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by jgw 15y ago
That's the one I was thinking of! Thanks very much.
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by jgw 15y ago
http://zombo.com (You can do anything at Zombocom)
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by jgw 15y ago
"the smartest people in the world are working hard to come up with ways to get you to click on ads.” Does anyone know what quote he's alluding to here? I recall skimming an article on it some time ago, but I can't actually find the origina
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Rupert Murdoch's (barely-coherent) Twitter feed(twitter.com)
3 points by jgw 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgw 15y ago
Interesting choice of quote at the bottom of the page. I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the Joy Division song, "Digital". Never pictured rms as a Joy Divison fan :) EDIT: It is a JD reference. The header spells DIGITAL in ASCII.
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The GNU project goes dark, too(gnu.org)
11 points by jgw 15y ago|1 comments
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by jgw 15y ago
My Mum had bought me a book called the Usborne Guide to BASIC Programming, as my Dad has just bought an Osborne 1 computer for his new consulting business. So on our way across the Atlantic on a Polish vessel from Montreal to Dover, I was
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by jgw 15y ago
Sounds like a fascinating project! I find it curious - and slightly scary - that as the world is stampeding towards increasingly-parallelized computing models, most of us in ASIC design are becoming increasingly thwarted by the limitations
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by jgw 15y ago
I have no beef with someone getting bored of what they're doing, but then they should say just that. To say "I know everything there is to know about programming" after programming for a year is laughable. You're right that if you know C++
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by jgw 15y ago
Yeah. A couple of times, I've met people who have "dabbled" in programming - maybe done it for a year or two professionally - and said they left the profession because they's pretty much learned everything there was to know about programmi
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by jgw 15y ago
Am I understanding correctly that this is based on an ARM core, as in licensed from ARM? As an ASIC design guy, I have a hard time calling this "GPL-compliant hardware" when the main non-trivial component is closed source.
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by jgw 15y ago
So this. It's truly liberating to get back to C after having programmed in something higher level for a long time. It actually makes me appreciate C more. I mean, at first, I shoot myself in the foot, elbow and groin with alarming regular
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by jgw 15y ago
Others have pointed out the phenomenon, but I like this concrete illustration of it in action. Slashdot once interviewed The Filthy Critic, and he talked about a friend who had spent time in the writing rooms of a few sitcoms. The writers
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by jgw 15y ago
C++ is as ridiculous as Bjarne's hair.
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by jgw 15y ago
The one I found most perplexing was Tiffany & Co.
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by jgw 15y ago
You used bash? Luxury. We used to have to get up at 10 o'clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed, edit our blog entries with "ed", tie them to pigeon's feet, and send them to the Web, where they'd arrive a week later, if you wer
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by jgw 15y ago
I'll second that. Very nicely articulated.
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by jgw 15y ago
Except patent lawyers :(
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by jgw 15y ago
So is the USA part, and it doesn't stand for United States of America.
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by jgw 15y ago
Yeah - that was a pretty sorry tale of vapourware. I know a couple of indie guys who were super jazzed about the Scarlet, and delayed buying equipment because they were convinced it would come out. It was hard to tell whether it was vapour
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by jgw 15y ago
Unfortunately, Avatar only had budget for a total of four dimensions. So they gave three to the visuals, and just one to the characters. Holy hell was that an awful, awful film.
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by jgw 15y ago
That raises an interesting question. Does voice recognition need to be tailored to the type of lossy encoding used? Since perceptual encoders are designed to capture what the human ear thinks it hears, rather than what the sound wave actu
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by jgw 15y ago
You're not?! I'm unfriending you on Facebook. (The upside of this is that your credit rating's on the uptick!)
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by jgw 15y ago
True - they're indispensable. I have a coworker who plays Scrabble at a competitive level and has memorized every 2, 3, 4 and 5 letter word in The Word List, and will randomly shout out, on hearing words like "tandoor", that there are 3 an
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by jgw 15y ago
Sorry, that probably came out more snotty than it should have. My beef with Scrabble is that it really isn't a word game, so much as an exercise in memorizing arbitrary strings of symbols. It's unfortunate, because it doesn't really encour
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by jgw 15y ago
It's unfortunate that some Scrabble players are more likely to know dozens of obscure two-letter words than how to spell "mnemonic".
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by jgw 15y ago
Was that deliberately the funniest thing I've read today, or did you just luck out?
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by jgw 15y ago
What I've found difficult to navigate is that while it feels a little like the joy of programming your old C64 (or in my case, Osborne 1), the truth is you're putting your work out there and it suddenly becomes open to both harsh criticism
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by jgw 15y ago
Disappointed that Expertise bullets missed "Stuff that matters" right under "Nerds".