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by cubano 12y ago
That is actually excellent advice for not doing in any criminal courtroom situation.
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by cubano 12y ago
Sure...play with fire, I sure did. I would never tell anyone (except maybe as a suggestion to my kids, due to the troubles in my life) not to. Prescribed attention deficit disorder medication non-withstanding, coke and meth addicts are jus
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by cubano 12y ago
For example, do amphetamine and cocaine addicts get more work done in the long run? I can tell you from a lifetime of experience with addicts I've known that the answer to this is absolutely "Hell NO". Please do not try thi
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by cubano 12y ago
Absolutely, I agree...I tried to be very careful in my post(s) not to condemn drug use in any way, and understand that 90% of people who do drugs have no long term issues with them. I've come to learn, after intense inpatient treatment
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by cubano 12y ago
I took a ton of acid (blotter) in the late 70's and early 80's as a teen, and then again in the late 90's (window pane and liquid eyedrops), and I just have to say, I, personally, have mixed feelings about this sort of thing
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by cubano 12y ago
To me there seems to be a distinct difference between actively broadcasting a signal(radio) and allowing access to those who request it(internet) Now, that's a very good point, but can't the very act of turning a radio dial be t
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by cubano 12y ago
A dull, boring job beats the hell out of no job at all.
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by cubano 12y ago
Do we really? And for how long do you think that job may be safe from automation?
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by cubano 12y ago
I think the radio analogy is spot on, and I really believe that the endgame to all this government interest may very well be the same sort of regulatory control that the FCC now imposes in radio stations and content via the [1] Communicatio
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by cubano 12y ago
I know I may get dinged for this observation, but it is something that really bothers me about certain types of forecasts...be it weather or things of this sort... That would be the "50% forecast", which, when examined with a bit
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by cubano 12y ago
Nice! Goodness...you certainly played with a much more dangerous and combustible "recipe" then I, and it's good to hear you didn't hurt yourself in the process. Isn't it amazing how our inquisitive youth shields us
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by cubano 12y ago
I can't tell you what you'd find more stimulating than cookie cutter corporate work, but it's clear there's a great deal of barely explored ways for computer programming to make a positive difference in our world. I lo
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by cubano 12y ago
Ah yes...adolescent "bombs" and BBS's...what nerds back in the day didn't enjoy these both? My favorite bomb cocktail was brake fluid, pool chlorine, and PVC. We lived in Florida on a river and we used to see how many f
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by cubano 12y ago
I'm an old-timer, and I can totally see where Jacques was trying to go with this essay, but in the end it pretty much missed the mark. Personally, I think it's wonderful that the future I (we?) foresaw 25-30 years ago has come ali
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by cubano 12y ago
Interesting stuff, but there are financial assumptions being made here that should be examined. 1. The 25-year ROI is tied to the projected price of electricity moving forward. It is simple market issue that if and when more and more peop
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by cubano 12y ago
I find proposals like this often miss the political side of the equation ie wealthy donors and multinational corps simply allow the law to be passed, knowing, in fact, by spending down the line, they can get loopholes put into the law that
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by cubano 12y ago
Sutherland’s original aim was to make computers accessible to new classes of user (artists and draughtsmen among others), while retaining the powers of abstraction that are critical to programmers If that was his original aim, I think we
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by cubano 12y ago
You must be under the age of 25 or so. Please believe as you age, gaining weight will get easier and easier.
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by cubano 12y ago
It's just calories in vs. calories burned, nothing more nothing less. Why does everyone make it more complicated than this? Of course not consuming calories for half the day (does sleep count or not? I couldn't tell from the artic
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by cubano 12y ago
> ...and seeing someone using React without a DOM should be inspiring. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this basically become client/server socket programming from the 80's and 90's, using UI widgets for dis
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by cubano 12y ago
I, personally, would not celebrate that outcome. I believe in the power in markets and price signaling, ala Hayek, and there is nothing unsophisticated about that. We agree on more then you may be aware...the HI industry is a giant problem,
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by cubano 12y ago
I wish we had seen this more progressive, pro-active Obama 6 years ago. More progressive and pro-active then basically socializing 1/7th of the US economy with the ACA? Wow. [edit] I used the wrong term "socializing" when I
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by cubano 12y ago
I think it has been. I interviewed for a job in Las Vegas last year where I was shown this sort of technology for the trucking/shipping industry, albeit more server-based and not so distributed. My hats off to this guy.
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by cubano 12y ago
From my experience, it seems that the biggest misconception about Evolution is that species evolve through some sort of conscious decision-making process, and not really by natural selection and random mutation. For example, I often hear th
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by cubano 12y ago
anyway, it's just so cool to read posts by so many people that thought the same way. Just FYI, I felt the same way reading your post. Thanks for that. Of course I remember the C-64, and it's "advanced" sprite handling
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by cubano 12y ago
$50k? Just for MS Basic? Heck, Bill and Steve bought QDOS from Tim Paterson for that exact amount, and resold it to IBM for use as PC-DOS. Maybe they needed your $50k to help finance the purchase.
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by cubano 12y ago
My father bought our family an original IBM PC (4.77MHz) when I was around 15 years old, after I spent 2 years riding my bike to the local Radio Shack and sitting, literally, in the display window of the store hacking on a TRS-80 and saving
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by cubano 12y ago
Unless your business is making money, you won't have any employees or customers. I can agree with your sentiment, but that's all it is I'm afraid, at least according to my experience.
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by cubano 12y ago
.. merely about the revenue it was going to add to their bottom line. In the business domain, is there really anything else to care about? If there is, I have yet to see it in my 25+ years in software development.
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by cubano 12y ago
It sounded to me like he became an entrepreneur out of trying to be an entrepreneur, which in the end was a pretty neat trick.

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