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I propose IOI

Same here. Thanks.

Listen Wikipedia, several times now I thought about making a one-time-donation. I use Wikipedia a lot, so i think it's only fair to give back a little. But why do you need all my p…

This sounds like a good idea at first, but i dare you to take a non trivial Lisp function and "pythonize". This instantly becomes an indentation nightmare. Lisp function calls are …

"Climbing Mount Improbable"[1] is the title of a book by Richard Dawkins. Haven't read it yet, but I can absolutely recommend "The Greatest Show on Earth"[2]. [1] https://en.wikipe…

Thanks, for the tip ;-)

>>Beside that, I really don't get the point of all this, seriously. Not from a technological benefit, be warned, but from a user perspective the benefit is almost intangible. Why s…

Exactly! Our brain may be our center of computation but the models it develops of the outside world and hence about itself are based on the signals it recieves from the senses.

Recently there have been a lot of post on HN like "How to write a VM in C/Python/etc". Unfortunately they all seem to stop after implementing integer arithmetic which is the easies…

"Linux was once 10,000 lines of code and required part-time tending. It’s now 19 million lines of code, and changing it involves a complex hierarchy." Just wondered: 19 MLOC all dr…

Yacy[1] is a decentralized search engine [1] http://www.yacy.net/en/

Or you could put a TOC at the beginning (you know, like in a book) and do no sliding at all. -> No confusion, great overview, direct jumps with hyperlinks, easy to realize with pur…

You have it pretty much the other way around. The reason we have to rely on all this stuff like * NFS, CIFS, etc for networked files * Kerberos for network wide auth * LDAP for net…

"Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 From Bell Labs" by Francisco J Ballestros is a great help, too. http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/_books/comp/plan9/Introductio...

>how do we stream a 4k screen or perhaps why would we stream a 4k screen? Exactly! Why would you? Plan9 networks typically consist of File/Auth/CPU Servers and Terminals. Every mac…

I believe the documentation is installed in /sys/doc. At least 9Front does so.

My guess would be that despite what they are advocating believes are something you cannot be too tightly bound to as a high ranking government official. But this discussion is beco…

>let it be offered by the market 1) But that is the whole point: It is warranted, because it is imposed on the providers( at least until law changes). It is quite obvious that ISPs…

Yes, nothing is ever too stupid for him, but that's a new low (again).

Are you willing to trade the warranty that every protocol that you are EVER going to use will be treated equal for a better TV reception NOW ?

The irony here is, that being statically linked isn't even considered an advantage by many people these days.

Since the window system exposes all windows including their attributes(position,size, etc) via the file system, at least some of the tiling WM functionality could easily be impleme…

Even better: Add fn term%{ $* } to your profile and you can just dbl-left-click and send the old command. And since Rio remembers your last menu item selection this becomes just db…

Yes, one can't stress enough how much Plan 9 is not Unix. When Bell Labs eventually gave up on Research Unix and started from scratch they deliberately broke with almost every stan…