DonHopkins

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by DonHopkins 3y ago
In the same sense that "Bullshit artist" is a better term than "Bullshit engineer".
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
The AI Treadmill: Looking backward: GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI) becomes BOFAI (Bad Old Fashioned AI), then later becomes ROFAI (Retro Old Fashioned AI) then eventually AOFAI (Antique Old Fashioned AI)... Looking forward: AI (Artificial In
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Game Helpin' Squad: A Pissed Off Tutorial For Google Wave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
If there are 20 projects like this that make you sad every day, you must be terribly depressed. But you just seem entitled, and feeling sorry for yourself. You don't seem very serious about pursuing and paying for your own self educati
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
How does that even affect your life or happyness? Do you have to sign an affidavit that the photo exactly depicts what happened or you go to jail? Will your friends never speak to you again if they suspect the phone you bought off the shelf
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
>I could blindly turn it on and snap a picture while driving, without ever taking my eyes off the road. Isn't driving while blind illegal?
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
How do you pay for all that electricity?
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Do you also think it's sad you can't sneak into Disneyland for 5 minutes for free just to see if there are any streakers in It's a Small World? I'm getting the impression you're just an entitled gamer who wants a fr
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Do you hang out a GameStop all day and test drive cars in GTA instead of renting a game about stealing them? Aren't you sad they don't just let you shoplift it for free?
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
-60 to 60 would be more interesting to watch, and pleasingly symmetrical.
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Have you never put quarters into a PacMan machine?
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
From the HN "Boustrophedon" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15539373 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547162
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26615042 DonHopkins on March 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009) Why bother actually writing such a book, which would probably be to
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Which is why Wayland was a failure from the start, and still hasn't displaced X-Windows after all these years. The fact that it didn't occur to the Wayland designers to make it extensible with an embedded scripting language like P
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25736735 mcguire on Jan 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought Don, did you ever figure out the difference between a "client" and
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
>X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats—like Sun’s Open Look clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn’t have enough to tell you the
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
You know, your PDF reader probably has a search function, and the book itself has an index, which has numerous references to NeXT and NeXTSTEP. NeXT: 11, 14, 230, 296 NEXTSTEP: 11, 14, 54, 141 OpenStep: 14, 141 Page xxxi of The Unix-Haters
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
From: npg@East (Neil Groundwater - Sun Consulting) Date: Wed, Jun 27, 1990 Subject: Humor from Dennis Ritchie (at USENIX) (Actually Dennis's latter remark was attributed by him to Rob Pike) from Unix Today 6&#x
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
The Unix-Haters Handbook was published in 1994, two years before the Open Group was founded in 1996, three years before they took over the X-Window system in 1997, five years before the formation of X.org, and ten years after X-Windows was
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Not at all: we all despise VMS, but are quite fond of ITS -- in fact ITS-LOVERS@AI was an alias for UNIX-HATERS@AI mailing list. Where AI is MIT-AI, a PDP-10 running ITS, whose 8 bit ARPANET address was 134. https://news.ycombina
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Henry Kissinger, how I'm missing you, and wishing you were here. He's got better legs than Hitler, and nicer tits than Cher! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vo7jLGOb8
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
And if you liked to hate Robert Carlyle as Doctor Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe, you'll love to hate him as Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold / Weaver in Once Upon a Time! ...Did you know Battlestar Galactica was based on the B
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Q's one and only was impressive! https://youtu.be/3ar-eJwgTsM?t=710
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Of course, as long as I can shower you with all my favorite Gowron themed Star Trek Shitposting memes! Look into his eyes. You'll grow to love him the way I do, and thank me later, I promise.
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Even a shared love of Star Trek can result in irreconcilable differences and huge battles. I'd never want to work with somebody who likes Holodeck episodes or doesn't love Gowron. That said, there are some times that even Star Tre
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Bedded, Bathed, & Beyonded
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
Not to continue learning to program for at least 10 years?
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
A good stress test is to try adding a parameter to your window manager that lets you specify the window id to use as the root window, and pass it xcalc's client window id! Then you can totally customize your calculator! I prototyped a
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
I love your dedication to customizing your own environment! I'm frustrated that Wayland doesn't support all the good ideas (and avoid all the bad ideas) of X-Windows or NeWS, and doesn't even have a built-in extension languag
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by DonHopkins 3y ago
And that certainly doesn't mean the bible doesn't subjugate women and condone slavery and child murder (which you can easily verify by reading it yourself), it simply means he's steered clear of addressing those points (which

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