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There is no complaining on this page though. He just seems excited that code from NetBSD has been that widely deployed,

> The article pretty clearly stated that focus on equity might be something to try. That is bound to fail because it would be a wild goose chase, there are a thousand variables, an…

I'm from Sweden and I don't find much to object to there. In Europe there are no global companies based on web technology, no Google, no Facebook, no Amazon. Previous tech booms ha…

Intel is most certainly not using AMD's architecture, they are using AMD's instruction set, yes, but they internals have nothing to do with AMD's designs. The Core series was an ev…

As a Swede, I can tell you we don't give a flying fuck about Assange and neither does the prime minister. If he had just come here and had his trial, he would have had about 95% ch…

It is roughly correct, different neurons propagate signals at different speeds but it is in the ballpark. However, the brain is massively parallel so the slow clock is not evidence…

The only thing that would be more soul destroying than having a dull job would be having a dull job that you knew was just easily automated busywork that you were allowed to keep a…

There is no stdcall/ccall distinction on 64-bit Windows, there is only one ABI convention that sadly uses a different set of registers for parameter passing than Linux. Only the fi…

For anybody that is interested in executable formats and how they are created and used, the manuscript of the book "Linkers & Loaders" by John Levine is available for free ( http:/…

Clojure - because Common Lisp is getting really long in the tooth now.

As trolls do not make any products they are immune to any other parties' patents, you can't keep them from enforcing their patents by holding other patents, and their patents doesn…

OSX has a MacOS user interface bolted on top of NeXTStep, and underneath it all there is a BSD/Mach hybrid kernel.

Pictures 1 and 2 are equivalent. See chapter 18 in Misner, Thorne, Wheeler. We can't distinguish a universe where space is bent by mass from one with flat space-time that has a mas…

"This would not have happened 100 years ago when the top tax bracket was ~90%." Not to be too pedantic, but 100 years ago was a great time to be a millionaire, the highest tax brac…

And if you're stuck in the Microsoft ecosystem there is DOS on Dope: http://secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp

I have to quibble with Google having a lot of goodwill to burn. They withdrew any kind of usable search API a long time ago, considering Google's preeminence in search that is rath…