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by mftb 4y ago
I read it, and all that quote illustrates is that the author doesn't know a great deal about NASA's development process. ScriptEase is not large, and purchasing it 17 years ago means that they had plenty of time to fully vet it in
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by mftb 4y ago
JS, particularly in the era discussed here, only came with a small number of standard objects. The Host was expected to provide a series of Host Objects. In a browser these might be things like Window, Document and XMLHttpRequest. Scanning
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by mftb 4y ago
I'm also a a long time vi user. I can't say why you hadn't heard about Eshell. I can say that Emacs has several such shell/terminal things most with different approaches. My own most recent experience was I did a weekend
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by mftb 4y ago
There was a time I hadn't thought about Max Headroom in years, now I feel like he's all over the place again.
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by mftb 4y ago
You can't ignore matters of degree. It does sound similar, but just by reducing the content chunk length to ~20 secs, they've dramatically improved the algorithmic manipulation and ad insertion (from their point of view), making i
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by mftb 4y ago
I'm sure they did thorough research on what "temperature" to set initially. They've probably already completed the research on the most effective way to turn up the "heat". Once you have a mechanism like that,
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by mftb 4y ago
This is confused. The Transparent Society is by David Brin[0]. Two of the founders of Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The confusion is understandable given the name collision. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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by mftb 4y ago
So weird, within the last hour I was wondering why I never see regular, old, lex and yacc around anymore, and then I came across this, which made realize it's probably because they generate C. Funny. I guess these output OCaml?
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by mftb 4y ago
The idea that we control how others judge us is largely an illusion.
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by mftb 4y ago
Battersea is the location for the start of one of my favorite books from childhood, The Borribles[0]. It has lived in my imagination all these years. Now if I ever get over there I guess I'll have something to go see. From what I heard
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by mftb 4y ago
Well that's interesting, because you and I see things exactly opposite. In the era I started, before this article was written, there were, in many cases, no customers. The users and the creators were frequently the same people. New tec
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by mftb 4y ago
You're right. What this article fails to anticipate is that, "Hacker's Radar", won't be what matters. It takes great pains to make clear that it's not about Java, but hacker radar and how that leads him to reje
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by mftb 4y ago
We apply a different standard here, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
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by mftb 4y ago
Yea, this is cool. I use watch every once in a while. Good find.
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by mftb 4y ago
Yea, I have to say, to me, this is cool. Glad to see this sort of history being preserved.
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by mftb 4y ago
It's just called webview/webview[0]. The fact is a little obscured now because it's been used from so many other languages, but Go/C/C++ were the original targets. [0] https://github.com/webview/
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by mftb 4y ago
This site brought back nice memories. I gave two WebTV's to family members, and both times it was a big hit. In both cases a much bigger hit than I had anticipated. I wasn't able to pin it down exactly, but both seemed to feel som
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by mftb 4y ago
Same. Have you looked at client vs server? I'm on FF on Linux.
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by mftb 4y ago
This is brilliant! It reminds me of the anecdote Steven Levy relates in Hackers about Steve Dompier of the Homebrew Computer Club writing a program for the Altair that created music through electrical interference[0]. Awesome! [0] https:&#x
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by mftb 4y ago
Nothing quite like AwesomeWM yet, but here's two I'm aware of that have some interesting features: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/wiki https://github.com/riverwm/river (I&#x27
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by mftb 4y ago
Cool, bookmarked, ty!
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by mftb 4y ago
Agreed mustard is terrible. We should get that cleaned up immediately as well.
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by mftb 4y ago
None of that is reason or justification for illegally dumping it in the ocean, specifically along the coast of one of the most populous cities in the country.
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by mftb 4y ago
That's totally understandable. I did not mean to imply that workstations have no security requirements, just different. I feel pretty much the same about the host OS on my workstation, but I also spin up lots of temporary environments
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by mftb 4y ago
The original research appears to have been climate related, but they drilled through 500 meters of ice to get to the "river" and there's no mention in the article of this area melting like that.
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by mftb 4y ago
Always glad to see this getting attention, I really enjoy computing history. There's a link to a video in the article, but it's part three of ten. Recently I came across this[0]. It's pretty much the whole thing in one video
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by mftb 4y ago
Agree. I have definitely dealt with that stuff at my work. My goal is to try and frame it in a way, that gets people discussing it productively.
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by mftb 4y ago
Indeed, agree. I'm on a rolling distro (Manjaro) and I'm pretty happy. I see a lot of discontent in Linux land around this conflict though, so I though I would try to lay it out. Example a lot of people don't like the practic
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by mftb 4y ago
It is the same old problem and what's interesting to me is that I never see it articulated very well. I suppose it's because people disagree about what the problem is. To me it's this, Linux and it's distribution mechani
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by mftb 4y ago
These one-liners aren't super-constructive, my own comment was hardly in-depth, so whatever... On any team or in a community your most likely to have a range of skill levels across members. A language can be many things, a powerful too

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