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by kator 14y ago
http://www.bitkeeper.com/Jobs.html
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by kator 14y ago
How is this different then: https://github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1 Discussed here a couple days ago? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4371851
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by kator 14y ago
And I remember that day because it took me a couple days to get it to compile on Xenix and my wife was pissed because all I did during the winter break was play with Perl programming. :-)
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by kator 14y ago
Please don't start me on what it's named.. If I remember correctly when he posted it to usenet it was: P = Practical E = Extraction and R = Reporting L = Language Sorry if you object to the caps.. I was just bei
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by kator 14y ago
I remember unpacking PERL from usenet and compiling it on my Xenix box! Really back then it was amazing. At the time I was writing everything in C and having the flexibility without the pain of C that PERL provided was such a great gift.
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by kator 14y ago
It was a really old story.. I think I read it in a magazine in the early '80s and it was old then..
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by kator 14y ago
Reminds me of a really old short story about a planet that built a black-hole drive. The story leads right up to the point where they hit the power button. And then it breaks to an "astronomical observer XY-1134" and his report on "yet ano
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by kator 14y ago
My gut tells me this is TMI for whomever might want to hack a site. Just knowing what keys are allowed to ssh w/o a password seems like a great target. Not sure what others think?
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Ask HN: Is sharing .ssh/authorized_keys a security issue?
8 points by kator 14y ago|4 comments
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by kator 14y ago
Funny but true I moved to the East Coast after living in Los Angeles all my life and I love the rain storms. But the Los Angeles rain storms last longer. In New York city the rain seems to come in short spurts. Once in a while we get a g
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by kator 14y ago
Hmm did you get zero because of a Javascript error? I hacked this together pretty quickly didn't test on every possible browser etc. I think there is something true at the core and he sort of over thinks it all. In my 30 year career I have
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by kator 14y ago
After reading Steve Yegge's post on Software Politics (he called it Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus) I wondered what my own place is on this supposed scale. So I slammed all his 18 questions into a form and built some Javascript to tally
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Where do you rate on the scale of Software Politics?(karlbunch.github.com)
4 points by kator 14y ago|3 comments
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by kator 14y ago
I was a bit surprised at my result since I've done large systems and have been developing for 30 years. I think I lean toward more of the "get it done" camp unless it's a super high-production (i.e. money gets lost when down) system then I
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Kinect 2 image leaked, shows increased detail and depth data(theverge.com)
1 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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by kator 14y ago
Liberal <---------------------|-----------------------+---------------------------------------------> Conservative Or as a totally unscientific number: -24 reply
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Survey: The Yegge Software Politics Scale(dl.dropbox.com)
2 points by kator 14y ago|1 comments
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by kator 14y ago
Not that anyone cares: Liberal <---------------------|-----------------------+---------------------------------------------> Conservative Or as a totally unscientific number: -24
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by kator 14y ago
I know I will regret this but here is a little survey I whipped up quickly. It's static so results are local to your browser.. Enjoy: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/704864/software-politics.html
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by kator 14y ago
I started programming 30 years ago when I was in high school. ... Wait for it... . SO WHAT! Seriously, the thing I love the most about our choice of career is that if you want to be good at it you will be learning for the rest of your life.
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by kator 14y ago
Hmm again in 1980: http://www.vijayp.ca/movies/index.html#1980 Maybe Lucas really was a visionary!
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by kator 14y ago
Looks like Star Wars posters messed up 1977!? http://www.vijayp.ca/movies/index.html#1977
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by kator 14y ago
Funny I visited #1 "Meteor Crater" or Barringer Crater last year with my wife.. It's hard to understand the scale of this thing until you're on the ground walking around it. Makes you feel very small in the grand scheme of things.. :)
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by kator 14y ago
To the OP, Thanks, I knew why it was delaying but didn't realize I could disable the behavior!! The leads back to the very old days of serial terminals and the horrible ^[ prefix in many terminal's function and arrow keys. I remember fondl
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Spool is joining Facebook(blog.getspool.com)
1 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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San Diego fireworks fiasco blamed on overzealous computer backup(latimes.com)
1 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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by kator 14y ago
LOL so in my early days it was "vi" but I too use "vim" now a days. Either way the funny thing is when someone asks me "how do you do THAT in vi?" I often find myself typing in the air to replay the muscle memory that executes those instruc
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by kator 14y ago
My physics teacher in high school used to say inventors are insane. They invest 100x the time to solve a problem then it would take to just do the work. But they are so happy when they can do it in 1/10th the time when they have their new
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by kator 14y ago
That's an awesome quote. I couldn't agree more. lazy and clever people find ways to solve problems that most people never try because they are too clever. But at the same time these clever/lazies will spend 100's of hours trying to solve
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by kator 14y ago
I agree.. I often say the real talent is being in the right place at the right time. Sadly that's not always an option and sometimes it's hard work that helps even the odds.

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