Wyndtroy2012

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by Wyndtroy2012 7y ago
It was a terrible car in some (many) respects, but it definitely is not "the worst car ever built". The Trabi has a lot of things going on for it. 1. It is very light. The motor is tiny, the whole thing is like 600 kilos (not abso
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by Wyndtroy2012 7y ago
Given the other applications you chose to look at, I'm surprised you didn't also look at Audacity. It uses wxWidgets, which is a nice C++ cross-platform GUI framework. It wraps native controls on each platform it supports, and als
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by Wyndtroy2012 7y ago
Only the BBC's deliberately emotive headline to this story suggests that 'penguin chicks have died'. The facts behind it are that BAS scientists have reported that one colony site has been abandoned and that another nearby ha
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by Wyndtroy2012 7y ago
I find Wikipedia tremendously useful and have made modest acknowledgement of that financially. That said, I tried to get them to correct/augment something they had based on a thesis from the 1970's at a top US school. The matter c
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by Wyndtroy2012 7y ago
Remember the Mac OS and MacWrite fit on a single LOW-density 3.5″ floppy in 1984.
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by Wyndtroy2012 7y ago
How come all of us people that drive cars and are not in the car production business ,all knew the predictions Hackett and the rest made was loony?
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
Good article. The land tax is probably the preferred tax of libertarians, and it does make sense in many cases. But in the case of cities with vastly higher municipal costs than its neighboring jurisdictions, the land tax would still be hig
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
I have a better name for it, "Delta City". Check out the pop culture classic, RoboCop, which besides being a popcorn chewing action film, contains a rather cynical, but prescient, view on the future of corporations and privatizati
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. At a minimum.
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
I hope that you pay to people who plant trees.
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
Just quit and restart Chrome. No need to fight with an link you can’t click.
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
Anyone that likes Lisp should take a look at Factor. Even simpler syntax (RPN instead of prefix, less parenthesis), Lispy generics, functional, procedural, scripting, arbitrary data literals, full of meta goodness, clean good small understa
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
In China, there appears to be a public understanding that personal privacy is not protected while in the U.S. most citizens are not concerned about their own protections. How else could Facebook exist and prosper so mightily? As for me, I d
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
Yay! So many beautiful and fragile places will be saved now! People don't realize that our local deserts are "biodiversity hotspots" and there are thousands of species plants and animals relying on that desert to remain intac
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by Wyndtroy2012 8y ago
Just look at the barn. Pigs are smart creatures. How can a creature be happy in that barn? I had some of the best pork ever in Kauai where pigs roam pastures. Isn’t that a better solution?