brentashley

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by brentashley 13y ago
I'm 52. There was plenty of earlier stuff, but the oldest code I can still find online is from an article I wrote in 1992 on how to write assembly language routines to extend the QBasic interpreter. http://www.petesqbsite.c
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Chris Hadfield / BareNakedLadies collaboration(music.cbc.ca)
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by brentashley 14y ago
= 0.1 quantitative easements, and will provide 1000x more boost to the economy.. What are we waiting for?
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by brentashley 14y ago
How can this guy get all the way through this article without mentioning that not only is Nathan Myhrvold "former CTO of Microsoft", but that as owner of Intellectual Ventures, the most powerful non- practising patent troll in existence, he
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by brentashley 14y ago
As was softbuilder, I was motivated to ABORT before the last paragraph - thanks for persevering for the team! Reminds me of the Monty Python killer joke sketch where the joke is translated by a team of people line by line.
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by brentashley 14y ago
The list of languages covered made me look at the date on the article. I was almost certain it would be pre-y2k. Sounds like a blinkered enterprise Java-centric worldview to me. To have ASP as the only scripting environment listed is just
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by brentashley 14y ago
"But most of all, having a draft might, as General McChrystal said, make Americans think more carefully before going to war." As if "Americans" will suddenly have a say in any decision to go to war. Congress is demonstrably not even requir
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by brentashley 14y ago
Douglas built the JSON spec 1) to be language agnostic. Following ES5's syntax directions is fine for ES5 focused development, possibly not for others. 2) to be final - i.e. there is no version number. If you want to extend or build somet
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by brentashley 14y ago
answered my own question. http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
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by brentashley 14y ago
I'd like to see a chart of that 200 years of debt accumulation.
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by brentashley 14y ago
Apparently, "Error establishing database connection.".
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by brentashley 15y ago
I dropped out of my Electronics Engineering Technology polytech course in 1982 after working part time for a couple of years with electronics and microcomputers and finding I was learning more valuable things at work than at school. At the
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by brentashley 15y ago
I have to say it's jarring to hear Ron Paul referring to "6000 years of human history" as though that is the totality of human history. While I still support him fully because everything he has to say wrt government and foreign policy is s
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by brentashley 15y ago
There is a wide range of quality in PHP code, and it depends mostly on the coder. If your team uses simple php pages with inline code and a rats nest of includes like newbies did in 1999, it will be a disaster. If they have progressed beyon
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by brentashley 15y ago
Many of us at the time "thought up" web-based email access but didn't see it through to execution much less turn it into a business. It's the same for most successful software ideas. Sabeer's most valuable contribution to Hotmail's succes