winestock

16 ms·

91.
by winestock 14y ago
I remember lurking on Slashdot during the 1990s. X-Windows partisans did not cease to extol its supposed strengths over Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh. They said that the separation of mechanism and policy would make inevitable any nu
92.
Not all programmers are alike (a rant on Clojure).(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
92 points by winestock 14y ago|84 comments
93.
by winestock 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with being introverted. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have costs.
94.
by winestock 14y ago
I was at the Apps for Detroit meetup on June 28, this year. I'm a loner, so my overriding instinct was to be a wall flower. I overcame that by giving myself a task. I tried to memorize the names of everyone in the room. I went to each pe
95.
by winestock 14y ago
Re-frame your situation. Don't think of it as controlling or fighting your urges. Think of it as a sign that you should be doing something else. St. Augustine of Hippo said that we, being physical creatures, need some amount of pleasure
96.
by winestock 14y ago
Xah Lee's ErgoEmacs fork of GNU Emacs is a memory hog. On my machine, the EmacsW32 program uses 23,032 K of working set with three text buffers open. With the same buffers open, ErgoEmacs uses more than 103,000 K. The most significant di
97.
by winestock 14y ago
Quote:"Now thirty five years later, Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk on the Moon." That page was last updated in December of 2007, so add another four years. How many people in this forum can truthfully say this sentence: "Man
98.
by winestock 14y ago
I hope that this thread doesn't get derailed into nit-picking. The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century. The Golden Ass is a prose work which Apuleius wrote in the second century. Different authorities will have differen
99.
by winestock 14y ago
I assume that the "hidden meaning" was supposed to be a moral for the edification of the children ( Think of the children! <sob>). The idea that all stories must have a moral in order to be legitimate is modern. Conventional wisdo
100.
by winestock 14y ago
The page layout is broken for me, as well. There is no white space surrounding the tan comment area. Using Firefox 12.0.
101.
by winestock 14y ago
Jamie Zawinski made a related hack called Jack. http://www.jwz.org/hacks/jack.c Instead of code, mashing the keys produces "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
102.
by winestock 14y ago
He means the BeagleBone. It's an ARM-based single-board computer that fits in a mint tin. http://beagleboard.org/bone
103.
by winestock 14y ago
Not only are there 4-kilobyte demos, there are also 256- byte demos. http://dang.posterous.com/256-byte-demos http://www.pouet.net/search.php?what=256+bytes&type=prod...
104.
by winestock 14y ago
Yes, he is.
105.
by winestock 14y ago
This is the reason why I down-voted you: You made a point-and-sputter non-reply that added noise and no signal. Mencius Moldbug is not the first person to make those claims. It used to be a staple of conservative Catholic observers of Lati
106.
by winestock 14y ago
That reminds me of the Linksys WRT54G. Some people predicted that it would disrupt ISPs because it was so hackable. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2004/pulpit_20040527_0004... The manufacturer responded by replacing the Linux firmwar
107.
by winestock 14y ago
For anyone else who is confused, this is not the same Chuck Moore who invented the Forth programming language. As the title states, this is the Chuck Moore of AMD.
108.
by winestock 15y ago
I'm surprised. I wrote this essay a year ago and it's still getting attention. I've received occasional upvotes for that post since I submitted it but I have no idea why it made it to the front page again.
109.
by winestock 15y ago
To make it perfect, insert a line saying: "Website by M. Bourbaki."
110.
by winestock 15y ago
No, it is not uncalled for. Yugoslavia was the greatest thing that ever happened to the reputation of the Hapsburg dynasty. When my father tried to escape from the East Bloc, he was arrested by Communist troops in Slovenia. The commander
111.
by winestock 15y ago
No doubt about it. Pumping megawatts into any box will bring up cooling issues. I read a quote from the director of operations or some such at Cray Research back in the mid-1990s: "Basically, I run a refrigerator company."
112.
by winestock 15y ago
An indication of how times have changed: Articles about supercomputers written in the 1990s expended extra effort focusing on refrigeration techniques used to keep the machine at an optimal temperature. The first few paragraphs of this ar
113.
by winestock 15y ago
This man is being downvoted unfairly. I've read Torvalds' post at the top of the page. I've also read the balance of opinion on this page. The majority view is that C++ really is a terrible language for writing a kernel. Fine, I accept
114.
by winestock 15y ago
Some time ago, a commenter on a blog called Advice Goddess wrote something apropos to what you've written: "Competition isn't always an impetus to improve. Sometimes it's just impetus to fuck harder."
115.
by winestock 15y ago
"Economists dismiss costs that aren't included in price. For them the cost that matters is the price paid by consumers." - Paul Craig Roberts, Which Is Worse: Regulation Or De-Regulation? Sadly, customers often act the same way as economist
116.
by winestock 15y ago
Upvote for "There's unions and then there's unions." I live in Michigan and have known people who personally attest to all of the negative stereotypes about the Teamsters and the UAW. On the other hand, Germany manages to have a world-cla
117.
by winestock 15y ago
Why is this guy being downvoted? If automation were so imminent, then why weren't the robots brought in five or ten years earlier? Why did business interests work so hard for China to get "most favored nation" trading status during the Cl
118.
by winestock 15y ago
Mike Daisey's book, 21 Dog Years, briefly discussed conditions at Amazon's warehouses even though cube farm hell was the focus of the book. I don't have the book, anymore, but, going from memory, Daisey's account matches those of the author
119.
by winestock 15y ago
21 Dog Years, by Mike Daisey, briefly discussed conditions at Amazon's warehouses even though the focus of the book was on cube farm hell. Daisey's descriptions match those of the author of this article. http://www.amazon.com/21-Dog-Years
120.
by winestock 15y ago
Compare this with Liskell (Haskell semantics with Lisp syntax): http://www.liskell.org/ With both Hasp and Liskell, one writes code that is indistinguishable from S-expressions. In fact, they are S-expressions. I don't doubt that Hask

More ›