>that the bridge immediately adjacent to their school is properly called the "Harvard Bridge".
When it was originally going to be named they did go to MIT and ask them for a name. After engineers inspected the bridge and realized that it'd have to be replaced soonish they said to name it Harvard.
Sure enough in the early 90s they had to rebuild the bridge.
>It's time to stop holding the programmer's hand. If I write a C program that makes 5 malloc() and 4 free(), the compiler should notice that and say, "Gee, you have a memory leak here" and refuse to compile.
But i've written code with a lot fewer free()'s then mallocs and had no leaks. Not necessarily a one-to-one correlation.
Hehehe... Roleplaying in DragonRealms? Sure it's possible, but the machanics don't really support it much. I will roleplay person who steals from little person in goblin field!
after they acquired Andover.net. I didn't like it and filed it in the trashcan even though they offered me a $200 bonus to sign it. Nothing happened because of it.
Needed your A Drive to be 3 1/2. Granted that didn't stop me, but it turned off some people who didn't have the inclination to jack around with their hardware. No stable Gravis Ultrasound Support. Yeah someone had written a driver but it was still flakey as hell. Wave Table synthesis smashed the hell out of FM synthesis and I wasn't going to play my games in FM anymore.
Why you say? This is possibly Red Hats fault but they stopped using inetd.conf and started using xinetd.conf . This annoyed me to no end when I found out about it. Was wondering why killing inetd and sending a SIGHUP wasn't working. Why change de-facto naming conventions? Just because you have a nice graphical interface for it?
Maybe they need to also come up with ways to reduce costs. Possibly streamline the code to not need that much hardware or figure out if any coders aren't pulling their weight.
When I joined Andover.net they had just changed from selling software to making websites to puts ads on (slaughterhouse,mediabuilder, and andovernews). The strategy was to develop sites that would attract page hits that required very little actual day to day managing so the developers could go build other sites. To be honest I never understood how the news site could be 'worth it' since you had to pay someone everyday just to keep the page hits even. Well I came on board and my first major project was to make a bit Gifoptimizer then Gifwizard (since they had started charging for their service). I went on to write the backend code for Gifworks and the highly obnoxious 3dtextmaker. But then the day came to ramp up page hits by acquiring damn with the costs of actually maintaining it (gifworks and 3dtextmaker now happily chug away in a back closet somewhere with probably no one watching it.... about 3 million page hits a month whose only overhead is electricity and bandwidth).
Well we got Slashdot to bolster our page hits and Freshmeat soon followed too. Then we got bought by VA Linux. After a while they decided that OSDN(Andover.net) was costing alot of money to run so they axed everyone who wasn't involved in Slashdot or Freshmeat it seems. I still wonder what it costs to run Slashdot. I stil somewhat regret not taking the offer of working on the Slashdot database... although the days when something goes wrong I'm glad I didn't. It is amusing to see that VA Linux is not mostly what is left of Andover.net... although what is left of Andover.net seems to be primarily what we had acquired... a lot of the stuff we built before our spending spree seems forgotten or discarded. Somewhat depressing.... I have this fear if the sites I helped with ever crash... no one will turn them back on and they will fade into oblivion. Oh well just some random thoughts.
I believe OSDN's own gifoptimizer.com is prior art. I think the site went live somewhere around May-July of 1998 (before the December 8 filing date). Kurt could find out for sure.
You have a bunch of people with similar core interests... why not try to negotiate discounts for certain products while receiving a kick back for each Slashdot-purchase? Many companies can be suckered into a lower margin if they think they can get higher volume.
So much for cutting edge news...
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Man talk about real old... how long has this been languishing in the inbox?
Well I was going to say that now I was going to boycott the olympics and not watch it on television, but I already don't watch television so nothing is really changing.
Slashdot Mirror
And now they're on AIM!
>that the bridge immediately adjacent to their school is properly called the "Harvard Bridge".
When it was originally going to be named they did go to MIT and ask them for a name. After engineers inspected the bridge and realized that it'd have to be replaced soonish they said to name it Harvard.
Sure enough in the early 90s they had to rebuild the bridge.
>It's time to stop holding the programmer's hand. If I write a C program that makes 5 malloc() and 4 free(), the compiler should notice that and say, "Gee, you have a memory leak here" and refuse to compile.
But i've written code with a lot fewer free()'s then mallocs and had no leaks. Not necessarily a one-to-one correlation.
Heh fucked with moon mages... the masters of everything! They are still cramming copper kronars up collective moon mages asses with more nerfing.
Supreme Bunny Overlord Zairius
Heh... I haven't heard about medthievia in ages.
Supreme Bunny Overlord Zairius
Hehehe... Roleplaying in DragonRealms? Sure it's possible, but the machanics don't really support it much. I will roleplay person who steals from little person in goblin field!
Supreme Bunny Overlord Zairius
All Yours Bits Belong To Us!
after they acquired Andover.net. I didn't like it and filed it in the trashcan even though they offered me a $200 bonus to sign it. Nothing happened because of it.
John Casey
We need some up here in Maine! Bad drought.
Needed your A Drive to be 3 1/2. Granted that didn't stop me, but it turned off some people who didn't have the inclination to jack around with their hardware. No stable Gravis Ultrasound Support. Yeah someone had written a driver but it was still flakey as hell. Wave Table synthesis smashed the hell out of FM synthesis and I wasn't going to play my games in FM anymore.
Supreme Bunny Overlord Zairius
Why you say? This is possibly Red Hats fault but they stopped using inetd.conf and started using xinetd.conf . This annoyed me to no end when I found out about it. Was wondering why killing inetd and sending a SIGHUP wasn't working. Why change de-facto naming conventions? Just because you have a nice graphical interface for it?
Maybe they need to also come up with ways to reduce costs. Possibly streamline the code to not need that much hardware or figure out if any coders aren't pulling their weight.
God I laughed so hard when reading that... thanks.
John Casey
You can pry my null pointers out of my dead cold hands.
As we move closer to having infinite memory and infinite processor speed do you see Lisp being used more in the mainstream?
John Casey
When I joined Andover.net they had just changed from selling software to making websites to puts ads on (slaughterhouse,mediabuilder, and andovernews). The strategy was to develop sites that would attract page hits that required very little actual day to day managing so the developers could go build other sites. To be honest I never understood how the news site could be 'worth it' since you had to pay someone everyday just to keep the page hits even. Well I came on board and my first major project was to make a bit Gifoptimizer then Gifwizard (since they had started charging for their service). I went on to write the backend code for Gifworks and the highly obnoxious 3dtextmaker. But then the day came to ramp up page hits by acquiring damn with the costs of actually maintaining it (gifworks and 3dtextmaker now happily chug away in a back closet somewhere with probably no one watching it.... about 3 million page hits a month whose only overhead is electricity and bandwidth).
Well we got Slashdot to bolster our page hits and Freshmeat soon followed too. Then we got bought by VA Linux. After a while they decided that OSDN(Andover.net) was costing alot of money to run so they axed everyone who wasn't involved in Slashdot or Freshmeat it seems. I still wonder what it costs to run Slashdot. I stil somewhat regret not taking the offer of working on the Slashdot database... although the days when something goes wrong I'm glad I didn't. It is amusing to see that VA Linux is not mostly what is left of Andover.net... although what is left of Andover.net seems to be primarily what we had acquired... a lot of the stuff we built before our spending spree seems forgotten or discarded. Somewhat depressing.... I have this fear if the sites I helped with ever crash... no one will turn them back on and they will fade into oblivion. Oh well just some random thoughts.
John Casey
Gif Spinner
I believe OSDN's own gifoptimizer.com is prior art. I think the site went live somewhere around May-July of 1998 (before the December 8 filing date). Kurt could find out for sure.
C and DB2 instead of Perl and MySQL! And hire back some of the C coders VA got rid of.
*Shameless Attempt to get Cushy Telecommuting Job Back*
You have a bunch of people with similar core interests... why not try to negotiate discounts for certain products while receiving a kick back for each Slashdot-purchase? Many companies can be suckered into a lower margin if they think they can get higher volume.
Man talk about real old... how long has this been languishing in the inbox?
Probably had the photons go across the river and drive around Boston.... they got stuck behind some double parked cars.
Now we'll have to deal with blind people on cell phones in traffic.
I saw the title and immediatly thought why would anyone want to get an IBM PS/2 now?
Well I was going to say that now I was going to boycott the olympics and not watch it on television, but I already don't watch television so nothing is really changing.
Yahoo should just do a name lookup of all the incoming connections and if the name ends in .fr
to refuse connection.
An effective way to make sure French people don't see something that offends them on Yahoo.
Just think how far Linux would go if there was one of these!
:)
Apologies in advance.
I didn't need excess karma anyways