VonGuard

57 ms·

541.
by VonGuard 12y ago
The term "hacker" actually originates from the farm. I have had trouble finding reference to this fact, but Woz says it's so, so I believe him. Back in the day, they had single steam engines they'd rig to run pumps, far
542.
by VonGuard 12y ago
NTP's author, Eric Fair, is actually the son of the founder of Fair-Issac. Very smart cat, but this was all written so, so long ago it was bound to be exploitable sooner or later.
543.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Gimme gimme gimme! alex at themade.org thanks!
544.
by VonGuard 12y ago
You could probably buy this brand for low 5 figures. 90% of magazines that have gone under in the past 15 years weren't even sold. The few that I've heard of that were went for super duper low numbers, like low 5 digits.
545.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Andrew: Alex Handy, here. So sad to hear this. Dobbs was an institution, and a very respected one at that. Drop me a line, let me know what you're up to next.
546.
by VonGuard 12y ago
We have been teaching kids Scratch for 3 years in a weekly free class in downtown Oakland. The response has been wonderful. It unleashes the creativity in kids, and some children that are utterly silent and shy open right up when they have
547.
by VonGuard 12y ago
That only works until marketing calls your sales people and says "you spelled our name wrong!"
548.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Absolutely true that journalists are too busy to bother with markdown. What would be great, however, is to have tools for copy editing that do things like recognize people's names, Google them and spell check them. Recognize people&#x2
549.
by VonGuard 12y ago
That's exactly how much IRCcloud costs: $5 per month, and it allows you to bring it up on any Web browser, even a Chromebook. And it just works.
550.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Having met Alexey Pajitnov, I'm excited to read this piece. He's a great developer, but also a very friendly and charming fellow too. The thing that I think makes Tetris so great is its simplicity. I often measure the greatness of
551.
by VonGuard 12y ago
How come when I type "hunter2" it comes up " *"?
552.
by VonGuard 12y ago
IANANP (I an not a nuclear physicist) but I have read a great deal, and your best bet is to read http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/ which is chock full of interesting information, including a comprehensive list of every nucle
553.
by VonGuard 12y ago
That was only some CDC people. Many went on to sell out in entirely normal ways. Name me one smart hacker from the 80's or 90's that didn't get wickedly rich, and I'll show you a guy in jail. Hackers are worth money, lot
554.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Fry's in Santa Clara used to have one on display on their floor, bur it's gone now. My friends and I would fantasize about Hudson Hawking in at night and stealing the thing, but it was removed from display before we could ever att
555.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Anyone who is still interested in Interactive Fiction in the Bay Area, there is a once-a-month meetup for enthusiasts: http://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-area-interactive-fiction/events... It's free, there's often
556.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Journalist here. This man speaks truth. Pitching is 99% of the job, and I've lost count of the number of major stories my editors turned down, even when I had those stories as much as 3 years before major outlets. This is exactly how i
557.
by VonGuard 12y ago
One of the reasons people find DOTA-likes so unlikeable is the incredibly steep learning curve. It is often said that you know nothing about LoL or DOTA until you've played 1000 games. At around 45 minutes a pop, that means you've
558.
by VonGuard 12y ago
You should try Savage XR. 3rd person dota-like combat, but with strict RTS conventions. It's old, it's free, not many people play it, but boy is it fun! http://www.savagexr.com/
559.
Museum Hopes to Resurrect Habitat, the First MMO(massively.joystiq.com)
1 points by VonGuard 12y ago|0 comments
560.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, the fed loans money to banks at, essentially, zero interest, and the banks then use it to invest in the stock market, or some such. They make money, because the market isat all-time highs. They pay back the fed, and keep their profits
561.
Videogame museum in Oakland preparing to relaunch first MMO for C64(themade.org)
3 points by VonGuard 12y ago|0 comments
562.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Red Hat and Oracle will murder each other over Docker. I expect 2 to 5 billion in 3 to 5 years.
563.
by VonGuard 12y ago
ALGOL
564.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Yup. You like supporting COBOL? FORTRAN? How about some PL/1 running on AIX or something equally as byzantine... M&A can ruin your will to live.
565.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Caller ID is not and never was intended to be secure.
566.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Maybe they shouldn't send the SWAT team, but rather, send a car around to see what's up before the team goes bashing through the windows?
567.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, running your own switch allows you to send whatever you want as caller ID. You get the subject's number, call 911 and claim there's a hostage crisis. I miss the days when prank calls were about refrigerators running. Things
568.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, 20 people doesn't make a study, it makes a basis for forming a hypothesis for potentially going after a grant to actually do a study.
569.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Must not work that well. I flew alongside someone who smoked before a flight, and had the opt-out pat down... No alerts from the machine.
570.
by VonGuard 12y ago
No. Static was the intention: a grey mottled sky, rife with noir-insinuation. Can you possibly envision Chiba City as being anything but grey and filthy at all times? A blue sky completely changes the meaning of the line, and the tone of th

More ›