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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think most of the 2 million dollars went towards the 1993-vintage HD plasma TV, not the game hardware itself. Those are a lot less expensive now too, but you'd still need a fair bit more than $35 to get a screen big enough to comfo
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Yeah, I said as much (even calling them duals) in a sibling comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8375910 Method calls don't need to be fixed either. Just because C++ stores virtual methods in a fixed-sized tab
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
All code is extensible if you have the source code and can recompile the whole thing then restart the program. I think pjmlp meant extensible in the "extensible at runtime" sense.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>Blasphemous as it may seem, a switch statement does the equivalent of simple polymorphism and can be kept inline. In the statically compiled languages that most people think of when they hear "OO" (C++ and Java), yeah, switch
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I'm reminded of those horrible toe fungus medicine advertisements with the little toe gremlins prying up people's toenails and crawling under. I guess it worked, since I still remember the ad 10~ years later.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think it's funny that a "tweet storm" amounts to maybe two or three paragraphs of terse writing.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>And what about the additional time to go back and return lightbulbs. Does that not more than cover the money you save from the bulb? Err, you just bring them with you the next time you go to the supermarket...
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I deal by creating multiple windows, ideally one per general topic/use case. This works great with Chromium because you can easily drag multiple tabs between windows to organize things, and the shrinking tab bar encourages you to close
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>In the video presentation, they had a difficult time guaranteeing 10 milliseconds. In fairness, the estimate was 10 milliseconds for 100 GB heaps. Not everything (especially, I'd guess, programs that benefit from pauseless GC) deal
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I'm guessing that by "far more radical" the GP meant "directly evals s-expressions." Especially since, IIRC, that's how PicoLisp works. I don't think there is much benefit to that approach over simpler reg
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Even before that, it's shocking how few text editors have basic Lisp indentation and REPL support. I guess I did forget about Light Table (as AFAIK it doesn't support Scheme or Common Lisp yet), which seems like the right thing to
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That's more of a Lisp problem than a Clojure problem. All the Expert Lisp Programmers settled on Emacs many moons ago (as in decades past) and no one has bothered to write another (good) Lisp-friendly text editor since. And well, you c
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
J O K E. It's a joke. Read the story and the author's gameography, they're filled with 'em.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Props to whoever built this presentation software. With Javascript disabled, it gracefully degrades to a basic HTML page. Most others leave you with a single broken slide.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Cutting edge 3D game engines are incredibly complex pieces of software, and this was at the beginning of the 3D game revolution where there weren't any third party engines available, no one really knew what they were doing, and most de
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You threw it out? facepalm If you had sold it or given it away on ebay or craigslist, there's a good chance that someone could have fixed it or at least used it for spare parts (like transplanting a working console with a damaged cas
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
See also IBNIZ, a livecoding environment with a language inspired by (and even more terse than) FORTH. http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/12/ibniz-hardcore-au...
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
FTFY. FTFY.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I couldn't get the video or presentation to play, even in Chrome with Flash enabled, without using a mobile user agent. And you can't download the audio or slides without an account. Great web design. http://d1snlc0orfr
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
> By having a review process for extensions just a few suffer (the extension developers) and many (the users) benefit, because they can trust the browser. The users will also suffer if there are less extensions available because most dev
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>You should start a war on jobs. Maybe it'll work. Could this be the missing puzzle piece to implementing universal income???
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
A new editor that copied emacs' good Lisp support and insane customizability via hooks for everything but had an interface that was approachable for regular desktop users (tabs instead of buffers, good CUA-style keybinds out of the b
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I could be wrong, but I think System/360 is like COBOL: utterly obsolete and useless outside of a small handful of multi-bajillion dollar banks and government organizations with decades-long commitments. Maybe it lives on, but any norm
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Undoubtedly x86, but it doesn't have to be an either/or thing, you know. Once you've got one ISA under your belt, it's pretty easy to pick up others.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
As can an encrypted text file or a post-it note under your desk. It's still a stupid security anti-pattern.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I hate those so much. They lock me out of my accounts more often than they help. I always enter bogus answers because I think I'll never need to use the feature, then I run into a situation like: "Resetting your password via email
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Interview with an Adware Author (2009)(philosecurity.org)
54 points by ANTSANTS 12y ago|17 comments
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It's a bit of a catch-22: you can't know that there's not much different between x86 and x86-64 until you understand both. I guess asm newbies have some kind of mistaken idea that x86 is irrelevant and not worth their time le
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
A core is a mostly independent processing unit within a larger package. Some hardware resources (like the memory controller, at least in non-NUMA devices) are shared between all cores, but many are duplicated for each core. Some examples of
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
There's zero educational value in designing and building digital circuits by hand? What?

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