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by cturner 13y ago
> wouldn't that hurt China's export business? People in China build cool stuff like people in other places. > What good is a mass of 3D printers and hundreds of > millions of people without work? We
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by cturner 13y ago
Aaah the things you learn on hacker news. I grew up in Australia, and had a trip in the UK about 12 months ago on a broken dishwasher that took out the whole house. I'd brought an electrician in (good guy but poor English) and he said
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O'Rourke tells Detroit to become Hong Kong(google.co.uk)
1 points by cturner 13y ago|1 comments
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Because Debian issues a version of Firefox that contains unofficial patches, they cannot legally call their distribution "Firefox", since Mozilla hasn't officially blessed that exact codebase. There&#x27
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by cturner 13y ago
If you want the basics of evernote, at the command-line, check out saga. http://songseed.org/unix.html It's not fancy, but you control your data.
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by cturner 13y ago
Agree re ubuntu not being the last word on things. OP wants a cross-platform dev environment though. If a platform that is primarily for free unix is obviously broken on a major linux distro, it's a bad omen for its multiplatform prosp
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I played with it last weekend. Not viable. Even the ubuntu packages don't produce a working dev environment. GNUstep is a major, standing lost opportunity for the free-software world. Imagine if the community had just taken openstep an
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Desktops like KDE can preview images in a directory. But BeOS was on another level with this stuff. Imagine if (1) your filesystem was a high-performance nosql database; (2) your desktop was just a thin layer around this, optimised for navi
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by cturner 13y ago
Static platforms are great for developers. The best years of WebObjects' life were after Apple had mothballed it. Returning to a project years later - all the old code, scripts, and patterns worked just the same. Nothing else in the ja
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Structure of Yoda's subtitles when translated(reddit.com)
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Found the reference. http://kparc.com/os.htm Thanks - looks awesome. I particularly like his approach to HTML.
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I like the idea of efficient space and less to keep clean. But I want a well-stocked lab at home: toolboxes, musical instruments, books, hardware projects, cooking equipment. Piles of junk are hard to clean around. I've been thinking t
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by cturner 13y ago
Inspiring comment from Bane early this year, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5624912 If you need a yacht that can carry many people on the high seas through bad weather at speed, unix is solid. But there hasn't be
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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system(pdos.csail.mit.edu)
200 points by cturner 13y ago|78 comments
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I'm delighted by the way that TCL-like languages and Perl-like languages grew towards one another. The experience that motivates TCL: you'll be working on your compiled codebase and think, "damn - it should be easier to glue
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by cturner 13y ago
Only slightly relevant, but an insight I had recently. I'd noticed that all programming languages were tree-oriented. You kind of group logic into branches. This sounds obvious, but work with me here. This reminded me of the early days
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by cturner 13y ago
Gold has a strong market as a store of value that doesn't depend on government. The characteristics that make it good for this: it is naturally scarce, doesn't degrade, it's easily divided, you can hold a lot of value in a sm
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by cturner 13y ago
In other words, IBM licensed REXX to Amiga in return for something else (we don't know what). I think it was for technology used in the workplace shell (WPS).
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by cturner 13y ago
I scratch around at SICP every few months, and generally get stuck because there's a lot of assumption of mathematics knowledge in there that I don't have. But I started to watch the MIT lectures just last weekend. I'll keep
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by cturner 13y ago
Jasper that was a fabulous start to the morning. A morsel of hacker news on hacker news. Thanks. Would be interested in your thoughts about code generation - I'm writing a VM, playing with ideas. I have wondered at this as an approach
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by cturner 13y ago
Thank you.
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by cturner 13y ago
_The Thirteenth Floor_ was released same year as the Matrix. I think it's a better execution of the same idea.
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I'll be surprised if it works out well for tablet, becaue of power consumption issues. It chews through battery on my laptop.
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by cturner 13y ago
It's a good theory. This is interesting because bitcoin is presented as a reliable store of value, but I bet a lot of people who trade on exchanges leave their coins with the exchange for convenience. So - what if some operators hold l
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by cturner 13y ago
I saw Richard Stallman give a talk while rubbing ointment into his feet. And when I was at high school looking around my prospective uni, I got help from most of my questions from a random bearded guy in the compsci building who was wearing
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by cturner 13y ago
What strange times we live in where a leisure boat can be talked about as investment!
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Idea for a bidding model: Bidders for government contracts would need to put a large amount of money in trust. The government pays them interest on this, plus alpha. If they weren't meeting targets, then the government could just eat i
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You could pivot this into a dating start-up: help people bond with others who share their prejudices.
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Do you think they'd be paid in full at the end of their period? From the pattern of treatment described in the article, I'd expect it's common for them to be left unpaid or underpaid at the close.
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I should have wored the safe seats thing more effectively, but I stand by the point. When you're elected from a single-member electorate, there's a lot more incentive to be inclusive and to govern for all. The game-theory around t

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