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by mmccaff 6mo ago
American here, but I've always known these to be distinctly different. ANSI art uses the full 256 character set (and mostly the extended, block-like characters), and 16 colors, whereas ascii art doesn't have the extended character
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by mmccaff 4y ago
same
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by mmccaff 6y ago
This red "major outage" status has been reported on their dashboard since at least Dec 2, when an (unrelated to messenger) api bug was introduced that I've been waiting on a fix for. It has been surprisingly slow to get a fix
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by mmccaff 7y ago
Love it! Thanks for sharing. I remember when split-screen chat started becoming popular in the BBS scene. Being able to type at the same time as the other person was groundbreaking! :) Prior to that, if you wanted to interrupt the other per
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by mmccaff 7y ago
"Clever" "marketing" language like this is not unique to Laravel, most frameworks use language like it for tag-lines on their homepage. Pyramid, a framework for Python, even goes with the same "artisan" languag
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I've slowly started tracking tutorial articles like this, and also automated setting up an Ethereum/Solidity development environment and tooling in a VM, with Vagrant. This has been my starting point, but I haven't gone much
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Yes, there is Golem https://golem.network/
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Yes, Coinbase supports daily / weekly / every 2 weeks / monthly recurring buys. They have fees on every buy though.
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Interesting, this could be like an RBL for Ethereum addresses, instead of ip addresses of spammy mail servers. If the data were kept current and remained open for other systems to query, it seems like something that could be useful. There s
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I'm also curious what the approach was to being able to scrape sites in a way where the code is not coupled to a known, fixed markup structure using css selectors, xpath etc. What are your plans for the project? Will you be open sourci
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Beautiful design! Care to share any of the details on the tech? Are you using each of the exchange's individual APIs to calculate the weighted average? Did you use any library or framework to help with websockets, or to look at the blo
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Hah. Any idea why the system admin didn't want you to bubble sort anymore? Was it noticed to be taxing on some system's resources or too long-running of a process or something?
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled. Good times they were not, though. As a kid who didn't have bad intentions, dealing with the repercussions was a lot. There was no precedent (at my school,
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Consider if you will be fulfilled by selling a commodity. It's a race to the bottom and unprofitable users often demand the same level of attention and support as ones who pay more. Also think about hidden costs. The other company migh
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When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995(mmccaff.github.io)
131 points by mmccaff 9y ago|63 comments
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I use the -subdomain argument for this available in the Pro version and it works perfectly.
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Define "good" :) If you need to have a desktop app quickly (for multiple platforms, even) and it's the difference between launching something or not, then yes it is good. If memory footprint and performance is a critical part
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I agree about childhood days, but I don't know if that's entirely it. I think we now take technology for granted and apps/sites are less special of a thing than BBSs were. Users are fickle, so much is fad-based, and we move o
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Good commercial. Kind of chilling how visionary those ideas were at the time and that they did happen, though not exclusively brought to us by AT&T.
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Great story! I don't have a memory of caller id being around when I ran my BBS, or maybe I just didn't have it.
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Someone local to me had launched a pay-for-membership based MajorBBS that had something like 16 phone lines in. MajorBBS was the only thing I had seen that could support so many users at once. This was around the time I had stopped running
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Thanks for those recommendations, I didn't know about r/bbs and Enigma looks like an interesting project. I just starred it on Github and will definitely check it out!
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by mmccaff 9y ago
About missing those days - I still find joy in doing a lot of the same things around software, and although I did sell Dementia for $50/copy, it was a passion project and not a job. If I was retired and didn't need to work, I&#x27
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Yes, it was Midnight Sun and my BBS was called The Night Light. You were long distance in 609, so we might not have ever met. My only memory of the 609 area code was of a good Pascal developer named Ffejtable? (question mark included in the
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by mmccaff 9y ago
That is amazing to hear! Dementia's beta tester was in Modesto and he distributed the demo version (limited to 5 users) around CA.
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by mmccaff 9y ago
It was towards the end of middle school and through high school. So, my early to mid teens. I had never worked on a larger project before that. It was great to have one single large project to work on, and to keep adding features to. I had
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I'm not even sure that I used that new user questionnaire myself. It was a feature of the software, for SysOps who ran warez boards. I actually had a licensed copy of OS/2. My dad taught computer science at a small college and was
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I loved collecting BBS Software at the time to look at what other people were doing. Pretty much everything was either a Forum (Pascal) or WWIV (C) hack.
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Amazing that you got it back up and running! I would love to see some of the old messages on the public message boards of my BBS from those days. I had a tape drive as well,and I did back things up at the time, but even those backups are go
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Yes, and seeing LD boards outside of the usual ones in your local calling area was an exotic treat. Every second was precious. :)

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