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He also implies nobody would write a foreword if it wasn't for the prestige. I would be honored to write a foreword for people I admire, I'd do it even if my name wasn't on the boo…

What gray lady?

Awib is an optimizing compiler: o) Sequences of '-',' ' and '+' are contracted into single instructions. E.g. "----" is replaced with a single ADD(4). SUB(4)?

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Baker told Register Hardware today that each triangular key has significantly more dead space around it than you’d find on a standard Qwerty layout. Consequently, users are more li…

I really want to believe that, but we'll have to check later on. I'd like to see the OS community triumphing over commercial solutions.

Nokia 1100.

Because it was THAT hard to Google it, right? http://www.google.com/search?q=google+ocean

Would be really cool if one could define "new gates" in terms of gates, e.g. a half-adder, a full-adder.

I hate Jeff, but this post makes sense: instead of being constrained by the backwards compatibility requirement, one can just pack every past version of the software on each releas…

Why the name change? Have I missed something?

It would've been twice as cool if it could take voice instructions.

I usually can understand abstract concepts, but also need, or prefer, to work all the way from the bottom up, just to make sure it works like I think it does. I can't just believe …

I'm not a native speaker of English, I've studied the language for seven or eight years, and a couple of months ago I signed up on Hacker News and Reddit. I've learned a lot about …

Exactly, that's why I assume everyone who is on Hacker News is aware of the Linux branch of operating systems, and at least isn't naive enough not to consider them in this kind of …

That's my point: "Mac PCs or non-Mac PCs".

I'd argue that "PC" has two meanings then. I'm going for "non-Mac PC", since that's what the title implies by separating Macs from the rest of PCs, and because I don't feel sensiti…

It's not the same. If you say "Mac or PC", it is understood that you mean "Apple computers, or other type of general-purpose personal computers, i.e., non-Mac PCs". But if we inter…

Excuse me, "PC" does not mean "Windows computer", so I'd pick a PC and install some Linux distro.

I want to be a dead programmer. No, that doesn't sound as cool as I expected.

Thanks for submitting the link, the content there is very interesting.

25 or 100? First attempt: quick typing, conscious mistake. Second attempt: quick typing, wrong password again. Third attempt: okay, I'll type it in carefully now . Wrong password. …

Yes, that's the best way to prevent account hijacking, in my opinion. Or block the IP for 30 minutes after 5 failed logins, that renders any dictionary attack terribly inefficient.…