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by jjs 13y ago
Not "Bros.", "Land"... (This game was a formative experience for me, so please bear with my nitpickery... :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Land
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by jjs 13y ago
Either that, or they've spent so much time on the pre-Unicode Internet that they can sight-read Cyrillic characters encoded as Latin-1...
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by jjs 13y ago
Idea: each Pi could be placed in some carrying case (with power, external sensors, e.g. GPS), and individually taken out in the field. Then, when the Pis are back home and networked together, they connect as a cluster and reconcile their in
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by jjs 13y ago
> $9 seems quite excessive to mail a sheet of paper. $9.83 is a Starbucks grande latte in Oslo... http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/02/the-starbucks-g...
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by jjs 13y ago
There's the value: a trusted* escrow service. (* Well, within the known limits of how far Paypal can be trusted. )
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by jjs 13y ago
> Okay, so the entirety of silicon valley is a toxic waste dump? Yes, notoriously so. Think about where the name Silicon Valley comes from. HP, Shockley, Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, AMD... Chipmakers. A lot of dangerous chemica
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by jjs 13y ago
> "Never mind that Jobs is the quintessential malicious and inquisitive meddler," So, the bad definition of "hacker"?
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by jjs 13y ago
Deprecating old-IE is the solution for cross-browser issues.
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by jjs 13y ago
Reboot? Anonymity (and liquidity!) seems more feasible with multiple viable cryptocurrencies coexisting. e.g. using an exchange site (which has legitimate reason to exist), sell Bitcoins for Litecoins, then sell Litecoins for Bitcoins of d
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by jjs 13y ago
Given the dollar's recent volatility in terms of Bitcoins, I hardly see how Forbes can argue that it has a fixed value...
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by jjs 15y ago
The Buddha you meet on the road is not the one you're looking for. Consider the koan: Does a dog have Buddha-nature? This is the most serious question of all. If you answer yes or no You lose your own Buddha-nature.
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by jjs 15y ago
> You're more likely to die in a car accident. Every single day. Eventually you'd run out of lives...
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by jjs 15y ago
That assumes that people would adopt a code dump that's net-negative in value. More likely, they'd salvage just the good parts.
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by jjs 16y ago
You can have a Hyper key (in X11, at least!) http://computing.fnal.gov/docs/products/xemacs/v21_1/xemacs.... Depending on your keyboard layout, the "Menu" key makes a good Hyper, and if you've set up Caps Lock as an extra Ctrl key, you
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by jjs 16y ago
Have your cake and eat it too: open a socket to a CPython process and let it handle the legacy C extensions.
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by jjs 16y ago
Perhaps he's merely trying to depolarize investors' opinions; if everyone second-guesses him in a different direction, it might temporarily stabilize the average valuation.
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by jjs 16y ago
> Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market. Researchers at CERN have discovered an effective defense against those: http://imgur.com/qMCeI
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by jjs 16y ago
Hmm... 67% of users agree that "Swedish Opera Singer" is indeed a good snack.
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by jjs 16y ago
> Seeing this purely as a spec v pragmatism issue isn't going to get us anywhere. That's because it's not. The spec ( http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/mem... ) explicitly states, "If copying takes place bet
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by jjs 16y ago
> but essentially every dollar I have made has come from someone thinking he is getting more value for his dollar than I am charging him for my software/service/whatever. Isn't that the basis of all voluntary transactions?
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by jjs 16y ago
> There are some very wacky calling conventions out there; among them, "caller reserves space for result on the stack after the function arguments". Well, that's not very tail-call friendly...
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by jjs 16y ago
No need; he's already reduced it to a previously-solved joke!
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by jjs 16y ago
You're missing the point—this is the single greatest discovery in exobicyclology since E.T. !
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by jjs 16y ago
The correct evil business model is to get permanent funding to maintain power to the containment system.
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by jjs 16y ago
Time to make several dozen competing sites! >:)
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by jjs 16y ago
How 'bout Rapture? (cf. Bioshock )
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by jjs 16y ago
Give me ^[ or give me :q!
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by jjs 16y ago
But escape is Meta! :{
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by jjs 16y ago
> anyone who doesn't want to subsidize Apple's dystopian future will choose to buy a competitor's product whether VLC is on iOS or not. The only party's substantially affected here are iOS users, who are now deprived of a program to pl
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by jjs 16y ago
> It's Apple's store, they get to set the rules for their store. I have no problem with that. I may grumble at the rules they choose, but I'm not going to cry about it. Conversely, a GPL'd program is the author's work, and if some oth

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