minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
7 weeks ago by rtlechow
"Welcome to the Unix Tree. Here you can browse the source code and manuals of various old versions of Unix. For every file, you can also find related files from other versions: this can help show how the different versions of Unix are related. Most of the Unix versions below come from the Unix Archive."
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7 weeks ago by rtlechow
Photo Gallery: A Century of Women on Bikes | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion
february 2012 by rtlechow
"As Susan B. Anthony once said, “I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.”"
bicycling
cycling
bikes
photos
history
february 2012 by rtlechow
Talk Like A Duck : How Arlo got injected into Ruby
february 2012 by rtlechow
"Came to talk about the draft. They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected.
So Dan picked the collection enumeration method selectors in Smalltalk from "Alice's Restaurant", no doubt. I suspect that that initial argument of inject:into: came about because he wanted to use that pattern and map and reduce didn't fit. Actually I'm not sure that map and reduce were commonly used terms at that time.
So if you don't like inject in Ruby, don't blame Matz, blame Dan and Arlo!"
programming
software
smalltalk
history
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ruby
So Dan picked the collection enumeration method selectors in Smalltalk from "Alice's Restaurant", no doubt. I suspect that that initial argument of inject:into: came about because he wanted to use that pattern and map and reduce didn't fit. Actually I'm not sure that map and reduce were commonly used terms at that time.
So if you don't like inject in Ruby, don't blame Matz, blame Dan and Arlo!"
february 2012 by rtlechow
6.S184 - Zombies drink caffeinated 6.001
january 2012 by rtlechow
"Zombie-like, 6.001 rises from the dead to threaten students again. Unlike a zombie, though, it's moving quite a bit faster than it did the first time. Like the original, don't walk into the class expecting that it will teach you Scheme; instead, it attempts to teach thought patterns for computer science, and the structure and interpretation of computer programs. Three projects will be assigned and graded. Prereq: some programming experience; high confusion threshold."
scheme
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cs
january 2012 by rtlechow
Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor [printer-friendly] • The Register
january 2012 by rtlechow
"It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore - unless you decide to get a satellite phone and use it to connect to the Net at 2400 baud, in which case you'll realize that the Net is not usable at 2400 baud. It used to be perfectly usable at 1200 baud. But these days you can't use the Web at 2400 baud because the ads are 24KB."
history
programming
vim
vi
january 2012 by rtlechow
ongoing by Tim Bray · Steve at NeXT
august 2011 by rtlechow
"Mr. Cook sent an email around to everyone saying Apple wouldn’t change. That seems a little weird to me; I seem to remember that not too many years ago Apple was a computer company that didn’t do music. Isn’t change at the center of their success?"
apple
jobs
stevejobs
next
history
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august 2011 by rtlechow
p-cos blog: A non-hierarchical approach to object-oriented programming
december 2010 by rtlechow
"The Lisp historical archive web site just got reorganized. I have made a quick check of the contents, and found out that Howard I. Cannon's original technical report about Flavors - A non-hierarchical approach to object-oriented programming was finally made available as part of that archive. The report was originally written in 1979, was circulated around Lispers, but was never ever published as an actual technical report, although it is cited as such in several later papers by other authors. It describes the original object-oriented extension to the MIT Lisp Machine, heavily influenced by Smalltalk, but with multiple inheritance and method combinations added (but no multiple dispatch yet, which got only introduced in CommonLoops, a direct predecessor of CLOS). Although unpublished and clearly in an unfinished state, this report itself influenced a lot of other subsequent experiments with object-oriented extensions to Lisp dialects."
oop
programming
software
history
lisp
inheritance
december 2010 by rtlechow
American City of Future (1925) #2
august 2010 by rtlechow
"How You May Live and Travel in the City of 1950… SPIRAL ESCALATORS"
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design
future
history
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technology
1950
august 2010 by rtlechow
Welcome - The Rosetta Project
may 2010 by rtlechow
"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages."
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database
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history
language
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linguistics
library
media
project
research
technology
dictionary
anthropology
may 2010 by rtlechow
SceneandHeard.ca
may 2010 by rtlechow
William Peyton Hubbard (1842-1935)
‘Old Cicero’ was Toronto’s first black city councillor
By Roger Hunziker
It is a dark and dreary evening in the early 1860s. Young Will Hubbard is driving his cab down Don Mills Road when he sees a man in danger of plunging into the cold waves of the Don River. Hubbard jumps out and saves the man from drowning: it is George Brown, famous editor of the Globe newspaper, and future Father of Confederation. In gratitude Brown hires Hubbard as his driver, and over time a friendship develops. Much later, the fatherly Brown would urge his young friend to enter politics, which Hubbard finally does in 1893.
toronto
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council
‘Old Cicero’ was Toronto’s first black city councillor
By Roger Hunziker
It is a dark and dreary evening in the early 1860s. Young Will Hubbard is driving his cab down Don Mills Road when he sees a man in danger of plunging into the cold waves of the Don River. Hubbard jumps out and saves the man from drowning: it is George Brown, famous editor of the Globe newspaper, and future Father of Confederation. In gratitude Brown hires Hubbard as his driver, and over time a friendship develops. Much later, the fatherly Brown would urge his young friend to enter politics, which Hubbard finally does in 1893.
may 2010 by rtlechow
"Bird's Eye View of Toronto" 1876 Poster
april 2010 by rtlechow
Bird's Eye View of Toronto
Map or Series Date: 1876
Creator: P.A. Gross in the Office of the Canadian Minister of Agriculture; 002.tif on CD-ROM 2 in U of T Map Library
Description: Toronto, Ontario
Download files: (filter list of files)
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Map or Series Date: 1876
Creator: P.A. Gross in the Office of the Canadian Minister of Agriculture; 002.tif on CD-ROM 2 in U of T Map Library
Description: Toronto, Ontario
Download files: (filter list of files)
april 2010 by rtlechow
Ben Alman » jQuery hashchange event
april 2010 by rtlechow
Browser history for hash anchors. You never know...
ajax
browser
events
history
jquery
plugin
javascript
programming
hashchange
hash
plugins
april 2010 by rtlechow
Message-oriented middleware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
april 2010 by rtlechow
"Towards the end of the 1980s middleware began to emerge that attempted to address these issues. Initial middleware offerings addressed specific handfuls of platforms or languages and thus had limited usefulness. Over time, however, middleware products have become more and more advanced, supporting multiple platforms, languages and protocols."
history
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middleware
development
programming
languages
messaging
amqp
xmpp
april 2010 by rtlechow
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky
april 2010 by rtlechow
"Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay them—but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this:
“Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that.”"
complexity
business
history
shirky
“Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that.”"
april 2010 by rtlechow
RFC 3092 (rfc3092) - Etymology of "Foo"
march 2010 by rtlechow
"Approximately 212 RFCs, or about 7% of RFCs issued so far, starting
with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a
metasyntactic variable without any proper explanation or definition.
This may seem trivial, but a number of newcomers, especially if
English is not their native language, have had problems in
understanding the origin of those terms. This document rectifies
that deficiency.
Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html#ixzz0jlmuEAN9"
programming
reference
humor
geek
language
history
bar
fun
foo
rfc
with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a
metasyntactic variable without any proper explanation or definition.
This may seem trivial, but a number of newcomers, especially if
English is not their native language, have had problems in
understanding the origin of those terms. This document rectifies
that deficiency.
Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html#ixzz0jlmuEAN9"
march 2010 by rtlechow
Noam Chomsky on Obama's Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out
march 2010 by rtlechow
"it may be odd for you to think about, but MIT in the 1960s had two interesting characteristics. One was it was almost entirely funded by the Pentagon. In fact, I was in a lab which was 100 percent funded by the three armed services. Two, it was the main center of antiwar resistance. I’m not talking about dissent or, you know, protest. I’m talking about resistance, you know, organizing resistance activities, illegal activities. And the Pentagon didn’t care much, because, contrary to what a lot of people believe, one of the main functions of the Pentagon is just to provide a cover for the way the economy functions. The way the economy functions, it’s—you know, people like to claim it’s a free market economy, but, you know, most of it comes out of the state sector—I mean, computers, internet, airplanes, you know. The idea is the public is supposed to pay the costs and take the risks, and if anything works out, you hand it over to private enterprise. That’s called the free market."
chomsky
activism
video
politics
history
audio
interview
speech
obama
democracynow
march 2010 by rtlechow
Liam’s Pictures from Old Books
march 2010 by rtlechow
"Over 2,600 high-resolution free images scanned from more than 160 different old or rare books, with extracts, by Liam Quin."
images
books
art
graphics
free
history
illustration
reference
march 2010 by rtlechow
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As Christian God Creates World | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
december 2009 by rtlechow
"Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
YIR numbers web 5
According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization."
religion
history
funny
humor
onion
creationism
atheism
comedy
YIR numbers web 5
According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization."
december 2009 by rtlechow
Vasa (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
october 2009 by rtlechow
"The Good Ship Vasa" is used in the YAGNI section of "The Productive Programmer" as an example of a failed communication game.
"And here is the interesting question: whose fault was the sinking of the Vasa? The king, for asking for more and more features? Or the builders, who built what he wanted without vocalizing their concerns loudly enough? Look around at the project on which you are currently working: are you creating another Vasa?"
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management
ship
culture
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project
cool
software
programming
projectmanagement
"And here is the interesting question: whose fault was the sinking of the Vasa? The king, for asking for more and more features? Or the builders, who built what he wanted without vocalizing their concerns loudly enough? Look around at the project on which you are currently working: are you creating another Vasa?"
october 2009 by rtlechow
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