pronoiac

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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   There's a Wired article (April 1994, their fifth issue) with more background and some timelines: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/
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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   I like this! I'd love it if Github rendered Mermaid diagrams in their Markdown.
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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   There's a par2 "fork" under active development - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline The fork compiled for me this week, when the official 0.3 version on Sourceforge wouldn't. I vaguely remember
4. 454.▲
   by pronoiac 9y ago

   It's in the (unwieldy) name? Have you considered changing the name to, say, Snippet Editor?
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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   I recently stumbled on an announcement for Graal and Truffle in my bookmarks: https://blog.plan99.net/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69 discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13343845 The idea there: &
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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   Balint is great! He's presented at Dorkbot-SF a couple of times: * about the ISEE-3 space probe reboot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTljlMH-0oM * visualizing flights in airspace: http://youtu.be/a62
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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   Cthugha pre-dated WinAmp visualizers by a couple of years, as it could take sound input from microphones and CDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthugha_(software) (This is a minor nitpick about the background, not the
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   by pronoiac 9y ago

   I saw this on Devops Weekly. I started reading out of curiosity because I skipped SRECon this year, but midway through the day 2 blog entry I thought this should be shared. Day 2: https://noidea.dog/blog/srecon-americas
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   Conference Report: SRECon Americas Day 1(noidea.dog)

   1 points by pronoiac 9y ago|1 comments
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Heh! My first "PDA" was the Hipster PDA, a stack of index cards and a binder clip: http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-... I'm prioritizing my personal to-do lists with
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    You should explore this! But if you'd like spoilers or a guide: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1975
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    git-annex might have some interesting thoughts about this: https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    I'm not speaking from experience, but git-annex comes to mind: https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    I'm getting a redirect loop. Here's a mirror from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405160113/https://krebsonse...
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Also performance: I'm surprised the Twitter mobile interface is so laggy on an iPad Pro.
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    The Internet Archive preserved the blog images: https://web.archive.org/web/20110210072637/http://introversi...
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    "Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk. It offers a unique developing experience in constant interaction with live objects. ... When programming in Pharo, you are immersed in a world of live
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    The qualifying round starts this Friday at 4pm Pacific time, and registration is still open.
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    Google Code Jam 2018(codejam.withgoogle.com)

    2 points by pronoiac 9y ago|1 comments
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Previously discussed here in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 The top comment is from an ex-employee, with great background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159 Reading about node
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    See also, gti: http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Ooh, this is good. Part of it's covered under the name of "blameless post-mortems," but I don't remember searching for similar breakage, which is a great idea.
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Ugh, so close... I've been working on translating a scanned PDF [1] back to Markdown, and I've stumbled on some issues: * we're kinda targeting Github Flavored Markdown, but there's also an online version which uses Do
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    !!! those ... those semicolons should be &&
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    It was for people who decide whether to read the article based on the comments.
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    If you're unaware, this is the origin story for the EFF.
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    If the Björk video, All is Full of Love, on http://jsmpeg.com site looks sorta secondhand familiar, it was cited as a large influence on the makers of the Westworld title sequence: http://www.artofthetitle.com/ti
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    Westworld (2016) – Art of the Title(artofthetitle.com)

    3 points by pronoiac 9y ago|0 comments
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Building an MPEG decoder, video and audio, in JavaScript, over years? Sure! Using JavaScript build tools? Lol nope!
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    by pronoiac 9y ago

    Huh, I'd thought Lambda covered smaller components than those asked. TIL.