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Well, we do have that law for patents. They expire in 20 years. And the patent itself "open-sources" the process being patented.

Regarding Depeche, people on Youtube have broken down exactly what each band member was playing during the 80s shows; you might find it interesting. The parts are simple. I don't s…

Good question. Definitely learn the rudiments of piano playing, up to playing block chords (triads) with either hand. Beyond that, I think they diverge too much. A lot of piano tec…

Cool, thanks for making this. This is basically the Roman Simplex font used in CAD packages, and included in the Hershey fonts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts Hershey …

One path is to use sequential ints internally and encrypt them externally with something like idgen: https://pypi.org/project/idgen/ That provides IDs that are both opaque and, if …

The Bell System (America's telecom monopoly until it's breakup in the 80s) pretty much avoided Phillips, etc. screws. Everything was slot (or pin-hex tamperproof). I do see mention…

Thanks for the report; don't know why that happened; no iframes involved.

Good catch. Will fix the accidentals.

In the Parsons Code section, if I'm reading correctly, the chords are conceived along an up-down axis. However chords do not really have that relation. Going from 1maj to 5maj can …

If you want to try these chord progressions in your browser, check out: http://wildsparx.com/rhythatom/ Coincidentally I just finished it. Source is here: https://github.com/wildsp…

Related: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/idgen/0.0.1 That's one way to ensure safety of domain names, at the cost of mnemonics ;)

I used to think like that. But consider two things. The capabilities of the state actors are high. They cooperate with chipmakers and OS makers (or subvert or hack them). They comp…

Yes, Kaplan's book touches on the silliness of the term (it was consciously borrowed from William Gibson) but policy makers and advocates seem to use it in discussion. Of course th…

Seems like it's trendy to hate the NSA. It gets conflated with an anti-authoritarian mindset. I wish smart people would gain some perspective - I got some by reading Bamford's book…

This story reminded me to clean up a very different synth and put it on github: https://github.com/wildsparx/synthem80 Unlike NSynth, synthem80 is directed to a specific and humble…

I guess I phrased that wrong - I think server candidates should know vi or emacs. No need for both.

I'm at shopkick. We're a mobile app. We hire server, Android and iPhone engineers, but many will move across these platforms. We look for smart generalists. So, although we use Pyt…

One aspect we shouldn't overlook is stratification by intelligence. People of very different IQs have trouble communicating. So, "hateful repetition of populist punchlines" is a na…

Shopkick | Redwood City CA, Seattle, Toronto | iOS, Android and Server Engineers | On-Site Full-Time | INTERN VISA We're a well-funded post-acquisition startup providing a mobile a…

My Dad had a Vector in the 80s - learned a lot from it. It had a big reset button on the front, which instantly booted into the "monitor" - a program which let you inspect and disa…

>Where are the apps that are even half as feature-rich as a typical Windows application from the '90s? I hear you. One reason for this is scalability. You can build richer web apps…

Have you tried fluxbox? Did XFCE offer something beyond fluxbox?

I never worked on Adware, but I worked on a system called PrintMe, which enabled users to print to printers in Kinko's, airports, hotels, etc. (I saw PrintMe as a logical next step…