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by jmatt 18y ago
Apparently this list will date me. It's in approximate chronological order. - Atari - At a friends house! Stunning. - Commodore 64 - LOAD "*",8,1 - 600 baud modem - CONNECT 2400 - BBSes and text based games! - email / fidonet - A huge chang
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by jmatt 18y ago
And then somebody could extort you to vote in certain way and remain at your side to make sure you comply... or steal your mail and vote for you. How is this any different from voting using an absentee ballot? Those can be stolen, bought,
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by jmatt 18y ago
Another reason non-spam/troll stuff gets killed is because it's a dupe. It's hard to find dupes when all you have is a link you want to post. For example earlier today: http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.positech.co.uk/tal... ret
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by jmatt 18y ago
Ya that is a valid point. I've yet to work on a product which targets dial-up or older machines. The product I work on right now is for engineers who design and manufacture things. 97% of them have .NET 2.0+ with XP or Vista. The remaining
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by jmatt 18y ago
I've never had any problems with getting installers to install the proper version of Microsoft's .NET framework. As for getting the right version of .NET on the customer's box their installer works (in VS2008) and InstallShield works with n
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by jmatt 18y ago
“Since framework teams at Microsoft can develop managed code software so much faster than they could using C++, their own efforts are dramatically accelerated. They no longer have the time to do coordination with other teams; such coordina
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by jmatt 18y ago
Just an observation, but societies with vast disparities of wealth tend to be poorer overall and to have flatter economic growth. PG makes a good argument otherwise. Read the last paragraph for the concise version of the essay. http://ww
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by jmatt 18y ago
This puzzle game is like hacker crack. After reviewing the guidelines for submissions, it seems to be ontopic. I figured Friday afternoon is a great time to post such a link. Other Players Designs This feature is a great way to see a rang
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A fun online physics puzzle game(fantasticcontraption.com)
5 points by jmatt 18y ago|3 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
I applied the day that the iPhone SDK came out and was invited last week. (Woot!) I have no connections to Apple or any Apple development companies. So it looks like they are finally allowing normal devs in.
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by jmatt 18y ago
Right on ars. The article brings up more questions than answers. The reference to photosynthesis is indirect. I think the point of the reference is that photosynthesis stores the sun's energy and then uses it later on. And that is what his
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by jmatt 18y ago
Probably a web developer that happened to have IE up at the time. I've worked at a fortune 500 company whose IT departments won't allow Firefox. Security concerns was the official reason. Needless to say, I'm not there any more.
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by jmatt 18y ago
2. Bridge Replace with Poker for the younger hackers. I know a lot of hackers that play Poker. I imagine it's dependent on age. It's en vogue for the 20 somethings to be a respectable poker player. I just don't know anyone in their teens
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by jmatt 18y ago
This is a great idea. The target market for those who can't see it is - non-technical people. Our parents, siblings and friends... They don't have to deal with some crazy blog interface. They can just use their already familiar email interf
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by jmatt 18y ago
I think providing an active page helps. It seems like a good compromise. Thanks for the link.
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Ask PG: Activity in comments adds to gravity
2 points by jmatt 18y ago|6 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
Ok PG's response seems almost like flamebait. I had to respond and try to voice my disagreement. I think the test of the importance of your work is not how much people will be hurt if you screw up, but how much people's lives are improved
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by jmatt 18y ago
This is pretty interesting idea. I'm interested in the overhead involved to get these new features. The "official" site is here - http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/
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by jmatt 18y ago
Average whale length = 12.8m (from top google search for average whale length) Area of the US = 9.826630x10^6 km^2 or 9.826630x10^12 m^2 Area in whales of the US = 5.99769897x10^10 whales^2 So that would be 50000 times the size of 6 x 10^10
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by jmatt 18y ago
Well lets go over a handful of things Knol is missing. No search results for: engineering, math, computer, internet or transistor. One of Wikipedia's strong points is it's ability to provide not historic information but technical informatio
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by jmatt 18y ago
Silly as it is, that's at least a sign of progress. It means employers have now realized that you want the smartest programmers, rather than obedient ones. Yeah but that seems to be what PG is saying here.
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by jmatt 18y ago
So from your perspective the companies that use "rockstar" and similar terms are probably better for hackers than a standard job posting? Since they are at least looking for the right type of programmers... I can see that perspective. It's
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by jmatt 18y ago
I've used Dr Scheme with arc (technically anarki-arc). It worked with no problem on Windows XP / Windows Vista / Ubuntu / Mac OS X (10.5). It's probably the single easiest way to demo it to someone that isn't familiar with lisp/scheme. (jav
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by jmatt 18y ago
This essay reminds me of the HOPL papers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPL ). As a younger hacker it provides insight to what was going on in the LISP and Scheme communities in the 80s. (Thanks PG!)
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by jmatt 18y ago
Hyperinflation like this presents interesting problems as a hacker. Heck they have a 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar note. Forty times the size of a 32 bit word.
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Zimbabweans play the zero game - daily expenses in the trillions(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jmatt 18y ago|1 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
It would be nice if we could add tags to gists so we could add some meaning to the code. Plus it would make it easier to search and find related gists.
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by jmatt 18y ago
The original news article is here: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a111...
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by jmatt 18y ago
It's likely that the biggest startup ideas won't be on this list. But, it's still a great list. I also think the idea of measuring and comparing complexity should be included. Even though this is arguably a pure math problem... A software s
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by jmatt 18y ago
I totally agree. But that fits under a good enterprise solution. But it may be smarter to aim at healthcare specifically.

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