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by Tistel 8y ago
Great article. I have used computers my whole life (my parents heard it was the future), but, only started programming in high school. None of the science teachers knew how to program, so they gave it to the gym teacher. He said: "y
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by Tistel 8y ago
never mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL
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by Tistel 8y ago
Neat article. I am quite old but never touched COBOL (they used Java to teach in Uni). There are so many articles about the failures of transitioning on legacy system to a modern one. Like that British bank going over to a Spanish one (T
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by Tistel 8y ago
There are less dangerous ways to explore "building a CPU from scratch" that hit on the really interesting bits. "Digital Computer Electronics" by Malvino and Brown. You are given logic gates (and, or, nor, nand etc)
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by Tistel 9y ago
Great/Scary article. Has anyone worked in the tilting building? Are there cracks in the walls? Is the soil compaction expected to stop (some max density type thing)? I think they stopped the tower of Pisa tilting by injecting concr
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by Tistel 9y ago
They are different things with only a very superficial overlap. Yes they all may have: writing, 2D/3D art, acting and audio etc. But, only games have an interactive mechanic . You can tell if a game will be fun without any of the a
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by Tistel 9y ago
I feel bad for guy. Everyone has had some mind numbing task that causes you to space out. But! Here is a half baked app idea that might prevent, or at least reduce, this unfortunate situation. Make it like the nuclear launch systems in
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by Tistel 9y ago
competition keeps the herd healthy. Somebody should make an ARM laptop/desktop that is not riddled with three letter government agency spyware (a ring -3 web server! Hidden from the person who bought the CPU! Did I say you could do t
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by Tistel 9y ago
We need to vote with our soldering irons! http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html make our own damn free software/hardware phones! Those port stealing bastards!
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by Tistel 9y ago
Google might want to look at the history of Standard Oil and the old US wide singular Bell Telephone. If you get so big that you can abuse your power, you will probably start to do so (power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely ...
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by Tistel 9y ago
I have been doing blender scripting for work for the past few days only. You can pick it up pretty quick because it has a nice feature: there is a scripting screen/mode and as you do the manual mouse/keyboard steps with the norm
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by Tistel 9y ago
We are using Elixir and Phoenix. Its amazbalz. The properties of the erlang VM (100k processes, individually garbage collected etc) are going to make it a killer platform. (edited)
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by Tistel 9y ago
Twitter owns https://www.mopub.com an ad exchange too. I think its one of the bigger ones. Ad exchanges are the things that provide revenue to app devs. Basically, when you open a free(mium) app there is a market bidding for
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by Tistel 9y ago
very nice. I like the wall jump mechanic.
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by Tistel 9y ago
I'm 42, programming is the fun part of the job (meetings, nonsensical time estimates and travel tend to be worst part of the job). Had a computer my whole life (Vic-20, oh yeah!) I strongly agree with what others have said in the art
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by Tistel 10y ago
I had never even heard of the Mezzano OS and I am really into Scheme/Lisp. Very nice game demo!
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by Tistel 10y ago
I am not sure if they still teach it, but, when I did CS 15 years ago they told us about computing in the 70's (maybe 60's too ? not sure) when every computer manufacturer had proprietary languages/OSs/systems on there p
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by Tistel 10y ago
I used to work at a AdTech company. At the start of a campaign, we would put a lot of work into getting the ad campaign to show up on a highly curated set of apps that had desirable user for the campaign (men like sports score apps, women
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by Tistel 10y ago
The median overall happiness of planet earth will go up significantly when North Korea rejoins South Korea and adopts the South's behaviours. We are a strange species, we can go to the moon, but, struggle to see/admit such an obv
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by Tistel 10y ago
Warning, this will be slightly vulgar. If you go to zoo and see primates that are mad, they sometimes throw ahem waste products at each other. We share 96% (or whatever) DNA with them. I am willing to bet $2.56 that if you did a MRI sc
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by Tistel 10y ago
Ah! thank you. I was going to yell: "THE J.V.N.!" wow! I read somewhere that he (the math/cs JVN) had a lead foot, the Ferrari makes sense. Still good/strange story.
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by Tistel 10y ago
I was born more than a month premature and was in a NICU. I did ok in school/uni, but, I have very poor social skills compared to my siblings. I wonder if this is a contributing factor. Oh well, I guess there is nothing you can do a
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by Tistel 10y ago
I bought a laptop from them 7-8 years ago because I felt paying for an OS then putting Gnu/Linux onto it was a waste of money (the Dell XPS is just as expensive as the Windows one, so I think I got this wrong). It worked really great,
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by Tistel 10y ago
People are working on it. Search for: artificial general intelligence. There was a book out last year called: "the master algorithm" that talked about it (the book is not that great). We all know about how well certain AI are do
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by Tistel 10y ago
Does anyone have any more insight into what went wrong with the non rectangular (presumably higher volume) battery that they wanted? Just hard to manufacture the shape? The bad battery life on the new ones is a big challenge for their mar
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by Tistel 10y ago
My first job out of Uni was making "games" for slot machines. My soul is forever damaged (not joking). I have horror stories over how much thought goes into the "design." In a given jurisdiction (State/Province&#x
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by Tistel 10y ago
No ones likes Trump. Its just that people dislike Clinton more. The DNC fielded a toxic loser that everyone outside of Manhattan and LA could smell from a mile away. Look into the Clinton Foundation, they are cartoonishly corrupt and b
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by Tistel 10y ago
I did CS and have been a professional programmer for more than 15 years on pretty much every platform under the sun. I am very introverted. I still panic during the whiteboard phase of the interview about 75% of the time. Like go blank o
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by Tistel 10y ago
I will bet $1.43 that Apple's next version of the iMAC will have a tilt bevel like the Cintiq art monitor and the new MS Studio computer. I think Wacom still claims to have better pressure resolution that the MS touch (no sure if true
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by Tistel 10y ago
caps lock is for control!

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