GeorgeTirebiter

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   by GeorgeTirebiter 15y ago

   ...unless maybe you want to write highly-optimized code for special applications, or maybe to write compiler code generators. Assembly language knowledge is still useful otherwise to understand what the machine really does.
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 15y ago

   I think that's 100% correct. I have 25 years' experience and am employed making less today (in a startup) than I did then (also in a startup) in constant dollars. Is 25 years' experience worthless these days? (I didn't sit on my technical
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 15y ago

   Copy/Paste into Emacs. M-x Fill-Region (which breaks lines) Enjoyably read article.
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 15y ago

   The interface is most likely different from what you are used to, yes?
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 15y ago

   I've heard that folks have done it (more than a year ago) but, apparently, the runtime takes a while to load and that makes the app practically unusable.
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

   Why do you think they accepted you?
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

   Very Asimovian, don't you think? Isaac Asimov wrote either 506 books (or 515, say some sources) in his 72-year lifetime. (Jan 2, 1920 - Apr 6, 1992)
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

   I suspect it's the SIM card cage + SIM card required for AT&T but not for Verizon.
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   by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

   OnLive was founded by Steve Perlman - one of the 3 co-founders of WebTV. Steve is the consummate Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur - brilliant geek, business guy, product visionary, cheerleader -- all rolled into one with a nice-guy perso
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    Not only that, but I have Foxit as my default pdf reader, and when I update Reader on Win7, it forces itself to become the default reader --- WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. This is just aggressively rude of Adobe.
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    I'm curious why they didn't put in a Blu-Ray reader/writer, if they're going to put in an optical drive at all?
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    Thanks. Look, it's the nature of text-only that doesn't capture very much of a person's "state". In order to do that with any sort of fidelity, a considerably longer post is required. Of course something short like that could be interpr
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    Your post could be shortened to: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clojure
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    I'm also curious. I suspect once the iPad2 and a slew of Android tablets with front-facing cameras are in the wild, we'll see lots of interesting software...
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    When I was a Junior at MIT in 1975, working in the Large Systems Group (the PDP-10) in Marlboro as a summer co-op student, I asked some of the DEC old-timers what would happen if I invited Ken Olsen over to my little summer sublet in Marlbo
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    A Revolution At the Computer History Museum

    2 points by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago|0 comments
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    This sentiment is not new. See "Microsoft at Apogee" by John Walker (founder of Autodesk, and a really brilliant guy): http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/msapogee.html Note the date: 9 Feb 1997 (!)
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    I completely agree. I met him about 10 years ago when both he and I were consulting at Olivetti Research Labs in Cambridge UK. A most gentlemanly man! So humble for being such a giant in the field.
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 16y ago

    What is "MM"? Millimeters? I'm joking of course, but I don't understand what "MM" means in a money context. I know that $1K is one thousand dollars, $1M is one million dollars, $1B is one billion dollars, $1T is one trillion dollars, and
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 17y ago

    I think that's an interesting point, but wouldn't computer language polyglots actually be the sort of engineers that Google is trying to snare?
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 17y ago

    I'm not quite so sure that's an apt analogy. For instance, Chuck does not believe in evolution and subscribes to intelligent design. More about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 17y ago

    I'm not sure why you can't have something like flash. Imagine if the browser, noticing it's about to download a .flv, would not d/l the .flv, but would trampoline that to a backend server that would transcode to, say, .mp4 and then your bro
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 17y ago

    So, you're going to lug and iPad AND your laptop when you travel? Seems like fail to me. (Don't forget the chargers and cables you'll need, too).
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 17y ago

    I put an ammeter on my Nexus One and measured 160 ma in black screen, and about 450 ma in white screen (with a "flashlight" application). When on but screen powered down (normal "waiting for a call" mode) I measured 2 ma, average, with occa
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    by GeorgeTirebiter 17y ago

    NetBSD already did toasters: http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php