VonGuard

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811.
by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah, when HP said they were going to buy Autonomy, my first reaction was "Who?" And it's my job to stay up on this stuff... Frankly, I expect this to cause huge problems for HP, possibly even sound a death knell. HP has been fucked for som
812.
by VonGuard 14y ago
Soooooooooo, the Republican part out-sourced these campaign jobs?
813.
by VonGuard 14y ago
That's funny. Kinda like NASA and the Soviet space program. NASA spent 5 years and 100 million $ to develop a pen that writes in space. The Russians used pencils.
814.
by VonGuard 14y ago
My reading seemed to indicate complete architectural failure. 11 database servers for the desktop app, but only 1 app/DB server for the mobile app, which most people were using. Also, Comcast shut them down over DDoS concerns somewhere, mea
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Ask HN: Who wrote Orca?
16 points by VonGuard 14y ago|16 comments
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Frankly, I think ya'll hit the nail on the side, but not collectively on the head. Take a little from column A, little from column B, and we can see the real problems with Groupon. As one commenter said, they only work for certain merchants
817.
by VonGuard 14y ago
Sadly, I don't think TC is going anywhere. There's two types of new journalism that have come out of the technology boom and the Internet, and only one of them is worth while. Guess which type TC is... The first type is the good type: the L
818.
by VonGuard 14y ago
Is this a subtle way of DDoS'ing a site they don't like?
819.
by VonGuard 14y ago
I can't really apologize for my brethren in the market, but yes, tech journalism tends to be terrible. The journalism market was already disrupted by Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Blogs in particular are great, because instead of reading wha
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Clearly Spanner is of interest, as every single NoSQL and DB startup has been blogging and making statements about it.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
"It was the perfect opportunity to leapfrog Google and help the open source community" The only time Apple helps open source is when they hire the most important people in really important projects, and then they graciously allow them to co
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Lobste.rs The thinking there is: Only links about development of software, no entrepreneurial stuff.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
This is the same path I took too. It must be a really obvious cycle we're all participating in. When a community gets to some set size, the number of cock-gobbling assholes who post mean things that contribute nothing becomes larger than th
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Totally different game. DayZ is about solo play until you encounter other people, and even without cheating 90% of encounters with another person are shoot first, ask questions later. Additionally, Just Cause is about just grabbing the near
825.
It's time for Hacker Hostels(sdtimes.com)
2 points by VonGuard 14y ago|1 comments
826.
by VonGuard 14y ago
Or maybe they should just be expunged from the budget all-together. They're a giant money sink. The war on drugs is fairly well lost.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
No luck yet, just more PC's from people's garages....
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What's in the software behind NASA's Curiosity Rover?(sdtimes.com)
2 points by VonGuard 14y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah, useful or not, this is the aspect that i suspect makes this thing quite hot, at all times. Like, even if you have it off, but plugged in, it's hot to the touch. Worrisomely hot. Underside of an old macbook, hot.
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Watching Fortress' creation, and termination(sdtimes.com)
5 points by VonGuard 14y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Well, we'd rather use standard stuff without Wine. I could make Wine work, but I doubt our volunteers could... Dev systems that only work in Windows: Fusion, Unity, Stencylworks, GameMaker, and Click N' Play. We do use Linux and Dosbox to e
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Need PCs to teach kids programming
6 points by VonGuard 14y ago|7 comments
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by VonGuard 14y ago
This is why the Robolympics is no longer called that.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I'll even give you a hacker news discount if you email and setup a week asap. $25 off for anyone who mentions HN.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Indeed. It's a week long camp, and every week is a different session. But it's structured so kids can work on the same projects between weeks if they keep coming back.
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Parents of HN: Videogame programming summer camp in Oakland(themade.org)
3 points by VonGuard 14y ago|5 comments
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Awesome. I still use my 2000 from time to time. That device was so far ahead of its time in every regard. Second hat tip for your work.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Switching this week. Bye bye Megapath/Speakeasy.
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The World's Drunkest Programmer... In your office?(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 14y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yer absolutely right. Hyper local is the only way to win as a newspaper. Sure, you can just reprint the AP stories on the big international news of each day, but a better tactic is to post pictures of locals on the front page, and to let th

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