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Re:The Group That Rules the Web on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:11AM (#8657760)
Tim Berners-Lee advocated for in-browser editing in the early days of the web and saw it as a critical part of the platform. This is documented in his book "Weaving the Web."
Re:Telehack - stylized ARPANET/USENET simulation on Saturday June 04, 2011 @09:40PM (#2621019)
I'm guessing it's Perl, and some shellinabox. You can jump to memory address 151 and then jump to 7363054 to see timers

$ call -151 * 7363052g

> TH::show_starwars from src/th_starwars.pm

Etc, etc. But as one graybeard told me, it's a mix of OSes, Apple II core dump, and tons of other stuff. Just absolutely amazing.

Re:Which programming language do you want to learn next? on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:42AM (#1920766)
Agreed, although I recently realized I likely need a better understanding of C to fully understand where Go is going. (I'd also like to spend time with Lua--it keeps showing up in interesting places.)
Re:Is there such a thing as a sustainable todo system? on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @11:33PM (#1837128)
Seconding that. If you're an emacs user, the way org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) makes it easy to capture and file information is invaluable, and it allows you to knit together outlines, files, URLs, etc. into tasks in a very transparent way. The manual is thorough and detailed and the community is engaged. After two months using it more and more I feel confident that everything I need is in there, and the agenda view is fantastic. Plus it's basically one big UTF-8 file. I still procrastinate, but I definitely know a lot more about the tasks I'm avoiding. Which is major progress for me.
I think joshu meant "when he was working on getting the code released."
Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @12:22AM (#1397074)
Just plain ol' Memepool would be plenty.