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Move on, work on something new.

I recommend two shots of wheatgrass and a smoothie.

I remember asking my parents for the age verification questions to be able to run LSL when I was a kid. I would head downstairs and ask her random trivia questions because it was easier than asking the Encyclopedia Britannica or what passed for the internet in those days. Obviously this day and age this is not possible due to Wikipedia, but in it's time and place it made me more likely to play rogue and/or do something productive with my computer.

Not sure if anyone remembers that aspect of it, but I still do.

If there was a moral story, it was lost on me at that age, and not likely to revisit it. Certainly better than Custer's Revenge, which is a horrifying concept and makes me very sad.

If you think that LSL is a good and relevant example of misogyny and bad attitudes towards women, then apparently you never turn on your TV, watch movies or look at at advertisements around you. A rehash of LSL is the least of our problems in this space.

People feel better when you treat them as people, not objects. This goes for men and women. We're all human and deserve a lot of respect and understanding.

Some people probably like the cheap thrills that the game offers, some are nostalgic, some may be interested in social commentary. This is all quite all right and healthy.

// I got Neil Young's "Pochohontas" associated with that terrible game. AAAAAAAAHHH. :'(

There were probably a lot of people still buying it at that price, in sort of a captive market. I'm thinking schools, libraries, et cetera that need to service that population.

Why torture such a noble product as an encyclopedia by putting it in competition with modern internet distribution and price, better that they put it out of it's misery.

What we need are wikipedia ebook devices gets updates via rsync. Something like a Kindle DX with an SD card and wifi.

This is something that can be curbed with practice. If you give your presentation to someone, they should point this out. To get better at public speaking, you should try to curb any behavior that detracts from the message that you want to deliver.

I remember listening to RMS talk at the HOPE conference one year and it was painful to watch him talk. He obviously needed very long breaks when he was speaking, using them to take sips of Pepsi. The pauses were at times in his speaking were almost planned for some sort of applause or at best internal agreement and reflection on the idea. It was all very awkward, if you can't tell.

It was RMS, so nobody cared, but I'm sure that he could have gotten his message across better with some effort.

E-mail isn't perfect, however as a transport system is is not meant to solve the problem you described in "Replace e-mail".

If someone wants to have a meeting with me, they might send me an .ics attachment[1] that will work with almost ANY software that I have my computer. Since most meetings are in fact in-person and something that we have been doing as a civilization for some time, the semantics are well defined and easy to model.

A task list will always be harder to model, but not impossible and there is certainly a lot of ideas on the topic. As long as it is an open standard this sounds great, but I wouldn't like to see my tasks locked into either a proprietary format or the cloud[2].

If you are going to replace something that is standards based, it should be with a new standard of some sort. Not code, that's an implementation detail, but standard.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

2. I'm too old for this shit, and not everyone lives in the cloud.

I imagine that corporate interests (records, movies) in the US and EU could collude to get a pirate site taken down if it had a .org, it would just be another tree to fall.

So far the US has not publicly tried to drop wikileaks.org, forcing WikiLeaks migrate to a TLD that is clearly outside US reach. Maybe they wouldn't want the bad press.

I'm wondering what is possible if I simply have a relationship with a reseller in the US (e.g. the one with the superbowl ads, or eNom), but my TLD registrar is outside of reach. I assume they could make the reseller drop the contract, or terminate it.

I agree that I don't like where it is going, but we aren't really the target audience.

I was looking to get CrunchBang Linux running on my MBP, but realistically the battery life change will make the device hard to justify. If I am going to go back to 2-3 hours of battery life, I'm probably going to have to change my hardware setup to get a Thinkpad with a pair of nine cells.

That said, I can't even flip my virtualization set-up, because I doubt that it is going to be smooth sailing (license-wise and technically) running a copy of OS X in VirtualBox or VMware.

So I work in C, and navigating the code can be a problem from a terminal. I use cscope, but it wasn't really useful until I started using a cool set of scripts that this consultant had which opened new screen (or tmux, if you modify the scripts) windows for each file I am editing. I'll nag him to post this on github.

I used to find/xargs/grep to find code snippets.

My tabs and state are on the REMOTE end of my connection. I never lose it.

Copy and paste is easy, no rat.

If you are a hardcore terminal user, then you will run into layout bugs at this stage. I'm interested enough in why this is the case, what exactly had to be written from scratch. There must be some terminal emulators out there under both GPL and BSD licenses.

I run into problems using mutt, vi and pagers, so I find myself pressing Control-L a lot. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. This doesn't really bother me.

I enjoy being in this terminal. The effects at low volume and to taste can be soothing when you take a break and look at something, watching something compile. I don't like "perfect" text or printing that you can achieve with modern computers.

At the moment, I can't use this for e-mail (I bought it on Friday). I'll see how coding goes. Command line editing has so far been bearable.

I didn't use the hjkl keys until two things happened, about the same time. The first was getting a job as an SA, where on older (and less GNU) operating systems would NOT support the key mappings.

The second was once my job was automated, I got to play a bit of nethack. A text based game that uses that style of navigation did help a bit.

As far as knowing what my goals are, there is nobody better than myself as a teacher. Mentoring or other 1:1 discussions where a real teacher could help with career guidance, philosophy, et cetera. I also go online and talk with people there, or I could leave the house if I so choose.

As far as selecting the best teaching material, I win. I can pick any used copy of any books that I feel are necessary, and they are cheap. Textbooks with exercises are a must. If I was shut off from the rest of the world, the sheer volume of college textbooks I physically have a copy of would keep me busy for years.

You don't learn from the teaching, you learn by doing. If you teach yourself and you never use what you have learned, done 5-10 of the medium to hard problems, and then tried to put together what you have learned, you will fail.

In the end, we agree. You should NOT be the sole teacher, unless you plan on just living and working for yourself. Perspective is a hard thing to get from yourself.

Bogdan Raczynski's stuff can be quite nice and varies from acoustic Polish roots on accordion to 8bit beats and well executed video game nostalgia.

Lots of stuff on Warp records does nicely, as already mentioned. Autechre, Boards of Canada, Of Montreal. I've been listening to Evil Twin by Modeselector way too often recently.

I assume that most people here like to keep it mellow. I also listen to Amorphis (melodic metal) and lots of underground hip-hop, especially when I have to do administrative work and need a change of pace.

First, you understand how and why it is modal. Then you learn simple commands for movement and editing.

Then you learn all the meta-commands. All of these building blocks are only limited by your creativity of combining them to get what you want done. The more commands and tricks you know, the more you can slice and dice text, code, logs, whatever inside your editor (without leaving it).

I guess it's just a Unix/neckbeard thing. This is how the rest of Unix is designed, so why not the editor.

I plead no contest to PWI. I swear that it was all straight in my head.

The philosophy of responsible disclosure is something only pushed by security vendors, people who use open-source software (it's being a good member of a community) and brainwashed white-hats.

The security professionals who do this for a living, and study this should disclose fully, but a corporate entity will never. They cannot because of shareholders, and there are way to many bugs out there and it would be embarrassing cleaning up that much crap.

Security vulnerabilities are sometimes architectural problems, some are related to ignorance, but a LOT more are just stupid bugs and people not writing code that is correct. A good attacker doesn't care how they get in, there is always a way.

It's a losing battle, just ask EWD.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....

\\ Edit: Words are tough.

I was hoping for assassination politics, but this was amusing. Maybe I'm a bit thick, but this couldn't be legal, could it?

My point was not to attack those people, that word means something different. What if they would refer to a member of the Marines as a jarhead?

My point was that The Daily Show may be slightly anti-SOPA by being liberal, but they still have a point about the fact that they:

a) don't understand what they are legislating and rely on experts b) don't appear to have enough respect to refer to these experts as anything other than nerds

I don't care if they are for or against SOPA, that was not my point.

>Jon Stewart showed 4 people using the word 'nerd'. Three of them were anti-SOPA!

So what? Were they anti-SOPA from the beginning, or just when we started getting serious pressure applied... Even if they were instinctively anti-SOPA, would it be fine if they refer to you as something similar to carnival show (okay, that's a geek), as opposed to a concerned expert in the field? That was at least my take-away from the clip, have not watched the full episode yet.

Do they refer to bankers as Till Fiddling Cash Rapists? Decorum counts for something, and we are not a side-show.

> It's an absurd assumption to make,

I agree. I can be absurd sometimes.

> My type? Hopeful? Polite? Intelligent? Not blinded?

Direct.

You mentioned what's wrong with "people" coming in with their legislation. I guess that I would re-state that by the time laws get to discussion in the public, the laws are mostly written by politicians that are heavily lobbied. Something that goes through that type of taint by money or business interests is not always in the best interest of the people. Do the members of congress get some things better than technology? Maybe, I kind of doubt it. I watched a few hours of the house talking about energy changes, and it was clear who was lobbying for what. Nobody was actually watching from the House floor, but I assume that everyone get's C-SPAN in their offices in case something interesting comes up.

I have to compete very hard to get my agenda's addressed. I do have my own time and money to spend on politics, and I do it. That said, it feels like a drop in the bucket, and I think that is not just my feeling but actually the case.

I like donating to the EFF, a great idea. That is just one of the areas that I am interested in. The more causes that I add (and there are MANY), the more I need to pay to combat the fact that there is too much money in politics.

So, lets go back to corporations not being people, reasonable and accountable PACs, and stop having revolving door career lobbyists/politicians.

I really like our system of government, but I think that it is fair to level the playing field.

> If you don't speak up, you can't complain when no one listens.

I do spend quite a bit of time engaging with politicians. Certainly if I am taking my time out to discuss this with not only my peers online, but in person. I written my congress people, and will be taking this into consideration when I go to the polls next. Yes yes, this is how politics work here.

That said, I don't think that you are fully understanding the amount of time and money that corporate interests put into politics. Or maybe I am not understanding it correctly. I'm more aware of the amount of money in politics than the number of people paid to influence politicians, but that should probably be reported somewhere I hope.

> Hopefully I don't come off that harsh.

No problem, I'm used to dealing with your type. Sometimes I can even be that way given circumstances.

Now back to C-SPAN.

>So, what is inherently wrong with people approaching their congressmen with proposals?

On it's face, nothing. Deeper however, too many laws are passed because lobbyists are paid to ensure that corporate interests are taken care of. I don't have a lot of time to push my agenda, but corporations convert money into people's time.

Lots of us aren't even convinced that there is an issue. If there is, lets see the numbers and talk about them, and if we see something that needs a solution, we can come up with one.

This is a jobs saving law, they should be focused on jobs creation. They can save jobs by outlawing outsourcing, but nobody things that is a good idea.

I laughed. I may even put this one up on my desk.

In reality, the corporate world is a lot worse (more complex).

I'd actually like to see an xkcd huge size poster on the types of job titles and responsibilities you see at a corporation, and the vendors and regulators, oh my.

So how do I buy it without Paypal? Oh well. Maybe that can be the next battle.

I agree that's what they are pushing it for, but they seem to want to apply the same hammers to counterfeiting of physical goods and digital copyright infringement. Physical goods and media are very different.

The lost-income argument of this needs to be battled, because I doubt that everyone buying fake rolexes at $200 each is going to be saving up for the real deal. I have to assume that the same type of arguments are propping up this debate. I want to know where the people that support this get these numbers from. Do people really think that by passing this legislation we will somehow get money for nothing?

Does anyone really think that this won't be applied to Wikileaks and the like...

Oracle will be able to keep Solaris alive for a long time. The hardware supportability and start/stop/start on Intel platforms really hurt them, but it will survive in niche markets and still has advantages (ZFS, dtrace to start, I'm sure you'll find more if you dig).

If you have "regular" hardware (1-4 sockets), you pay 1k/server/year. No "I know what I am doing" with this OS, but meh. 5+ sockets is 2k/server/year.

This is really, really too much if they want to re-kindle Solaris as mainstream thing. FreeBSD seems like a safer bet then OpenSolaris.

Nice work, thanks for making pretty things, keep it up.

Disclaimer: I've been brainwashed by working in "enterprise" environments. I understand that is not necessarily your target audience.

Logging scares me when it is a hosted solution like this. I signed up for the trial (for personal use) and didn't see that configuration option. Maildrops are lots of fun, but dumps of your dev IRC chats? Most regulated environments have retention periods, and after that most communication is considered to be a liability and storage concern (IANL, TINLA). I would say that dev chats are useful for about a few months, max.

A non-hosted solution would be nice, but certainly takes a huge amount of effort to layer on something like that to what you already have.

Is there any open community (i.e. a grove.io instance) to join and chat about your product, get a feel for it? Sounds like a bit of maintenance headache, but probably worth it. I can't really demo it well by myself.

Also, I can't imagine talking to my coworkers like I am accustomed to chatting on IRC <ahem>. That's just a random thought.

Edit: spelling errours

It is paid for, but there is realistically no time to do it without some major changes to staffing.

While I don't like to regret anything (just course correct), I enjoyed his technique and it made me think. Imagining what you would regret helps, thanks for sharing it.

I agree that the holistic benefits of going back to school are certainly more valuable to me than the CS classes, but I also think that I would appreciate CS in a different way than I would have being 18-23.

I expect that the fact that I am used to working borderline psychotic hours means that I could be able to maybe even perform some interesting work at the same time as studying, but this is not something I think that I should count on. That said, I really want to avoid accumulating debt and the 20-30k that I would expect from a "good" school is something that I am carefully weighing with the more affordable state school.

EWD worked at University of Texas Austin.