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by interknot 14y ago
FWIW "www.cloudflare-watch.org" currently resolves to an IP address used with a DSL connection (adsl- - - - .dsl.snantx.swbell.net).
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by interknot 14y ago
It's interesting to consider how different the world might be if Jobs and Woz had been busted for selling blue boxes: http://paulgraham.com/bluebox.html
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by interknot 14y ago
You're unfortunately correct: http://www.abine.com/ and of course Phil Zimmerman is giving it a go: https://silentcircle.com/ [ though all of that ex-SEAL presence among the founders sets off some of my paranoid alarms about US governme
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by interknot 14y ago
I don't have an answer, but it is interesting to consider something like https://www.anybots.com/ in this context.
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by interknot 15y ago
I'd be surprised if cities became less desirable. I could see cars turning into something like an on-demand, private bus (or just an automated taxi that you own).
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by interknot 15y ago
I really like this interpretation of the mission. Though a multimedia art project blasted into space may be a better introduction to humanity (and "human nature") than anything else.
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by interknot 15y ago
I mostly agree with you, though I'm concerned that the economies of scale that make PC-style computing affordable will become unsustainable.
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by interknot 15y ago
That initial 17 KLOC Hello World was an abomination, but it isn't looking anywhere near as bad these days. https://gist.github.com/1385015
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by interknot 15y ago
So we've definitely arrived in Stallman's Right to Read future: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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by interknot 15y ago
Similarly, I tend to consider the presence of "human resources" people/departments to be a red flag.
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by interknot 15y ago
Mr. Macintosh begs to differ: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Mister_Macintosh.txt I also really like that the story proves you to be thoroughly correct about Apple trying to establish emotional ties. Here's hoping that they made
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by interknot 15y ago
It's telling that their "Innovation group" is shackled with the same restrictions as the rest of the company.
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by interknot 15y ago
Here's the previous HN discussion for the (likely) article in question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867807
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by interknot 16y ago
The data in question appears to be simulated and intended for use in developing energy calculations for buildings: http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/weatherdat... That said, DOE is probably keenly interested in gathering r
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by interknot 17y ago
Any chance that you're storing snapshots of the results? Since HN polls apparently do not close, it might be interesting to watch things change over time. Would it be possible to make a grid of all the polls and their results? Simply scal
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by interknot 17y ago
Christopher Blizzard's (Open Source Evangelist at Mozilla) thoughts[1] on standardizing Canvas 3D, taken in conjunction with what relevant people at Google are saying[2], makes it look like Google is just really eager to get people using "3
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by interknot 17y ago
It's probably true that projects like JRuby/Jython/Scala/etc won't die (especially Jython what with BEA and all); I'm more concerned about things like invokedynamic and friends from JSR-292. Hopefully Oracle will be friendly to Sun's resear
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by interknot 17y ago
The bit about the PhD in microbiology caught my eye here--to people getting bored with "blub" programming: perhaps look into a field like bioinformatics, meteorology, and so on. You'd be working on difficult, "technical" things, but you'd b
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by interknot 18y ago
The author wrote that he's been writing about Unix for decades and mentions that Microsoft could "attain" the UNIX trademark; I merely thought XENIX would be worth a note in that context.
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by interknot 18y ago
I'm somewhat disappointed that the author doesn't recall Microsoft's XENIX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2062
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by interknot 18y ago
This is a wonderful idea, though it will require a good amount of tenacity. My idea for the site was to essentially ape iusethis.com–let people find open source alternatives to closed source tools. Somehow slanting user comments towards "mi
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by interknot 18y ago
Dark launching is cool, but Google did it last year with Gmail Chat: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6202268628085731280
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by interknot 19y ago
Madison is pretty great, especially in the summer, but I think our winters are a bit foreboding. The main problem with creating a startup atmosphere in Madison is that most people leave once they graduate. I've managed to stick around almos
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by interknot 19y ago
They should take climate into consideration. My apartment in Madison, Wisconsin scores 92/100. I'd generally agree with this, but when it's 15 degrees Fahrenheit on your walk to work... Brr.