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BugsBunnySan··on Lawyer Submits Brief Partially in Klingon for Paramount Language Lawsuit
Well, in a small way, someone did that:

Star Wreck - In the Prikinning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472566/)

available for free here: https://archive.org/details/StarWreckInThePirkining

(These are the guys who then went on to do Iron Sky :D )

BugsBunnySan··on Show HN: Open source colorizing grayscale images with NN
Side note: "some countries" actually encompasses almost all the countries in the world, since source code falls under the Berne Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention, which automatically grants the author copyright on anything they make, unless they explicitly give it up...
BugsBunnySan··on Reddit for iOS and Android
since reddit works fine in smart phone's webbrowsers, why we even need an app?
BugsBunnySan··on Language is not important
On the one hand, R (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html) is sadly gone. However, this might be interesting to your question:

From http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html:

"Somewhere I have a note from dmr [the R in K&R] certifying that all the compilers that he believes in accept it."

So at least at some point Duff showed Ritchie something in C that Ritchie hadn't seen or considered before, long after C had been invented.

BugsBunnySan··on Hawking: AI could end human race
There's a good status page for the LHC: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com

Someone should make a reverse website that looks up humans and determines whether the Internet has wiped out humanity yet :)

BugsBunnySan··on Linux kernel coding style
It's a very nice coding style. It keeps the code in pieces that are easy to grasp as units, it doesn't waste space and doesn't clutter the code at the same time.

Just take any random function from the kernel sources and ask yourself, what does it do. I think in most cases you'll find it's really obvious...

For me I find the kernel sources one of the most readable and understandable sources I've seen. The structure of them is just so clearly visible from the sources. I think a lot of that has to do with the coding style.

BugsBunnySan··on J for C Programmers
The title of this article provides a good argument for "C being for programmers." Seems like for every language FOO there's bound to be between 1 and a-lot of tutorials and introductions 'FOO for C Programmers'. Most languages appear to have an inferiority complex when it comes to C, so they need to prove how much better they are...
BugsBunnySan··on TCP Stealth
Repeating magic phrases doesn't accomplishes much without understanding.

If you make something really secure and then you hide it really well, that's better than just making it really secure.

Just don't replace making it really secure by hiding it, is what that phrase says.

It's like moving an sshd away from port 22; doesn't make your sshd implementation magically more secure, but it immediatly gets rid of a mass of autmated naive ssh port scans. So you need a solid implementation still, but the obscuring part certainly helps.

BugsBunnySan··on My Father's "Eviscerated" work - Son of J.R.R. Tolkien finally speaks out
You shouldn't have quit. There's really good stuff in the Silmarilion and if you really like middle earth and all that, you won't be sorry to have read it entirely in the end.
BugsBunnySan··on Startup Hackathon labels developers as 'resources'
While having people actually refer to themselve as resources is pretty scary, it's not exactly new. It's just that business people have no regard for human dignity, which is also why the department for hiring people in companies is called 'Human Resources'.

And no matter how nicely that is sugarcoated, that's just what you are to those people.

BugsBunnySan··on Having fun with 404
Also nice, but not as interactive:

http://www.ibiblio.org/404/

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