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by kick 6y ago
I’ll suggest not for story, I’d turn it around and instead of shooting the idea down, You just shot down the idea in five words. play the game I have. This is why I know it's not on the level of Charlotte's Web in terms of s
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by kick 6y ago
Exactly, which is why it's ridiculous to imply it'd be on the level of Illiad or similar.
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by kick 6y ago
His websites are filled with documentation for what it used to be, but I can't remember the links to the really juicy stuff. His setup circa-1997 (I think) was pretty much entirely documented with reasoning for every piece, and it wa
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by kick 6y ago
For anyone interested in the history of computing and cybernetics, McCulloch absolutely is an essential figure within. The field would look significantly different without the butterfly effect the man had; Minsky would have had an entirely
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Marvin Minsky's Vision of the Future (1981)(newyorker.com)
4 points by kick 6y ago|0 comments
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by kick 6y ago
Why? DOOM was a technical achievement, sure, but it has little in the way of story; it didn't even attempt the whole "trying to tell a story without words" thing common in video games of today. It's certainly not an epic
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What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number? (1960) [pdf](nsl.com)
47 points by kick 6y ago|4 comments
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by kick 6y ago
'bcantrill says he does, and he's offered it to people who've wanted it[1], but I think he's managed to not check his /threads every time someone's asked. I haven't found any way to procure a copy, let a
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by kick 6y ago
It's proprietary software with extra steps to trick people into giving a company the respect that comes with free software. To quote Andrew Miloradovsky: The reason why many companies insist on using "permissive" licenses is
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At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged (2002)(nytimes.com)
21 points by kick 6y ago|8 comments
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by kick 6y ago
Mandatory telemetry until people started dropping subscriptions was the most well-known one in recent memory, but there have been more. The open core model is also ethically-poor.
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by kick 6y ago
Castor is a Gemini/Gopher/Finger client. Castor is also the second-brightest object in the zodiac constellation of Gemini and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
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Castor: A browser for the small Internet, written in Rust(sr.ht)
1 points by kick 6y ago|3 comments
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by kick 6y ago
Drew is ethical, unlike the other two, and it seems very, very unlikely that will change. Have you seen his rants? He cares more about software freedom than most GNU contributors. He also has been contributing to free software for years a
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by kick 6y ago
The site recently got discoverability of projects (less than a week ago); it's had a bunch of projects laying about for a few months now, but you'd have to use site:*.sr.ht on a search engine to find anything. It's more navig
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Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding(git.sr.ht)
307 points by kick 6y ago|74 comments
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by kick 6y ago
Fred Brooks was accurate about most things, yeah. It's hard not to envy him; he got to work with (and write a book with) Ken Iverson . Can you imagine? People back then really had all the luck! ...at least as far as computers go, anyw
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by kick 6y ago
Willing isn't equivalent to able. For tech workers, sure, they can afford expensive products. When you've got a household income of $44,097 (literally West Virginia's median household income), it stops being "willi
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by kick 6y ago
The problem there is that '10k+' "engineers" are trying to make the same 'photo, video, post and message-sharing website'. It's a structural problem and little more: the website (and app) is their ma
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by kick 6y ago
Wow, the linked response to his initial post from Brad Porter is actually the single slimiest business communication I think I've ever read. Snake. What is it about corporations that strips your personhood? EDIT: On further inspection,
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by kick 6y ago
To add to this point, the goal for end-to-end encryption by default was January (said in December): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21765008 But there have been other times where "soon!" have been given over
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by kick 6y ago
Emacs breaks assumptions of the operating system; vi does not.
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An Overview of the Spring System (1994) [pdf](cs.fsu.edu)
29 points by kick 6y ago|6 comments
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by kick 6y ago
'press i and then basically everything works as you'd expect' is pretty simple; it's got a significantly-smaller barrier to entry than Emacs, and breaks fewer core-assumptions. Is that agreeable to you? The thread on the
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by kick 6y ago
You read a little bit more and eventually get to cursor control. Wow, somehow they managed to pick the only possible thing less intuitive than 'hjkl'! The initial experience of vi is that you learn six keys to press to make it d
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by kick 6y ago
vi is less unintuitive, as I noted above. There's also much less, which is really helpful.
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by kick 6y ago
I pointed out that these would see a great deal of uproar were they to be changed; I'm aware.
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by kick 6y ago
I think a large part of the issue is the default keybindings (the GUI is also bad, but I think it's bad in a way that's not going to be impossible to fix without screaming from people who like what's already there). It's
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by kick 6y ago
It can be used in proprietary software. You shouldn't, because that's unethical, but the MPL isn't a strong copyleft. And even with strong copylefts, there are only three that I can think of that apply to software that won&
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by kick 6y ago
Science is never unfair, but statistics and psychology as fields often misrepresent science for personal gain. The article is arguing that it's a useless (or harmful) metric for what most people use it for, which isn't science-den

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