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by marksutherland 18y ago
What strikes me as odd is that it's all centralized at skittles.com . This sort of marketing obsoletes the need for a TLD that you try and entice your customers to visit, instead it allows you to engage with your customer where they are. Ye
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by marksutherland 18y ago
I'm surprised he didn't add Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". It and the essays in "The Mythical Man Month" should really be required reading for anyone working on large projects, imho. http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SoftwareEngineering/
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by marksutherland 18y ago
So, has anyone actually been able to find Roger Wallis' CV? Here are some papers of his that a friend found: http://unjobs.org/authors/roger-wallis
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Haklog: A prolog dialect, written in prolog.(github.com)
1 points by marksutherland 18y ago|0 comments
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Where's the engineer category? :)
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How many words do Eskimos actually have for snow?(tafkac.org)
1 points by marksutherland 18y ago|0 comments
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by marksutherland 18y ago
http://www.textism.com/favrd : Read Favrd for a few days and you should get the hang of it. If you need a book, you're doing it wrong.
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Since this is fast turning into a list of good mind-bending movies, I'm going to put a shout out for eXistenZ, as it always seems to be slightly overlooked. Also, most of Lynch's non-Dune stuff would fit in this category.
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by marksutherland 18y ago
I thought it was a surprisingly good interview until I got to that bit. The unnecessary 4 Freedoms rant should have tipped me off I suppose.
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Autossh - Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels(harding.motd.ca)
5 points by marksutherland 18y ago|0 comments
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by marksutherland 18y ago
autossh + key auth is probably what you want: http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ . Added to screen it's a very nice combination.
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by marksutherland 18y ago
I think strong identity is going to be how this sort of thing is eventually settled. Email addresses is fine, but there are plenty of sites which provide a means of getting a throw-away address. Maybe mimicking how banks and governments han
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by marksutherland 18y ago
It might discourage drive-by trolling, but it does nothing to stop the more determined griefer. If anything they'll see it as a challenge.
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by marksutherland 18y ago
kuro5hin.org did more or less exactly this and it pretty much killed the site. Growth reversed, and the trolls and spammers turned out to be willing to pay. Personally I'm in favour of enforcing strong identity so that folks reputations fol
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Sigh. Why submit this pointless troll of an article when the LWN article it cites has actual information, content and details?
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Compiz is dying?(lwn.net)
2 points by marksutherland 18y ago|0 comments