VonGuard

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571.
by VonGuard 12y ago
You forgot to mention the sentient, shape-shifting, dildos. Seriously. The whole series is focused on them as characters.
572.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Snowcrash. I love Buring Chrome, which is Gibson's short stories. True Names. Wetware/Freeware. Basically, start with Gibson, then Neal Stephenson, take some drugs and read Rudy Rucker, then have a mint julep and read some Bruce S
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Such a great book with the absolutely iconic characters of cyber-fiction. If you don't have time to read this book, perhaps you can find time to listen to the book on tape, as read by the author: http://www.bearcave.com&#x2F
574.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Even if your Betta is hyper intelligent, your little home for him is, basically, what he was designed for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betta Bettas tend to live in very constrained environments like puddles, rice padd
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by VonGuard 12y ago
OK, I was just in WA, and let me assure you WA is where the black market will continue to thrive. The CO market is taxed, but is actually cheaper than the black market in CA from what I hear. WA, however, has a state tax, county tax, city t
576.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Expect a NetFlix competitor, and a TV competitor.
577.
by VonGuard 12y ago
This was leaked about a month ago. Maybe 2. Twitch really is a phenomenon. There's such a diverse community of game streamers that I can't help but expect someone to enter this space to compete soon. There are millions of viewers,
578.
by VonGuard 12y ago
This. There's a reason Toady won't open source Dwarf Fortress, and I think it is mainly because he is embarrassed. Toady has a masters in math, not CS.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Dwarf Fortress. Read about it. Play it. Marvel at it. http://www.bay12games.com There is nothing same-y about a game where you can't hit a bogeyman with a hammer because he's too fast, but you can kick his ass with cra
580.
by VonGuard 12y ago
It was a perfect timing. MS was bringing in developers, and Bungie was the perfect target because it needed help, and because it was the coolest IP in development at the time. The trailer they showed at E3 2000 was the bee's knees, and
581.
by VonGuard 12y ago
None of Microsoft's Xbox IP that lasted originated at Microsoft. Bungie's work was on the Mac and PC at the same time for Halo. I know that, I was there, I saw the demos from Alex and Jason at E3 in 1999. Literally, what happened
582.
by VonGuard 12y ago
The MS first-party games were supposed to be the way the company made money on the Xbox, originally. Halo, Fable, all the tent poles of the Xbox platform started at MS. But those studios they'd purchased to make those games are all now
583.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Everyone please help Jason Scott and Archive.org and JMESS. Spend some time and help them out. #archiveteam on EFnet is a good place to start. They're a great organization, and JMESS is kinda a lynchpin to the future of the software pr
584.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Journo here. Very, very true. PR runs most of the stories you see. They don't usually run the hard news, like disasters and such, but they often glom onto those things so after a day or two, it's hard to tell who's actually r
585.
by VonGuard 12y ago
A lot of these are protocol changes, not necessarily client changes... And I don't see many protocol changes coming for email...
586.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Oh... my... god, you actually mention the red pill thing here? Red Pill is the absolute direct opposite of Hacker News, of intellectual maturity, of intellectual curiosity. Red Pill is like being a slave owner. iretired needs to go back to
587.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Luls, they let in fact press to protest, but didn't let me in for the first time in 6 years... Nice job Google PR!
588.
by VonGuard 12y ago
They may suck at marketing, but Mike gave me a pretty in-depth briefing. Have a gander: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=71423&...
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Doh, missed that part.
590.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Or why you'd want to tear down such a nice house? Aren't there open lots in Portland?
591.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Same in SF and Oakland. In fact, most of the approved new housing units in Oakland are designated to go in a giant development area on the water that doesn't even break ground for another 2 years... And people wonder why rents are so h
592.
by VonGuard 12y ago
I think the issue is whether or not the government can "disappear" people. In other countries, we've already been doing this for decades, but in theory, at least, it doesn't happen to US citizens. If the US is allowed to
593.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Low quality though it is, it was a great bus stop to exit at. I spent about an hour reading about Peral's submarine, torpedoes, and dreadnaughts. Good trail-head, if nothing else.
594.
by VonGuard 12y ago
That's why the library is the only civil service you can trust. They delete your records when you return books, unless you opt-out.
595.
by VonGuard 12y ago
Couple thoughts. First, Congress could swear in Obama's nominees. I haven't checked but a few years ago, basically he'd nominated hundreds of judges, and congress was refusing to approve any of them. This happened with Bush,
596.
Whatever happened to the startup guys who founded a society in South America?
10 points by VonGuard 12y ago|1 comments
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, and I've never seen anyone outside D-Wave show these types of speedups. Last article I read, in fact, was struggling really hard to even show that D-Wave was the same speed as traditional algos.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Yup. Just wrote about this, actually: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=71372&... The Federal Circuit court has been, essentially, ignoring the supreme court, and has had just about every decisi
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Odd to think that physics has found so few naturally occurring fractals.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Certainly, but maybe it's not a business yet?

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