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Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Due to another piece I'm currently writing, I read this entire article in Cate Blanchett's Galadriel opening-narration voice, and it works surprisingly well. Much that once was open-source is now closed, for none now live who can hack it; and...
Commented on Polemic: how readers will discover books in future
> Feral books will stalk readers, sneak into their ebook libraries, and leap out to ambush them A wild NOVEL appears! Novel used INITIAL CHAPTER FREE TO DOWNLOAD! (It's super effective.)...
Commented on Time tourism: some reaction shots
I read an utterly terrible webcomic in which the female time-traveller protagonist gets pregnant by Kurt Cobain, then dumps the resultant offspring in the future where he becomes a famous neo-musician for no adequately explained reason. So it does happen,...

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andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Let the truth be known from the scrolls of the intitiates: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html. You'd think Jobs would be proud of keeping his creation (NextStep) alive... So perhaps OS-X is the Islam of the OS world, since its a new religion which adopts the facade of the old....
andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Hmmm, looks like URL's are prevented. Lets try this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Or this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/ Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
paws4thot commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
That's how OSX was originally described; as being a Mac-style X environment layer over a Unix kernel. You're allowed 0 to 2 valid hyperlinks before your message will be automatically submitted to the moderation stack. Does that explain your "missing" submission?...
phongn commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Because it is. It conforms to the UNIX 03 specification. It's a bit unusual (BSD userland running on top of a Mach microkernel) but since it conforms to specification what does it matter if it has different sort of kernel?...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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