Luyt

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by Luyt 15y ago
That's interesting. I used to use that slogan on my WoW forum banner. http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/wow-luytbanner2.jpg
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by Luyt 15y ago
And all the ugly parking lots will be underground! What a huge gain. It almost makes me want to work for Apple and move to Cupertino.
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by Luyt 15y ago
All the greenery and landscaping also made me wondering in what extent this new campus will be accessible to the general public. Will you be able to just go there and take a walk in Apple Park, or will there a big fence around it? In the p
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by Luyt 15y ago
But he also calls it 'human scale', while in the pictures the building looks huge: it's a kind of hollow frisbee, pentagon-style. Maybe it's because I'm from a small country, we don't have skyscrapers here ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
The goal is very noble and I'm all for it, but there is this problem that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, and electricity isn't infinitely transportable, nor easily stored.
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by Luyt 15y ago
This was also the reason why floppy disks had interleaving sectors; so that the CPU had some time to empty the read/write buffer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleave#Interleaving_in_disk...
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by Luyt 15y ago
"The program, which was about 50 statements in Visual Basic, checked all of 8991 four digit numbers from 1000 to 9999..." Whoa, you need 50 statements in VB for that? I need 14 in Python: import collections def kaprekar(k):
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'd say a ' cracker hangout', but that's just me, not willing to let the popular media bastardize the true meaning of hacker .
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by Luyt 15y ago
All these speculations are wrong. Last night an extraterrestrial entity appeared in my dream, and it was revealed to me that Apple's big announcement will be the 'iConsole', with which Apple will enter the console market, to crush the Xbox
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by Luyt 15y ago
"let us briefly examine the tulip mania that is Groupon." Yesterday I equated the bitcoins craze to tulip mania [1]. I wonder whether the author of this blogging read that on HN, and thought he could use that for Groupon, too. He also li
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by Luyt 15y ago
Hmmm, 90% seems to be glueing Win32 APIs together for a GUI. That's not very exciting in assembly; neither is it significantly more efficient than doing it from C. It's also very unreadable, and I fear for maintainability. And does this we
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by Luyt 15y ago
I liked the Ayn Rand reference. She's one of my favourite philosophers.
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by Luyt 15y ago
The touchpad on the MacBook Air is the best I ever experienced: it approaches the usuability found on the iPad. It even has a finish of a low-friction plastic, in contrast with my old E520 laptop which seems to resist my fingers gliding o
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by Luyt 15y ago
Bitcoins might turn out to be the modern digital equivalent of the Tulip Mania [1], a short span of intense speculation with tulip bulbs in 1636, complete with short selling and outrageous profits to be made, which suddenly collapsed in Feb
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by Luyt 15y ago
It's actually quite sad you first have to instigate a media racket before the police will even look into your case.
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by Luyt 15y ago
This annoys me too, for example, Windows 7 has this flashy 'aero' GUI on the top, but as soon as you descend below that, for example when setting environment variables or adjusting TCP/IP settings, you're back into Win3.1 prehistory and th
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'd say "no, no, no" too, because prolonged use of a vertical touch surface is ergonomically unfeasible.
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by Luyt 15y ago
"a new division in the Open Source community" The open source community can't be divided. Or do you equate a 'division' with a fork, like emacs/xemacs, openbsd/netbsd, joomla/mambo?
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by Luyt 15y ago
That'd be http://oppugn.us/ , where the rants go.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'd like to add to that our CEO presents himself as 'the janitor'. This is to avoid people trying to cling to him and asking all kinds of things he can't fulfill anyway. He dresses very casually, so you couldn't tell him apart of a true ja
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by Luyt 15y ago
Heh, I used to do everything at our startup, from painting the walls to cleaning the toilet (and vacuuming our office and making sure the elevator wasn't in a ghastly state). Now that we run for 3 years, I don't have to do these jobs anymor
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by Luyt 15y ago
This was discussed earlier on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
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by Luyt 15y ago
This happened to one of my company's inactive domains too, without me noticing it. How embarassing! The registrar (Afilias, since it was an .info domain) did notice, and put my DNS status on HOLD until I got it fixed. But nobody alerted
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by Luyt 15y ago
I agree that the actual information content in this 'pitch' is abysmal. As for the presenters' technique, I'd like to add: - Speak whole sentences, and keep continuity. - Don't interject 'Errrrr.... So! Ehm, ..." all the time.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Thanks for the tip, I removed the link from that comment. It was a gruesome picture indeed, fake or not.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Excellent idea. I'll squeeze in a second 'sabbatical' with some years between the two.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Indeed, it is time to write off the Web. I didn't like the Web anyway; I was happy back in 1991, with email, usenet, FTP, Archie, Gopher and Veronica. That was all we needed. The early Web looked interesting at first, but after a few yea
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by Luyt 15y ago
"There are four major stakeholders in the Android smartphone market: the cell carriers, the consumers, the handset makers, and Google. The carriers want smartphones to be locked-down carrier-controlled devices through which customers obedi
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Intro to Scapy, a framework for crafting and transmitting arbitrary packets.(packetlife.net)
1 points by Luyt 15y ago|0 comments
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Voronoi Polygonal Map Generation(www-cs-students.stanford.edu)
161 points by Luyt 15y ago|5 comments

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