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by reeses 13y ago
Pink and then Taligent definitely caused Apple to lose traction, but Copland put them in a serious skid that forced them to choose between Be and NeXT. While Apple saved NeXT, it was a near thing for both companies. Without the 'loan' Jobs
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by reeses 13y ago
BeOS had every geek salivating madly with the BeBox. Two processors, man! And it could play two mpegs at the same time! It was also "unixy" enough without having all the Unix baggage.
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by reeses 13y ago
My two favorite days with my 030 cube were similar to those with my boat. The day I bought it and the day I traded it for a 3/80. The cube, that is. I traded the boat for cash. :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
The entry models were always dogs regarding storage. The first cubes had those horrid MO drives and nothing else and the first stations had 105MB(?) drives that couldn't hold a full OS installation. No Shakespeare for you!
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by reeses 13y ago
They picked the wrong horse (680x0) at the wrong time (late 80s/early 90s) in a market that no longer exists, that niche between high end personal computers and low end workstations. This was about the time both MIPS and SPARC were finding
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by reeses 13y ago
Why would you be on the plane? This is getting it through security. Get enough of them through security and one can eliminate security. What happens next is no longer constrained by "what one can get through security." But to answer your q
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by reeses 13y ago
It's a sampler site. The gratuitous emphasis is intentional. What you take away from it is what is important. What would you improve in your design if you were able to add the perception of motion? How would engaging that human capacity
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by reeses 13y ago
In that situation, a simple zip gun would probably meet your needs and be easier to conceal, carry, and assemble, than something with so many pieces. "What, my big cigar holder, little cigar holder, tie tack, and rubber band around these le
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by reeses 13y ago
If you have to do stupid tricks such as concatenate statements with ; and create long lines, it's not a useful trick. In general, reading even the original code, the author doesn't understand Ruby or OO in general. A number of the items wo
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by reeses 13y ago
I feel like an old person when I think it's a sign of the apocalypse when employees are playing WoW, surfing (do people even use that anymore?) non-work-related sites, and texting/tweeting/whatever on their mobiles AND missing dates. I also
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by reeses 13y ago
The security angle is a bit of a canard, though. Most compromises involve compromising running applications, not OS-level filesystem exploits. This would improve security and reduce the potential attack surface if this were used for epheme
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by reeses 13y ago
The claim about PCI compliance is false. The requirements for DSS refer to "data at rest", which this absolutely is. You might squeak past your internal auditor or a really busy/lazy/cheap external auditor, but it's not going to prevent y
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by reeses 13y ago
Think of threads as state machines. At the OS level, you have to track a lot more, because you have to service any process that can create a thread. Within your constrained environment, your 'thread' can be something as simple as a small
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by reeses 13y ago
Rule 34 existed for emacs well before it did for pr0n. Rudel ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel ) is one example of collaborative editing in emacs.
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by reeses 13y ago
He can ship it to you as an mp3.
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by reeses 13y ago
When something a company does seems insane, look for other motivations. Did they get long-term preferential pricing from their aerospace partners for sharing the R&D risk and giving the project a high profile?
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by reeses 13y ago
You can make transistors with some...hazardous components, but you may want to start with relays or tubes and resistors (which could, theoretically, just be varying lengths/guages of wire) and build NAND gates. It would be big, hot, noisy,
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by reeses 13y ago
Arduino kits are great hits with the 8-15 year olds in the family. They can play with the sample code and tweak it and see something happen "in the real world", whether it's a flashing LED or "upgrading" their Lego to torment the cat. It's
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by reeses 13y ago
UniData/UniVerse were acquired by IBM and then spun off to form Rocket Software. As I recall (this could be total folklore) the product team wasn't getting the love from IBM and managed to convince IBM to sell off the BU. Rocket and IBM ha
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by reeses 13y ago
Yeah, it really helps with maintaining flow while also showing you things you never knew about. OK, sometimes the last part really screws up flow when you see dwim-finish-my-work in the completions list.
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by reeses 13y ago
Holy crap. I'm the annoying chubby suit bringing in all the Java, Rails, and ecommerce people. Small world.
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by reeses 13y ago
Hypocrisy is not inherently bad. Hypocrisy is the acknowledgement of the importance or relevance of a value without the discipline or will to act according to that value. That does not invalidate the value.
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by reeses 13y ago
That's not precisely correct. In the old days, we typed in our favorite bands/books/music. The attempted canonicalization created some amusing interpretations of song as band, book as author, band as book, etc. It has also made it excepti
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by reeses 13y ago
It's just debt arbitrage. The problem is that they were not sufficiently sophisticated (i.e., they were ignorant about how the game was rigged, the house was built on an old cemetery, or that they were walking through the part of town with
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by reeses 13y ago
You have a great opportunity to start a GAE-compatible service provider! I imagine a decent percentage of people would migrate just for insurance. (Yes, I suspect this would be the new biggest mistake of your professional career. :-))
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by reeses 13y ago
You still have to deal with the storage fabric.
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by reeses 13y ago
Go to bed!
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by reeses 13y ago
The fruit-calculus? :-) Think about what your laptop is doing that we would have had no hope of doing with desktop Linux just a few years ago (if ever, depending on the hardware). Sharing access to video capture and audio hardware between
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by reeses 13y ago
kill -9 Word Need I say more? :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
It's not quite as easy, because if you're using, say, Intel graphics, you get maybe two clock signals, so you'd likely have to use your own. (Although you said AMD and discrete mobile GPUs :-)) In addition, the laptops that use eDP (Chrome

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