Sapient

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by Sapient 17y ago
I would just like to point my fellow hackers to ZapReader. http://www.zapreader.com/ Basically it will take text supplied (either pasted in or a link) and flash up either words or sentence fragments at a chosen rate. Using this, I am able
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by Sapient 17y ago
I find trance music extremely unobtrusive and yet motivating. Almost everything else is distracting. I am a sworn procrastinator, yet as soon as I turn on one of Armin van Buurens radio sessions, I can do an entire days work in two hours.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Cool concept and a really nice implementation. I would love to see some more information on the listed packages though
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by Sapient 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761235 which links to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10309051-38.html
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by Sapient 17y ago
Except they aren't very funny, and in quite a few cases completely wrong .
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by Sapient 17y ago
I have given up on waiting for VMWare Tools to catch up and switched to VirtualBox from Sun. http://www.virtualbox.com Unless there is some strange functionality you need from VMWare that isn't supported in VirtualBox, I suggest giving it
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by Sapient 17y ago
Is the US really the land of the free still?
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by Sapient 17y ago
Wow, that sounds like an awesome idea if it doesn't already exist! Feel-good software.
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by Sapient 17y ago
A program which is itself illegal...?
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This Is Your Brain on Kafka(miller-mccune.com)
35 points by Sapient 17y ago|8 comments
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by Sapient 17y ago
Arguing that C attracts the smartest developers is pure trolling, there is no possible way to back up that assertion. I would argue that the smartest programmers are always attracted to whichever tool is best for whatever job they are doing
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by Sapient 17y ago
In context, it basically means that Nigerians are excellent at scamming people out of money. dey = is/are
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by Sapient 17y ago
I wrote one of these calculators in 2000 for a bank, my first paid job out of college. I have no idea what happened with it, but it was in VB (don't ask), and took about 2 days to write. If I'm feeling brave later, I may have a look to see
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by Sapient 17y ago
Agreed. There are a few groups around who still keep this kind of spirit alive. Seeing what the guys in the demoscene can to with 64k is truly amazing, but what they do with 4k can blow your mind.
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by Sapient 17y ago
While I'm not too sure that understanding the CAFEBABE stuff is truly helpful for improving Java performance, I definitely agree its helpful to know what's going on in there. Bytecode usually decompiles into very neat code since the mapping
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by Sapient 17y ago
The Story of Mel... An inspirational story of what true hacking is about. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
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by Sapient 17y ago
While I wouldn't agree that programmers need to learn machine code, I would definitely recommend that they at least learn some ASM and poke around in a few programs with a decent disassembler. Seeing and understanding how a program actuall
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by Sapient 17y ago
And that would have been awesome.
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by Sapient 17y ago
I managed to get quite a few excellent tips out of this discussion. I found a far less buggy terminal, and discovered a feature of Windows I didnt know existed. Seems like a good deal to me...
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by Sapient 17y ago
South Africa, though to be honest, that is for the 17" version.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Good point, maybe we just have less money in Africa :D A Macbook Pro is currently going for around $3500(USD), so its really hard for me to convince myself its worth it.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Or the Windows clone, e-Texteditor. Macs are far too expensive in Africa...
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by Sapient 17y ago
Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-... has served me well...
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by Sapient 17y ago
Thanks for that, yes that is indeed the way I am using the word. A bit old-school perhaps...
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by Sapient 17y ago
Reading the changelog belies the complexity of that project... I would dearly love to have the time to take a look at the code for it. Well done!
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by Sapient 17y ago
I had this exact same thought. The quality and size of a companies client list has absolutely no bearing on the quality of their design work. In a vote, I cant think of any mega-corporation sites which would even get a mention, let alone a
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Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Strategy: Too Much, Too Late?(mashable.com)
2 points by Sapient 17y ago|0 comments
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Bigger Tweets than Twitter(woofertime.com)
4 points by Sapient 17y ago|2 comments
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by Sapient 17y ago
What lovely irony that this appears on wired.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Not a particularly accurate portrayal of 4chan... amirite? From what I remember of 4chan, and CP was removed within a couple of minutes, and in some cases, everyone replying in the thread banned for up to 36,000 years. Everything else he sa

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