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by spc476 9y ago
Nope. I have no ad blockers installed. I also checked the Amazon affiliate website and the new banner ads (at the size I wanted) no longer have the option I was used to.
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by spc476 9y ago
If it was a banner of products related to previous purchases, okay, I can see that. But the banner was just a generic "Shop at Amazon!" Lame.
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by spc476 9y ago
I used to to that with Amazon. About a decade ago, I added an Amazon banner, and the link included a search term. So I would add an appropriate search term (related to the top blog entry on the page, which is where the Amazon banner appea
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by spc476 9y ago
Up until a week ago, I had an Amazon banner on my blog. When I set it up (about a decade ago), you had the ability to specify a search term in the URL of the banner, and I used this. For each post, I would have a targeted search term to u
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by spc476 9y ago
Wow! My network daemon at work, written in Lua (which uses Lua coroutines for processing, which are similar enough to Go routines/channels for this comparison) has a supervision tree. It can log the unexpected death of Lua coroutines
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by spc476 9y ago
I'm running mutt, and right now it's only consuming 8.5MB (out of an image size of 12MB). That still feels large to me, but my first computer had only 16K of RAM (I've written larger emails) so I might still have a bias.
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by spc476 9y ago
Last year I made some minor changes to my blogging engine [1] to support gopher, so now my blog [2] is also available via gopher [3]. The source code to the gopher server is online [4]. [1] https://github.com/spc476/mo
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by spc476 9y ago
As for games, in the 80s, no one knew what worked or didn't work as far as computer games went, so everybody was pretty much throwing everything against the wall and seeing what stuck. And you ended up with some memorable games [1][2]
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by spc476 9y ago
That site reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote: “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
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by spc476 9y ago
It's legal in my country to mock religious figures like Jesus, Moses and Mohammad. In other countries it is illegal to do so. If I post an image portraying Jesus, Moses and Mohammad as lovers (admittedly it's in poor taste) to M
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by spc476 9y ago
It's interpreters all the way down. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15233188 ) Edit: Just adding that it helps to think of some interpreters as faster than others, and it may pay to translate code from one interp
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by spc476 9y ago
Back in the 80s, "Program in BASIC" didn't exist (well, maybe). You had "Program BASIC for the Atari 400/800" or "Learn BASIC for the Commodore-64". I even remember books to learn C for specific pla
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by spc476 9y ago
It depends upon the interpreter. I wrote a program for use at work in Lua. The entire program, plus Lua modules it requires, are bundled into a single executable. Nothing to install but it, and a configuration file.
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by spc476 9y ago
Godel's Incompleteness Theory states that within an axiomatic system, there are statements that are true that you can't prove true. You can only prove them true if you go up a level. In programming (assuming a "computer lang
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by spc476 9y ago
For some reason, unit tests vs. integration tests reminds me of this image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZX0O-tWQAAeaLi.jpg The unit tests past, but why bother with integration tests? I wrote a component at work. Sure
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by spc476 9y ago
I'm reading the manifesto, and for some reason, a story I once heard, possibly apocryphal, came floating up out of my memory: a person was using their PC when a coworker came up asking for a copy of a spreadsheet and handed the first
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by spc476 9y ago
Years ago, I was contacted by a person who was very upset I "published" his name in connection with a domain name. It was information I obtained from "whois". I also wonder how many people are unaware that many countie
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by spc476 9y ago
Daniel J. Bernstein did that for all of his projects (qmail, daemontools, etc) and I don't see him getting a ton of flack over doing that.
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by spc476 9y ago
Have you tried pricing train tickets? I have, and it's always more expensive than flying. Just now, I decided to price a ticket from Delray Beach, Florida (where the closest Amtrak station is to my house) to Deland, Florida (a dis
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by spc476 9y ago
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I did a lot of assembly language programming---6809, 68000, 8088 and MIPS, so it's not unfamiliar to me. I haven't really done any assembly language programming since ... eh ... 1995, so oka
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by spc476 9y ago
I found this as part of a user agent in logs for my webserver: https://disqus.com/humans.txt And going over my logs for the past year, I only found 6 requests for 'humans.txt' on my server.
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by spc476 9y ago
No, I forgot JWZ did that. Sigh.
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by spc476 9y ago
I'm resigned to the fact that any workflow I have will break with the next update. And if it's a web application, it will break with the next refresh (I'm looking at you, Google Maps!). It's the CADT model [1] writ l
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by spc476 9y ago
The point is there's a warning either way. Pack the structure, and you get warnings. Don't pack the structure, get warnings. To me, that's being needlessly pedantic.
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by spc476 9y ago
I found -Weverything seriously annoying. Declare a structure, and clang warns about padding bytes being added. Make it a packed structure, and clang warns about the lack of padding bytes. Useless! Okay, I can see the warning on packed s
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by spc476 9y ago
Also "horribly written code." I've been playing around with some code from 1993---the Viola web browser (one of the first graphical web browsers). Ooh boy was it fun when I ran it with "-pedantic -Wall -Wextra". H
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by spc476 9y ago
I have one project where I run with "-pedantic -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra". The one error that pops up is: warning: ISO C forbids assignment between function pointer and ‘void *’ [-pedantic] But POSIX requires that behavior
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by spc476 9y ago
Back in the 80s, C was a high level language on your typical home computer. I recall in the 90s it was common to argue about the trade offs between writing an application in C vs. Assembly. Today, it's Java (Rust or Go) vs C. I&#x2
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by spc476 9y ago
So, how do you distribute the program you've just written? That's the issue I have with image based languages.
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by spc476 9y ago
Some of us were. I graduated high school back in the 80s, so it was before the Internet was public, and way before things like Google existed. I wanted to be a film maker, or a writer, or a cartoonist, but I knew back then that it was a

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