Almost 20 years old, but still a very nice read [Archive.is] David Korn Tells All – Slashdot.
Another funny story involving David Korn during the not-so open source times of Microsoft late last century: [WayBack] Korn Shell Story
–jeroen
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David Korn Tells All – Slashdot
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/21
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6502.org • Search: mos6502 G+ posts
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/15
With the demise of G+, I am glad that most of the [WayBack] mos6502 posts were archived at [WayBack] 6502.org • Search: mos6502 G+ posts
Via [WayBack] This week, OUP/M, a 6502 CP/M-ish operating system from 1983, in the process of recovery from Jian-Xiong Shao’s Masters Thesis into Github. And a reques… – mos6502 – Google+
6502 posts – new projects and interesting old projects from the archives
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Men’s Java is not JavaScript Annoyed Programmer/Developer T-Shirt
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/13
Though the shirt is not available on Amazon [WayBack] any more, still – after 25 years – so many recruiters still get it wrong.
Not just recruiters, so: [WayBack] Why is JavaScript called JavaScript, since it has nothing to do with Java? – Stack Overflow, thanks to CMS [WayBack]:
From an interview made to its creator Brendan Eich:
InfoWorld: As I understand it, JavaScript started out as Mocha, then became LiveScript and then became JavaScript when Netscape and Sun got together. But it actually has nothing to do with Java or not much to do with it, correct?
Eich: That’s right. It was all within six months from May till December (1995) that it was Mocha and then LiveScript. And then in early December, Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.
he continues on the relation of ECMAScript based languages:
JavaScript, was originally named Mocha, later it was renamed to LiveScript, and then to JavaScript.
The LiveScript to JavaScript name change came because Netscape and Sun did a license agreement.
The language was then submitted for standarization to the ECMA International Organization. By that time, Netscape didn’t allow the use of the “JavaScript” name, so the standarized language is named ECMAScript.
JavaScript isn’t actually an open name. Now it’s a trademark of Sun (now Oracle).
There still a lot of confusion, some people still think that JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScript are three different languages.
ECMAScript is the “standards” name for the language.
JavaScript is technically a “dialect” of ECMAScript, the Mozilla Foundation can use “JavaScript” as the name of their implementations (currently present on the Rhino and SpiderMonkey engines).
In the early days, Microsoft decided also to do what Netscape was doing on their own browser, and they developed JScript, which is also an ECMAScript dialect, but was named in this way to avoid trademark issues.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Does it bug you when people say Java when they actually mean JavaScript? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y3XK69B – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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The Invention of C++ – Nice bit of net lore
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/30
This is a nice joke: [WayBack] The Invention of C++ – Nice bit of net lore.
But the actual interview linked from the article is quite nice: [WayBack: The Real Stroustrup Interview]
By the name, I found the actual (hopefully still online when this gets out of the blog post queue) version at [WayBack] Stroustrup: Interviews under [WayBack] stroustrup.com/ieee_interview.pdf
–jeroen
Via: [WayBack] The invention of C++ – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
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Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Result
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/10
Such a cool device: [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Result.
The whole project:
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Intro
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Display
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Driving the display
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Schematic
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Software
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Enclosure
- [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Result
Sources: [WayBack] GitHub – Spritetm/minimacplus: Source code, PCB artwork and firmware for a tiny Macintosh Plus
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Huge meta-thread by @Foone saturday on VIRTUAL THRIFTING
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/06
This was an awesome thread: [WayBack] Thread by @Foone: Someone (I think in the replies to the LGR “no thrifting during the crisis” tweet) suggested we do VIRTUAL THRIFTING! which is a great idea… saved from this [Archive.is] Twitter thread.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/01
[WayBack] Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf. – Steven Vaughan-Nichols – Google+
Related:
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Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/25
Blast from the past machine generated code by the various assembly versions of the [WayBack] Windows BitBlt function [WayBack] Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly – The Old New Thing.
Via: [WayBack] Rodrigo Ruz on Twitter: “Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly https://t.co/gWmKjex20i”
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In Unix, what are some common dot files?
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/06
I came across some 20 year old Unix stuff a while ago, so I needed an historic reference of filenames starting with a dot (like .newsrc).
This is a pretty good one: [WayBack] In Unix, what are some common dot files?
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The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/03
From 5 years ago, but now more relevant than it ever was: [WayBack] The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
SCROOGLED
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. –Cardinal Richelieu
We don’t know enough about you. –Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Via:
- [WayBack] The toxic Smog of the Information Age …“Maya,” he said, “what do you know about Google and the DHS?” She stiffened as soon as he asked the question. One of the dogs began to whine. She looked around, then nodded up at the tennis courts. “Top of the light pole there; don’t look,” she said. “That’s one of our muni Wi-Fi access points. Wide-angle webcam. Face away from it when you talk.” In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting…. – Edward Morbius – Google+
- [WayBack] “Sir, calm down, please. No, I’m not looking at your searches,” the man said in a mocking whine. “That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you read your mail and do your searching. I have a brochure explaining it. I’ll give it to you when we’re through here.”… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+
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