring from the outside, Americans celebrating the rebuilding of American spaceflight capabilities makes
813.
by endgame 11y ago
Oh yeah, I had an MS-DOS build of PINE that got me through uni. After loading the packet drivers, I had just enough conventional memory to load the mail client as well. Good times.
814.
by endgame 11y ago
Yep, more people should Dare To Be Stupid: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1754.html
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by endgame 11y ago
I have no idea why this has become a thing, because I completely agree with you. The result of "it has to look identical everywhere" has resulted in lowest-common-denominator design and duplo-style interfaces[1], and it makes me r
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by endgame 11y ago
Well, it's only 4MB, but will this help? http://mac-guild.org/raid.html
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by endgame 11y ago
I'm surprised that this isn't up on the internet of shit twitter yet[1]. [1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
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Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri(paeantosmac.wordpress.com)
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by endgame 11y ago
Given the amount of fussing required to get the most of Supply Crawlers in SMAC, I'm surprised to hear that viewpoint. Nevertheless, the scope of SMAC's vision continues to inspire: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com&#x2
820.
by endgame 11y ago
I think you can. These books resonate with many of us. I remember checking them out from the school library again, and again, and again, and again... Trying to port them to my MS-DOS machine running QuickBasic was a bit hit-and-miss.
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by endgame 11y ago
Yeah, I was hoping for a roundup of interesting gopherspaces.
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by endgame 11y ago
`ln` is a utility commonly used for making links. Searching for this project in the future is going to be a pest.
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by endgame 11y ago
Future generations? Current generations curse them right now :-).
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by endgame 11y ago
And that's the sort of thing that could easily sneak into the `curl http://some/url | sudo bash`-style of installs that are popular these days.
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by endgame 11y ago
No. I can't stand the flashy javascripty nature of the site, as it struggles to poorly reimplement the web forums of 5+ years ago.
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by endgame 11y ago
Very cool. Is there any way to do this with more modern technology than GSM?
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by endgame 11y ago
And to close the citation loop: https://twitter.com/internetofshit is fun for people who want to roll their eyes at misbehaving smart devices.
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by endgame 11y ago
Agreed. Why do I get the sinking feeling that titles and articles like this are the next step in the evolution of clickbait?
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by endgame 11y ago
> They dream of a co-op model: people dealing directly with one another without having to go through a data-sucking corporate hub. We used to have this. Then GMail took over email, Facebook took over most people's communication, red
830.
by endgame 11y ago
Given the way the "Hackers at 20" article resonated, I'd say the answer is "YES": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10220853
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by endgame 11y ago
The quaternary reason is that I still have the music I bought, even if the company provides the streaming services goes belly-up, decides it won't support my country any more or even just has a bad day or an outage.
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by endgame 11y ago
Link for those who need more context: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/web-vs-c++.html#misfeature-4
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by endgame 11y ago
Have you tried urxvt, by any chance?
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by endgame 11y ago
It's about the only renaming that the FSF has ever got to catch on. It's more accurate than the original and doesn't sound like a playground taunt.
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by endgame 11y ago
Defective by design.
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by endgame 11y ago
Why?
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by endgame 11y ago
Given the dark patterns on some of those signup forms, it's more like UI mugging than begging. Do you have a link to the opinion piece?
838.
by endgame 11y ago
I loaded the page, started reading and the ENTIRE PAGE scrolled away as a giant "Lessons In Startups" mail-signup-modal rolled in from above. GO AWAY YOU SCOURGE OF THE INTERNET.
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by endgame 11y ago
And in case they twiddle robots.txt to force the wayback machine to clear out: https://archive.is/IaIcl
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by endgame 11y ago
Old pipes did, but this version allows pipes to self-intersect, which might be what's throwing you off.

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