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by foobar1274278 20d ago
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the sub-ether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing. He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, th
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by foobar1274278 25d ago
Linear Technology gave the same bonus multiplier based on overall company profit, paid out every 6 months. Most years this came out as an extra 30% on top of base comp for literally everyone at the company. Then the founders retired, Linear
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by foobar1274278 2mo ago
Cool, now do these: "Buying something over the web", Amazon, 1997: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5960411A/en "Rounded corners in a GUI", Apple, 2014: https://patents.google.com
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by foobar1274278 4mo ago
Hilarious coming from the guy whose shitty Multics ripoff directly inspired "Worse is Better" From the essay: "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses. A further benefit of the worse-is-better philosophy is that the prog
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by foobar1274278 5mo ago
Reminds me of how ever since egg prices went to the moon we've all had to give up dessert and subsist on thin gruel for breakfast. What's that? Egg prices are back down after suppliers cranked up their output? Surely nothing like
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by foobar1274278 5mo ago
Ah yes, like those dang ol no good reds in single party California, sabotaging their high speed rail project for the past 20 years. 14 billion in the hole and not a single mile of track.
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by foobar1274278 5mo ago
I'm curious which software you have in mind. Ex: seL4 is technically C, but I'd say the theorem prover is doing most of the real work there.
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by foobar1274278 5mo ago
The original is GPL licensed, while the rewrite is MIT.