skwiddor

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1. 31.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   modding me down doesn't make it false If you remember SCO made exactly the same threat, and though it didn't work out that way, it is still a legal recourse where the infringer is outside of jurisdiction but the customers aren't
2. 32.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   Use the one that Apple sent to Microsoft when they were suing for the look and feel of Windows being a rip of MacOS. oh
3. 33.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   you can also sue their customers
4. 34.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   NYT need a login for many pages, open them and you'll see the numbers go up
5. 35.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   My evil grocery store (Tesco) already sells packets of 5 and 3 so you have to buy too many or not enough. They offer price comparisons (a legal requirement) in 100g or 1kg (to make the expensive stuff look cheaper). I don't think for 1 seco
6. 36.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   > Statistician Herman Hollerith used punch cards to tabulate data from the 1890 U.S. census. The cards evolved into the mid-20th century’s ubiquitous IBM cards that were used in early computing to store data as well as program the way t
7. 37.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good, communism is good oh sorry, I turned on the propaganda machine
8. 38.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   This seems like a list of stuff I tell clients when they sit down with only the ideas of how the visitor will access the site. But 18 man months seems like an awfully long time, but I bet their framework has 10x more features than they use!
9. 39.▲
   by skwiddor 17y ago

   probably 96.5ksloc
10. 40.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    your point being?
11. 41.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Ah, NatWest Streamline how I miss thee. Where one learns that all those security questions you've been asked by retailers before turn to dust by the time it gets on the wire! We had a POTS Modem doing ours one dial-up per transaction. You b
12. 42.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    The use of strongly typed languages would resolve all those problems.
13. 43.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Get your own house in order http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
14. 44.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    And it's another example of a win not being necessarily what yo hoped for. Ok, Sony didn't get a Beta machine into every home as they had hoped, but they got at least one into every TV station.
15. 45.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    And what exactly is it, that technology changes social interaction?
16. 46.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    We're always saying to each other, HTML + CSS is wrong. We like PDF & PS & troff and plumbing on http://example.com/cod.pdf will open it in the pdf viewer. fmthtml turns web pages into plain text. But ignoring the majority of we
17. 47.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    We always worked on the idea that parent directories carry more weight, it takes longer for the crawler to go down than across and the PR was always higher for those first level directories. (I'm talking in the past tense because I don't do
18. 48.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    > Every modern PC or Mac has Flash Mine don't, and not through (my) choice. And neither do either of my phone handsets (Freerunner, HTC Dream). Flash is a pain in my arse.
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    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Plan 9 does have a userbase, albeit small it is >50 We have a GSoC entry http://gsoc.cat-v.org/ this year. Plan 9 is also used in some Lucent / Alcatel cell phone masts in RT mode. I know of three commercial companies with Plan 9 / In
20. 50.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ They got rid of the TTY, huzzah!
21. 51.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Delicious
22. 52.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Come on, it's just another vendor. Being tied to a vendor is a choice we've always made, the beauty of Unix is the abstraction. Present an attractive abstraction and developers will come, not only because of the strength of your provision
23. 53.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    The beams have crossed since http://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2009/03/04/0-9doom/
24. 54.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Bell Labs, that darn name gets everywhere, I wonder what happened to that place?
25. 55.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    Shell script keeps me happy, you've not lived until you've used join(1) in production. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/join Assembler is good especially on something clean like a microcontroller. I like the AVR instruction set. http://www.
26. 56.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    No also consider http://www.google.com/search?q=phpmyadmin+exploit
27. 57.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    > PostgreSQL has implemented for years transactions, foreign keys, subselects, unions, views, stored procedures, triggers, Unicode support, full joins and constraints on data. > MySQL does not yet implement full joins and constraint
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    by skwiddor 17y ago

    I've often wondered which websites might track all your keypresses and send them with the submission so they keep a record of your typing, and display only the final edit. Wouldn't be too hard to turn keypresses into ed commands.
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    by skwiddor 17y ago

    http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/awk/smtpd.awk is one I did in a couple of hours, and although it dealt with 1,000s of emails in its time, I wouldn't put a price ticket on it!
30. 60.▲
    by skwiddor 17y ago

    I use Acme and Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a text editing tool, I edit text. I don't need something to do the programming for me. Acme's ability to run commands by clicking on text is more productive than you're giving it credit for right now. W