Looks like iFixit has multiple A1 jokes today:
List of April Fools' Day Announcements
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#412Crypto pranks: The winner of the Password Hashing Contest was announced to be, LM Hash! https://twitter.com/veorq/status/583175725206892544 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658 libsodium added ROT13, fast, keyless, powerful cipher https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/23f1c90c682484f...
> libsodium added ROT13, fast, keyless, powerful cipher
And made resistent to timming attacks!
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indeed because "The evaluation fee is US$185,000." http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...
I wouldn't be so sure they wouldn't do that, after all: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel... "At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in the auction, according…
> 'Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.'
Those usually go hand in hand.
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Because ICANN set this up, and companies have to protect their trademarks. Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.
> Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains. Good thing icann just increased the available domain-space from "limited" to "unlimited" then. That sounds good for almost everyone, or at least icann.
Basically, "" is now a TLD, and ICANN is the registrar, so it can extract the rents.
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#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because ICANN set this up, and companies have to protect their trademarks. Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.
> Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains. Good thing icann just increased the available domain-space from "limited" to "unlimited" then. That sounds good for almost everyone, or at least icann.
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#416Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mai...
Do you know whee the song in the end is from - "Let's do something new"?
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Of course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)
Oh man, those IRQ nightmares! Please don't mention those extended memory settings or I will go into my basement to look for my MEMMAKER notes on how to (maybe) get a game going...
I once accidentally set the same IRQ for my Serial mouse and modem...The modem would only respond to commands while moving the mouse...good times.
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This is embarrassing: if they are too afraid to actually re-style it for a day (with all potential losses), then they shouldn't bother with a static image. Sometimes you get too big to be cool.
Would probably result in millions of lost revenue because of the UI.. Although that number would be interesting to see.
It's probably much higher than we can guess.
Amazon has been pretty conservative with their UI changes over the years, which could be because their users react poorly to them.
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#419Google Panda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9Qb4PuiOU
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And the gopher mirror, too! I don't have a good reason, but I really like the gopher protocol. Cool to see someone go to the (minimal) effort it takes to make a gopher mirror.
I am just now writing a static site generator that generates a directory based website from a folder hierarchy. It is heavily inspired by gopher. No bling, no js (well, unintrusive js to make the directory listing sortable) and a focus on getting shit online. The pages are either plain text or generated through some templates using markdown. I am in dire need to clean the code up, but I will put it on github sooner o…
That sounds like Apache's default directory index