bcaulf

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by bcaulf 13y ago
Over his life, Jobs has had a greater impact. But at the time Apple was formed, Wozniak singlehandedly designed and engineered a machine that was simply peerless. The Apple ][ made every other system on the market look like a toy for years
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by bcaulf 13y ago
It's remarkable that this comment would have been seen as trolling a month ago and today it is perfectly realistic.
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by bcaulf 13y ago
nytimes.com with javascript off to avoid the wall
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by bcaulf 13y ago
I hope that the NSA revelations will be the biggest spur ever for use of effective crypto. It's the only effective response we have. The Administration and the Congress aren't going to restore privacy. We don't have a nationa
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by bcaulf 13y ago
the reason your house is insecure is because we can't protect it with math Exactly! If physical security were like crypto, we could all afford to have the security of a head of state. People who want high security rely on effective s
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by bcaulf 13y ago
Autocar.uk is an enthusiast news and review site. They are careful about their reviews and it means a lot that Sutcliffe is so excited after driving the Model S. He was a professional racer. Autocar have tremendous integrity and independenc
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by bcaulf 13y ago
I think Musk is in need of some good advice on PR strategy. He started public battles with Top Gear and the NY Times over inaccuracies. I think it's more than likely he was right in both cases--those are not the homes of highly objecti
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by bcaulf 13y ago
Let me correct myself. I came across Jim Grey's 1999 paper "Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering" where he states that this heuristic is from Gene Amdahl in about 1965: a balanced system has one bit of I/O per second for e
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by bcaulf 13y ago
White rum is the name for clear rum. I suppose in a beverage context white just means colorless.
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by bcaulf 13y ago
I also converted. Plus, much better for me than the amazon ecosystem, there is calibre with all its automatic creation of news source documents and format conversions that usually just work. I wish they would just make the actual readers mo
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by bcaulf 13y ago
Seymour Cray followed this balance of processor-memory-bandwidth to memory-bandwidth to storage in his designs.
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by bcaulf 13y ago
This document is a mess. The title "The History of Programming Languages" does not correspond at all to the content. No mention of machine language or assembly; no mention of functional or declarative style languages like Prolog, SQL, SetL;
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by bcaulf 14y ago
I see what you did there.
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by bcaulf 14y ago
"Encoding used to be an art form." It's gone downhill but there are still people keeping a high standard. YIFY is known for releasing high quality 720p h.264 Blu Ray movie rips that fit on one CD (700MB), and 1080p rips that are 1GB. Their
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by bcaulf 14y ago
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/cdu.html "You'd have to be a real idiot to skate to where the puck used to be"
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by bcaulf 15y ago
No, he is not anything like this letter in real life. He is happy to have wide ranging conversations without reference to his own history or accomplishments. I suppose that in the letter he was trying to establish credibility and rapport wi
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by bcaulf 15y ago
"You have fewer rights with ebooks than you do with real books." You may have fewer legal rights but you have more options and control, as long as the ebooks are pirated! Pirated books can be obtained anonymously, copied freely, and they ca
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by bcaulf 15y ago
Not if they are using Adblock Plus with Easylist.
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by bcaulf 15y ago
Wow, that is sad. My knowledge of literature and poetry is spotty at best but I certainly picked up on the reference without a moment's thought. The ability to make literary references in a few words is a basic aspect of literacy. I suppose
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by bcaulf 15y ago
Another approach is to use Privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/ and add these lines to user.action: { +hide-referrer{http://news.google.com/news/} } .wsj.com
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by bcaulf 15y ago
When I realized that a Kindle weighs less, is thinner and has identical readability to a book or newspaper, I switched. I can blow up the type size and read in less light than I need for a real book, without having a glowing backlight. They
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by bcaulf 15y ago
The breakthrough portable audio player, iPod, does lead users toward DRM content. But it is also perfectly compatible with copied content, user authored content, downloaded content, whatever. The breakthrough e-book, Kindle, is similar. If
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by bcaulf 15y ago
Of course you are right that it will be a leaky wall due to the nature of the Internet. But it will increase the cost and hassle and reduce bandwidth. And that is good enough to prop up publishing industry revenue.
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by bcaulf 15y ago
I'm pretty much in your corner--I think copyrights and patents have been extended and abused and need major reform. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment. It sounds like you are happy to sacrifice Hollywood movies. Fine. But there a
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by bcaulf 15y ago
I find it odd that you would think piracy was popularized 10 years ago. First off, commercially pirated publication has been popular ever since publication was invented. Pirate editions of books have been widely available for hundreds of ye
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by bcaulf 15y ago
That's exactly right. I am dumbfounded that they didn't protect everything.
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by bcaulf 15y ago
I've encountered this too. I attribute it to a lack of critical thinking skills. I think there's a fuzz between surveillance and codebreaking plus a simple lack of knowledge of how codes and codebreaking has changed so much due to use of co
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by bcaulf 15y ago
The beauty of digital photography is that you can take pictures all day at no cost and see your results instantly. So instead of running this program, get your friend with an SLR to go on an outing with you and let you do most of the shooti
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by bcaulf 15y ago
I see now after more reading that I was wrong and you are right. Franz Lisp was a new implementation that was compatible with Maclisp and Allegro Lisp was a later new implementation. I'm sorry to have posted bad information.
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by bcaulf 15y ago
It's a little disingenuous for Franz to claim any credit for Nichimen. Nichimen N-Graphics was the spinoff of the Symbolics S-Graphics system, written in ZetaLisp. Symbolics ceased new development and there were customers for the graphics s

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