Can anyone define "succeed" in this context? Is it purely popularity? What if a language is inferior but popular? If a language is effective for its user(s), then is it a "success"? Is there some minimum number of users…
I do not see an entry for sed. Is it an editor or a language?
Whenever this gets posted, comments seem to focus on what to use going forward. It seems obvious for most projects there are better alternatives. However whenever I see autotools documentation I think of only one thing:…
s/OpenTable/Microsoft Word/g; s/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Windows/g;
To the author: I could not agree more. In the long term history of computing, I would hope this stage we are in now is not the height of the "revolution". In my humble opinion, to which I am entitled, current Apple…
"...serving a dummy page." It could also be less than a page. It could be a dummy resource. For example, in the case of an ad server and a smartphone app that has some screen space reserved for ads. You might want your…
"... but it is not how anyone in their right mind writes C." If I were going to place blame (I think a better approach is to skip that and just solve the problem), then I would blame developers, not the language. To me,…
The question is: what is listening on 127.0.0.1? For example, do you have an httpd listening on 127.0.0.1? Do you bind any other daemons to 127.0.0.1 or the broadcast address? If you operate your own root you can…
If sites start moving to HTTP/2, is it true the untrustworthy code can be inserted into the same stream as the "content"? Everything could be coming from the same domain/IP? This might make blocking ads and tracking…
Use own root and cache DNS instead of HOSTS. Then use wildcards, e.g., *.doubleclick.net
"...as close as possible to the creepy line." Great stuff. Blog posts are just too boring most of the time. We need more direct quotes from the people toeing the creepy line. That is the behavior that should be tracked.…
The last line from the article you quote is spot on. Why are alleged "services" provided for "free"? One group will tell you it's because advertisers are picking up the costs for "content". Another group will tell you…
"The next step... is to merge the different components by using basic computers and have software turn it into servers, storage devices or routers as needed." This statement is rather enticing because I have been…
I once read that Python, like Pascal, was intended to be a "teaching language". Is this true?
Rennaisance Technologies as in mrsync? Good software.
Yes. I like how you use the word "initially".
"a controversial topic" My observation: The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd. Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems. That avoidance is perhaps something to…
"Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?" Not really. These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one's own experience. Here's one thing that is true: Everyone who uses the command…
"Performance is just the story they are selling in exchange of absolute control of the Web." To be fair, they are not the only ones that use this "story" as a ploy to get more control over users (and hence gather more…
Alright, I am going to give it another try. Thank you! I knew I must be missing something.
"Wikipedia-over-IPFS" Interesting example. I have Wikipedia as a local database on my own secondary storage. As long as there are mirrors of the data dumps, I only occasionally need an internetwork. (To download data…
"For some people..." I think there are a lot of people who share a similar perspective. For every Gates and Jobs, there are many other equally talented programmers and marketers who were not and will not be as lucky as…
What I find amusing about this is that in addition to taking the money on the table by serving mobile ads, the carriers are also charging their customers for "data". All the mobile ad and other cruft just increases the…
z39.50 is better than card catalogs and it predates the www.
"Documents are littered with commas." It's trivial to change all those commas to something else before making the CSV file and importing into the database. They can then be converted back to commas by processing the…
Can anyone define "succeed" in this context? Is it purely popularity? What if a language is inferior but popular? If a language is effective for its user(s), then is it a "success"? Is there some minimum number of users…
I do not see an entry for sed. Is it an editor or a language?
Whenever this gets posted, comments seem to focus on what to use going forward. It seems obvious for most projects there are better alternatives. However whenever I see autotools documentation I think of only one thing:…
s/OpenTable/Microsoft Word/g; s/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Windows/g;
To the author: I could not agree more. In the long term history of computing, I would hope this stage we are in now is not the height of the "revolution". In my humble opinion, to which I am entitled, current Apple…
"...serving a dummy page." It could also be less than a page. It could be a dummy resource. For example, in the case of an ad server and a smartphone app that has some screen space reserved for ads. You might want your…
"... but it is not how anyone in their right mind writes C." If I were going to place blame (I think a better approach is to skip that and just solve the problem), then I would blame developers, not the language. To me,…
The question is: what is listening on 127.0.0.1? For example, do you have an httpd listening on 127.0.0.1? Do you bind any other daemons to 127.0.0.1 or the broadcast address? If you operate your own root you can…
If sites start moving to HTTP/2, is it true the untrustworthy code can be inserted into the same stream as the "content"? Everything could be coming from the same domain/IP? This might make blocking ads and tracking…
Use own root and cache DNS instead of HOSTS. Then use wildcards, e.g., *.doubleclick.net
"...as close as possible to the creepy line." Great stuff. Blog posts are just too boring most of the time. We need more direct quotes from the people toeing the creepy line. That is the behavior that should be tracked.…
The last line from the article you quote is spot on. Why are alleged "services" provided for "free"? One group will tell you it's because advertisers are picking up the costs for "content". Another group will tell you…
"The next step... is to merge the different components by using basic computers and have software turn it into servers, storage devices or routers as needed." This statement is rather enticing because I have been…
I once read that Python, like Pascal, was intended to be a "teaching language". Is this true?
Rennaisance Technologies as in mrsync? Good software.
Yes. I like how you use the word "initially".
"a controversial topic" My observation: The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd. Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems. That avoidance is perhaps something to…
"Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?" Not really. These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one's own experience. Here's one thing that is true: Everyone who uses the command…
"Performance is just the story they are selling in exchange of absolute control of the Web." To be fair, they are not the only ones that use this "story" as a ploy to get more control over users (and hence gather more…
Alright, I am going to give it another try. Thank you! I knew I must be missing something.
"Wikipedia-over-IPFS" Interesting example. I have Wikipedia as a local database on my own secondary storage. As long as there are mirrors of the data dumps, I only occasionally need an internetwork. (To download data…
"For some people..." I think there are a lot of people who share a similar perspective. For every Gates and Jobs, there are many other equally talented programmers and marketers who were not and will not be as lucky as…
What I find amusing about this is that in addition to taking the money on the table by serving mobile ads, the carriers are also charging their customers for "data". All the mobile ad and other cruft just increases the…
z39.50 is better than card catalogs and it predates the www.
"Documents are littered with commas." It's trivial to change all those commas to something else before making the CSV file and importing into the database. They can then be converted back to commas by processing the…