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841.
by antod 10y ago
Possibly, although I imagine any kind of 32bit (or 64bit) assembly on top of an OS is likely to not have that 8bit fun factor.
842.
by antod 10y ago
I recently did a similar thing with a Spectrum emulator and zasm. As I kid I completely failed to teach myself Z80 machine code, but trying again now with way better tooling it was surprisingly easy and a whole lot of fun. I actually enjoye
843.
by antod 10y ago
Well before Christchurch, there was a couple of decade stretch when Australia had had a more recent fatal quake than NZ.
844.
by antod 10y ago
> What means simple? Just things like not requiring complex set up steps and wiring up many different services with complicated configurations etc. Keeping things stateless (as much as possible) etc > Also, do you talking about to sto
845.
by antod 10y ago
Caring about and fixing inefficient wasteful tests. Stops CI build queues clogging up. Also, improving production performance/scalability. And making apps simple to deploy. That's about it for me :)
846.
by antod 10y ago
Wellington isn't 500km away :) It looks like the quoted epicentre was just the start point of the rupture that headed off to the northeast. Which explains why the shaking seemed worse to the north and why so much activity seems to be r
847.
by antod 10y ago
For context there was about 2mins of shaking :) The longest quake I've ever felt too. Some seismologists are speculating that it might actually have been two distinct quakes happening at roughly the same time.
848.
by antod 10y ago
The flat bit in the middle that is most of the Miramar suburb is seabed (and later swamp) that has been uplifted by large earthquakes over time.
849.
by antod 10y ago
There was a seismologist talking about that this morning. There is an effect that correlates with lunar cycles, but it is a very faint signal in a lot of random noise. So it might cause some faults that are about to rupture to release a bit
850.
by antod 10y ago
Currently in Wellington. Was fucking shaky, seriously thought the building was about to collapse. This was ~500 km from the epicenter. ~200km? Also in Wellington, and it's work from home day today here while engineers check the build
851.
by antod 10y ago
> 1. It's a general attitude toward building interfaces; the reader of the code is put first. Yeah underneath things may be messy, but using those things should be nice. The onus is placed on the implementor, rather than the user.
852.
by antod 10y ago
Not if you're on Debian or Ubuntu. Others were never affected.
853.
by antod 10y ago
No but it should imbue you with a sense of perspective about how much control you really have over kids, and how kids are all different requiring different ways of handling, and to not leap to judge other parents because you've been th
854.
by antod 10y ago
Building KDE 1.0 (or was it 1.1?) from source on Redhat 5.1 was the first ever major thing I did with *nix - I barely understood anything about Linux or building software at the time. I was so amazed that I even got it working. My old Penti
855.
by antod 10y ago
I agree with your points about it's never been easier to learn. But I personally think that needs to be balanced with the notion that I don't think things have ever been this complex before. The last 5 years or so have seen an exp
856.
by antod 10y ago
I reckon it was a combination of Github and Rails being early adopters at the peak growth of their hype cycle. In the early days of Github it seemed like most of the projects there were Ruby based (Rails users overflowing).
857.
by antod 10y ago
$525? Coincidentally that is the exact amount I paid for my first computer (in NZD though). That was two years of saving up money from delivering newspapers. It was the TRS80 model II and model III from my fathers work that made me want a c
858.
by antod 10y ago
I have this problem too, and it's one of the main reasons I now hate going to bars. If I'm in a group of people having a conversation I end up standing around concentrating hard to grasp a tiny percentage of what's going on (
859.
by antod 10y ago
> I've gotten plenty of people very interested after I tell them that my good old Galaxy S3 lasts ~5 days without charging. Count me as one of them. Yes, I still use an S3. Mine can last all day on a charge - most of the time. Unl
860.
by antod 10y ago
An opinion from a non American: This is what you get when you focus on tactics without focussing on strategy. Reactive vs proactive. By splitting the American police into many many different layered jurisdictions with no overall plans or ev
861.
by antod 10y ago
I hadn't heard of Samsung washing machines exploding before. Catching fire is what they usually do. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/95yearold-woman-rescued-from-samsu... http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-p
862.
by antod 10y ago
Yep structural engineering design in most countries doesn't need to be done by a registered professional engineer - just signed off by one. A lot of offices will have graduate/junior engineers that are not registered yet (but ofte
863.
by antod 10y ago
And RHEL before v7 (I think it was 7 that switched to systemd)
864.
by antod 10y ago
In the early 80s at around 10yrs old I taught myself BASIC from books/manuals on a TRS-80 model III at my fathers office and my own ZX Spectrum at home that I'd saved up for. Totally failed at teaching myself Z80 machine code on t
865.
by antod 10y ago
Now developers can fight bugs literally.
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by antod 10y ago
The original paradox was the Paradox Paradox where you avoided all those blub Access developers.
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by antod 10y ago
If you think abstract is bad - wait until you see what civil engineers think 'concrete' is!
868.
by antod 10y ago
> The phase is important because tidal forces are the sum of forces from both the Sun and the Moon. When the Moon is full, that is because the Moon is directly opposite the Sun. When the Moon is new, that is because it is directly in fr
869.
by antod 10y ago
> Truth be told, outside of a few life-support-critical applications, most design is done by trial and error. Very little real engineering gets done. I think people don't even realise when all that extensive math they studied is e
870.
by antod 10y ago
At my first job, a machine of that spec was a typical AutoCAD workstation (although some still ran DOS). The really grunty DX50s even had 16MB of RAM (whoa).

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