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Tweet from Ingvar Stepanyan

2016 Oct 13, 10:02
OH "Careful though, if your pointer is too negative it might end up adressing the machine next to your current one."
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MotherJones - Meet the people behind the Wayback Machine, one of...

2014 Jun 1, 4:16


MotherJones - Meet the people behind the Wayback Machine, one of our favorite things about the internet

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The Doritos origin story: Repurposed garbage from Disneyland

2014 May 6, 7:16

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A reminder that those Doritos you love are trash:

Shortly after Disneyland opened in 1955, the founder of Frito-Lay got permission from Walt Disney to open a restaurant in Frontierland with a Mexican-ish theme. “Casa de Fritos” was, unsurprisingly, all about the Fritos. Customers got free Fritos, and Fritos were incorporated into many of the dishes. Fritos were dispensed by an animatronic vending machine that featured the terrifying “Frito Kid”asking his assistant “Klondike” to bring the bag up from a mineshaft. I guess the conceit is that Fritos were mined by Forty-Niners?

Casa de Fritos contracted their tortilla production to a company called Alex Foods. One of the salesmen from Alex Foods, making a delivery to Casa de Fritos, noticed stale tortillas in the garbage and gave the cook a little tip: fry them and sell them as chips instead of throwing them away. Casa de Fritos began making these fried, seasoned chips to enormous success, but didn’t report this new menu item to the Frito-Lay company.

Eventually Frito-Lay found out what they were doing with the chips, packaged them, and sold them by the truckload. See, dumpster diving works out sometimes!

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Internet Archive lets you play one of the earliest computer...

2014 Apr 28, 9:39


Internet Archive lets you play one of the earliest computer games Space War! emulated in JavaScript in the browser.

This entry covers the historical context of Space War!, and instructions for working with our in-browser emulator. The system doesn’t require installed plugins (although a more powerful machine and recent browser version is suggested).

The JSMESS emulator (a conversion of the larger MESS project) also contains a real-time portrayal of the lights and switches of a Digital PDP-1, as well as links to documentation and manuals for this $800,000 (2014 dollars) minicomputer.

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FitBit and WebOC Application Compatibility Errors

2013 Aug 29, 7:17
I just got a FitBit One from my wife. Unfortunately I had issues running their app on my Windows 8.1 Preview machine. But I recognized the errors as IE compatibility issues, for instance an IE dialog popup from the FitBit app telling me about an error in the app's JavaScript. Given my previous post on WebOC versioning you may guess what I tried next. I went into the registry and tried out different browser mode and document mode versions until I got the FitBit software running without error. Ultimately I found the following registry value to work well ('FitBit connect.exe' set to DWORD decimal 8888).
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
"Fitbit Connect.exe"=dword:000022b8

For those familiar with the Windows registry the above should be enough. For those not familiar, copy and paste the above into notepad, save as a file named "fitbit.reg", and then double click the reg file and say 'Yes' to the prompt. Hopefully in the final release of Windows 8.1 this won't be an issue.
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Indicating Details of Problems to Machines in HTTP

2012 Jul 3, 2:28

This specification defines a “Problem Detail” as an extensible way to carry machine-readable details of errors in a response, to avoid the need to invent new response formats.

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Mother Jones

2012 Apr 4, 7:20

fluxmachine:

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Changing System Environment Variables on Windows

2012 Mar 16, 3:13

Is this really the right way to do this? Feels icky:

To programmatically add or modify system environment variables, add them to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key, then broadcast a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message with lParam set to the string “Environment”.

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How to collect JavaScript performance data for Windows Metro apps on a device that does not have Visual Studio installed

2012 Mar 16, 2:27

Documentation for the VS JS profiler for Win8 HTML Metro Apps on profiling apps running on remote machines. 

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Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine - Hack a Day

2011 May 30, 3:13"We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that injects fake news stories over public WiFi connections last February, but now there’s a great walk through and it seems our doubts about this project were disproved."PermalinkCommentssecurity journalism wifi hack technical

Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres - tech - 05 April 2011 - New Scientist

2011 Apr 8, 2:07"On average their method gets to within 690 metres of the target and can be as close as 100 metres – good enough to identify the target computer's location to within a few streets.", "When a landmark machine and the target computer have shared a router, the researchers can compare how long a packet takes to reach each machine from the router; converted into an estimate of distance, this time difference narrows the search down further."PermalinkCommentstechnical internet privacy geo geolocation security

Mind vs. Machine - Magazine - The Atlantic

2011 Feb 17, 1:01Brian Christian on his involvement in the 2009 Turing Test and his goal of winning Most Human Human.PermalinkCommentshistory ai science

An Inside Look at Threadless T-Shirts

2010 Sep 15, 10:56A short look behind the scenes of Threadless. Cool shots of the screen printing machines.PermalinkCommentsvideo shirt tshirt threadless behind-the-scenes

Google Prediction API - Google Code

2010 Aug 13, 11:46RESTful machine learning API from Google... "The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity."PermalinkCommentsrest ai google programming analysis machine-learning development technical

Syyn Labs: High Voltage Debauchery

2010 Jun 6, 4:55
Syyn Lab's website -- the team that did the Rube Goldberg machine for the OK Go This Too Shall Pass video.
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FORA.tv - Adam Sadowsky: Music, Machines & Life

2010 Jun 6, 4:39
Adam Sadowsky of Syyn Labs presents at Maker Faire about how Syyn Labs produced the Rube Goldberg machine for the OK Go This Too Shall Pass video.
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Childrens' Hospital: Watch Full Episodes on TheWB.com. Starring Hot Tub Time Machine's Rob Corddry

2010 Apr 5, 10:41A satirical hospital drama TV show starring tons of humorous people like Rob Corddry, David Wain, Jason Sudeikis and many many more people who you will recognize but not necessarily know their name.PermalinkCommentshumor tv hospital satire rob-corddry

People's Republic of Interactive Fiction

2010 Apr 1, 2:42Its like a better version of what I was doing with my Web Frotz Interpreter. Its all client side javascript, HTML, & CSS to play Z-machine based interactive fiction games. They even do the saved game in a URL piece.PermalinkCommentsif interactive-fiction game web browser webapp

A Turing Machine Overview

2010 Mar 28, 4:37Mike Davey builds a Turing Machine drawing ones and zeros on tape. Pretty cool, but the tape length is only finite.PermalinkCommentsfsm turing-machine video technical

Not your father's PageRank

2010 Feb 26, 10:12Interesting stuff about Google determining synonyms based on folks changing their search queries.PermalinkCommentsgoogle search synonym machine-learning english language technical
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