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by VonGuard 11y ago
The 8.5 and 8.6 branches of Mac OS were great, I feel. I hosted lots of servers on them, especially 8.6.2. However, every single other version of the OS was a buggy, crashing nightmare if you were looking for extended uptime. 7.6.1 was half
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by VonGuard 11y ago
DuPont IS Delaware. The reason the state is so business amenable is because DuPont effectively floats the whole state, tax-wise. Everything in Delaware is named after DuPont, and massive chemical plants dot the landscape. The DuPonts founde
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Caller ID is terrible. It was never meant to be a form of security, only to be a service the phone companies could sell access to. It's so incredibly easy to fake Caller ID that it's essentially useless at a macro level. To fix it
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by VonGuard 11y ago
He shows up at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce every year, and Benioff drags him on stage to talk about his work, or more recently, his new business. When he pitched zTailors this year, it was clear they were going to succeed, just by how
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by VonGuard 11y ago
It occurs in deep wells that cave divers swim into as well. They often have to swim through an H2S layer, which can numb their lips and any exposed skin. It's generally a race to get through this layer and into the caves below as fast
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Thanks for the clarification Schoen.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
There was that time in the 70's when you had to re-up your Copyright, and a lot of stuff fell out, like Night of the Living Dead.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
You are correct. We can now do just about anything we want short of redistribution or commercialization.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Then they would enter public domain. Copyright, however, lasts a very, very long time. Longer than the history of computing.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Yep. I can answer questions on this if you'd like. I also clarified what's legal in a comment below.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
I actually worked on this part of the exemption. It was granted in two parts. First, fans may now reverse engineer and host servers for games that are no longer hosted online. Metal Gear Solid 4 is a perfect example, but there are plenty of
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Precisely. Comes from games theory: if the other guy is thought to be irrational, it really backs you into a bit of a corner, playing it as safe as possible. Nixon had bombers flying to the edge of Soviet airspace, 24/7, all fully load
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by VonGuard 11y ago
This is a topic that comes up a lot on Hacker News, and as a journalist in tech, the above comment has some very good advice. The press release, however, is not dead at all. It's still quite relevant to all mainstream press outlets, re
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by VonGuard 11y ago
The buzz about their work from home program was that people were abusing it and not doing actual work. I agree, they should be able to work from home, but when she did this, she was basically firing a buncha losers. They should allow people
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Arun Murthay talks about the future of Hadoop(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 11y ago|0 comments
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Infrastructure as Code at Simple(simple.com)
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Green ones make you hit home runs. And the red ones are made with beatle wings, right?
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Yeah, they're Polish. It's like being founded in Delaware as an American company.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Shameless self promotion (non-profit, though) but if you're interested in game preservation, and in particular, games that might not be worth a commercial re-release, the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland is always wor
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by VonGuard 11y ago
This. He has the contacts. Make sure he takes his rolodex when he leaves. Day one after layoffs, call those clients up and say "Hey, they laid me off. Want me on contract?" Even if he only gets 3 or 4 clients from this, the money
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Honestly, I don't know that Jobs could have made a clock. Woz could have made one that calculated primes and rendered vector graphics, though.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Does this mean I can stick things like refrigerator magnets to cows?
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by VonGuard 11y ago
We had to slog through this for the Habitat project. The C64 is alive and well!
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by VonGuard 11y ago
C64 emulation is very tricky. Sometimes games run too fast, sometimes they don't run at all. The C64 floppy drive is a constant source of pain for emulation, as most games and software actually included their own drivers for the floppy
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Welcome to copyright law in this country. It's insane, and all to save Mickey Mouse from the public domain. Every time he comes up for copyright lapse, Congress kicks the copyright limit down the road another 20 years.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Their actual cheese store is a thing of beauty, too. You are not allowed to buy any cheese without tasting: they shove little bites at you as you ask questions. Americans don't love cheese enough. There should be one of these on every
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by VonGuard 11y ago
I have completely unscientific evidence from watching two friends on this for a year. One took it in bursts when code was due, usually no more than 2 weeks at a time. The other took it every damn day and basically didn't sleep all year
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Steve Mcconnell has a great book on software estimation, but it's about enterprise software, where there are requirements and goals. [ http://www.stevemcconnell.com/est.htm ] The biggest problem with making games is th
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Yes, there is a lot of overlap. But there used to be, too. Burning Man was the place where the weird and the tech came together. These days, with $600+ tickets, it is just a rich kids place to go. But there are still all those warehouses fu
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Completely agree. There's currently a Kickstarter to build a wall around SF to keep the Burners from coming back after Burning Man. Frankly, though, my first thought upon seeing it was "Geez, the Burners are the only people left i

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