IvyMike

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by IvyMike 8y ago
This is a blatant rip-off of my 17-line c64 basic game, Space Caverns, published in 1986 in Run Magazine. http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=12367&d=24&h=0 :)
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by IvyMike 8y ago
He's already stated that he's not going to take another $1M+ job in California again. I wish him the best of luck.
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> what benefit is he getting during his temporary stays there that is worth anything close to the 13% they're taking? Things that keep people healthier and smarter, and provide infrastructure and livable wages, do in fact benefit p
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by IvyMike 8y ago
> would see no benefit from the CA tax Well, no benefit except for the 70% of his time he spends there.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
There's some amount of evidence to the contrary; the group moving is self-selecting and trends conservative. One example: https://www.newsweek.com/more-native-born-texans-voted-beto-...
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by IvyMike 8y ago
> I feel like this is possible on every website ever made. Idea: Reddit, but the comments are a blockchain.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
This is the premise behind https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Sadly invite only for now.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
> If the admins can edit comments without any indication to the users... I feel like this is possible on every website ever made.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
The rich should be the ones who are the most concerned with runaway wealth inequality, because the historical endpoint of that line usually isn't pretty for anyone. (But can be especially bad for the rich) https://aeon.co&#
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by IvyMike 8y ago
Reminds me of the old C64 game "Realm of Impossibility" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdGBA0FG7Gk
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> Most of such if not all things will fail and have to be replaced before then. I'm looking back at the things that I own today that I owned in 2000. (Or, if you're young, consider the things your parents own that they owned i
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by IvyMike 8y ago
His early history of Perl is at odds with my memory. In my memory, perl was pretty great with not breaking old stuff. Even the pretty amazing feature set added between perl4->perl5 seemed a natural evolution to me. https://
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by IvyMike 8y ago
> As far as I know, Junior and Senior are masculine. Falsehoods programmers (including me up until about 30 seconds ago) believe about Junior: it's masculine only. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/112
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by IvyMike 8y ago
Prior to usenet morphing into a primarily binary distribution channel, it was the primary internet discussion forum. There used to be a usenet search company called "DejaNews". It was awesome. Google bought them and repackaged
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I feel like there should be an honorable mention for Google Groups/Dejanews. I mean, I guess usenet search is still there, but it's a shadow of its former usefulness.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
The cover of the new "Noma Guide to Fermentation" is an illustration of this phenomenon. https://www.workman.com/products/the-noma-guide-to-fermentat... P.S. It's an awesome cookbook; highly recommended.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
There's another question to ask: Do you actually want to keep your job as your company grows? This is not to imply "yes" or "no"; it's a very personal answer. At the companies I've been in, there are so
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That's not my reading. Can you diagram the original question in a way that makes this apparent?
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by IvyMike 8y ago
The piece was authored by two employees of the Cato institute, which was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation. The Kochs appear to have at least a 50% ownership of the Institute, although as this article says, "who knew a nonprofit c
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I wonder if Apple is artificially shortening buildings so you can see what is behind them.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
> Query does not rhyme with very Doesn't it?
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by IvyMike 8y ago
Offtopic, but this reminds me: did google ever issue an incident report on why youtube went down earlier this month? A quick search didn't turn up anything.
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by IvyMike 8y ago
Wikipedia has a list of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon "Landings" and "impactors" looks to be about 25 missions total by my count. Many of the "orbiter&quot
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by IvyMike 8y ago
It is. The screen although small is bright and sharp. Bigger could be nice, but it's cute this way. The other thing is that the feel of the whole thing is just right--clicky joystick, real arcade buttons. There are cheaper ways to
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by IvyMike 8y ago
It is emulation, but I recently built a Picade and packed it full of arcade roms. It has been a ton of fun. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade
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by IvyMike 8y ago
It's a terrible policy, and unfair across the company as it depends on local manager approval. Have a workaholic manager? Enjoy getting less vacation approved than your peers. Keep track of it yourself in a spreadsheet. Don't go
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P.S. The real trick is to take a large soda lid and pump the ketchup onto it. (You may want to use two nested lids to prevent leakage through the straw hole)
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by IvyMike 8y ago
I'm comparing the i7 here to the i7 in my current computer, built in April 2011(!) https://ark.intel.com/compare/186604,52214 Kinda though I would see a lot bigger differences. There was a time in my life when I
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by IvyMike 8y ago
Learning Huffman Coding in SICP was an amazing thrill--and all these years later it's still up there in bang-for-the-buck neatoness.
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And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave him. https://urbigenous.net/library/power.html

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