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by jff 9y ago
> I don't want to go back to a world where financial transactions are conducted based on hand-scratched notes and shouting on trading floors. Seemed to work pretty well for a long time.
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by jff 9y ago
> The article doesn't say much, besides replaying many common thoughts. Actually, as an article, it's pretty much useless. Yep, it's totally useless and is really only designed to draw ad traffic (god there's a lot of
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by jff 9y ago
> Yeah it's cool to be able to watch all this crap from my childhood, and a thousand great tv shows or movies, or hundreds of the best video games yet made, or browse endlessly for new music tailored to my tastes, or whatever, total
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by jff 9y ago
I do the same, although I spend far too much time on it despite such efforts. Totally blocking notifications from 90% of applications helps too.
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by jff 9y ago
You seem to be defending against a claim the study does not make. They're not saying "smartphones make us stupid because Google's in your pocket!" Rather, the study is saying that by having your phone on the desk or even
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by jff 9y ago
> And before you go all Luddite on me ... "That sounds terrible!" I actually rarely take my phone with me and 90% of places I go have no signal. So for me this technology is almost like magic (if they can make it work) The way
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by jff 9y ago
Mr Stallman, I had no idea you were a Hacker News user!
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by jff 9y ago
And that's sort of the point, in my mind: the page is about a megabyte, while something comparable on the modern sites he's talking about would be many times larger. As you say, it's a megabyte because there's a megabyte
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by jff 9y ago
A group of Slashdot users moved to comp.misc when Slashdot made some significant changes they disliked, and there's still some relatively lively discussion over there. ( http://www.eternal-september.org/ if you want you
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by jff 9y ago
Based on most reviews I've seen, it's less useful than a $30 AlphaSmart Neo (which I own, and quite like)
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by jff 10y ago
All this and it still looks like Yet Another Bootstrap website. Guess that's the modern meaning of 'beautiful website'.
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by jff 10y ago
Well, it looks to be heavily influenced by XKCD (both the font and the overall concept) so yes, literally comical :)
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Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community(libreboot.org)
272 points by jff 10y ago|207 comments
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by jff 10y ago
Plan 9's 'ls' still behaves in the old fashion, and if you want it formatted nicely you run 'lc', which is just a shell script that does ls | mc
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by jff 10y ago
On paper, Overdrive is everything I want, but every time I try to use the damn Android app it makes me want to just drive to the library instead. How many times should I need to enter my library card # to check out an ebook?
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by jff 10y ago
> Advertisers will respond to the masses, not the most outraged hecklers. Twitter seems to be proving that wrong these days.
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by jff 10y ago
Wrote my own thing on top of Go's http package. It handles subdomains to a limited extent and will also serve Markdown-formatted blog entries. I run it on a RAM Host KVM-based VPS, which I also use as a shell box and a traffic-forwardi
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by jff 10y ago
The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket was fueled by Dad's Everclear, as I recall, and propelled with the vacuum cleaner.
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by jff 10y ago
Does Sonic.net not provide service in Berkeley? Back when I lived in the Bay Area, I switched from Comcast purely because Sonic.net isn't an utterly loathsome company. Turns out with Sonic I didn't have to reboot my modem every ot
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by jff 10y ago
I haven't tried those, I'm a big fan of Portra 400 in my Yashica-mat
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by jff 10y ago
Plus, unless you're buying a $5000 medium-format DSLR, your 35mm film camera has a larger "sensor" size than the digital camera. And if you spend $100 and buy a medium-format TLR, well, now your negatives are 6x6cm and holy c
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by jff 10y ago
I don't have numbers but in general I'd call it no less usable than X forwarding over ssh. For a long time I used to connect to a Japanese Plan 9 server using drawterm (a Windows/Linux application which essentially emulates t
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by jff 10y ago
You're right, but first the INSTALL script makes a few customizations based on what OS you're running (Solaris, OS X, Linux, *BSD), then bootstraps mk and finally runs mk on all the application source. The script takes into accoun
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by jff 10y ago
Oh, you're no fun anymore!
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by jff 10y ago
Lisp machines were expensive, the early ones at least took a very long time to boot, and I think there are weaknesses to the Lisp "image"/"world"/whatever model that Lisp-M partisans aren't quite willing t
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by jff 10y ago
Plan 9 did it in an interesting way. You draw to the screen by writing to files under /dev. On Plan 9, all file operations take place over 9P, a networked file protocol. So if you are connecting to a remote machine and want to run a gr
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by jff 10y ago
- If Linux, find the current local privilege escalation bug, get root, and burn it all to the ground.
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by jff 10y ago
You should be able to build well-written code on a variety of modern systems using nothing more than a Makefile, or even just a shell script. See plan9port for an example of the latter.
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by jff 10y ago
If you look at Plan 9, you'll see /usr is once again the location of user home directories, and binaries go in /bin. In fact, /bin is a 'union' directory composed of /386/bin, /rc/bin, &#x2F
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by jff 10y ago
Ah, I'm not familiar with dtrace so I guess I missed that in your comment. Thanks for the clarification.

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