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by kerneis 14y ago
This is the winner of a competition organized by Apple in 1987 to design the personal computer of the year 2000. The section "The Machine" in particular is a surprisingly accurate description of current tablets.
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Tablet: Personal Computer in the Year 2000 (1988)(stephenwolfram.com)
43 points by kerneis 14y ago|18 comments
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by kerneis 14y ago
You are correct. But they are several reasons why the situation might seem complex for a foreigner. French people regularly use the term "carte bleue" to mean "debit card" (and most of the debit cards still feature the legacy "carte bleue"
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by kerneis 14y ago
If you live in the UK, the Nation Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park (of Alan Turing fame) is also totally amazing. http://www.tnmoc.org/
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CLFSWM - A(nother) Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager(common-lisp.net)
3 points by kerneis 14y ago|2 comments
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by kerneis 14y ago
If you like this kind of anecdotes, you should read "Mindstorms" by Seymour Papert. It's more about maths than writing, but it's filled with examples showing how the fact that computers allow children to make mistakes, and then fix them, c
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by kerneis 14y ago
Definitely not: protothreads (2006) predates Tame (2007). But all of them are somehow (great-)grandchildren of Duff's device: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html
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by kerneis 14y ago
(Disclaimer: I am one of the authors of CPC.) Protothread is really just a set of macros, based of Duff's device, to make it easier to write automata in a threaded style. It has many limitations: it does not automatically save local variab
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by kerneis 14y ago
Green threads are indeed very useful, and probably the right way to go. In Javascript, see Tamejs: http://tamejs.org/ NCD looks interesting, in particular the backtracking feature. But I'm a bit concerned by your choice of developing a ne
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by kerneis 14y ago
Look like Biology Letters accept articles from even younger people: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/2...
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by kerneis 14y ago
Mutt has plenty of unfixed bugs, just look at the bug tracker and distro-specific patches (in Debian for instance). It is a wonderful piece of software, I use it daily, but its development definitely miss momentum.
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by kerneis 14y ago
No, regardless of UI, I think the dilemma of having to buy yourself the least popular one to get an extra t-shirt is important. And what would happen to your buisness model if everybody liked (and ordered) t-shirt A but nominated t-shirt B?
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µTorrent will include ads, users pissed off(forum.utorrent.com)
3 points by kerneis 14y ago|0 comments
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by kerneis 14y ago
> from a single IPv4 and a single IPv6 Actually only from a single IPv4 (cache.ovh.net). The IPv6 address is the equivalent IPv4 mapped to IPv6 (::ffff: prefix).