In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon

A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.

Ars Technica
Pediu opinião:

Temos o produto do projeto #Linux como parte integrante do #Android, do #OpenWrt, entre tantos, da mesma forma do que até então era denominado #GNU. Entretanto, por conveniência do Mercado e de sua " #OpenSource Initiative", visando nos fazer esquecer a matéria social/política/libertária embutida na principal concretização do movimento #FreeSoftware, apenas esta acaba sendo chamada pelo nome daquele componente. Conseguiram: chegamos a este ponto de lamentável aparente não-retorno, já que todos conhecem a pragmática dissidência, usam seu vocabulário e seus símbolos  , enquanto raros defendem o movimento social original. 

#flameWars
Just for fun, not for #FlameWars, what is your preferred #Linux/#BSD/#UnixLikeOS text editor? #Boost appreciated for more visibility. 🙂
#Emacs or its derivatives
22.5%
#Vi or its derivatives
57.5%
#ed or its derivatives
0%
Other, please reply 🙂
20%
Poll ended at .

From a conversation with a friend on a recent Facebook post. A memory of a memory, #academic ghosts haunting the dusty rooms of my brain.

I once spent a very enjoyable afternoon in the #University of #Minnesota #Biostatistics department library reading through century-old bound volumes of #Biometrika, which is now a somewhat obscure #journal, but was in its day instrumental to the development of #statistics. All the great names were there—#Yule, #Pearson, #Fisher, et al.—and it was a clubby little world back then. Everybody who was anybody in statistics knew everybody else.

Just like today, they used a lot of space in their papers refuting each other’s papers. But the writing style was completely different, much more personal: many of the papers read more like conversations than the structured, pedantic language of modern journal articles in practically every field. “First I tried this, but it didn’t work, so next I …” “Like I said to so-and-so in a recent letter …” “According to whosit, such-and-such is true, but frankly, whosit is an idiot.”

Well, I recognized what they were doing: forming #cliques and having slow-motion #flamewars. Everything old is new again. Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn’t be better off stripping out the modern pretense of detachment.

@revk

Especially whingy dog owners complaining about fireworks scaring their pack animal while they let the little ^&*! sit in the garden barking all day taking no action.
#FlameWars

Well well, look what made it home.

#68000 #atarist #amiga #flamewars

@crossgolf_rebel Freundlich war das Usenet auch nicht gerade. 😅 Da hieß das ganze noch #Flamewars, unterschied sich aber kein Stück vom heutigen getrolle. Und #rtfm war auch eine nicht unbeliebt Antwort auf Fragen von Unwissenden.
Ich habe als #neuhier bzw. #wiederhier aber gemeint festzustellen, dass die Themen sich sehr den „alten Zeiten“ ähneln.
Kann mich aber auch täuschen. 😉

@ms Welcome, Michał! You’ll find that the server you sign up with isn’t that important, other than your Local feed. Following tags is your best bet to seeing what you want. For example, I follow #FreeBSD, which is how I saw your intro post.

Now, I’m more of a #vi guy myself, but I won’t get into any #Emacs/vi #FlameWars. If Emacs works for you, more power to you!