Nobody knows what "most" C++ programmers do. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
(iv) Make changes to the UNIX system only after much deliberation, and only when major gains can be made. Avoid changing the UNIX system's interfaces, and isolate any such changes as much as possible. Stay close to the Research UNIX system, in order to take advantage of continuing improvements.
9front at least has DVCS but they have one good programmer and 50 idiots who prefer to fill up the fortune file rather than fix a bug–oh, and they switched from the publically-archived Google Groups mailing list to a self-hosted non-archived mailing list, so nobody really knows what’s actually going on there.
+I do not want you to check my systems. -- Lt. Cmd. Data
+006: SECURITY FIX: Jan 10, 2014 All architectures A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string could overflow a buffer on the stack in the X server.
+Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.
+To enter the computers, he exploited weaknesses such as a program called GNU Emacs that allowed mail users system administrator privileges under certain conditions.
+Sometimes people base their whole lives on a sincerely held belief that could be wrong. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
+2. if sufficient standards do not exist, DoD will develop its own standards until national or international standards become available.
+The BCPL to B transition also include changes made to suit Thompson's preferences (mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program).
+WIRED: Opinion: 10 years later, the infamous "Hacker Way" still rules at Facebook
+No. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+ The University of California, Berkeley, has been authorised by Alcatel-Lucent to release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
+// run runs the command named by cmd.
+building a small rpi cluster is really easy (i have one with 8-nodes) -- Skip Tavakkolian
+https://github.com/jfloren/plan9/commit/445b546003d071f3cf3cd6a0133b92397e5c9024
+Evidenced by last few years of bug reports, nobody knows what 5g, 8g, and 6g are these days, so I deleted the "which compiler?" part of our bug report template. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+(#cat-v) qrstuv → my patch to disable posting in lucio's mail client was put in the maybe directory
+I have "reduced"(hah) my vim config to about 50 plugins, so it takes ~25 megabytes of ram
+Internet Explorer 7 was audited by Microsoft to ensure that it contained no Mosaic code, and thus no longer credits Spyglass or Mosaic.
+I'm having a little... difficulty... understanding why you won't share your research. -- Captain Jonathan Archer
+/* wrong? */
+Fuck them dead, the whipsawing comsec windfall bandits. -- John Young
+Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript.
+There is no read or write. Instead, there are get and put operations. -- Clive's ZX file systems and name spaces, by Francisco J. Ballesteros
+It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -- Ronald Reagan
+No. -- Aram
+We're seeing some really excellent proposals. -- Anthony Sorace
+ע����ȱ��uriel
+We're busy porting Java to QNX, but we're looking for alternatives as well.
+I notice that mothra doesn't react well to certain web pages -- Scott Schwartz, Mon, 15 Apr 1996
+The Usenet of 1990 is gone and is not coming back.
+It should be noted that many object-oriented systems exhibit very poor locality of reference. -- comp.os.research FAQ
+Conventional wisdom has it that preprocessing time is a negligible part of building a C++ binary.
+Has the Internet been overhyped?
+Subject: cat-v, distribute & monetize your software
+I’m no compiler architecture expert, but accompiler that loads Internet Explorer seems peculiar.
+Can somebody please include this in the fortunes database? -- lucio
+Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment.
+PART (ghi) #cat-v "thank you all for today help. The cat-v community is really friendly."
+Lightly tested, works.
+Subject: WIP: Enable readline in PHP
+This is coming from someone who built an OpenDocument generator in bash that's still in use at IBM today.
+Subject: ksh (vi mode)
+The need for standardization arose because enterprises using computers wanted to be able to develop programs that could be used on the computer systems of different manufacturers without reimplementing the programs.
+The POSIX specifications for Unix-like operating system environments originally consisted of a single document for the core programming interface, but eventually grew to 19 separate documents (for example, POSIX.1, POSIX.2 etc.)
+Currently, vim also loads faster than Emacs.
+You fall in love with one model of Mac and convince yourself what a great computer you have, and half a year later it's obsolete and uncertain to work with the niftiest apps of the future. -- Steve Wozniak
+In other words, rfc822 is optional.
+My email is screwed since I lost permission to use ETHO.
+While GE wanted to develop Multics to "strengthen its product line," MIT wanted Multics "to advance the state of art" of computing, and Bell Labs' purpose was to have a good environment for our people to work in."
+Tague was familiar with UNIX and its capabilities and tells the variety of reasons ranging from inadequate file systems, to inadequate performance, to poor user interface that he recommended the initial adoption of UNIX to start the work.
+with enough eyeballs all jokes are shallow
+People don't even know how to argue on the Internet anymore. -- Aram
+Additional links: Bjarne Stroustrup's opinion
+14:37 -!- kfx was kicked from #suckless by __20h__ [kfx]
+technology doesn't solve human communiction problems. -- Erik Quanstrom
+i believe any successful Plan 9 distro will need to provide some transparency in the change review process. -- Skip Tavakkolian
+FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up its no-tolerance policy for hiring those who like to smoke marijuana.
+Gnu was always taken as a compliment. -- Doug McIlroy
+We are programmers, not lawyers. -- Aram
+The urine collection device also was rebuilt to eliminate leakage.[30]
+That's Rob Pike. I remember when he came to Bell Labs, we even shared an office for three months. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
+It's tricky when you're marketing a language. -- Niko Matsakis
+RFC 2616, which was written more than 15 years ago, was the specification everybody has implemented, and I suspect many of you occassionally have used as a reference.
+The biggest difference compared to the old spec, is that there is simply a lot more text.
+Subject: ftp(1) User-Agent
+It may seem counterintuitive, but skilled professionals working behind the scenes may actually be more fulfilled than the rest of us.
+Can you feel empathy for a UUID?
+after looking at plan9 whole codebase with codemap I realized the code was not that big.
+I wanted to do something that didn't involve arguing online about trivia. -- jwz
+Commands have been a big part of computing ever since the 1970's.
+Xiki strives to be the simplest possible way (and ways) to create interactive interfaces.
+From: urielc@cantv.net
+GCC Receives ACM's 2014 Programming Languages Software Award
+I've got a project going that is feasible only because the Go compiler is so fast. -- Ron Minnich
+In practice, nothing works. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+Yes Tcl/Tk may be bloated. However, if we have Tcl/Tk on Plan9, We will also have "Grail", a web brawser written in Python.
+Optimization is fun because it's not necessary. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+Charle why don´t reply, it´s not a normal comportament, i ask information for this manual, you reply everything but not reply, i can order from you this manual? reply please, it´s easy but you are complicated
+Due to the sacredness of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring and the Mount Kailash, the Bonpo as well as Hindus regard both the swastika and the number nine as auspicious and as of great significance.
+@WHO: There is no evidence base that #homeopathy can cure #Ebola.
+Having users is a key to getting contributors. -- Brad Fitzgerald
+Steve Yegge is working on a project to basically replace all of Elisp with JavaScript.
+One of the things I've been pushing is code reading. -- Douglas Crockford
+you guys, look for China specific brands, not just made in China. acer, htc, asus are not based in the mainland. supporting taiwanese brands does not help the Chinese cause because taiwanese corporations are often guilty of undermining mainland Chinese interests
+I can't answer that. -- lucio
+// &cipherblowfish,
+ nokeyverify = 1; /* temporary until verification is fixed */
+It is hard to believe that the summer code is so amazing. -- Yan
+I really wish acme were just fixed. -- Blake McBride
+openssl started off as a project to learn C
+$75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen
+Feminism means gender should not be a source of persecution or a restriction of your choices.
+10:48 < timthelion> (Note that 4 == 3 here)
+Subject: [Pcc] naive question : obj-c support in 'pcc'?
+If sponsoring a group of 3 university students to do a year-long project around Plan 9 sounds cool, read on!
+It's like Metcalfe's law: the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users. The same is true of languages -- you get all these people using a language and all of a sudden you've got Eclipse, you've got FindBugs, you've got Guice. -- Joshua Bloch
+New issue 186: 9term: no ptys in NetBSD6.4.4
+ 14 2346 10/01 12:42 deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org Re: pf on rpi
+Now, finally, I have an audience to ask a question that has been bothering me for YEARS.
+I'm not good with programming tools. I wish I were. -- Joshua Bloch
+I am not the one to fix any of this, I cannot tell you how one could do it. -- Lennart Poettering
+its like dos, but it doesnt work
+Google is evil -- David Byrne
+I wish only to learn, master. -- young Darth Sidious
+John Floren extended 9p for streaming.
+How the Plan9 developers solve problems that are not resolved by Assembly?
+I assume that there is no possibility to debug this...
+Many considered the B-29 a failure because it couldn't survive in hostile airspace without a fighter escort.
+this exact error message is in the fortunes file.
+i am not sure really if plan9 is good for my use
+Ive deleted fortune now so it doesnt confuse or distract me.
+So I stayed at my PC for hours with a few hours sleeping before going work, for a few weeks, learned on hard ways like hell.
+im more sophisticated than that -- martian67
+Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd?
+I would love to be able to teach HyperTalk to my students, as a smooth on-road to more complex languages like JavaScript, Java or C++. -- Jer Throp
+(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Video Bus" (type: KEYBOARD, id 7)
+(no plan9 to hand)
+Those who can't solder, teach -- usnavi
+Ayan Qureshi is now a Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant's exam when he was just five years old.
+Starting a year ago, Debian/Ubuntu really jumped the shark.
+then I think, "what is the market for Plan9?"
+I've often worried about browsers, even the open source ones.
+Pike seemed to lack an understanding of how to entice users to go through the trouble of actually learning and acclimating to his software. A general lack of marketing savvy, perhaps.
+Ask HN: I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code?
+Warning: You could not be logged out because your session has expired. Please log in again to complete this operation.
+Every joke is a tiny revolution -- George Orwell
+I'm kind of like a designer who writes code; this may become apparent as you read on
+As an interface designer Plan9 have always fascinated me yet I found it incredible hard to find many other designers who were into it's concepts.
+Tandy Leather, which later grew in to the Tandy Corporation, was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas.
+I want to get into web development.
+The modern Plan 9 codebase is officially developed and maintained by Vita Nuova as the product named Inferno.
+User interface improvements included the "layers" windowing system for the DMD 5620 graphics terminal, and the SVR3.2 curses libraries that offered eight or more color pairs and other at this time important features (forms, panels, menus, etc.).
+ if(~ $i (seek _nsec)) { # untested so far - geoff
+no. -- ftrvxmtrx
+suckless is sharing the table with libreoffice at CCC
+Compared to their proprietary Unix counterparts, GNU programs have also been shown to be more reliable.[32]
+The GNU Project recommends that contributors assign the copyright for GNU packages to the Free Software Foundation
+ 10 1724 12/30 18:18 deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org Re: java coders are complete morons
+Above all, we need a state in order to have democracy, which is the system by which the many non-rich join together to overcome the power of the rich and thus deny them control over society. -- Richard Stallman
+Kernighan wrote a program to turn awk into C++; its state is not known.[8]
+A question here, have you ever tried NSA sex?
+Millennials are becoming old enough to program,simple as that
+Sending A Handwritten Letter Is Now As Easy As Using Gmail
+Subject: X61T - Broken/Cracked Hinges, Repair Options in Palestine..?
+Things are bad right now, but they're getting better. As long as the Internet remains an open and free place, society as a whole will continue to progress and grow at a faster and faster pace.
+i should have remembered my own patch ... -- erik
+Reddit stopped being genuinely cool around 2012/2013 in my opinion
+Urban Outfitters Sparks Outrage For Selling Holocaust-Themed Tapestry
+tomorrow is going to be the day everything changes
+Carnegie-Mellon University mistakenly sent 800 acceptances for its Master of Science in Computer Science program.
+I have returned to Linux because of this problem.
+TED, day 1: I want to believe -- WIRED magazine
+Can I help translate TEDx Talks if I only speak English?
+In a 1984 version of Unix, things started heating up, and 'true' grew to 276 bytes. The contents were now a boilerplate AT&T copyright notice claiming intellectual ownership of the otherwise still empty file.
+everyone move to github, so I did too
+I have an idea for an encryption scheme and I want to know what you guys think of it.
+Are the O'Reilly X books worth hanging onto?
+What I want to know is why he considers GCC harmful at all? Wasn't it developed by the GNU Project?
+Why are most webpages so shitty now? I don't ever remember the web being so shitty back around 2005ish.
+No. -- hiro
+How can I reconcile my belief that proprietary software is inherently malicious with my desire to make a living writing code?
+But theory turned out not to be Joy’s forte.
+It may be associated with neurological dysfunction, such as weakness.[5]
+While chaotic and inane ramblings abound, the network is quite popular. -- PHRACK Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #9 of 11 (describing USENET)
+Bill Joy is one of those rare people who can carry on a rapid-fire technical conversation while coding at the keyboard.
+I didn’t think I had anything to say when I joined tumblr 1.5 years ago, but then I found my voice and started shouting into the wind.
+Avoid success at all costs. -- unofficial Haskell motto
+I never was a supporter of the Unix design philosophy. -- Dr Richard stallman
+To ensure continued delivery of these emails, please add us to your "safe list" or address book in your email program.
+The “better at scale” argument doesn’t really apply to what I do for a living, which is building webapps with Django.
+(#cat-v) khm → occasionally someone on hacker news will link to an article so they can all misunderstand it together
+Your current website reads more like an encyclopedia rather than a marketing platform.
+Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project?
+it's a ncurses interface to youtube
+XKEYSCORE is a piece of Linux software that is typically deployed on Red Hat servers.
+As soon as I get a job I'll be either asking for my check in BTC or just convert it as it flows in.
+Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor
+/n/sources/contrib/fgb/.DS_Store
+A good example is something like Firefox, which fills up available RAM with page caches. Often, swapping these pages back in from disk can be slower than re-fetching from the Internet.
+Let them eat vinyl. -- Kurt Cobain
+9vx panic: cannot connect to X display: Success
+Translate message into English.
+Of course, Harvey is the result of some of the best programmers in History. As Eric Clapton did with blues, we are trying to do with plan9/unix code. Another step beyond. -- Álvaro Jurado
+I agree with many thing I read on cat-v, but I can't shake this feeling they are behaving like elitists.
+I just forcibly added you to the group membership list. -- Andrew Gerrand
+We optimized search on Ello for hashtags too! For example, when you search “#art”, posts with the hashtag “#art” will appear on top.
+Subject: Your join request for go9p has succeeded but is pending approval.
+Remember: we're a bunch of mads trying to show how could be computing world. Perhaps how it should be. We walk over the work of giants. What means we must not to forget from where we come. Change all of that is needed, abandon all of that don't . Keep the ideas and general form of Plan 9. It's our way: we'll never renegade of Plan 9. We just like write some code and bring it to these times. Living with world, inside the world, but avoiding historical errors, respecting authors' ideas, working for the better way.
+Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange of food and a place to stay
+NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE
+Many people use that GNU's true.c as an example of bloated, but, if you actually look at the code, most of it is just comments.
+I already approached the OpenBSD guys, but one of them referred me to a Linux team, and the others never replied.
+News flash: you're wrong.
+commit: tapefs: remove dependency to <authsrv.h>
+I wouldn't say you even need to pay attention, all you need is to be informed.
+[harvey-commits] [PATCH] Add names to .json files that do not have them
+If you don't know what a file is, think of it as a place where you can store information under a name of your choice, and retrieve it later. -- TUPE
+I use word sometimes 12 or more hours a day and am looking to get a setup to mitigate that.
+Subject: Robotic Process Automation Brings New Opportunities for Skills Pivot
+Google's frontend servers do a lot more than terminate connections for browsers these days
+There is now a commercial product called WWB based on the old software, but running as plugins to MS Word.
+Is the original plan9 boot process broken? Is it insecure? Is it hard to port to amd64?
+Maybe a git branch can help here?
+It would help a lot in my code reviews to understand what we are trying to achieve and why, so please take the time to explain it here (or even better in the related issue or in a wiki page).
+(#plan9) anth_x → is there a web interface to sourcesdump?
+Unix has errno, an int. Plan 9 has an errstr, a string. Akaros has both.
+No. -- Dave Sim
+Now I'm heading a project that uses a RoR application to control a large series of sensors and controls in a manufacturing process.
+I can't read it because Google thinks I'm a robot and won't perform the search for me.
+Seibel: For you, what about the relation between research and actually programming? Peyton Jones: Oh, they interact a lot.
+Forcing the user to use the mouse is poor design, IMO. -- Byron Rakitzis
+Please help, I don't want to have to go back to vi... :-(
+I've never liked st. -- Ted Unangst
+It would be a cute trick to set up some sort of temporary compiler environment within Harvey so you can build programs from within Harvey (makes the testing feedback loop quicker). -- John Floren
+[openbsd-tech] pledge for tetris
+I did take a look at rewriting the CoC in Basic English and found it way too restrictive. -- Andrew Gerrand
+[#OpenBSD] Carefully explaining your problem is half the solution.
+If you get this, delete it. - Sorry! -- Tim Berners-Lee, www-talk, Mon, 28 Oct 91 14:34:12 GMT+0100
+Why are you wasting my life? -- Jeff Bezos
+All operating systems are bullshit. -- Ted Unangst
+If you want to get started with autotools, try to build yourself a minimal autotools project. Once you have a working stub, you already took the biggest hurdle. -- Hacker News comment
+Please, excuse me the outflow.
+uriel, what you say would make sense if the "jokes" didn't include putting mein kampf in /lib. -- erik quanstrom
+ISIS Influence on Web Prompts Second Thoughts on First Amendment
+Whenever possible, you should use the 'cat' command line tool for this. Here's an example in Go:
+GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations
+Subject: [FD] Apple WatchOS v2.1 - Denial of Service Vulnerability
+Any objections to me rewriting rc in go without all known bugs? -- brucee
+One way that I was able to get this working was forking 9front and adding a clunk callback to Srv structure.
+Your Go installation is broken. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+./configure CFLAGS="-I$HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/include -I$HOME/source/harvey/ape/include -mno-red-zone -ffreestanding -fno-builtin -nostdlib -trigraphs -D_SUSV2_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_LIMITS_EXTENSION -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_BSD_EXTENSION -DHAVE_SOCK_OPTS -DHARVEY -DPlan9" LDFLAGS="-static $HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib/crt1.o $HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib/crti.o $HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib/crtn.o -L$HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib -L$HOME/source/harvey/amd64/lib" LIBS="-lbsd -lap -lc" LIBM="" --prefix=$HOME/source/harvey/ape/ports *--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-harvey *--enable-shared=no
+Apache is less magical than it was in the 90's. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+What Can JavaScript Do? A Non-Technical Overview
+VMware is like being taken off of our land and moved onto a reservation. In this case, however, it will not stand. -- Terry
+The muscott icon of it! Why devil?
+I write a good bit of C code but all things being equal I would be programming in Oberon. -- Brantley Coile
+Kubrick is trying to tell us something…Something involving rainbows.
+Both gg and sjw are leftist movements.
+Emacs now supports webkit.
+We are writing to update you with some changes to the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement, which governs your participation in the Amazon Associates Program. All changes are effective on April 1, 2016.
+If someone tries to create more than 2500 containers with Docker they will hit this limit.
+*** CENTER 1127 PICNIC ***
+The pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio is best.
+To view untrusted text files, use "less -nU".
+Google Deactivates Web Search API
+Honda Civic 9front bumper Cover
+Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates
+Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
+Why Aren’t There Simple Programming Languages?
+You don't always get to pick the standard.
+Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires
+So why use GMail?
+No -- General Chuck Yeager
+Nein -- General Chuck Yeager
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