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No, it started as a Minix clone by Linus.


Nope, it was initially a terminal emulator, which he used to access the large UNIX servers of the university. Initial development was done on Minix.


It will, for sure.


Spain was actually forced by the US to pass a SOPA-like law, according to wikileaks


So, he hates Google knowing what he likes, but he doesn't mind that they have his phone #?


Google know exactly what I like, I'm sat in Gmail all day and have G+ open. And I own domains, everyone already has my name, email, number and address.

What I disliked were:

* Websites automatically changing state based on a cookie (forums that reset what it believes you've read)

* To be on site B and have what I viewed on site A appear (adverts over-personalising kept creeping me out thinking there was a relationship between disconnected sites)

* My searches being personalised (in the same way that Amazon recommended gets skewed by Christmas shopping, so my searches get skewed when my girl says "Can you just look this up for me", I also want to see other opinions so don't want opposing views filtered out)

But I didn't dislike those things enough to do anything about them. They're just small papercuts.

This browsing style evolved from using incognito and private browsing to assist web development, I continue to use it because it prevents all of the papercuts above.


I'd like to see a 4-week programmer write stuxnet (in 500Kb, of course)


Even assuming it is hard (I don't know, haven't looked into it), it wouldn't disprove the point. Sure there are hard problems in programming. But normal programmers will never be exposed to them. There are also hard problems in medicine, like curing HIV, but most physicians will never attempt them.


Also interested in this


AKA Eternal September


A way to "save" threads, so that I don't have to comment on them to keep them.


This.


he doesn't mean Dojo as a framework


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