Allan_Smithee | 7 years ago | on: 500 miles (2002)
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Allan_Smithee | 7 years ago | on: 500 miles (2002)
To clarify, I actually queried http://www.microsoft.com/19890604 and had it redirected to https://... by Microsoft's server. So the URL query was in plaintext.
Just, you know, so the undies come unbunched before people comment.
Allan_Smithee | 7 years ago | on: 500 miles (2002)
I just tried https://www.microsoft.com/19890604 from inside China (Wuhan, to be specific) on a naked (non-back-doored) connection. I got Microsoft's 404, not any of the GFW behaviour I've come to know and loathe.
I think I'll be calling bullshit on this.
Allan_Smithee | 7 years ago | on: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
> Claims that her husband did her work for her could put her in danger from the Chinese government? I doubt it.
And I'm sure you're ready to document your years and years of experience with the Chinese government.
And I'm also sure you're ready to document that it's a HUSBAND that Naomi Wu is concerned with.
But ... I won't be holding my breath.
(For reference: her story has already hit Weibo with people calling for her to be arrested. Thought I'd mention that.)
> She's a highly followed online persona...
Highly-followed on WESTERN (and BANNED IN CHINA!) social media you utter berk! That ALONE is grounds for her to be nervous of being noticed.
Allan_Smithee | 7 years ago | on: Who controls glibc?
I'm curious: is this really the hill Stallmanistas have chosen to die on? Really? A not very funny, not very helpful, and to anybody not living in the sphere of Batshitstania (a.k.a. the USA) absolutely incomprehensible joke? This is what you want to go to war over?
Talk of identity politics overriding common sense!
Allan_Smithee | 9 years ago | on: iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
Me. I don't even have an account on it.
Allan_Smithee | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
There's at least one language (Refal: there may be more!) based on Markov algorithms. Another language (XL: as far as I know this is the only one of its breed thus far) works at its core on parse tree substitution. Yet another (CHR) does a weird generalization of term re-writing to provide a toolkit for making constraint languages. (Yes, a language to make languages.)
There's a reason I've become a programming language whore.
Allan_Smithee | 10 years ago | on: I've Just Liberated My Modules
Uh... which part of "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO" is actually unclear here? Is there a word or phrase that you're not grasping?
"DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO" clearly includes not only taking over the IP but also RE-LICENSING IT under whatever terms you like. That's kind of what "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO". Do. What ever the fuck. You want to.
How is this unclear? I'm kind of baffled.
Allan_Smithee | 10 years ago | on: Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
In today's lesson, wodenokoto learned that real life is infinitely more complicated than San Francisco startups would have you believe.
Allan_Smithee | 10 years ago | on: GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'
Well, only game if you're ignorant and unimaginative...
Allan_Smithee | 11 years ago | on: XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
Mercury (1998).
Allan_Smithee | 11 years ago | on: Erlang syntax prettification proposal
There's only one response for this degree of idiocy: http://goo.gl/mUSwx
Allan_Smithee | 11 years ago | on: Why The Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang
Everybody thinks that the identifying characteristic of Erlang is the "Actor"(-like) model.
This is untrue.
This is also why all the "Actor"(-like) libraries grafted on to other programming languages that proudly proclaim themselves "Erlang-like" are wrong and make me laugh out loud when I run across them.
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
The guy who wrote Github is responsible for some of the worst coding atrocities in a major piece of F/OSS. (Evidence: the Linguist debacle.)
JS for Cats is, in comparison to Linguist, a work of towering intellect.
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
"Ignoring that every word in programming is in US English: color, gray, program."
The parochialism of the wannabe "hacker" (entreprenerd) here used to be cute.
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment
Trigger Warning: HN
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: GitHub's language detection is broken
Well, I expect that's why so much C++ is misrecognized. Not enough people write valid C++, in Github's narrow world view. :)
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: GitHub's language detection is broken
You mean like the other source code repository hosts do?
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: GitHub's language detection is broken
Unfortunately, until this core issue is fixed, users can't really submit further pull requests to fix the other issues which would correct the "inflation" we all know and hate.
Allan_Smithee | 12 years ago | on: GitHub's language detection is broken
"Troll" is like "terrorist" these days. It has absolutely no semantic content beyond "person I disagree with about something".
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https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=19890604&rsv_spt=1&rsv_iqid=0xfd2...
No blocking there and it's a Chinese search engine!