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by StephenFalken 8y ago
That made me remember part of an interview done to Dennis Ritchie back in 2000: When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
LinuxWorld.com: What is your advice to designers of new programming languages? Dennis Ritchie: At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn abo
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
That truly is a pressing challenge due to all these DNS related issues. It makes me remember a short paper from 1977 by Carl A. Sunshine [0] where he proposed a network architecture with no global unique addressing, no global routing, and n
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
An example of a BITNET Relay session [0]: /SIGNUP robert harper * Thank you for signing up, robert harper. * Now use the /SIGNON <nickname> command to * establish a nickname and to logon Relay. /SIGN ON rob
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
What I see is that no amount of monitoring of the more radicalized elements of society will alter the deep and profound civilizational changes that are taking place in Europe. This seems to be about the end of an era and the beginning of a
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of (state) violence will ever solve a (hard) math problem. -- Jacob Appelbaum
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
I always ask this to myself: If we haven't been able to make our human civilizations sustainable here on planet Earth (where we have the perfect conditions to do so), how will we ever create sustainable environments in much h
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How do I continue in my math studies knowing people like Terrence Tao exist?(reddit.com)
2 points by StephenFalken 11y ago|0 comments
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
I wonder if they will ever be able to ban steganography on ham radio. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
Another good example is Lynn Conway [1][2], that together with Carver Mead wrote "Introduction to VLSI System Design" bestseller that would catalyze the Mead & Conway revolution [3] in VLSI design in late 70's, early 80
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
There is an interesting graph on how the block chain size has progressed over the years since Jan 2009 [1]. [1] https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all&show...
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
Great point. The original Usenet comp.mail.pine newsgroup post [1] by Mark Crispin (father of the IMAP protocol): This statement is based upon a terrible misunderstand of Postel's robustness principle. I knew Jon Postel. He was
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
It's pretty impressive how LEGO has changed its destiny in the last 10 years, given this: [1] In 2003, The LEGO Group faced a budget deficit of 1.4 billion DKK (220 million USD at then current exchange rates; equal to EUR 175 mil
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Reboot of ReBoot officially coming to TV with 26 new episodes(cbc.ca)
11 points by StephenFalken 11y ago|0 comments
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. While accidents of history surely helped, it evidently satisfied a need for a system implementation language efficient enough to displace assembly language, yet sufficiently abstract an
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
Great point !
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
You raise a really interesting point about the relevance of Source Routing . Recently I read a small but significant paper by Carl A. Sunshine [1] (from the beginning of 1977) about Source Routing and some of its implications. This was w
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
For those wishing to try and submit the problems, there is an online judge containing the ACM-ICPC World Finals since 2012 till 2015 [1]. [1] https://icpc.kattis.com/problems
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
A bit of UDP history by its creator [1]: Actually, UDP was "un-designed" by me and others.By this I mean that UDP was the final expression of a process that today we would call "factoring" an overcomplex design
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by StephenFalken 11y ago
Thanks for that snapshot. Unfortunately it's missing a lot of the content that was available there. It's only around 1/3 of the full content.
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Dennis Ritchie official webpage deleted by Alcatel-Lucent(/Nokia)(cm.bell-labs.com)
31 points by StephenFalken 11y ago|8 comments
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
That makes me remember the now famous quote: The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology wit
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Some years before his death, Konrad Zuse wrote a book about his long and interesting life called "Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk", which was later translated to an English version titled as "The Computer - My Life".
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Some trivia from Wikipedia [0]: The movie Tron: Legacy, which revolves around a world inside a computer system, features a character named Zuse [1], presumably in honour of Konrad Zuse. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Giving expressive, meaningful, coherent and readable names to the entities used all the time in programming languages (variables, functions, procedures, classes, methods, etc) is an incredibly challenging task that in general doesn't s
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
You can also read the original USENET post on comp.os.research here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.research/fw2frykLjOI...
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
"You want it (the browser) to be a mini-operating system, and the people who did the browser mistook it as an application. They flunked Operating Systems 101." -- Alan Kay
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Back in 1994, this LEGO Technic set [1] impressed me beyond anything else related to toys until and after that time. [1] http://www.leg-technic.hu/images/sets/6/lego-8880-super-car....
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
There is a quite interesting book where the author (John Day) shares an inside view about the OSI committees back in the 70's and 80's, and its endless discussions: "Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals&
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
"The movie Tron: Legacy [1], which revolves around a world inside a computer system, features a character named Zuse [2], presumably in honour of Konrad Zuse." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse#Zus

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