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by drbawb 14y ago
It used the same processor and 'only' twice the RAM. Even assuming the RAM is the most expensive component, by definition, the materials cost no more than twice the cost of the original Macintosh. (~2500USD in 1984) Of course, the Blit is j
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by drbawb 14y ago
If that's the case, I hope that Haml [and Sass] get properly ported to Go! I'm aware of gohaml; but last I checked it hasn't been updated to work with Go1 and friends. Namely it's using `gomake` and the packages aren't organized for use wit
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by drbawb 14y ago
I actually have a friend who claims to not like music; that's it... end of the argument. He doesn't dislike certain types of music, or the modern perversion of music. He just can't stand music. He's been known to watch movies with little-to
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by drbawb 14y ago
Nice; just wrote a [fairly naive] implementation in Go myself. It works but it's not very fast. For a 36x36 grid; I can do ~5,000 iterations in < 30 seconds or so. I'm sure a large part of the bottleneck is the fact that my "viewer" is
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by drbawb 14y ago
Also: I'd be far more inclined to pay for a bit of electricity; rather than just paying for the privilege of leaving my box of steel in between two white lines.
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by drbawb 14y ago
Can I ask why you disable the swap file? As someone with a computer that is horribly unstable (in the process of replacing it over the course of next month), the swap file has saved my ass on a few occasions.
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by drbawb 14y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't like this feature? My understanding is that sampling the gyroscope that frequently is a battery killer (e.g: the reason those REM Sleep alarm clocks will suck down 90% of your battery in 8 hours)... Over the co
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by drbawb 14y ago
You do realize that many premium cars have exactly this mentality surrounding them? Audis are notoriously difficult to work on, as were Saab's, and good luck finding somebody certified to service a Porsche in your area that doesn't work at
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by drbawb 14y ago
Isn't the idea of IPv6 that we have plenty of addresses. Thus it wouldn't (read: shouldn't) be hard to get another address bound to your virtual host. In fact doesn't the whole idea of binding multiple sub-domains to the same IP address (on
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by drbawb 14y ago
"OH GOD NO, FIRE THE TORPEDOES" "THE DRAGON IS FRIENDLY. REPEAT: THE DRAGON. IS FRIENDLY."
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by drbawb 14y ago
And I assume this was all necessary because: (a) They wanted to see if it could be done. or (b) They couldn't yet build a digital camera and/or digital cameras didn't work in space because of some obscure issues with radiation?
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by drbawb 14y ago
And if Earth is this basketball, and the Odyssey CM is this baseball, they have to hit a re-entry interface no thicker than this piece of computer paper. (At least that's what Apollo 13 [the movie] said.)
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by drbawb 14y ago
Cricket is based on the Sprint PCS network IIRC; their data speeds aren't great (here in the Milwaukee area) but it is unlimited and it gets the job done. I do get to some places where Siri won't work, or works slowly - but my data speed ha
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by drbawb 14y ago
I pay $72/mo [after taxes] from Sprint; that's with a 20% discount on (I believe) the cheapest plan. The phone itself was $199 IIRC? (16-GB 4S)
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by drbawb 14y ago
Y'know the 3D filesystem in Jurassic Park was a real program too, and it was based on a UNIX system. (I think it's a file explorer for an old SGI box; which makes sense as SGI was commonly used in the production of movies.)
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by drbawb 14y ago
In my experience: "real men" like diesel just fine here in America. So long as it's bolted to an F150 frame and can tow your whole house, and also your neighbors house, and his garage, with two Toyota Prius' parked inside.
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by drbawb 14y ago
First thing I'm going to do w/ my Google Car is put a label that says: "PRESS IN CASE OF SKYNET!" under the kill switch.
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by drbawb 14y ago
I certainly never felt that way about it. Windows XP, on the other hand, felt "dated and cheesy" out of the box. (Perhaps not dated, at the time, but cheesy certainly. It always felt like a fisher-price UI unless you used the brushed-metal
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by drbawb 14y ago
Well the other thing is: people act like migrations are the devil. Yes, moving your data from Mongo to PgSql, MySql, MSSql, Oracle, etc. is going to be difficult. However: why start with a production level Oracle install anticipating "web s
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by drbawb 14y ago
That being said, I run into this kind of thing [crap data being persisted] a lot. I'm currently working closely with ERP (inventory/job management systems, basically.) and tying into these legacy databases. It's unfortunate because a lot of
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by drbawb 14y ago
Google Search, or Google [Books, Docs, YouTube, Google+, Answers, GMail, etc.] If the latter, you are far stronger-willed than I, sir!
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by drbawb 14y ago
Well: the ones I really care about are either (a) in my contacts, (b) hacker types that have Google+ (I presume "Google" includes all google services.), or (c) I have their e-mail. Now, I would lose touch with a lot of people BUT I would
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by drbawb 14y ago
Agreed. My father didn't help as directly as he could've. But he worked hard, provided a good life, and because of his job all the materials I needed were either readily available or easily borrowed. Honestly the greatest thing my dad ever
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by drbawb 14y ago
I learned strictly on Mavis Beacon. It was all they used at my two private K-12 schools. However it clearly did something right, as I was typing ~120WPM by the end of grade 7. I guess I hold an unpopular opinion, but I think typing is hones
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by drbawb 14y ago
My dad is also a programmer. He helped me out as best he could; but for the most part we lived in two separate worlds. Sure some stuff was common: if I needed a regular expression, he could always help me out. He had an editor (CodeWright?)
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by drbawb 14y ago
TBH I find myself enjoying TeamSpeak quite a bit. I've set up a private server and it's really nice. First of all you can record voice conversations. Secondly it offers chat between users and between channels. I find that voice communicatio
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by drbawb 14y ago
+1 on making assumptions. It's a nasty habit that I've been trying to curb this year, with some effectiveness. Whenever I catch myself making an assumption, I either come up with other assumptions and weight them, or wait until I can get so
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by drbawb 14y ago
If for some reason I had to make this choice? Facebook. I wouldn't even blink.
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by drbawb 14y ago
Come to think of it, I do know some editors that support HTML rendering inside comment blocks. How would you use it for coding, though? Unless you stripped it before the compile phase I would think any formatting in a rich-text format would
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by drbawb 14y ago
Obviously everyone has different shaped hands - but for me, the pinky doesn't need to be entirely flat to reach the underscore. I also don't have to shift my whole wrist. Either way, reaching the + key on QWERTY-102 is objectively more di

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