Syssiphus

292 karma · joined September 21, 2011

- born 1975 - German - speaks: german, english - programmer - likes: Lisp, Commodore64, Amiga

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Syssiphus··on Today, 30 years ago, Commodore introduced the Amiga

Or a great DVD about it's end - The Deathbed Vigil: http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv/video.html

Syssiphus··on Running Lisp in Production

From the top of my head..:

The Praetorian Bootcamp challenges are similar to the Matasano ones: https://www.praetorian.com/challenges/

Lisp Koans: https://github.com/google/lisp-koans

Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/

Exercism: http://exercism.io/

99 Lisp Problems: http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2006s2/func...

Syssiphus··on BBS the Documentary (2013) [video]

Is that the Legion of Doom from the book Masters of Deception?

Syssiphus··on Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft

Ah, the thrill of sneaking into Lower Guk as a Lvl 19 Bard, only armed with a flute, hoping that a group would camp the Froglok Assassin and they would allow you to loot a Mask of Deception drop.

Syssiphus··on A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer

I don't know if he is still selling them, but: http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv/index.html

Dave Haynie, one of Commodores hardware engineers, films the last day at the Commodore plant. And the layoff party afterwards. Hilarious, informative, and sad at the same time.

Syssiphus··on Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Metro 2034, the 'sequel' to Metro 2033

Syssiphus··on Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard

Hmm, I heard the Maltron isn't bad either: http://www.maltron.com/keyboard-info/dual-hand-fully-ergonom...

Syssiphus··on NEO GEO: Open source development kit

or a scene demo.

Syssiphus··on Chiptune

or Slay Radio -> http://www.slayradio.org or the Bitjam Podcast -> http://www.bitfellas.org/page.php?100

Syssiphus··on 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video

It's called the Chaos Communication Congress, not Chaos Computer Congress.

Syssiphus··on You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created

Or your local trader who would fill up a harddisk with warez, movies and series for you each week (for a fee).

Syssiphus··on Two Simple Steps Helped Me Learn Vim

It's not so much about speed. It's about comfort.

Syssiphus··on Pipino: Gentleman Thief

Found this on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/69183293

Syssiphus··on Amazon.com redesign

With an add-on like HoverZoom this page turns into an obstacle course.

Syssiphus··on How many Commodore 64 computers were really sold? (2011)

,8,0 would load from device 8 to memory location 2048. I think formatting was done with the OPEN command.

Syssiphus··on How many Commodore 64 computers were really sold? (2011)

The C-64 booted into Microsoft Basic by default. The ",8,1" was part of the LOAD command. 8 is the number of the device, 1 tells Basic to load the program to the address where it was originally saved from.

It was contemporary to the original Nintendo. The NES even used a CPU that was based on the C-64/VIC-20 6502 CPU. The 6502 was designed by MOS Technology (a Commodore company).

Syssiphus··on Who Killed Lard? (2012)

Ah damn. I saw Robert Smith and LARD and thought the singer of The Cure wrote an article about the death of Jello Biafra's side project.

Syssiphus··on Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

See the 'jj' part in the 'Mappings' section.

Syssiphus··on The Aviator's Heart

And ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jatho

Syssiphus··on Show HN: New project for on-demand chat rooms

You mean, like IRC?

Syssiphus··on `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode

A perfect example of a missing code-comment.

Syssiphus··on Flappy Bird Ported to C64

This made my day :D

Syssiphus··on Quick tip for developers who use OS X

Pressing ESC and then _ will insert the last argument of the last line. Repeat to go up in the history.

If you go through the command history and press CTRL-o on a line it will be executed and the command on the commandline will be replaced by the next line in the history.

Syssiphus··on Thousands of Germans get “porn troll” letters over streaming video

The article below explains that the website of the company which filed the copyright claims and the website of the company which supposedly created the 'gladii' software are hosted on the same server, contain the same user-id's and were created at around the same time.

The whole thing is a scam.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&pr...

Syssiphus··on CAR and CDR

:* <3 u LISP

Syssiphus··on My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done

rxvt is also a good choice.

Syssiphus··on The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)

I recommend 'BBS - the Documentary' by Jason Scott, episode #8. It should be available on YouTube. It is about the SEA vs. PKWARE controversy.

Syssiphus··on iPhone, meet Haskell

Brilliant, Thanks!

Syssiphus··on Excel can't save to paths over 218 characters

Can't load them either, I guess. When I tried to open an Excel file directly from Sparrow I would get a "path longer than xxx" message. Saving it to ~/Downloads and then opening it worked just fine.

Syssiphus··on Why I have left Samsung

I love this post. It just screams: Follow your heart.

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