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There's an entire subdivision in Sterling Heights with several Tolkienesque road names. https://www.crossing.us/intersections/lorien/elrond

Ann Arbor, Michigan (the location of the main University of Michigan campus) has a Church Street and a State Street, but they do not intersect. I read a joke that went: In Ann Arbo…

While we're on the topic of reinterpreting The Lord of the Rings, someone speculated (based only on the texts of Tolkien, themselves) that Tom Bombadil was a sinister character. Th…

You don't get too old to be relevant. You get too old to be cheap.

All of this goes to show that the Unix-haters were right. The Tenex line of operating systems from DEC had built-in session management in the 1970s. Unix still doesn't have it. All…

My take is that Clojure's community is distinct from that of other Lisp communities. Old school Lispers are the Jacobites of the Computer Age. Their warnings were ignored, so their…

Because then I'm reminded of all of the other things that have changed in the past five years. The essay needs a post-mortem, not a disclaimer. Again, it's one of those things that…

I am the author of this essay and this is the umpteenth time that it has appeared in Hacker News. If you look it up using the Hacker News search function, it even invites readers t…

American Airlines raises the wages of its employees to the market rate. As a result, investors pull money out of the entire airline industry in anticipation of rising wages everywh…

I remember feeling scandalized the first time that I saw a banner ad on the web. I also remember the epic flame wars on Usenet (sic transit gloria mundi) when Canter & Siegel made …

This is a duplicate. The other discussion links to a detailed walk-through of the code by the author. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160975

This is such a cool hack. I love it. I want to make one, too. This guy is a true hacker. Now it's time to nitpick. It doesn't seem that there's any way to generate key-codes. Enter…

And here's a relevant explanation from drfuchs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076098 I quote it in full, here: OK, if you promise to stay off my lawn, I'll explain the his…

In terms of cash flow, the California tech industry is a means of moving money from venture capitalists to San Francisco landlords. That's right, for all the talk of disruption, in…

There's another distribution of Vim which also claims to be inspired by Spacemacs and is called SpaceVim (not space-vim as in this case). Homepage: http://spacevim.org/ Hacker News…

Two points. First, income from rent (say, for real estate) isn't divorced from work. The landlord has to make some arrangements for the upkeep of the property. The renter, by virtu…

Aside from embedded systems, mainframes are the natural state of computers. That is, over time, computers tend to converge on either embedded controllers for appliances, or big rac…

Check out this little gem from the article: “Education and work exist in two alternative worlds that don’t really connect,” Gomez said. “While in other nations, like the U.S., coll…

From the article: "Pimentel’s client asked him for list of candidates trained in “Agile” project management techniques for helping companies boost their productivity by using more …

Three years ago, I wrote a review of three programs that simulate a Compose key on Windows. I included some history behind that key, as well. https://windows.appstorm.net/roundups/…

When I wrote this essay, Clojure was beginning to show its chops. You're right, the success of Clojure has made Lisp armchair theorizing obsolete. I'm a little tired of the essay, …

For now, yes. My life has taken some unexpected detours, these past few years, so I have to focus on work rather than inspiration.