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Reminds me of the original version of greplin, which became cue, which shutdown [1] after failure to acquire funding/achieve profit: > Cue started out as Greplin, a search startup …

Some IM punters exploited issues with the primitive HTML renderering capabilities in AOL, when receiving certain HTML AOL would either take too many cycles render it, detracting fr…

Started programming for AOL as well via VB3 as well. Credit a server with getting it: VBRUN300.dll ftw. Definitely catalyzed my interest in engineering.

Just emailed the maintainers of one of my favorite little python projects (injector) to thank them. Appreciate this reminder.

Wow! I completely forgot about Ronin Warriors. I need to find and rewatch them—I hope they're available somewhere. I had those action figures as well. They were great. Which Exo fi…

Couldn't agree more with all the comments on quality and maturity of X-Men, Spiderman, and Batman series of that era. Paired with reading the comics they really cemented the Marvel…

Redis uses a skip list (doubly linked) implementation for sorted sets, here are antirez's (BDFL) comments as to why from 7 years ago: There are a few reasons: 1) They are not very …

John von Neumann -- December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957 (cancer) -- was a Hungarian and later American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor and polymath. He made ma…

igualmente :]. co-founder of a very-recently Google & Atlas Venture backed startup (so not an investment deterrent; no issues on the engineering deep-dive during diligence, and rec…

Interestingly enough this is most often the case with pure mathemetics: their proofs are pursued purely in the interest of understanding & attaining them - the implications & appli…