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by winestock 13y ago
Mencius Moldbug is behind this. He will give a presentation on Urbit this Wednesday in San Francisco: http://personalclouds5.eventbrite.com/
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Urbit is a functional environment built from scratch.(urbit.org)
4 points by winestock 13y ago|1 comments
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by winestock 13y ago
Read the next sentence: This would be news to Georgetown University -- one of only two Catholic universities to make U.S. News & World Report's list of top 25 universities -- which just recognized its adjunct professors' unio
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The Eternal Mainframe (2013)(winestockwebdesign.com)
2 points by winestock 13y ago|0 comments
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by winestock 13y ago
When I read "Dell Optiplex GX270," my memory tickled and I looked it up. Just as I thought. I used to be a field tech for a service company around 2007 and 2008. I remember having to swap the motherboard for a bunch of those computers in
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by winestock 13y ago
>Older programmers are sometimes being enticed out of retirement to maintain legacy systems (this is rather hit or miss as there appears to still be some age discrimination here). Dear Lord. The one area where age discrimination should
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by winestock 13y ago
Scott Locklin had a weblog post giving background information on past attempts to use 3D printers to make guns. Note that this was published in August of last year. https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/bad-engineerin...
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by winestock 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Detroit Metro Area HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
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by winestock 13y ago
Albania was the first nation in the world to officially declare itself atheist, after World War II. Members of my family were there and they do not remember it as a happy time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism#Albania http://
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by winestock 13y ago
Nick Montfort's book, Racing the Beam ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam ), goes into more detail.
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The Eternal Mainframe(throwww.com)
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by winestock 14y ago
It's the way that I remember it. Memory is funny. I read that G. K. Chesterton would off-handedly quote lines which he attributed to Shakespeare even though they are nowhere found in Shakespeare, "yet they should have been."
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by winestock 14y ago
I forget which comedian made this joke: "I hate it when people excuse a bad picture saying that it was taken when they were younger. Every picture taken of you was taken when you were younger. 'Here's a picture of me when I was older.'
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by winestock 14y ago
So the GNU command line utilities do much more than their minimal counterparts on other Unix platforms and this was a reason for why they became so popular. Then this would be an argument against "Do one thing and do it well." This needs
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The Bitter Legacy of Mickey Mouse(theamericanconservative.com)
80 points by winestock 14y ago|42 comments
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Gravatar now requires a WordPress account to login.(en.gravatar.com)
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Manifest Destiny(westhunt.wordpress.com)
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by winestock 14y ago
Very succinct. If a company can afford to let a position go empty for six months because they "need someone who can hit the ground running," then they don't really need someone who can hit the ground running.
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by winestock 14y ago
This isn't really Hacker News-related, although the whole article is depressingly true.
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by winestock 14y ago
I did not downvote you, nor do I think that you should have been downvoted. Sure, perhaps plumbers and lawyers get unreasonable price requests as much as programmers. Sadly, getting panties in a wad over this — in one way or another — is
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by winestock 14y ago
Just because you're not in a cubicle doesn't mean that you've escaped the Dilbert comic strip. Now that the shutdown of Google Reader is in the news, about two weeks ago, someone posted an offer on Elance for a website with a few RSS feeds
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by winestock 14y ago
I hate it when a company weblog doesn't have a prominent link to the home site. Sure, I can edit the URL bar, but it's good to make things more convenient to the user. http://www.plivo.com/ UPDATE: As noted in the next comment, it's been
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by winestock 14y ago
You beat me to it. For those who don't know: http://tauday.com/
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by winestock 14y ago
Here is the archive for the Unix Hater's mailing list: http://www.mindspring.com/~blackhart/ Download it and, in the first half of the (long) archive, you will find the users raising holy hell at Eric S. Raymond for what he was doing to t
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by winestock 14y ago
Twenty-nine comments and no one has posted the site of the author of the original SkiFree? http://ski.ihoc.net/ SkiFree was originally written for VAX/VMS on VT100 terminals. Scroll down that page to see a small animated GIF showing wher
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by winestock 14y ago
It's almost a year old, but Scott Locklin's comments are still pertinent, especially since it discusses the AR-15 which the Washington Post article discusses. https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/bad-engineerin...
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78% of undergrads say astrology is scientific [pdf](meinnaturwissenschaftsblog.blogspot.com)
15 points by winestock 14y ago|6 comments
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Light Table updated to version 0.2.3(blog.jr0cket.co.uk)
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by winestock 14y ago
I'll spoil it for anyone who hasn't figured it out. It's in the page source. In the beginning of the page, after the Doctype string and the lines for older versions of Internet Explorer, there is an ASCII art image of the Obama "O" logo.
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by winestock 14y ago
I'm responding to my own post in order to answer already-posted objections as well as to flesh out some ideas. The X-Windows partisans -- particularly those trumpeting the use of Linux in the 1990s -- made predictions about which kind of gr

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