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by foobarge 10y ago
Doesn't handle "insanely"
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by foobarge 11y ago
Thank you for that reference. Paul Lutus is a childhood hero.
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by foobarge 11y ago
I've been writing code professionally for 25 years. You're not alone. It does get worse. Junior programmers just don't get it and jump into management before they have a chance to.
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by foobarge 11y ago
"Fortune favors the prepared mind." - derived as to still be relevant (I personally think) from Pasteur's "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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by foobarge 11y ago
> On the other hand, doing the taxes was not at all complicated and I got proper help Tax collection is relentless and very efficient - they act is if it was THEIR money. France can borrow at very little interest rate because it is known
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by foobarge 11y ago
I think it does. People raised on farms have less allergies than the rest of the general population [citation needed but I'm lazy] Kids need to play outside, in the dirt, interact with live animals and other kids and be exposed to a lo
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by foobarge 11y ago
One YT view leading to an other, I ran into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jRgpTp8pR8 7400 logic CPU, running a port of Minix, C compiler, assembler, TCP/IP stack, apps, etc...
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by foobarge 11y ago
Yes - a recommended read. In a similar vein: http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/
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by foobarge 11y ago
Nice - who needs 8K. 8. K. I haven't even updated to 4K. I don't think I have anything that runs 1080p.
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by foobarge 11y ago
First computer was a PC1211. Then I got an ORIC ATMOS and an Atari ST. Never really had a chance to play with an Amiga and couldn't buy it (a bit pricey - although maybe an other way to play that hand would have been to save the money
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by foobarge 11y ago
One can read "The Future Was Here", to learn more about the platform and its contributors. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-was-here - there's also an accompanying website: http://amiga.f
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by foobarge 11y ago
The Atmos is the second machine I learned how to code on. Wow - this is really taking the Oric far. Looks like I found one project to take a close look at while on vacations. Many thanks for sharing this here!
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by foobarge 11y ago
Also note, an other cool project: http://moxielogic.org/blog/ (a ex co-worker.) "Moxie is a general purpose bi-endian load-store processor, with sixteen 32-bit general purpose registers and a comprehensive ISA con
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by foobarge 11y ago
Contains the famous ``Too big for Excel is not "Big Data".''
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by foobarge 11y ago
I hear the hum as well sometimes, in different locations (my home office, separate from the house - here I can hear it during the day) or in the house, at night. When heard, if I move my head a little bit, the sounds goes away and usually c
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by foobarge 11y ago
There's some white caps but not a whole lot. Wind speed at sea level might have been around 8 to 11m/s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
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by foobarge 11y ago
Sucker's better: Neither suckers nor spies.
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by foobarge 11y ago
Pigeons get plucked. The sentence roughly translates into "Neither fools nor spies.".
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by foobarge 12y ago
Has a bit of "you're not worthy" feel that surfaced as satirical couple pages built in the mid 2000 (I don't think they are still around.) It was listing pumped-up exceptional characteristics of Apple products and mentio
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by foobarge 12y ago
Yes - also: "The concept was pitched for the reopening of the Maison de la Radio, French’s principal and historical radio building situated in the heart of Paris." \o/ - everybody loves Maison de la Radio, home of the excelle
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by foobarge 12y ago
I agree - how old are your kids and how did you get them started in being interested with 8-bit systems?
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by foobarge 12y ago
The part related to floating point optimization is really cool.
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Stochastic Optimization for x86 Binaries [video](youtube.com)
12 points by foobarge 12y ago|1 comments
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by foobarge 12y ago
Ah - I've always ignored the existence of a 6501.
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by foobarge 12y ago
I've had the privilege to write an article for the Dr Dobb's journal (print edition) Hard to describe how proud I was of that (of course, I received a ton of help from awesome the coworkers I had at the time.)
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by foobarge 12y ago
Salaries are very depressed. Experienced engineers outside of Paris make 45K top, when you live in Paris you get a 30% salary increase for the cost of living. Payroll wise: take what you pay someone, multiply by two, that's what you ac
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by foobarge 12y ago
> they really don't speak English ;-) I see it slowly changing - I blame this on how good American TV has become now (I'm taking about the series of course.)
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by foobarge 12y ago
> and I would still choose it for every device I own, but the choice should be there. What prevents you from using a different search app? Or am I missing your point?
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by foobarge 12y ago
> 3.5 inch floppies with a hole punched in the corner to make them high density I don't remember that. I remember the trick of punching a hole in a 5¼ to make it double sided though.
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by foobarge 12y ago
I cast aside written French input . I still had to produce output. And I did learn, under supervision, how to write well during these years; using French as a target language but that knowledge has proven to be highly re-usable. I'm l

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