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Are there any real-world, production systems based on JavaScript and Python? Toy systems, yes. Hey, I too, think CircuitPython is really neat. But I'm skeptical someone would base …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202... The triangular visualizations are kinda nifty.

CNN: breathlessly reporting in 2022, stuff we all knew in 1991

MS-DOS user experience was extremely similar CP/M. In fact, one could safely say MS-DOS/PC-DOS only existed in the first place as a "quick and dirty" approximation of CP/M. (becaus…

"For the Pro computer, that new case design helps the new Pro get “about 20 percent more airflow” compared to the Power Mac G5 that precedes it." I lost any respect for the writer …

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

You could call it "GeoCities"

Why expect any city to become another?

Key being the word "successful": - learned things at their previous founding attempt/s - serial entrepreneurs probably have their act together

Simple greed? As in: "play ball, and you get access to the gigantic Chinese market"

Suggest adding a [2009] tag to let people know from whence this wonderful paper dates.

-1 for voluntarily moving onto the Google plantation.

In no part of heaven is there a monthly subscription fee. In no part of heaven does your data go poof and disappear if some 3rd party company goes under. In no part of heaven is pr…

RacketFunge?

Answer: Advertising

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up th…

They also have gray.

Yes! In fact, this talk first appeared on Google Video, before it all got shunted into youtube (which was an acquisition)

I believe what they're proposing is largely the same, if not identical, to Content-Centric Networking from Xerox PARC. The central idea is: Instead of asking one particular server …