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pieterr··on Alternatives to Google Products
> I remember reading an article about how Richard Stallman interacts with the internet a while back.

One of these you mean?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16869515

[2] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

pieterr··on Network.framework: A modern alternative to sockets
As long as Apple wants to keep macOS POSIX-compliant, the sockets remain.

[1] https://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX...

pieterr··on Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)
Since the Japanese translation was done in 2002, I doubt this article originated in 2008 as is currently mentioned.

[1] http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/python/python-lisp-j.html

pieterr··on Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)
The Norvig’ article is from 2000. (Hy is from 2013.)
pieterr··on Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes
> The links are broken now

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=...

pieterr··on All You Need to Know About UML Diagrams
http://plantuml.com/ allows you to describe your UML diagram in a dot-like language.
pieterr··on AI generation of fake celeb images
The accompanying video reminds me of the Godley and Creme video ‘Cry’ from 1985.

Nvidia article: https://youtu.be/G06dEcZ-QTg

Cry: https://youtu.be/KxtPRF6NG7I

pieterr··on Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91
Remarkable: Bocuse died in the same room above his restaurant in which he was born.
pieterr··on 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
A 21-year old book is dedicated to this subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Software-Design-John-Lako...

pieterr··on The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler
Explained here: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
pieterr··on Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
Koot en Bie - Mannen Bellen

https://open.spotify.com/track/0tzlDFcFSNRUaaPnINWo8B

pieterr··on As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?
Peopleware. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0321934113/
pieterr··on A curated list of movies every hacker and cyberpunk must watch
I missed one of my favorites: Office Space.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

pieterr··on Yoda Conditions
"Refuctoring" is brilliant! Seen a lot of that lately. :-)
pieterr··on Modern C [pdf]
K&R: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0131103628/
pieterr··on Where to Go from Here
The answer is simple; the 7th gen mobile quad-cores are not available yet.

http://gizmodo.com/why-are-apple-and-microsoft-using-such-ol...

pieterr··on When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]
You probably mean: Otto - der Ostfriese.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Waalkes

EDIT: Ah, you're right, he made a film with that title: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_–_Der_Außerfriesische

pieterr··on Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
Nice site! Maybe add links to reviews of the books too?

Example #17: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/10/07/book-review-c-interf...

pieterr··on Ask HN: Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?
Do you take maintenance time (is money) into the equation too?
pieterr··on Ask HN: Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?
I would not call the 27" iMac "pretty poor".

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/11/mini-review-test-drivin...

pieterr··on TIOBE Index for August 2016: C at an all time low in the TIOBE index
"C at an all time low"

But still twice the rating of C++.

Meanwhile Go has entered the top 20. The successor of C?

pieterr··on Programming Language Rankings: June 2016
If you scroll down to the bottom, you can select the Desktop version of the website, which allows zooming on the iPhone.
pieterr··on Apple File System
> You can share APFS formatted volumes using the SMB network file sharing protocol. The AFP protocol is deprecated and cannot be used to share APFS formatted volumes.

AFP deprecated too.

pieterr··on Collections-C, generic data structures for C
Yes. This book (free online): http://www.smallmemory.com/book.html

http://www.smallmemory.com/6_AllocationChapter.pdf

pieterr··on Software Development Has Diseconomies of Scale
> And if you don’t know, the UK is a proudly bi-measurement country. Countries like Canada, The Netherlands and Switzerland teach their people to speak two languages. In the UK we teach our people to use two systems of measurement!

The Netherlands? We only speak Dutch here. :-)

I guess the author means Belgium, where they speak (at least) two languages: Vlaams and French.

pieterr··on The 16-bit v/s 8-bit Blind Listening Test, Part 2
You are supposed to do the test "blind". :-)
pieterr··on JSON Lines
From your link (top of page): TAB is used for .txt files, and a comma for .csv files by Excel.
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