TheTarquin

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by TheTarquin 19y ago
+1 for nano. Nano + syntax highlighting = best light-weight coding tool I've found for C/C++ work.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite bash.org quotes: "<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is." I'm sure as machines become smalle
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
The News.YC headline for this is a touch confusing. When I clicked on it, I thought the OP was summing up the article as "Don't look for startup cofounders." In fact the article is "don't look for cofounders via an unreasonably demanding
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
I disagree that one needs an implicit assumption that "business is a necessary evil" to admire what people like Feeney do. One simply needs to believe that charity is a virtue. Virtue on such a large scale as this is admirable. Regardless
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
It's sad that Microsoft felt the need to sell another OS. They CAN put out decent software, when they put in the requisite development time and energy. The windows machines I work on are Windows XP SP 1, which I think was kind of the last
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Nice! Those videos are awesome. CMU RI = made of win. Another interesting project they've got going (which seems like it might be related) is their work on modular robots using electromagnetics or static charges. http://www.youtube.com/
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Great! Thanks for the recommendation. I'll put it on my "to read" list.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
You might very well be right. Hmmm, . . ., is "rook lonely men out of credit card info" a good business plan for a YC app? :-P The Eliza Effect meets LonelyGirl15. - Well put.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Agreed. As in so many things, the strongest and weakest elements of Wikipedia are both the human element. Of course, with Wikipedia, that's a pretty big element . . .
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Interesting article. I went on a real animal intelligence kick a few years ago when I read Eugene Linden's The Octopus and the Orangutan . The books full of fascinating stories of animal emotion, intelligence, and tool use. (My personal
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Totally. The interesting thing will be in a few years when software like advances to the point to where we've climbed the other side of the valley and this just looks like a stoned girl with a webcam. After all, if it LOOKS human and it en
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Maybe there's a reason why she's so interested in something as mundane as a mouse cursor? I mean, interested in minutiae, vaguely dopey grin, . . . I get the impression that if I watch her for long enough she'll get the munchies and wander
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
That's really cool. It's amazing the profound effect that little UI tweaks can have. Not only in the sense that it makes software a better tool, but also in that something as simple as focusing on a textbox encourages users to use that to
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
I wish this happened to me. I do often do the "subconcious solves the problems" thing, but "sleeping on it" rarely seems to help, and it usually happens somewhere where I'm a long way away from anything to code on (computer, paper, or othe
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
"...perception is reality: if users see file copying as slower, it is slower. Despite all the algorithmic improvements, in spite of the superior file copy benchmark results, Vista's file copy performance is worse than Windows XP." Amen. "R
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Awesome! Thanks for the link and the name.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that there might be a distinction there. I had always kind of equated VCs with "funds new businesses".
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
I hadn't heard the "pea in a football field" one. As a former marching band geek who knows well how big a football field is, that definitely helps get some perspective.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Good book? I haven't read any decent sci-fi in awhile (last good one was re-reading John Scalzi's Old Man's War series) and I've been looking to read some more of the genre.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
I've found that the type of exercise matters A LOT for me. If I'm tired and I can get away to lift for a half hour or a little more, I come back to whatever I was doing re-energized and feeling great. Aerobic exercise leaves even more dra
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
And cue panicky article about "possible plagues from the sky" in 3..2..1..
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Good advice for someone, like me, who's new to the entrepreneurial world. The "Poker People" article mentioned in the linked entry is also pretty good. Good, if for no other reason, than it gives me the names of some other VCs other than P
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Oh man, I had no idea something like this existed! Shades of Gattica, but SO SO cool! Also reminds me of Dawkin's writing on a "Moore's Law" for genetics, basically saying that there's an exponential equation describing number of genes seq
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
If I could propose a new Microsoft motto: "It's gonna be awesome, trust us." I normally hate to make reductionist analogies, but my product sense is tingling and I'm thinking this might be to Google Sky what the Zune was to iPod. Microsoft
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
//My first Maroon program Make me a "Hello, World!" program, written in Maroon.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Okay, now THAT is mind-blowing. I can't even wrap my mind around some of the distances in our own solar system, much less something 270 million light years across. Maybe I wasn't cut out to be an astrophysicist?
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
While you do have a point that language is only of communicative value if the shared terms are common, I'm just enough of a fan of Charles Taylor and his ilk to argue that communication isn't languages only function. It has deep importance
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
If Kurzweil is right about even a fraction of the stuff he says, I'm fairly certain he'll prove to be an exceptionally important thinker. Unfortunately, I have serious doubts about almost everything the man says. He often seems to me to b
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Psh, oxygen is overrated . . . :-P
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
It well might be. Maybe my testing bench could use a little color . . .

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