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by tod222 12y ago
Yours is the first comment mentioning the TRS-80. Currently it's halfway down the page. I find this a bit surprising as the TRS-80 had a huge impact on the PC industry. It was the first PC that was easy to buy since Radio Shack stores
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by tod222 12y ago
You must be talking about The Games People Play[1]. Long ago I bought things there such as the D&D boxed set and the Chivalry & Sorcery[2] rules. Another purchase I made there was a Magic Cube, imported from Hungary before the world
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by tod222 12y ago
> in fact, this struck me as empathetic This really isn't empathy. Roger is not feeling his friend's pain—he's transferring his friend's situation to himself and feeling his own pain. He's crying in imagined self
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by tod222 12y ago
Given its high profile, including the linked article in the Boston Globe, this incident will likely be analyzed in the Accidents column of a forthcoming issue of Appalachia Journal. [1] I don't expect that the analysis will let this gr
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Windows is Not Coming : 'Game of Thrones' Author Writes with DOS(nbcnews.com)
1 points by tod222 12y ago|0 comments
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by tod222 12y ago
> by hardware people who have no clue about software. and > Short version: Hardware organizations don't get software. I concur with these two commenters. Going back to the 1970s, starting with DEC, it's been my observati
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by tod222 13y ago
Final paragraph: > When I heard about this draft I assumed that NIST had engaged in (1) an honest retrospective review of known security flaws in NIST standards and (2) an honest analysis of ways in which those flaws could have been avo
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by tod222 13y ago
Thank you. Nelson does a great job enumerating the limitations of PARC's vision and the capabilities absent from PARC's work. After being exposed to PARC's self-congratulatory self-promotion for decades, Nelson's history
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by tod222 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
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by tod222 13y ago
Yes, and the trucking industry stopped fighting freight rail years ago and now makes use of it. Trucks are more flexible, sure, but to get that flexibility they trade off operating efficiency. This is why many long haul trucking companies s
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by tod222 13y ago
> Hybrid turbine/electric propulsion has been used on trains for decades… I'd love to see a citation for this statement—it's far more accurate to say that turbine/electric propulsion has been tried for decades. Sinc
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by tod222 13y ago
Yes, Carmack's demo was a priceless endorsement that legitimized Oculus. An industry legend demoing something spearheaded by someone nobody had heard of. How do you think it was reported? E3 2012: John Carmack’s VR headset [1] Jo
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by tod222 13y ago
Cryptanalysis of Skein D.J. Bernstein and T. Lange Journal of Craptology [1], Volume 8, Nov 2011 [1] http://www.anagram.com/jcrap/
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Cryptanalysis of Skein(anagram.com)
1 points by tod222 13y ago|1 comments
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by tod222 13y ago
Except that Carmack and Oculus won't see a lot of that money. Oculus raised $91 million (2.4 of that from Kickstarter) [1] including a $75 million series B round last December. [2] It's the investors who will get a lot of Facebook
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by tod222 13y ago
> There's more, but I'm arguing with a person who believes that a question about stdin and stdout is a proper gateway for measuring skill toward any programming problem ever. Apparently you missed his second sentence: > Th
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by tod222 13y ago
You probably never use the command line. People like me who use pipelines on *nix [1] every day write these sorts of filters all the time. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_%28Unix%29#Pipelines_i...
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by tod222 13y ago
Title needs "[scribd]" removed now that link points to original source.
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by tod222 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I've been hoping djb would get around to releasing redo, but this is the next best thing.
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by tod222 13y ago
Absolutely. There's no reason a keyboard should be necessary to play. I'd much rather use a mouse.
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by tod222 13y ago
> Forrester Research, a technology research firm, said the losses could be as high as $180 billion, or 25 percent of industry revenue, based on the size of the cloud computing, web hosting and outsourcing markets and the worst case for
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by tod222 13y ago
> as opposed to somewhere else, like the wonderfully law-free nation of Somalia. Ahh yes, the false dichotomy. Structure your argument to exclude all but two options, one of which is chosen to be extremely unpalatable. Thanks for a tex
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by tod222 13y ago
Because it's a canard that diversity can only be achieved by compromising on the quality of applicants accepted. Competence knows no race, color, creed, gender, or nationality. It may be found in anyone. I'm greedy too, and want t
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by tod222 13y ago
> And we're working on something to improve the quality of Hacker News comments. Excellent. Can't wait to see what it is.
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by tod222 13y ago
> Followr can’t do some basic things, like…check if you’re already followed by a user it’s favoriting. Why should it need to do this? If it's so you can avoid "wasting" one of the bot's few favorites on someone alre
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by tod222 13y ago
A duopoly or oligopoly isn't much better. There's still a marked lack of choice for the customer, which results in lock-in and higher prices. The Hacker News readership includes many people capable of starting ISPs. Comcast's
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by tod222 13y ago
After reading this long piece about O'Hagan's experience trying to work with Assange on his autobiography it's easy to conclude that Assange is his own worst enemy. It's tragic how so much opportunity was squandered and
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by tod222 13y ago
From the article, Odyssey's Top500 page: http://www.top500.org/system/175596 It debuted in 61st place in 6/2008. By 11/2010 it had fallen to 434 and has since dropped entirely off the list. At 6 years ol
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by tod222 13y ago
From looking at the Gnome Developer page "Desktop files: putting your application in the desktop menus" [1], it seems that it wasn't designed to work correctly with more than one desktop installed. This isn't surprising
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by tod222 13y ago
That's now obsolete. With 13.10 gnome-session-fallback is a transitional package. The new package is gnome-session-flashback, so the command is now: apt-get install gnome-session-flashback

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