Jeema3000

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by Jeema3000 16y ago
I tend to actually think that the period during and immediately after World War 2 saw an even greater increase in terms of technology. Think about this, for example: In 1940, the US army air force's best fighter plane was probably the P-40
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
I agree with everyone else: try to get your old job back. If they're professionals (and you didn't burn any bridges), then they should realize that it was nothing personal when you looked for other employment. True, they may question your
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
I think what he's just saying is this: Punishment is typically expensive; rehabilitation is typically cheap and more effective in reducing future crimes after the person is out in society again. Punishment, therefore, should be reserved for
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
I might be biased as a retrocoder hobbyist myself, but I feel like 6502 assembly would still be very useful in the classroom as a teaching tool, with it's small and (IMO) relatively straightforward instruction set - in some ways it's sort o
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Exactly. There's no way to know if the action of pushing the fat man onto the tracks would actually stop the train. Worst case scenario, you might end up killing one extra person. In the 'switching the track' example, on the other hand, t
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
So am I. It's illegal to ask questions about family or marital status to a prospective employee, in the US at least. Your company could be sued for discrimination if you ask those types of questions to candidates.
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
A lot has changed since 2004. Yahoo for example has 3 pane viewing, tabbed email and chat, you can scroll through and see every email in your Inbox ever received without having to click any links. It feels pretty much like a desktop applic
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
First, before you ever turn the computer on, you should explain to them how computers work from a high-level that a kid can understand - i.e. how they are dumb, and they just follow instructions that we give them, and how those instructions
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Can someone who knows more than I do about this explain exactly why the government uses 'no-bid' and 'cost-plus' contracts and why nobody seems to complain about the seemingly obvious (to me, at least) conflict of interest here?
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Slideshow on my Intel Core 2 E5400 with the latest version of Firefox. If this is the best HTML 5 has to offer over Flash, color me not impressed. EDIT: There seems to be something wrong with Firefox on my computer. It doesn't seem to want
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
While these are some rather colorful and interesting ideas, might I suggest ROM chips? goes back to playing 30+ year old Atari games
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
It's also very annoying to have to un-indent an entire block of code during debugging just because you want to comment out the conditional statement around it...
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
I agree that Javascript is the true heir to BASIC. It's available on pretty much every computer out-of-the-box, much in the same way that BASIC was in the 80s. It's also a lot easier to deploy and share, as you said.
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
It sounds like maybe you're being a little too hard on yourself. The only person telling you that you have to be a millionaire by age X, or that you have to get a job right this minute, or that your project has to be completely perfect is
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Because it's a strategic risk for a hardware maker to be dependent on an outside company's software application to move hardware units. Reason being that the other company could take the killer app to another platform and quit supporting y
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
If it were the other way around: if women had to buy something in order to gain a man's affection and commitment, it would be considered a servile and sexist tradition. Yet somehow the tradition of men buying expensive engagement rings for
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
You're missing the point: of course it's not in BP's interests to have a well explode, but the people making the important decisions are often not making those decisions based on sound engineering, but on political pressures and incentives
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
"Gmail has become unusably slow" If it's that bad, then it begs the question: why do you continue to use it? There's plenty of alternatives. Vote with your feet and let them know.
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
The only way this can ever happen, I think, is if humans are able to model the building blocks of the brain (i.e neurons) and the processes that created it (i.e. evolution), because there's just no way we'll ever understand all of the emerg
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
It may be easier to just conceptualize it as a singularity that was always existing and always exploding in a single, simultaneous moment of time. Then again maybe not... :)
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
BTW, if you read the thread on AtariAge.com and were wondering, Curt Vendel is the head of Legacy Engineering, who designed the 'Atari-on-chip' that was used in the Atari Flashback 2 that was sold in stores a couple years back. Apparently h
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell shows up on AtariAge.com to defend himself(8bitrocket.com)
4 points by Jeema3000 16y ago|1 comments
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Unfortunately for Apple, the average user doesn't care about any of this. The average user just want to go to a website and have it work. IJW technology: It Just Works.
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Incarceration rates in the United States today, which are due largely to the anti-drug get-tough policies of the last 30 years, should alarm anyone who believes in the principles of liberty that this nation was founded on, IMO: http://en.w
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by Jeema3000 16y ago
Of course aliens could do that, but would they? The evidence so far says that humans in possession of a superweapon, at least, don't annihilate one another simply because of the possible threat of superweapon acquisition posed by the oth
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
...and then we wake up the next day and Google search and YouTube have "mysteriously stopped working" in all Safari browsers...
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
Doesn't matter. You aren't allowed to shoot wounded combatants who are out of the action.
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
According to the Geneva Conventions, you are not allowed to shoot wounded combatants who are out of the battle... period. End of story. It also specifically provides protections for civilians who are trying to assist wounded soldiers, so
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
guest@xkcd:/$ man next Request confirmed; you will be reincarnated as a man next.
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
I think the main problem may actually be in not setting a price. If you don't specify any price whatsoever, people will be more reluctant to donate because they'll be worried that their donation will be perceived as too cheap, so instead t

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