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zdw
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About zdw
I'm a consultant, sysadmin, and programmer. I enjoy writing docs, troubleshooting, and working with interesting problems and people.
Hacker News is an online game you can play where your score is up in the top right corner and there's a leaderboard, and you get points by posting stuff and making comments people like.
I haven't had this much fun since Progress Quest!
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Dupe of link to original post on reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216926
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My first desktop linux box was a PowerMac 8100/80 with MkLinux, probably sometime in 1996. At launch it didn't have support for multi-button mice, which made X11 kind of hard to us…
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Comment #49071385
I'd take this the opposite direction - HTTP should get more like SMTP. Take this thought experiment - how does nearly every other standard protocol (DNS, SMTP, etc.) except for HTT…