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> it took almost 20 years for the underlying infrastructure to get mature enough to get mass consumer adoption. I don't know if you were on the Internet in 1998. I was. The Web was…

Did you even bother to read the article you linked to? The citations make it quite clear that the terms were synonymous, and it was multiple groups (not just the Bolsheviks) who re…

> Xerox parc did in fact release nothing to the general public iirc. Right, just because you haven't bothered to look it up, it doesn't exist. Here are just the Xerox PARC work tha…

It was a PDP-10 at Harvard, and it was not just Gates, it was Gates and Paul Allen working on it together. Another interesting thing is that the PDP-10 was being paid for by Depart…

I would strongly disagree on the Bill Gates part. The early Microsoft compilers (yes, Microsoft started out as a compiler company) were by all accounts not that great. The really s…

> After 4 or 5 years of doing this you'll maybe know enough about how "everthing works" and what books says how to do what, or what company did what in what way, or the "state of t…

You are being disingenuously pedantic by making a distinction between synonymous words. From the linked document: "Уже с конца сентября ЦК партии большевиков решил мобилизовать все…

> Which of the two groups of people are benefitting from Hacker News showing metrics? That is a bit of a nonsense question. Neither benefit, because there is no advertising on HN, …

This is why antitrust legislation and enforcement is so important.

I have three laptops, two run OpenBSD, the other one Debian stable. Not sure how well battery utilization compares (don't need battery for more than an hour usually). Both work fin…

There is also GNU Shepherd[1] on GuixSD[2], a declarative init system, without systemd's million-plus lines of shitty code[3] and massive scope creep into everything that you can (…

> Electron apps... there is no way to automatically build Electron apps for any of the BSDs. This is one of many reasons not to use Electron. Claims of Electron portability are a s…

> I admit it's very counterintuitive or almost subversive these days to suggest that internet points be kept secret. Media popularity rankings are toxic for everyone but distributi…

> unfortunately for usenet now we have a problem: fast majority of servers are down... In the past ANY ISP, universities, many companies offer nntp server, now we have only very, v…

Recently started using RSS2email. Combined with a decent email client (ie not webmail crap like Gmail) it is awesome. The last time I was reading so many blogs and enjoying it was …

How do you organize the s-expressions? Interlisp offered what you describe: structured storage, with "in-place" structured editing, for code and data. The unit of organization was …