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by textmode 10y ago
radare2 is a much needed alternative to all the software that require Windows. Full-blown radare2 with all the third party libraries has grown too big for my low resource computers, but I still keep a copy of ired as my preferred hex edito
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by textmode 10y ago
"... the arrogance and self-indulgence of youth." s/youth/younger programmers/ How can they make work for themselves? 1. Do what's already been done, not even knowing it's already been done. 2. Declare &qu
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by textmode 10y ago
alankay1 says UI's have declined in usefulness. But aren't there hordes of UI programmers today, getting paid handsomely for their "work"? How to explain this?
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by textmode 10y ago
Q: Why do those programs exist? Lex and yacc originally come from Bell Labs. Why wouldn't they use what you recommend instead? And when I look at the credits for lex and yacc today I see some very capable programmers. Why do these p
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by textmode 10y ago
Can the "Fathers of the Internet" offer a financial incentive or even a stipend to nerds that want to work on these projects? I was reading a book a while ago on peer-to-peer technologies written some years ago and there was a cha
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by textmode 10y ago
Note I mentioned the web and DNS only as an example of the bootstrapping issue, not as a solution for how to overcome centralization. (And to illustrate how I work with the web's bootstrap requirements -- using root.zone file.) The ne
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by textmode 10y ago
This is true and IMO does not get enough discussion. It's a relatively easy problem to solve, but I'm not sure that hardcoding IP addresses into programs is the best solution for users who do not compile from source. Out of curios
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by textmode 10y ago
Looking at the USENIX entry at the bottom of that Wikipedia page, "Spike" states that it was Alternet (UUNet) that connected The World to the internet in 1990. Also in the Slashdot interview he admits in 1989 they still were not
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by textmode 10y ago
That was also the first commercial ISP (UUNet), correct me if wrong.
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by textmode 10y ago
I'll give you the names you want for free. But you have to change your DNS settings to point to my cache servers. Or follow my instructions how to set up your own root and cache and/or auth nameservers.
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by textmode 10y ago
"Don't blame the langue, blame the programmer." Would you mind repeating this the next time HN front page contains more stories and comments (hype?) about how C language is the cause for poor software quality?
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by textmode 10y ago
There's another two stories currently on the HN front page about IEX becoming the 13th stock exchange. IEX uses k.
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by textmode 10y ago
Because Google et al. want your phone number for certain commercial uses unbeknownst to you? Is it possible that personal information could be more valuable to these web companies than hex digits? Marketers cannot do much with a block of
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by textmode 10y ago
Is it true that HN runs on a single server, running FreeBSD?
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by textmode 10y ago
Taking another angle: What if the computer's owner wants to use it to access her computer remotely? Are there some instructions how to do this? Is it feasible? If not, then there seems little justification to have a relatively new fe
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by textmode 10y ago
fonts.google*.com is similar to the Facebook "Like" button. Google effort to inject themselves into websites that may have nothing to do with Google, read by users who may not even use Google. Users may be far from Google search e