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Posted onJuly 5, 2020July 9, 2020programming

The mysterious Angular couple, base-href and deploy-url

by Elze

This post talks about an ASP.NET Core web application with Angular 8 frontend. The application I use as an example was based on a skeleton…

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Posted onJune 27, 2020June 30, 20202005

ArmadilloCon 2005: When and How Will the 21st Century Get More Interesting?

by Elze

What this panel was supposed to be about, according to the ArmadilloCon program book: “The 20th Century saw great advancements in technology and many cultural…

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Posted onJune 23, 2020June 23, 20202005

ArmadilloCon 2005: What’s Happening in Outer Space

by Elze

Panelists: David Lee Anderson, Ctein (moderator), John Gibbons, Wil McCarthy What this panel was supposed to be about, according to the ArmadilloCon program book: “Our…

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Posted onJune 20, 2020June 20, 20202005

Where did all good hard science fiction go? An ArmadilloCon 2005 panel

by Elze

Panelists: David Lee Anderson, Kurt Baty, Tom Becker, Alexis Glynn Latner, Wil McCarthy At least one of the usual suspects’ opinion on the topic of…

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Posted onJune 13, 2020June 13, 20202005

ArmadilloCon 2005: pizza lunch with Charles Stross, or causal channel-enabled future space pirates

by Elze

I finally got to meet Charles Stross in person at the pre-ArmadilloCon pizza lunch. The pizza place, Mangia, is crowded at lunchtime. Its acoustics would…

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Posted onMay 17, 2020May 18, 20202004

Biologically Inspired Robots: a Linucon 2004 panel

by Elze

  The panelists reiterated the relevant discoveries that were new in 2004: growing organs in another location of recipient’s own body (whether human or animal)…

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Posted onMay 16, 2020May 26, 20202004

Eric Raymond’s speech: Linucon 2004: The Basics of the Unix Philosophy

by Elze

At Linucon 2004 Eric Raymond gave a speech on the basic principles of the Unix philosophy. They are the same principles as described in the…

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Posted onMay 8, 2020June 30, 20202004

Cyberpunk after 9/11: ArmadilloCon 2004 panel

by Elze

Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book: Why have the cyberpunks abandoned the future? Do William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition” and Bruce Sterling’s “The Zenith Angle” evidence a…

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Posted onApril 19, 2020May 7, 20202003

Neal Stephenson’s talk in Austin, October 1, 2003

by Elze

October 1, 2003 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he signed copies of his latest book “Quicksilver”, the first book in…

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Posted onApril 18, 2020April 29, 2020ArmadilloCon

Miscellaneous ArmadilloCon 2003 panels

by Elze

Some memorable or amusing moments from panels where I didn’t take enough notes to yield an article of its own: Ideas Somebody Should Write a…

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