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That made me remember part of an interview done to Dennis Ritchie back in 2000: When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks t…

LinuxWorld.com: What is your advice to designers of new programming languages? Dennis Ritchie: At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing,…

That truly is a pressing challenge due to all these DNS related issues. It makes me remember a short paper from 1977 by Carl A. Sunshine [0] where he proposed a network architectur…

An example of a BITNET Relay session [0]: /SIGNUP robert harper * Thank you for signing up, robert harper. * Now use the /SIGNON command to * establish a nickname and to logon Rela…

What I see is that no amount of monitoring of the more radicalized elements of society will alter the deep and profound civilizational changes that are taking place in Europe. This…

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of (state) violence will ever solve a (hard) math problem. -- Jacob Appelbaum

I always ask this to myself: If we haven't been able to make our human civilizations sustainable here on planet Earth (where we have the perfect conditions to do so), how will we e…

I wonder if they will ever be able to ban steganography on ham radio. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Another good example is Lynn Conway [1][2], that together with Carver Mead wrote "Introduction to VLSI System Design" bestseller that would catalyze the Mead & Conway revolution [3…

There is an interesting graph on how the block chain size has progressed over the years since Jan 2009 [1]. [1] https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all&show...

Great point. The original Usenet comp.mail.pine newsgroup post [1] by Mark Crispin (father of the IMAP protocol): This statement is based upon a terrible misunderstand of Postel's …

It's pretty impressive how LEGO has changed its destiny in the last 10 years, given this: [1] In 2003, The LEGO Group faced a budget deficit of 1.4 billion DKK (220 million USD at …

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. While accidents of history surely helped, it evidently satisfied a need for a system implementation language efficient enough to displ…

Great point !

You raise a really interesting point about the relevance of Source Routing . Recently I read a small but significant paper by Carl A. Sunshine [1] (from the beginning of 1977) abou…