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ibisum
12y ago
I had a similar experience only for me in the 70's/80's it was Dick Smith Electronics for parts, and then the Computer Age store with its Apple II and Atari stock .. those were definitely different times. The sales guy even
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ibisum
12y ago
What a pity. The ocean is a wonderful place, being able to swim in it is one of the very best aspects of my life, also having learned to swim while growing up in rural Australia.
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12y ago
It's 1987. I'd just spent a few months building a small single-floppy bootable OS for the IBM PC. The purpose of this project was to display a small training demonstration for security-related personnel in a protected environmen
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ibisum
12y ago
You lost me at .pl ..
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ibisum
13y ago
Full-stack doesn't mean being a 'god of all things', except that it does in fact mean exactly that. It means that no part of the stack goes not understood, or .. all parts of the stack should be understood and controllable by
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ibisum
15y ago
The oceans move, was his point. I would investigate the science, but the science-fiction of a language called Protong is far more intriguing and worthwhile a pursuit. While I will always respect the mainstream desire to discern the truth,
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ibisum
15y ago
I would have thought quoting SZUKALSKI alone would have set that off, but okay .. not that I'm a huge fan of Zermatism (a subject I would have thought at least a few hackernews visitors might be familiar with) but the ideas of SZUKALSKI are
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15y ago
>But damn it'd be good if this is real. It will give rise to another war, I'm quite sure.
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15y ago
Read the book "Behold!! The Protong!" and you'll get an even more intriguing explanation. These statues are a WARNING TO THE FUTURE that the great CATACLYSM, which comes in cycles, will HAPPEN AGAIN. Below the ground-line (which represents
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ibisum
15y ago
I wish it would crawl images.google.com to automatically add pictures of the things in my list .. that would make it terrific.
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ibisum
15y ago
Finish the plans, put them on Thingiverse.com or something. Someone will build it and you'll be most satisfied to see it out there, I'm sure.
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ibisum
15y ago
If you write your game properly using the NDK you won't incur any GC at all. Its quite possible to achieve zero-collection this way.
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ibisum
15y ago
> Hell, Mac OS X is the most popular open sourced operating system on the planet. No. Linux.
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15y ago
That entropy, by the way, is derived from the keyboard and mouse devices. If you want /dev/random to go faster, move your mouse and type more ..
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15y ago
Sequence points, kids. Learn to recognize them.
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15y ago
The only thing I don't like about this is that my company won't own the data if we use it. By own the data, I mean, be responsible for it entirely, without any outside entity having anything to do with it, whatsoever. Other than that, look