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Thursday
Feb 17, 2000
Sysadmins and other members of the Hitchhiker's Guide Demographic will enjoy Folding The Monkey.
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Thursday
Dec 16, 1999
feeling threatened by the web economy? now, even the bum you ignore on your way to work is one step ahead of you; he's on the web, telling his story and conducting market research on his customer: you.
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Tuesday
Nov 2, 1999
The idea of Bentham's Panopticon has been around for a while, but it's interesting to see the beginnings of David Brin's Transparent Society emerge not in the US, but in Singapore. (They got booted off their ISP after the local tabloid ran a piece about how they were violating young girls' privacy in public, which explains their "rebuttal".)
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Wednesday
Mar 31, 1999
Redeemed, they'll soar like a glider, race like a Stealth, and, when overflying a barnyard or kennel, turn into a wicked-awesome dive bomber.
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Monday
Sep 28, 1998
In The Unix Philosophy Mike Gancarz succintly describes not the hows but the whys of unix: the History, the Way, and the Attitudes of software engineering in Unix boil down to a handful of tenets. This book sits on my shelf between Steve McConnell's Rapid Development and Peter Salus's A Quarter Century of Unix.
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