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by leoc 4y ago
You can see the FORTRAN texts on Bitsavers: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/1130/lang/
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by leoc 4y ago
The comedy bomb icon on the original Mac's crash screen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)#Mac_OS famously got old after a while.
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by leoc 4y ago
Guy Steele's keynote talk at Dan Friedman's 60th-birthday academic festival, "Dan Friedman--Cool Ideas", gives lots of the background: https://youtu.be/IHP7P_HlcBk?t=2198 . Apparently the format was orig
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by leoc 4y ago
It does looks as if the situation is a lot more complex than I thought I remembered. Apparently the uncertainties seem to affect GPLv2 code more?
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by leoc 4y ago
The arrival of third-party app stores will make it possible to run GPLed apps on non-jailbroken iPhones, right?
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by leoc 4y ago
It wasn't an obviously crazy argument, especially at the time. The problem is that, in the best case, Greenspun's Tenth Law catches you. Putting things in-band doesn't make them go away.
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by leoc 4y ago
What I recall from Erlang writings and videos is that, basically, Ericsson's C++ developers didn't want their cheese moved and successfully deployed the obvious (and not obviously unreasonable) arguments about how C++ was the indu
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by leoc 4y ago
Note also that that the expression should be read as "crash (modernisation program)", not as "(crash modernisation) program"
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by leoc 4y ago
Are you really a financial-industry veteran if you didn't tank at least one merchant bank when you had the opportunity? ;)
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by leoc 4y ago
IIUC we're generally talking about full base salary in the case of financial-industry "garden leave", though obviously missing out on the possibility of bonus payments could really sting for many in that business. And obvious
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by leoc 4y ago
I'm not an expert, but IIUC the financial industry tends to pay full "garden leave" for employees serving out their noncompete terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave , presumably partly for thi
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by leoc 4y ago
Edward Shishkin has kept plugging away at Reiser4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4 .
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by leoc 4y ago
Small-file performance was the main selling point of (v3) ReiserFS.
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by leoc 4y ago
A comic-zine about debugging, you say? https://multicians.org/thvv/threeq.html
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by leoc 4y ago
Ask the French about the sensitivities involved in 'bit'. Actually, they've already highlighted the issue, with typical maturity and sophistication: https://coq.inria.fr/ . (The name wasn't a coincidence
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by leoc 4y ago
Slightly related: there's someone (Robert Bancarli, project name "Baroquenoise" https://www.baroquenoise.com/ ) putting out Moogish classical covers in the style of Carlos. He just released a Bieber (no, the
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by leoc 4y ago
Here are the links to my own replies again, with all the broken links repaired: https://web.archive.org/web/20040728044342/http://www.st-and... https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111
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by leoc 4y ago
This dicussion crops up every so often, eg. at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141800 . Here I repost a composite of my old comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542595 https://n
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by leoc 4y ago
Concrete Mathematics is basically an expanded version of the mathematical content of Volume 1, apparently. Not that it’s a doddle either.
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by leoc 4y ago
And more prestigious to boot.
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by leoc 4y ago
That's definitely the main cause, but in the case of Clauser at least there's the added wrinkle that for the first few years his work wasn't very popular with other physicists. His PhD advisor was writing recommendation lette
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by leoc 4y ago
I can name a pro athlete from the 1100s and 1200s, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_P... ! Not disputing your point though.
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by leoc 4y ago
Some fun background on the history and politics involved: https://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0508/0508180.pdf . Clauser is apparently the guy who took most of the arrows in the back for advocating expe
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by leoc 4y ago
The 1982 Hobbit game and the Monkey Island series don't really have much in common beside both being graphical adventure games with a (broadly speaking) fantasy setting. The Hobbit has a command-line user interface with (some limit
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by leoc 4y ago
A nice blog history and review of the Melbourne House Hobbit https://www.filfre.net/2012/11/the-hobbit/ . An article about exhibiting it https://www.kinephanos.ca/2014/the-hobbit/
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by leoc 4y ago
Good Lord I wish more people understood which elements of RDBs are essential features of the logic they’re based on; which ones are results of the way the relational model screwed up the logic it was supposed to be based on (hello there, Cl
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by leoc 4y ago
Yes, it's certainly not impossible to display white backgrounds well on CRTs in general (consider upmarket late-'90s CRT monitors in particular, still overall decent displays by modern standards) but it wasn't to be taken for
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by leoc 4y ago
The time-honoured quick and dirty approximation to that is to add a single solenoid to the keyboard and have it actuate every time a key actuates: https://youtu.be/1qw6ebySet0?t=305
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by leoc 4y ago
If you want to try your luck with Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77anb2DJGk . Or you could head straight to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L7bge0w4Q or https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by leoc 4y ago
> The economic realities of the field just make it too risky to allow an exceptionally gifted individual to remain out in the open publishing research that could potentially destroy your business model. This seems a bit of a stretch, doe

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