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by enf 8y ago
Never move from a neighborhood you like to one you don't like, because you'll never be able to get back in.
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by enf 8y ago
It's not even a good joke. The song has two verses as well as the repetitive chorus, and he ignores them for the sake of the joke.
33.
by enf 8y ago
This paper always makes me sad because there are real things to be said about the structure of repetition in music, but Knuth treats it as a joke.
34.
by enf 8y ago
CP/M ED is more in the TECO tradition than anything else, through the DEC influence. It is oriented around characters rather than around lines as the ed family is.
35.
by enf 8y ago
When the cover is missing, it usually means a book or magazine was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher for a refund.
36.
by enf 8y ago
Looks like there may have been some DMCA takedowns, judging from what some of the missing URLs like https://archive.org/details/BYTE-1988-03 display.
37.
by enf 8y ago
I don't know the story, but 4.3BSD, which went into NeXTStep, was not open source. It wasn't until 4.4BSD that BSD was available without a paid Unix license. NeXT tried to get away with a closed-source fork of GCC for Objective C,
38.
by enf 8y ago
I've been using Milo Yip's implementation of Grisu2, which references another paper: https://github.com/miloyip/dtoa-benchmark
39.
by enf 8y ago
That doesn't look like a 3B2. Maybe an AT&T 6300.
40.
by enf 9y ago
There are plenty of genuinely interesting things to say about song structure, and it bothers me that Knuth treated the whole thing as a joke. Read http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2015/11421/pdf&#x
41.
by enf 9y ago
You might want to read A Quarter Century of Unix, http://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=publications:qc...
42.
by enf 9y ago
I don't know why they were slow to embrace backspace. Maybe just because most of the control character that did make it in came from Teletype's requirements, but the Model 33 couldn't backspace so they didn't ask for tha
43.
by enf 9y ago
The cent sign didn't make it into ASCII because no one ever made a serious proposal to include it, not through conscious exclusion. ASCII-1963 did not have Backspace and therefore did not have character composition. The concept of comp
44.
by enf 9y ago
Hi Nelson! The # and DEL conventions came from Multics. Note that from the ASCII perspective, DEL does not mean "delete the previous character." It is meant to be overpunched over a character, effectively deleting the character u
45.
by enf 9y ago
OK, good point. I probably misread it.
46.
by enf 9y ago
Another paper disputes Miller's claim to priority: https://archive.org/details/first-unix-port
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by enf 9y ago
You may be interested in the similar process I went through in 1997 to make a PDF of the Sixth Edition manual, including the papers: https://github.com/ericfischer/v6man/ The files for the Fourth Edition papers di
48.
by enf 9y ago
The paper about the Unix speech implementation: https://archive.org/details/synthetic-english-speech
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by enf 9y ago
The much more comprehensive history is Peter Salus's A Quarter Century of Unix, now online as page scans at http://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=publications:qc...
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by enf 9y ago
Steve Wozniak was on the board of directors, so we met him once at an all-hands meeting. (The other major celebrity appearance was from Thomas Dolby, who was involved with the Beatnik Audio Engine that we used for sound.) The SnowBored east
51.
by enf 9y ago
Danger, Inc. Good people, making an important thing (the Sidekick), under hardware constraints that were neither too limiting nor too generous.
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by enf 9y ago
No, it was a very minimal kernel that did just enough to handle the hardware and schedule threads. There was no memory management; everything ran in a single process. Later versions started looking a little bit more like a conventional oper
53.
by enf 9y ago
The Sidekick had its own OS, like no other. I believe later versions after I left the company were based on NetBSD.
54.
by enf 9y ago
The previous generation (Indy/Indigo2) felt rock solid. The cheap feel of the O2 was a real let down. But they probably couldn't justify the cost of making really nice keyboards and cases once Linux became serious competition in e
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by enf 9y ago
That is still a permission to build, not an obligation to build, no matter how strict the zoning is.
56.
by enf 9y ago
Rezoning gives nothing but the right to rebuild your own property as you wish to. No one is being forced to sell.
57.
by enf 9y ago
Every person who moves into one of the new townhouses on the 1200 sqft lots is a person who is not outbidding you for the house on the 5000 sqft lot.
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by enf 9y ago
England had a colloquial notation, taught in schools, for several decades: tonic sol-fa. But it could only talk about melody and rhythm, not harmony. It fell out of mainstream use in the late 1960s, perhaps as the music publishing industry
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by enf 9y ago
Some platform signs are already referring to it: https://twitter.com/enf/status/860516293442543617
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by enf 10y ago
Thank you!

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