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by gwu78 13y ago
"... my osx n2n client." v1 or v2?
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... where you can always take parts of it for granted." A truly curious person tends not to do this. The point of using a system is that you can take it apart to see how it works.
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by gwu78 13y ago
"It's been a while since we've had a new, reasonably well known language that is truly capable of this level of systems programming." You mean, like C?
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by gwu78 13y ago
Like the others, I'm really enjoying these posts. She seems to have a healthy curiousity for how things work, and a nice low level focus. This seems so rare these days. But I have a suggestion. Instead of writing your own kernel, wha
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by gwu78 13y ago
What about computers located in the datacenter, next to other people's computers?
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... wrong version of netcat" There's only one true netcat. Although there was at least one revision of the original by the author to add some minor fixes and the hexdump feature, as I remember it, the "doexec()" or
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Talk is a set of protocols that allow two people to have an interactive dialogue via a computer." I remember the first time I used talk. I think it is what got me hooked on UNIX.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Technically, it is not "NAT" that prevents what I am calling "reachability". It is "firewalls".
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by gwu78 13y ago
Maybe as this racket dies, slowly we'll see tuition fees drop accordingly. But I'm not holding my breath. I always thought a significant share of my tuition payments must have been allocated to cover overpriced library subscripti
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by gwu78 13y ago
".. we believe it's easier for folks to remember names rather than numbers..." Yes, but regardless of whether they use names or numbers, they still cannot get "public reachability" (a public IP address and allowance
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by gwu78 13y ago
The easiest path to decentralization is to either: 1 Give every user a publicly reachable IP address at their home or business, or 2 Give every user an account with some remote organization that with a publicly reachable IP address, where t
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by gwu78 13y ago
Is there a commandline http client that can negotiate WebSockets? If so, I might be tempted to experiment.
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... open sourcing the server code wouldn't really do that much to improve trust." It would allow people to run your code (if they like it) on their own servers. Then they wouldn't need to trust you.
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by gwu78 13y ago
If we agree 100% on this vision, maybe we should team up. It's rare for HN commenters to agree on what the future holds.
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by gwu78 13y ago
s/Linux/BSD/ It is the evolution of "development board". It is the "home computer kit" in the back of Popular Science that started the PC revolution, but this time much, much easier. Because we have heaps
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by gwu78 13y ago
It is the "techie types" I'm focused on. They are the ones who drive progress in computing, not your mom. When every device in your home is connected to a public network, I imagine that you, a techie type, are going to want
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by gwu78 13y ago
This is true. The commoditization of hardware gave way to a focus on software. Perhaps we will next see the commoditization of "operating system" instead of proprietary OS that serve to limit the uses of commodity hardware sold
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by gwu78 13y ago
Well done, OP. I forsee Apple and Google (and Microsoft?) devices will increasingly be aimed solely at consuming content. This will be the "interactive television" of the future. If you haven't noticed, it is not easy is it
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by gwu78 13y ago
Are you saying you'd like to see string procesing moved into the kernel?
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by gwu78 13y ago
"The shell is closely tied to running commands..." s/commands/programs/ But yes, I agree. To arrive at a return value, APL evaluates a mathematical operation, whereas the shell evaluates the result(s) of executing a
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by gwu78 13y ago
"A revolution is when you change your thinking."
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Java... web apps... incredibly slow... bloated... market dominance... FUD... front-end javascript framework... keep the mystique going..." "completely out of business" The end.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Let me know when we can compile QEMU with a modest amount of RAM. Last time I tried, on a memory constrained laptop, it took over 1GB of RAM! That's a lot of memory just to compile a single program. By comparison, I can compile a ke
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by gwu78 13y ago
tcpserver does not pipe input. It sets certain environmental variables, closes fd's 0 and 1 and runs another command line program. It has no quivalent to QUERY_STRING. Very different from CGI or this Websocket contraption. Much saf
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why do you need to pay $25 in order to share code with your friends? Why can't someone wipe the phone's storage clean and install their own version of Android, or some other OS? Think back to the days before "smartphones&quot
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Don't just play on your phone. Program it." Easier said than done. Not because it's difficult to learn to code. But because the owner of the phone cannot have uid 0 without "jailbreaking". Nor can she writ
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by gwu78 13y ago
Maybe "valuation" does not represent the value to future investors. Maybe it represents the magic number required for the early investors to achieve the return the venture capital (or other) firm promised them.
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by gwu78 13y ago
It's relatively easy. 1. Download the root.zone file. Add your new TLD to it, _but don't change anything else_. 2. Configure and run the necessary DNS software (e.g., nsd, tinydns, etc. plus dnscache, or maybe pdns_recurso
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... user installed root CAs are given the authority to override pins." This is the answer I was seeking. Thank you!
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by gwu78 13y ago
Does this require a writeable, user-accessible file on the computer where the browser is installed? (versus, e.g., a gateway computer the user controls that can run openssl, the proxy, tcpdump and the packet filter) If yes, how would the NS

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