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Can anyone define "succeed" in this context? Is it purely popularity? What if a language is inferior but popular? If a language is effective for its user(s), then is it a "success"…

I do not see an entry for sed. Is it an editor or a language?

Whenever this gets posted, comments seem to focus on what to use going forward. It seems obvious for most projects there are better alternatives. However whenever I see autotools d…

s/OpenTable/Microsoft Word/g; s/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Windows/g;

To the author: I could not agree more. In the long term history of computing, I would hope this stage we are in now is not the height of the "revolution". In my humble opinion, to …

"...serving a dummy page." It could also be less than a page. It could be a dummy resource. For example, in the case of an ad server and a smartphone app that has some screen space…

"... but it is not how anyone in their right mind writes C." If I were going to place blame (I think a better approach is to skip that and just solve the problem), then I would bla…

The question is: what is listening on 127.0.0.1? For example, do you have an httpd listening on 127.0.0.1? Do you bind any other daemons to 127.0.0.1 or the broadcast address? If y…

If sites start moving to HTTP/2, is it true the untrustworthy code can be inserted into the same stream as the "content"? Everything could be coming from the same domain/IP? This m…

Use own root and cache DNS instead of HOSTS. Then use wildcards, e.g., *.doubleclick.net

"...as close as possible to the creepy line." Great stuff. Blog posts are just too boring most of the time. We need more direct quotes from the people toeing the creepy line. That …

The last line from the article you quote is spot on. Why are alleged "services" provided for "free"? One group will tell you it's because advertisers are picking up the costs for "…

"The next step... is to merge the different components by using basic computers and have software turn it into servers, storage devices or routers as needed." This statement is rat…

I once read that Python, like Pascal, was intended to be a "teaching language". Is this true?

Rennaisance Technologies as in mrsync? Good software.

Yes. I like how you use the word "initially".

"a controversial topic" My observation: The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd. Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems. …

"Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?" Not really. These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one's own experience. Here's one thing that i…

"Performance is just the story they are selling in exchange of absolute control of the Web." To be fair, they are not the only ones that use this "story" as a ploy to get more cont…

Alright, I am going to give it another try. Thank you! I knew I must be missing something.

"Wikipedia-over-IPFS" Interesting example. I have Wikipedia as a local database on my own secondary storage. As long as there are mirrors of the data dumps, I only occasionally nee…

"For some people..." I think there are a lot of people who share a similar perspective. For every Gates and Jobs, there are many other equally talented programmers and marketers wh…