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by f2f 6y ago
thanks. now i have nightmares.
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by f2f 6y ago
not only contributing! https://github.com/bob-beck/foundation-web/commit/a005fbc9e4...
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by f2f 7y ago
what are you talking about? we all got rich from all that Klein Money in 2008. still reverberating in the economy as we collectively decided not to buy booze and steak and instead invested them all /s
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by f2f 7y ago
Robert Griesemer, from the Thompson/Pike/Griesemer triumvirate that created Go, did his PhD under Wirth.
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by f2f 7y ago
the article mentions plan9 but says that it left a lot to be desired due to unstructured text input/output interface. i want to note that Inferno, the other OS that came from Bell-Labs in the 90s did have a typed shell called alphabet:
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by f2f 7y ago
the locations are identical to the ones users submitted for ingress, the previous game niantic did. for that you didn't need much vetting and because the popularity was low nobody cared so much. most likely some servicemen (servicepers
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by f2f 7y ago
"дядо мраз" in bulgaria. we also celebrated xmas with a quiet family vegetarian dinner, not having such a massive clampdown on religion, and "mraz" delivered presents on new year's. after 1989 things came back to no
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by f2f 7y ago
another day, another person on the interwebs attacking what is clearly a suggestion (with a supporting narrative) thinking it's presented as gospel. the typesetting in the pdf is clearly superb to my tastes. there are many ways to pres
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by f2f 7y ago
One suggestion: go with the PDF and not the web page. Grab a comfy recliner and just tune out for a while. The difference between the layouts of the magazine article and the webpage are atrocious. Shows you what we've lost in this mode
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by f2f 7y ago
oh, you mean since Roswell? ok.
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by f2f 7y ago
Currently #1 in "Best Sellers in Computing Industry History" on amazon, which is somewhat of a weird category :)
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan(cs.princeton.edu)
502 points by f2f 7y ago|139 comments
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by f2f 7y ago
the article mentions hexafluoride. but LANL did (and probably still does) hydrazine. source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2690378 (used to intern, and subsequently work there, although not as a chemist, of cours
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by f2f 7y ago
There was this amazing article in 2010 about "chemical compounds i will not work with". Tetrafluorohydrazine was one of them: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
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by f2f 7y ago
wouldn't that be fun?
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by f2f 7y ago
you're going to love Peter Watts' "The Things": http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ it's 1982's "the thing", from the perspective of the, well, thing :)
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by f2f 7y ago
yes. fips compliance says "use what we tell you to use. want government contracts? be fips compliant." it's a source of a lot of online discussion as the compliant algorithms aren't the best available. here's to bur
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by f2f 7y ago
anything that is FIPS compliant will use one of the mandated DRBGs, there are two others besides CTR_DRBG. BoringSSL implements CTR_DRBG with AES for example: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/fed35d32
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by f2f 7y ago
> What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new? Hehe, there's another name for what you're describing: baader-
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by f2f 7y ago
a bit less: $ cat > t.go package main func main() {} $ go build t.go $ ls -l t -rwxr-xr-x 1 f2f staff 1101432 24 Jul 23:19 t
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Surviving Software Dependencies(queue.acm.org)
1 points by f2f 7y ago|0 comments
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by f2f 7y ago
I'm a fan of old UNIX papers, i remember his name associated with Multics mostly. "Introduction and overview of the Multics system", F. J. Corbató, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and V. A. Vyssotsky Bell Telephone Lab
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by f2f 7y ago
i concur with your assessment. i'm sure cloudflare will be cautious and not rush with deployment after the switch. lesson learned?
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by f2f 7y ago
RE2 is bullet proof. It is the defacto re engine used by anyone looking to deploy regexes to the wild (used in the now defunct google code search, for example). It has a track record. Russ Cox, its author, was affiliated with Ken Thompson f
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by f2f 7y ago
Russ Cox also wrote RE2: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
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by f2f 7y ago
a good set of problems for interviewing programmers who list C as a top-3 language on their resumes.
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by f2f 7y ago
adding australian aborigines, who some consider to be the oldest human civilization, dna-wise https://www.history.com/news/dna-study-finds-aboriginal-aust...
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by f2f 7y ago
now we know why :)
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by f2f 7y ago
reddit 10 years ago would've been all over this. Q: "what time does the narwhal bacon?" A: "when the belugas are near!"
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Frankenstein Campaign: Cobbling Together Open Source Tech for Targeted Attacks(blog.talosintelligence.com)
2 points by f2f 7y ago|0 comments

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