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by drblast 12y ago
Remember "The Network Is The Computer?" 1984. http://www.tcse-k12.org/pages/network.pdf
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by drblast 12y ago
There are a lot of Apple fans who are about to suddenly discover that their thumbs are actually longer than they previously thought, or have grown in the years since the first perfect iPhone was released.
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by drblast 12y ago
I've been around a while, and I've seen the "tech" industry evolve, or devolve depending on your perspective, into one that's entirely about fashion. I guarantee that for most people who would buy a watch like this
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by drblast 12y ago
Imagine if I took out my phone in a restaurant, said "I'm filming this," and pointed it at you while you ate for the duration of your meal. That's weird, and initially I thought glass was cool. It's not. I had this
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by drblast 12y ago
The best thing about line oriented languages like BASIC was that, lacking abstract functions, the language worked exactly like the machine worked. If you wanted functions and parameters, you had to implement that much like you'd do if
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by drblast 12y ago
At that price it's nearly disposable. I'd LOVE a phone like that; I have a hard time paying a lot for something that I carry and can easily break, especially since I'm not welded to my phone like most people seem to be.
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by drblast 12y ago
My daughters spend hours watching a hyperactive British guy scream at his Minecraft game. This, despite the fact that we limit the amount of time they spend online; it's the top priority for them. When they play Minecraft, they make u
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by drblast 12y ago
Life doesn't have an award ceremony at the end, so any measurement you make of your success is pressure you're putting on yourself. Nobody else, including your family, cares about the "great" things you could be doing.
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by drblast 12y ago
There's an outstanding recent episode of Louis (Louis C.K.'s show) where Robin Williams is a guest. In the show they both attend a funeral for someone nobody liked because they feel obligated, and they talk a bit about life and d
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by drblast 12y ago
If you don't think there are actors right now trying just as hard as anyone in history to get a break, and not getting it, I don't know what to tell you. I guess the point is that looking at the .01% of successful people and ignor
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by drblast 12y ago
Some people are so much luckier than others because nobody writes articles about Bob Jones, the failed actor, even though the Bob Joneses outnumber the James Garners by orders of magnitude. I'm now convinced survivor bias needs to be t
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by drblast 12y ago
Government agencies about to be inundated with sales pitches from General Alexander's company in 3...2...1... Same thing happened when Admiral Fallon retired and suddenly discovered his long hidden cyber security talent at NeuralIQ. Th
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by drblast 12y ago
If you enjoy reading articles about the rediscovery of indexing large amounts of read-only data, I'd highly recommend reading this book which is a treasure trove about this kind of work: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-G
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by drblast 12y ago
I don't find open source as a product has the benefits we assume it must. Theoretically, yes, if I have the source every change and customization I want to make is just a recompile away. Practically speaking that almost never happens b
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by drblast 12y ago
Living in a mid-to-high cost of living area while I'm working now affords the following advantage: I'm building equity in a house that I can keep when I retire because I love it here, or sell it and move anywhere I want. If I mo
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by drblast 12y ago
They're about the same as far as features. Immediately noticeable is that the Xbox one controller is much more comfortable to hold and has an improved D-pad. They got rid of the battery compartment on the back so if you have large ha
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by drblast 12y ago
Right! If the intention were to protect the child, and the child were in actual danger, the bystander would be right there next to the car in case anything went wrong. If anything, the bystander should be prosecuted for the same crime.
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by drblast 12y ago
The thought occurred to me while reading this that there are probably lots of 33-year-old non-virgins who nevertheless have not had the caring relationship this man wants. I think the sex is irrelevant. Although I'd have to advise thi
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by drblast 12y ago
This is too simple to be useful. Not only will the wildly successful outliers skew the data, but it doesn't take into account the risk of paying a huge amount now for the hope of earning more later. In no other area would someone be t
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by drblast 12y ago
The way I remember it, it was like this site but more frequently updated and focused mostly on Haskell: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ If you read a few rows down on that page, you'll see this: "For the debate ab
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by drblast 12y ago
Manos is bad in the I-can't-even-watch-this-for-fun-without-MST3K kind of way. And even then it's a slog. I'm a die-hard MST3K fan and I've only seen Manos two or three times. Even so, I Heart Huckabees tops my list of m
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by drblast 12y ago
When IE4 came out there was no comparison. Netscape Communicator was already a bloated, unstable mess. IE4 was a giant leap forward at the time with a cohesive DOM. And IE 5 brought xmlhttprequest, which became kinda popular.
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by drblast 12y ago
Wikipedia is rather disappointing, particularly on engineering and math topics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_(2012_f...
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by drblast 12y ago
Much of the functionality stems from being able to use .NET objects in the scripts, and that the result of commands are objects rather than text. For example you can pass the output of ls to a foreach loop that outputs either the absolute
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by drblast 12y ago
It's much worse after it's compiled. :-)
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by drblast 12y ago
Nothing to add but the Tetris meets Sword of Damocles made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that.
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by drblast 12y ago
I've always liked Joe Satriani's music and guitar talent, but every time I see an interview with him I'm so impressed with his intelligence and drive. This is a video where a guitarist won a free lesson with Joe. It's i
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by drblast 12y ago
Oh stop being so cynical. I'd bet money that Larry Page will become at least as widespread a household name as William Durant or Charles Flint.
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by drblast 13y ago
Some numbers for you. Using non-optimized, managed code on my laptop, I just went through 250 million iterations of plain text in ten minutes. You didn't specify what counts as a character, but let's assume it's a printable
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by drblast 13y ago
There are a large number of keyboard shortcuts that are extremely helpful for common tasks. Windows-X is my favorite. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcut...

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