VonGuard

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by VonGuard 14y ago
The nerve of that New York Times reporter for wanting to go through New York.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Ahhhh, the ST. My first computer. What a great machine. Loving all the retro software on HN this week.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Well, without the comments, it's almost not worth it. They're like directors commentary.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
MOS Technology 6502B @ 1.79 MHz (NTSC version) @ 1.77 MHz (PAL version) It's the code for the Atari 800 version, I believe, so that's the processor. Some info on the assembly language for the 6502b http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/6502_Assembl
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by VonGuard 14y ago
This is spectacular. I really wish more great old game developers would do stuff like this. Not having the source code to the greatest games of our time is like having only half of the bible, or War and Peace. Or only half of Snowcrash or N
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Ask HN: Do you meditate? Does it help you concentrate and improve your code?
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah... "Rolled Up." You mean Scooter and Sam? Cause that's the only thing I can think of that made the transition from magazine to 1up. I worked there too... They kept Scooter and Sam. Sam eventually left anyway.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Actually, most media brands in the games industry are long dead and were left there to rot, without the assets even being sold. Look at EGM, GamePro, Computer Gaming World, Official Xbox Magazine. Hopefully, none of these acquired sites wil
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I never claimed ADHD/ADD didn't exist. I'm just saying I was called a prime example of ADD, and I was able to eventually control myself. I'm sure there are people out there that can't, but I'd personally wager that most folks who have ADD A
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I took Ritalin all through grammer and high school. Obviously it helped me concentrate, but when I got to college, all I could think was "I'm not me, I am this drug." So I stopped taking it. I flunked out of college, I moved back home, I fa
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Read the last part of this, about how RJ Mical wrote the Amiga OS: http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2013/01/24/Concentration-is... RJ stepped up. He volunteered to write the Amiga OS from scratch, entirely by himself. Of course, he had on
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Managers who have nothing to do love to go after people for stuff like this. When a manager's job is just to crack the whip, not to remove barriers, things get bad pretty quickly.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
The best code in the world is usually written faster and better by a single dood in a basement working non-stop for a couple days than it is by teams working for months.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Adding another Amen here. I work from home, and I can get done in an hour or two what most of my colleagues take all day or even 2 days to complete. Why? Because I'm left alone! The only time I work is when I want to work. That means, in or
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Agreed, the point is that having an exploit is only useful to someone who really really really wants into that specific system. With a system that will have millions of users, someone's sure to be angry at someone over something that's up t
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I didn't really care about who has what money. I just agreed with his point that 10k doesn't beat the black market for something this high profile.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
You know, one more thing I've been thinking on this all day. A thought I had years ago. I work from home. Whenever someone says to me "coworking space" I just marvel. Boggle, really. Why? I cannot imagine ever wanting to be in a room full o
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Dunno why you were downvoted. Yer very right. People just don't talk about it this loud.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah the biggest difference here is that this is about software development. A room full of people is great when you all need to talk a lot and discuss things and plans and exchange info really quickly and casually. But for programming, I f
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yup, I missed that. Thanks!
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Well, seeing their own logs in some sort of anti theft scenario?
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by VonGuard 14y ago
If you don't have insurance on your Titan, you shouldn't have a Titan.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
yeah, sometimes we forget that there are roles and expectations forced on men, too. Women are subconsciously expected to be thin and pretty thanks to images shown by the media. Men, on the other hand, are basically expected to be Bill Gates
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I know aliases and such still work, but you cannot, as far as I can tell, make an alias of yer HD on the desktop. Clearly yer not supposed to, but it just irked me. Thanks for the HFS links. I've never seen either of those before. Coulda sa
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I find it's really important to have a core group of friends outside of work and projects. Like a support network, or a release valve. People who care about how you are doing, not your company. I think a lot of founders feel like they can't
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by VonGuard 14y ago
TechCrunch will get you money. HN will get you respect and/or advice.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
See, the reason I want HFS+ gone is that NOTHING supports it. NTFS is supported on Mac OS, albeit read-only. NTFS is readable on most Linux's. EXT is readable by a number of OS's. And I don't want ReiserFS on my Mac. I don't want to be kill
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I agree, Apple can hide things to make the OS less complex. But what irritates me is that, as a user, I upgrade to the new OS, and the most basic of functionalities is hidden from me. They've literally taken something away. You cannot put a
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I agree some things here aren't backed up, and there are half-truths. The guy says he's going to list bugs, then he really doesn't, he just bitches in bulletpoint form. HOWEVER: He's totally right about everything behind all this. Apple is
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Agreed. I actually protested the DCMA when it was originally created, but then, 7 years alter, I was threatened with a suit because a commenter on my Website had written ugly things about someone. As a common carrier, I was safe thanks to t

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