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by cubano 6y ago
Wasn't there a time, not so long ago in fact (pre-1920's), where almost all your beloved physics models, beside Netwonian gravities, were wrong as well? So Astronomy, as a "hard science", is around 100 years behind...wha
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by cubano 6y ago
It's easy to want to do, but much harder to justify banging on public companies for trying to increase revenue.
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by cubano 6y ago
Damn...I've forgotten more about the timelines of this stuff then most people know.
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by cubano 6y ago
It better be cached or else that would be a total tradegy... why wouldn't you automatically want to cache the prerendered pages whenever possible? It's not like writing a basic cache is very hard...or just "borrow" one f
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by cubano 6y ago
Wait a minute here...I was writing realtime multiplayer games for Galacticomm's MajorBBS in thr late 80's and we just pushed ANSI and made VERY interactive games without the need for a rich client...altho we did envy AOL's bi
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by cubano 6y ago
AJAX is part of the request response cycle? Let's face facts...AJAX is the real secret sauce with JS and what makes it truly useful.
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by cubano 6y ago
Yes for sure..I worked as a corporate contractor for AT&T in 1990's and I was doing client/server apps using MSVC++ that are basically identical to React-type wideweb dev... Indeed, your absolutely correct in saying it was obv
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by cubano 6y ago
How can you possibly even say "We are not Nature"? Of course we are Nature. We came to being the exact same way every other current living species did, thru natural selection. So then how can we be living, as you say, somehow out
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by cubano 6y ago
Did you seriously mention CORBA as a API interface method in 2020? As a corporate contractor who had to use CORBA back in the iInterface days of Win95, just the mention of it spins me into a semi-PTSD fit. Please...REST is a solid, simple,
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by cubano 6y ago
If you feel lonely or struggle to connect with people, or maintain relationships, don't expect to get help for that in HN comment threads. Don't feel sorry for yourself, get help. While you are close to being 100% correct with t
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by cubano 6y ago
Yes...absolutely. I can easily say that in the 100's of rock songs that are tuned a half-step down (the entire Guns N Roses catalog for one quick example) and thus lend themselves to keys like G# and D# instead of A and E, that I have
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by cubano 6y ago
Tts very possible that the song IS a half-step off as much modern rock (not so sure about pop) music is deliberately tuned a half-step down in order to either... 1. help the singer hit "higher notes". 2. sound "heavier"
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by cubano 6y ago
Ah yes...the efficiencies never stop coming when you forced to skirt government mandates about tech they know almost nothing about. I have war stories for days about all times companies I worked for had to have customers pull DLLs from 3rd
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by cubano 6y ago
Yes your information definitely creates a reasonable doubt that he would have had the time and job description to do serious head-down graphical-stack type developments. But I have a return volley for you...who on the Facebook/Oculas g
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by cubano 6y ago
I would tend to agree with you, but is's John Carmack leading the software group for it and I just cannot believe that he hasn't done a bunch of optimizations and other work. It would just negate a reputation that he has worked hi
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by cubano 6y ago
It's unclear how creating a what-sounds-like a rather expensive open source VR system could possibly put Facebook "out of business", considering probably 99 out of 100 people have no idea FB even owns Oculus. Also, FB's
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by cubano 6y ago
more like on par with them.
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by cubano 6y ago
That never happens...the powerful never expect to live in the conditions they advocate.
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by cubano 6y ago
And to add insult to injury, so many otherwise sensible people seem to equate Twitter directly to the real-world and don't realize its being gamed by botnets and activists who are pushing political views. Many very smart professionals
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by cubano 6y ago
Yep...and I never meant to imply that no 3-2 games could e found, just not on the Strip per se . El Cortez downtown still has a banging 3-2 $5 blackjack game that's a lot of fun to play. Your absolutely correct about your approach to
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by cubano 6y ago
Card counting was literally my gateway into professional programming. The first "real" program I ever wrote was a blackjack simulator, in MS-BASIC, around 30 years ago. My brother and I were getting ready to go with my Dad to Veg
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by cubano 7y ago
I recently provisioned a "micro-" instance...the smallest possible server available, as I fell hook, line, and sinker for the "FREE 12 months!" promotion that turned out to be totally false. For 3 months, I was charged $
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by cubano 7y ago
I remember being a part of a very early forum called "Plastic" in the mid 2000's and, believe me, there was PLENTY of polarization/toxicity there, so I'm not really buying that this is a new thing. I remember being
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by cubano 7y ago
You have to think this is mostly a political show trial, with the main government players hoping to make a name for themselves for some future enrichments yet to be named. If as a side benefit, some execs think twice about pushing addictive
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by cubano 7y ago
It would be my thought that shit like this happens everyday and its more the rule then the exception.
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by cubano 7y ago
I would say that statistically, over a large sample size, that the chances that either would abuse information is exactly equal.
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by cubano 7y ago
I wrote my first non-BASIC program ever on a PDP-10 or 11 and as I remember, it was one of those numberical programming for Engineers classes where we had to figure out why, when using floating-points vs integer math, that 2 != 2.0 (because
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by cubano 7y ago
OMG did I love my Atari 800 back in 1985 when it was clearly one of the best price/performance machines available at that time. Overlooked by many (but not all) was its built-in MIDI ports and its abilty to control all those early mode
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by cubano 7y ago
My dad got one of those for us both to use...what was truly "whopping" about it was its price... If I remember right it was almost $3k...but that included that blazing fast 300bps Hayes modem for wide-area networking. And my mind
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by cubano 7y ago
I just flipped a bank of 16 switches by hand with vacuum tube gates and core memory...punch cards are for sissies!

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