brent_noorda

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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Vote Snowden for President in 2020
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I think genwin's point is that we humans behave very stupidly whenever we find an innovation that allows for exponentially more of anything. We behave as if that massive growth will continue forever, and it never does, and usually leads to
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Embrace, Extend, Exterminate, Exmpp.
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They're meaningless, so no harm in signing, so I sign. It's a lot like when a guy claims he's the devil and gives you $50,000 if you'll sign away your soul. Meaningless, so you sign. But that case is slightly worse because you have to sign
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Am I the only one bothered by the fact the software is free, but the e-books are not? They're both merely an arrangement of bits in files, duplicated at a near-zero cost. But one of these (the free one) has usually gone through many man-yea
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Nice idea, and an O'Reilly disruptor if it catches on.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I'll take credit for that one. In the mid 90's at Nombas we created what we called DSP (Distributed Scripting Protocol) that serialized data (and functions) into js objects (now known as JSON) to be both human- and computer- readable and so
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
Oh Happy Day! Now all our family members can once again share many many gigabytes of family photos and movies. (I have so missed FolderShare!)
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
Sony Walkman Replacement
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
Suppose I have a c++ file I want to compile. I've assumed you couldn't do that on a chromebook directly, but would need to open a terminal on some system that does run a compiler. So does developing on a chromebook require that you also hav
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
Very ignorant question: "development" means developing what? Applications? Web sites? mobile something-or-other? chrome plugins? If applications then for what OS? Where does the compiler run? Is this just a shell into some other server that
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
Here's how to get rich quick: Open a Fecal Transplant Clinic. Let your clients choose from a pamphlet of slim & trim fecal source (I want that one), and for a modest fee they get the shape they want. People WILL pay for this shit (liter
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
The first time I did a search in AltaVista I was amazed and it really did seem like magic. Within an hour it was no longer magic and was just a nice technical feat. So when Google came along is was too late for this stuff to be magic, but t
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
Really interesting way to calculate this number. Coming from a completely different angle (the job-killing calculator that says JobsDisplaced=Profit/YearlyProfit-$60,000) I calculate that Google is displacing only 200,000 jobs, which is onl
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
No heap? Hmmm... As the slidedeck pointed out, much time is spent in both allocation and copying of memory, and in practice those things are most often strings. Given that 1) the languages under consideration declare strings as immutable, a
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
I've tried a bunch of zero-budget options. The weirdest (and the one where I've put most of my static stuff) is just to drop files into my dropbox/Public. The resulting URL is real weird, but it's free and I have complete control of the fil
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by brent_noorda 14y ago
jQuery does provide great ways to generate dynamic HTML. In fact, the FuncyTag quick example from https://github.com/BrentNoorda/FuncyTag#quick-example t = div( { id:'animal-'+id, class:genus }, p( { cssColor: endangered?
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Show HN: FuncyTag JS/PY HTML generator(github.com)
3 points by brent_noorda 14y ago|2 comments