ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Anyone know what FF stands for?
Also in some corners it means "for f*ck's sake", cut down for effing effect. Which echoes my thoughts after the first para of the post.
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ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Anyone know what FF stands for?
Obvious troll post, innit?
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: E-Mail without a cellphone?
SDF.org doesn't need a phone number.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change
Picked: Because UTC is hardly 'U', and imposes a rampant heliocentricitism. If anything, it can purport to be at most GTC, which would be good enough for a while longer I suppose.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change
To be precise: the European Union doesn't welcome you, it welcomes your petition to be welcomed by it. Lest we fail to avoid making things needlessly forth-right.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files [pdf]
When I read the source and started on the comments, I thought: won't be long until someone drops in TCC. But yes, TCC does limit you in this regard a bit.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
Presumably because people were buying once every four years?
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
The requirements were practically negligible for its era, and the leap it represented. I have installed and used it at length on 386 with 8MB on a 210MB disk. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't pretty bad either. Perhaps (on appropriate hardware) it wasn't as solid as NT 4, but before XP (which is 2000 which is NT, even if simplifying it) there weren't many "polished enough" _and_ "affordable enough" windowing systems for the masses. Classic Mac OS was very polished but not very affordable, and it didn't even have pre-emptive multiprocessing. UNIX had either a high cost of entry if you're talking workstations (Suns and SGIs were polished but expensive) or man-hours to acclimatize (try running X11 in 1995, then compare to Windows 95).
Eh.
In any case, to bring it back. It was good enough. Nowadays, I often hope for a minimal Windows 10 that will be out of the way enough to approach Windows 95.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Why GitHub is not a great package repository
Link still won't work...
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US
I think the point is that your life doesn't reach the point where you steal $1m worth of gold without a few ripples of insanity appearing here or there. It appears it takes a confluence of chaos for such a heist to manifest.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Why GitHub is not a great package repository
Link won't work...
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft takes aim at Google, Box, Dropbox with OneDrive switch offer
NB, this is regarding OneDrive for Business only.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: YouTube suspends Cody's Lab for making video about homemade gunpowder
There is a point behind prohibiting "just about everyone" from having access to easy gunpowder. Consider how "just about everyone" includes anything from anti-social prankers to vengeful people with no concern for collateral, to plain `terrorists`.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Ask a Dev
After this catches on, you should also make an askadev.out.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
Have we actually reached the point where we idolize something that was equally mainstream to bash when it came out? Remember "Winblows" &c?
Suddenly, faced with hyper-spy mega-corps, the dumb simplicity of the evil-yet-cute Windows 95 is desirable. Like the lesser of two evils, or the evil you know.
Any day now, a post will come up extolling the illumined joys of mainframe COBOL programming.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: PirateProxyList – Online Status of Various Pirate Proxy Services
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: PirateProxyList – Online Status of Various Pirate Proxy Services
This didn't quite turn out as expected, did it?
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Facebook lost a million users in the US and Canada last quarter
This is awesome, I think I will give it the thumbs up and share it with all my nonconformist friends.
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Patents Wristband to Track Hand Movements of Warehouse Employees
Stepping up to crowd-sourcing movement data and constructing robotic/AI replacements? The AI scare is becoming wider and wider, and this time because of what corporations actually do (rather than mere pandering to the sci-fi crowd).
ogdoad | 8 years ago | on: Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund
Actually the key to keep increasing velocity is maintaining a positive dv/dt, that is to say, acceleration. Momentum is more of a tendency to refuse to leave a state (think of `inertia-in-motion`), rather than actively seek it.
If that makes any sense at all, that is.
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