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  1. Your stories were always enlightening, and employed far better grammar than CmdrTaco's. I regret that I never got to ride in your limo. Godspeed, Rob.

  2. They confirmed it.

  3. We had Jon Katz and his "Hellmouth" geeksploitation.

  4. It's not IBM's First Font on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Some 13 years ago, OS/2 came with its own custom font, Warp Sans. Granted, it was a bitmapped font and only came in (IIRC) 11pt, but I'm pretty sure it qualified as an "IBM font".

  5. So, is Netcraft right? Is Linux dying?

  6. The linked article includes a comment by someone who apparently has a sub-dermal NFC tag implanted. Either he's one of the nerdiest people around, or he's just revealed that he's actually a dog. (Actually, though, are those commonly used by the disabled to make unlocks easier?)

  7. Re:HTC Vive Focus on Slashdot Asks: Why Does Google Want To Purchase HTC? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a shame if the marketing/mindshare makes the cellphone part of the company worthless, because the HTC Ten I carry is a pretty damn nice phone. It's actually the third of theirs I've bought in a row.

  8. Re: Ruby on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 2

    C doesn't bring the massive volume of mess with it. It's simplicity is it's beauty. But the world's biggest C advocate wouldn't use it to implement server side web code, unless the only other choice was Javascript (then the smart move would be to quit your job).

    What do you think Apache modules are? :) And before application servers existed the only ways to do anything with a web server besides serve static files were to do CGI, probably in Perl 4, or to write to the server API, both in C (at least back then). So server-side C code still exists, and even has its use cases (chiefly maximum performance).

    Meanwhile, I wonder if all this server-side Javascript is stepping on the toes of the SSJS Netscape introduced on its server; there must be some patents lying around that someone owns....

  9. Re:No kidding on 'This Isn't AI' (shkspr.mobi) · · Score: 1

    If you're asleep when that happens, no one will wake you.

  10. That's how I got here... on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    I use the Sage Plus plugin for Firefox, and the Feedburner link was how I got to this story.

    The real question is, will anyone get here via PointCast?

  11. Re:What is it? on File System Improvements To the Windows Subsystem for Linux (microsoft.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's an Ubuntu subsystem on Windows 10 that allows you to run (some) ELF binaries directly from within the Windows environment.

  12. Re:The google as corporate cancer on How Google Book Search Got Lost (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I figured the "don't be evil" thing went away the moment they bought DoubleClick, inventors of the tracking cookie and the prototype of the "evil internet corporation."

  13. Re:What the actual.... on There's A New New JavaScript Framework (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They've only been doing this every year for two decades (or more). I don't know if there are any screenshots of ZOMG PONIES LOL! out there.

  14. Re:OS/2 to be ported to AMD's ARM... on OS/2-Based 'Arcanos 5.0' Has Finally Been Releas -- Oh Wait, No It Wasn't. Never Mind. (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, alas. The best things it still has are the object-oriented Workplace Shell and the patented "highlight everything I mouse over" (rather than a box lasso) technique, and I'm thinking the patent on the latter is nearing its expiration. Unfortunately, a lot of WPS code was Microsoft's, so it'll never see the light of day.

  15. Re:Some of it is obsolete. on Commentary On How To Make Novice Programmers More Professional (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    I'm a big fan of Teamcity. I'll admit that I haven't looked at Jenkins since it was Hudson, but even though it's not open-source or free beer (beyond a minimal setup) I'd suggest giving it a try.

  16. That way we can go from two separate things that are both about time but easily discussed separately to one ugly discussion that most people will hate and accomplish nothing.

    Welcome to Election Day, and Slashdot. :)

  17. Particularly in a non-technology company, like insurance. They'll give you LOTS to program, probably in PL-SQL.

  18. It's called AAA.

  19. The Internet is full of jackasses... on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, water is wet.

  20. Re: And all so they can sell you to advertisers... on Chromium Being Ported To VC++, Scrubbed of Compiler Bugs · · Score: 1

    Those of us so old we have 5-digit ID's, that's who! Now Get Off My Lawn!

  21. Re:Failing upwards on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You left off the other major product line they got from Compaq: Tandem. It even survived HP trying to move the line to Itanium!

  22. Re:I'm all Afrin now on The Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine That Science Says Doesn't Work (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I just had that happen this weekend!

  23. Re:Who used it? on Google Is Removing the Desktop Notification Center From Chrome (chromium.org) · · Score: 1

    I could see it being a useful feature in companies that have switched from Outlook to GMail (although I don't work for such a company and use Firefox at home).

  24. Re:Holy crap... on .Onion Gets a Boost From IETF, IANA: Now It's a Special-Use Domain · · Score: 1

    http colon slash slash slashdot dot slashdot slash story slash tfa

    Now we just need to change "story" to "dot"....

  25. Re:Visual Studio + g++ || Clang on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    No, Microsoft supposedly licensed Spyglass with a promise to pay them for every copy of their derived software (IE) it sold. Then, as of IE 2 or 3 (IE 1 was bundled with the Windows 95 Plus Pack, a retail product, and I think IE 2 was Windows NT only), they went to a free distribution model which meant Spyglass got nothing else from them, and were left with an unsellable product (since their competition was free) to boot. I've never heard what the terms were surrounding the Sybase deal, but I do know that Microsoft has never been in the habit of giving unrestricted licenses to SQL Server away.