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The Eternal Mainframe (2013)(winestockwebdesign.com)
55 points by winestock 9y ago|12 comments
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by winestock 9y ago
There's an entire subdivision in Sterling Heights with several Tolkienesque road names. https://www.crossing.us/intersections/lorien/elrond
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by winestock 9y ago
Ann Arbor, Michigan (the location of the main University of Michigan campus) has a Church Street and a State Street, but they do not intersect. I read a joke that went: In Ann Arbor, separation of Church and State is about three blocks.
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by winestock 9y ago
While we're on the topic of reinterpreting The Lord of the Rings, someone speculated (based only on the texts of Tolkien, themselves) that Tom Bombadil was a sinister character. The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil Original Post: http:
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by winestock 9y ago
You don't get too old to be relevant. You get too old to be cheap.
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by winestock 9y ago
All of this goes to show that the Unix-haters were right. The Tenex line of operating systems from DEC had built-in session management in the 1970s. Unix still doesn't have it. All non-trivial terminal handling was kept in user-space
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by winestock 9y ago
My take is that Clojure's community is distinct from that of other Lisp communities. Old school Lispers are the Jacobites of the Computer Age. Their warnings were ignored, so their nightmares came true; and the world has changed so mu
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by winestock 9y ago
Because then I'm reminded of all of the other things that have changed in the past five years. The essay needs a post-mortem, not a disclaimer. Again, it's one of those things that I'll do in my copious free time.
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by winestock 9y ago
I am the author of this essay and this is the umpteenth time that it has appeared in Hacker News. If you look it up using the Hacker News search function, it even invites readers to beat the dead horse one more time. I'm surprised tha
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This is a contest for robots that make cocktails(dnalounge.com)
1 points by winestock 9y ago|0 comments
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by winestock 9y ago
American Airlines raises the wages of its employees to the market rate. As a result, investors pull money out of the entire airline industry in anticipation of rising wages everywhere. Who says Wall Street can't take the long view?
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by winestock 9y ago
I remember feeling scandalized the first time that I saw a banner ad on the web. I also remember the epic flame wars on Usenet (sic transit gloria mundi) when Canter & Siegel made the first commercial spam campaign. At times, I have wo
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by winestock 9y ago
This is a duplicate. The other discussion links to a detailed walk-through of the code by the author. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160975
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by winestock 9y ago
This is such a cool hack. I love it. I want to make one, too. This guy is a true hacker. Now it's time to nitpick. It doesn't seem that there's any way to generate key-codes. Entering text is nice, of course, but that&#x2
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by winestock 9y ago
And here's a relevant explanation from drfuchs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076098 I quote it in full, here: OK, if you promise to stay off my lawn, I'll explain the history behind undump. Back in the 7
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by winestock 9y ago
In terms of cash flow, the California tech industry is a means of moving money from venture capitalists to San Francisco landlords. That's right, for all the talk of disruption, innovation, and progressive thinking, the broad outlines
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by winestock 9y ago
There's another distribution of Vim which also claims to be inspired by Spacemacs and is called SpaceVim (not space-vim as in this case). Homepage: http://spacevim.org/ Hacker News discussion: https://news.y
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by winestock 10y ago
Two points. First, income from rent (say, for real estate) isn't divorced from work. The landlord has to make some arrangements for the upkeep of the property. The renter, by virtue of being a renter, can't be responsible for ev
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by winestock 10y ago
Aside from embedded systems, mainframes are the natural state of computers. That is, over time, computers tend to converge on either embedded controllers for appliances, or big racks in back rooms doing big calculations. http://
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by winestock 10y ago
Check out this little gem from the article: “Education and work exist in two alternative worlds that don’t really connect,” Gomez said. “While in other nations, like the U.S., college education is designed to get you a job, that’s not the c
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by winestock 10y ago
From the article: "Pimentel’s client asked him for list of candidates trained in “Agile” project management techniques for helping companies boost their productivity by using more I.T. systems. The client was offering as much as 200,00
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by winestock 11y ago
Three years ago, I wrote a review of three programs that simulate a Compose key on Windows. I included some history behind that key, as well. https://windows.appstorm.net/roundups/utilities-roundups/add...
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by winestock 11y ago
When I wrote this essay, Clojure was beginning to show its chops. You're right, the success of Clojure has made Lisp armchair theorizing obsolete. I'm a little tired of the essay, but I keep it up because I still get e-mails pra
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by winestock 11y ago
For now, yes. My life has taken some unexpected detours, these past few years, so I have to focus on work rather than inspiration.
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by winestock 11y ago
I'm the author of this essay. This must be at least the third time that it has appeared on Hacker News. I'm starting to get sick of it, myself, but I keep it up because so many people like it (at the bottom of the page, you can
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by winestock 11y ago
If this works on CEOs, then it would work on, say, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, or the heads of other central banks. Predictions gleaned from that data should be much more lucrative. With higher stakes come greater incentives for c
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by winestock 11y ago
How does this compare to the clustering capabilities of VMS? If I remember correctly, a VMS cluster can make several physical computer behave like one logical computer with multiple CPUs and disk packs.
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by winestock 11y ago
Here are some reasons why people believe those things. First off, in the context of the Vietnam War, VC stands for Viet Cong. I think that you mean North Vietnam, instead, because the Viet Cong were spent as a fighting force after the Tet
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by winestock 11y ago
>What ever happened to the Unix principle of doing one thing and doing it well? Rob Pike has the answer for you. http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pi... A Slashdot user n
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by winestock 11y ago
While writing a reply to you, my comment went to five paragraphs before I realized that there was no end in sight. I'll keep it short. Any "comeback" of Aristotelian logic is slow in coming. What I see happening is that mod

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