SimHacker

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by SimHacker 13y ago
Then you end up with "abstraction layer" like autoconf, and the "cure" is MUCH worse than the disease.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Making the clipboard and drag-and-drop work between any two X11 programs running on the same server is a hell of a lot of work, and many times simply impossible. So why are your goals for sandboxing so impossibly high?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Passive voice is also a bland, meek way to avoid using gendered pronouns. I much prefer using an active verb if I can think of one, and singular them. I have a question for you: how can you be actively evasive -- care to demonstrate by not
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by SimHacker 13y ago
At least you didn't try to do that in bash! ;) One suggestion though: If there are no command line parameters, then read a line from stdin, so you don't have to play the game of trying to properly escape all of your punctuation in
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by SimHacker 13y ago
This is a wonderful idea and an upstanding social service, in the same vein of giving heroin addicts access to free clean needles, pure heroin, and a safe place to shoot up. There is no perfect solution -- in the ideal world, everyone would
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Looks like the rest of the screed is just copypasta, since in that part Walmart is spelled right. (Pardon my weasely use of the passive voice to avoid specifying the subject to the verb "to spell").
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I have a friend who worked down the hall from Bezos for five years after Amazon was founded. If there is anything in that book that states or implies that Bezos in an insane power hungry tyrant, then it's spot-on accurate. That creepy
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Their Doucheglasses for example.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I know that FedEx (and probably USP) are both very interested in flying big unmanned autonomous vehicles (cargo planes) between airports.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
His views may be extreme, but they are extremely well thought out, well justified, and well argued (as long as you don't count user-friendly presentation and being nice to people as necessary requirements for arguing well). He's n
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I just uploaded a scan of the Copyleft (L) sticker that I mailed to RMS, which inspired him to use the term for free software. And I wrote up the story behind it: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/copyleft/
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by SimHacker 13y ago
What's wrong with fsck'ing servers?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I recently found myself needing to use "with", and hating myself for it. Does anyone know a better way to do this in JavaScript? // Take an array of context dictionaries, and return a
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by SimHacker 13y ago
What breaks my heart when someone claims that JavaScript was inspired by Self, is how Self was all about the wonders of multiple inheritance and dynamically mutable parent slots. JavaScript totally missed the boat on that one, with only one
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I get it that your stack is 5 KVMs -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch -- but what does "P" stand for? Are you a 5 KVM Person? Wow, impressive! Multitask much? ;)
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by SimHacker 13y ago
YOU EVIL SOFTWARE HOARDER!!!! Ha ha, just joking. ;) I worked for UniPress too, on Emacs. There was a certain professional animosity between Stallman and UniPress. Stallman had a justifiable axe to grind against UniPress, which he expressed
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Drone assassinations and massive surveillance are currently legal. This means that some of the people involved in assassinating and spying are vicious political and military leaders. Why or why not would you start a company that provided se
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Please don't use RMS and ESR in the same sentence. That's as bad as using Free Software and Open Source in the same sentence. ESR coined to term Open Source to attack RMS's definition of Free Software, and they are mortal ene
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by SimHacker 13y ago
It was because they forgot to put an "e" between the "l" and the "r". For some strange reason, a lot of companies like spellr.com make that exact same mistake, and it always leads to failure.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
And only issue 140 shares.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Like enabling ReiserFS??!
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Funny how Adobe used to be one of the major promotors and implementors of SVG (remember the Adobe SVG plug-in?) because it was their answer to Flash, and then immediately after they bought Macromedia, SVG instantly became the red-headed bas
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I'll give you some more hints: His company came out with a "secure" voice encryption product, and then a previously unknown anonymous hacker reviewed the product and its competitors, and wrote a suspiciously positive review o
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Would you trust a computer security company who didn't hash the passwords of their users on their web site, and instead stored the plain text passwords encrypted in their database, with the keys to decrypt them on their server, because
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by SimHacker 13y ago
OpenLaszlo has had this for years. It's a great idea that works well, but it's not original. The OpenLaszlo implementation animates four shadowed corner chevrons that interpolate between the corners of the current widget to the co
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by SimHacker 13y ago
"For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)" -Rasmus Lerdorf
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Maybe Chip's colleague Doug should write a book called: "Deconstruction: The Good Parts".
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Your goes to 0x1001.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
"Basically, the NSA asks companies to subtly change their products in undetectable ways: making the random number generator less random, leaking the key somehow, adding a common exponent to a public-key exchange protocol, and so on. If
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The internet is a series of round ducts, called tubes. Pneumatic tubes, I have heard.

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