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by bitops 15y ago
One game that I've searched high and low for is Hyperspeed by Microprose. Few people seem to have played it but it was one of the best strategy games ever made.
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by bitops 15y ago
If you're willing to make the investment, VMWare Fusion is great for that. Though of course you still have to obtain a copy of Windows afterwards. I've addressed this by taking my ancient, ancient Windows laptop and running a program provid
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by bitops 15y ago
That game is a testament to the immortality of well-done software. I still play it today, and it's still scary doing those first night missions against the sectoids. On a related note...do any of us care what language or environment those g
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by bitops 15y ago
For all of those folks who want to get better at visualization, the canonical text is http://amzn.com/0961392142 (Tufte)
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PHK of FreeBSD fame is now on Twitter(twitter.com)
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by bitops 15y ago
I started a GitHub project for folks to share recipes they like, that are healthy (with a dash of "sinful" thrown in). https://github.com/bitops/good-eats
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by bitops 15y ago
Just wanted to say thanks again for the thorough answer. This really made it clear for me.
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by bitops 15y ago
Tell him to learn both but Ruby first. When you start programming, you're learning as much about the environment (OS, files, network) as you are the language. Ruby will help keep that simple. Then, Java will give exposure to a "harder" lang
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TELL HN: thanks for a good year
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by bitops 15y ago
Yes, it's honorary for non-Brits. Bill Gates, for instance, is just below knight, though he still holds a high honor bestowed by the Queen.
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by bitops 15y ago
Usually I wouldn't say this, but... Has everyone on HN lost their friggin' sense of humor?! [EDIT: let me clarify by saying that my karma has gone up and down on the top comment. So some folks get it.]
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by bitops 15y ago
That's "Sir" Johnathan Ive. He was knighted, you know.
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by bitops 15y ago
Simple made Easy by Rich Hickey by several miles. Also "Hammock Driven Development" by the same gentleman.
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by bitops 15y ago
A very good writeup, but one thing always confuses me. What is meant specifically by the "heap" and "stack"? I know what a stack is, but "heap" gets thrown around in many different contexts and I've yet to find any explanation that made it
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by bitops 15y ago
For an excellent perspective on the damage the drug war causes internationally, read "The Politics of Heroin" by Alfred McCoy. It's dense but illuminating.
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by bitops 15y ago
Great article and it goes both ways of course. Curiosity about another person is the only way to keep things fresh, regardless of how platonic the relationship is. For geeks: remember that sometimes there are much more interesting things
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by bitops 15y ago
Exactly - impacting the bottom line is an excellent way to get peoples attention.
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by bitops 15y ago
Good start. For maximum impact: Google should disable all of its public facing web servers for a week. I think Congress would get its act together pretty darn quickly if there were no Google search or GMail.
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by bitops 15y ago
That movie "A State of Mind" - a really excellent documentary film.
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by bitops 15y ago
This link is more browser friendly: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2008/08/12/the_secret_...
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by bitops 15y ago
It is easy to say that North Korea should change. What is difficult is articulating the type of change that one would like to see occur and how to implement it. Should Kim Jong-Il have been ousted a la Saddam Hussein in Iraq? How dangerou
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by bitops 15y ago
Well, this article seems to be asking "why is the Windows file system so slow?" and generally complaining. A better name for the article might be "Windows FS performance sucks" or similarly polemical title. There are parts of Windows that a
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by bitops 15y ago
Thanks for the thorough write-up!
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[The "you" below is not personal.] > The result of this kind of upbringing is often a socially stunted man who, despite all his powers of logic and reason, finds it difficult to reason away the anger that he knows shouldn't be there, b
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by bitops 15y ago
Is anyone seriously surprised that this is taking place? Zynga runs a business that is, at it's heart, parasitic and predatory. Such businesses may enjoy short term success but cannot be sustainable in the long run.
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by bitops 15y ago
To a large extent, I think apps are the answer here. (And just to be clear: I'm not conflating apps with app stores). Consider the early days of the web: remember when Java applets seemed like the way of the future? (Okay, that's perhaps a
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by bitops 15y ago
> A profile is being generated about you, slowly but surely. In days of old, I would have agreed, but things like Facebook make me question the whole "sinister" aspect of the central database. Have you noticed how, if the government i
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by bitops 15y ago
Aside from the good explanations of what the Higgs is below, can someone explain why discovering the Higgs would be significant? I.e. what problems does it help illuminate.
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by bitops 15y ago
Great article, and to me it's further evidence of Lisp's greatness (a great influencer of Ruby). If your primitives are powerful enough, you should be able to build most of the language yourself from the ground up. Wasn't it Paul Graham who
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Concur - I think that, once you have a certain amount of experience built up working in frameworks like Rails, you can only go so far before you hit a wall. At that point, it's necessary to start learning the protocols and the lower level s

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