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lproven

8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.

# Work

Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven

Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com

# Personal

Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.

Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.

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[Author of the piece here] The slides are just decoration and can be safely ignored. You would be much better off reading the script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-…
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[Author of the piece here] Those are not things of central concern to me currently, but another project that has some similar central axioms is looking at just that. This talk is long but goes into qu…
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[Author of the piece here] Thanks for the comment. You do make me wonder if you listened to the whole talk, or read the script ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-c7euvQ…
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What on Earth is the point of this? It seems like such a trivial exercise. No labels? Only Zone 1? No option to zoom out or pan around, which might have made for some interesting code and explanation…
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Fascinating. The problem is far more rife than I realised... https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/what-massive-databas... https://retractionwatch.com/…
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The closest thing that I am aware of was Symbolics OpenGenera. Symbolics (who owned the first ever .com domain on the Internet) made Lisp Machines -- high-powered personal workstations whose entire OS…
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> now that ICQ and AIM are dead ICQ is alive and well, and has native clients for most modern OSes. https://icq.com/ It got bought out and spun off when AOL were shutting down.…
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The various Oberon projects are on Github. E.g. https://github.com/andreaspirklbauer https://github.com/metacore …
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There is an active project to document Oberon (both language and OS, in its various versions) on Wikibooks: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon I personally am intermittently wo…
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Can it be summarised? No. Can it be described? Well, this is how I did it in a tweet, and the author like it and thanked me. « Fascinating, very long essay which starts with a discussion of text edito…
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This is the best single-page intro I've seen: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ …
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Somewhat, yes. I ran Win2K in 40MB on a 486 -- I was impressed that that worked at all. XP needs Pentium instructions, though, I believe. All the versions of Windows I've seen will run in lower t…
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[Article author] Thanks for the clarification!
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You know that Apple used to do servers, right? It did dedicated servers way back in the Classic era: • http://www.erik.co.uk/ans/ • https://lowendmac.com/tag/…
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:-D
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There are multiple issues with pointer arithmetic and it is widely regarded as one of the weakest, most failure-prone points in the C language. Some discussion: https://www.cs.swarthmore.ed…
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How come nobody ever even mentions that these so-called reproduction Model F keyboards have a totally different layout? Where are my side-positioned function keys?
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I think they are, but OTOH I think that's acceptably safe when it's a single-user, client-side-only OS written in a rigorously bounds-checked, type-safe language. I suspect that the obsess…
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This is true, but the concept was taken further in the Oberon operating system, which has a design goal of never asking the user questions at any point.
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