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Ask HN: The future developer rig?
20 points by kator 14y ago|34 comments
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by kator 14y ago
I did z80 on TRS-80 Model 1's and 6809 on the TRS-80 Color Computer. They were not very complicated machines and thus made it easier to create assembly language programs that actually did stuff you could observe quickly. I think the fast f
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by kator 14y ago
Best part most everyone is missing out on: Page 17.. yes you had to PAY $750.00 just to have a C compiler and VI! Seriously, you only got 'ed' with the basic system, no C, no Vi, lots of stuff missing. I remember trying to beg my customers
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by kator 14y ago
Yes the boot screens would say Copyright 1983 Microsoft. You also had to pay $750.00 just to get Vi and a C compiler!
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by kator 14y ago
Do you remember why they asked for memory size? It was the ROM asking you how much memory you wanted to allocate for BASIC variables. You could tune this for various programs and/or if you were planning on running machine language programs
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by kator 14y ago
The IBM PC was the serious business computer. IBM PC's lost of TRS-80 Model 16's all the time until ethernet came along. Remember multi-user SMB customers needed to have multiple people working on the same systems. IBM PC's were
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by kator 14y ago
Most businesses cared very much about the TRS-80 systems. They were cheaper alternatives to very expensive mini-computers (VAXen etc.) and much more useful then the IBM PC's without any networking. We installed a lot of these machines for
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by kator 14y ago
I used to be a systems integrator for the TRS-80 Model 16's. we would hack them to add extra serial cards to get 8 serial ports! You could have 9 people logged in at once and doing well if the application was carefully designed. Funny but
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by kator 14y ago
FYI out of the box setting for apache are brain dead. I literally have systems with tweaked setting doing 45k/second hits at less then 10ms latency on Apache. You can't do that with default settings because again the brain dead default set
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Portal's physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator(arstechnica.com)
3 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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Beautiful $300,000 Minds(forbes.com)
3 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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by kator 14y ago
It's a REST api that is used to manipulate objects. And yes I want to build a "shell" or CLI to manipulate objects via the REST api and want to to be approchable by people without a lot of experience with the underlying API. something like:
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by kator 14y ago
The crazy thing is they're debating on Sender-Pays: FTA "The concept—known as “sender pays”—would radically alter today’s Internet economics. Some countries say their networks are groaning under video and other content provided in large par
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Ask HN: Best framework for building a command line language?
1 points by kator 14y ago|2 comments
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One Of Oldest Digital Computers, Gets Reboot(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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by kator 14y ago
LOL I just posted the same thing.. In some ways you can argue that he knows better then most what is "really" happening on that front..
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by kator 14y ago
LOL well if you crave C development there is plenty of room on our team.. :-) I am doing a lot of python too but quite a bit of C and some C++ (glue code for some 3rd party API's mainly for our C stuff)
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by kator 14y ago
LOL I'm 46 and just got a gig writing in C again and I love it. I stay current, I am fluent in Python, Perl, PHP, C++, Java, Javascript etc. But it has been nice returning to a nice warm pile of C code. Now before everyone piles on to te
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by kator 14y ago
10 X=1 20 D=1 30 FOR Y=1 TO X 40 PRINT " "; 50 NEXT Y 60 PRINT "HELLO" 70 IF X=0 OR X=34 THEN D=D*-1 80 X=X+D 90 GOTO 30
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by kator 14y ago
I guess the bigger question I have is how much time to you think is reasonable? I recently did a test one of my clients uses and to do it "right" took many hours.. but I also built test scripts, makefile, time testing scripts etc. But sti
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by kator 14y ago
LOL.. My last name is "Bunch".. I have six kids, three girls and three boys.. I doubt most of this crowd would know what show I'm alluding to.. I gave up years ago making the reference in younger crowds!
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by kator 14y ago
My grandmother lived to be 91 years old and she used to tell stories of horse drawn buggies and the first radio on her block. And how she would go to the house that had the first TV in her neighborhood. She would tell me these stories whil
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by kator 14y ago
I remember programming a TRS-80 Model I with 4k of memory and thinking I'd never write a program to fill "All that memory". Soon after the owner of the computer (My High School Physics teacher) coughed up money to upgrade it to 16k. Then I
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Ask HN: What's an effective programming test?
6 points by kator 14y ago|7 comments
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Apple adds new "Limit Ad Tracking" feature to iOS 6(appleinsider.com)
2 points by kator 14y ago|0 comments
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by kator 14y ago
To disable java applets in chrome: chrome://plugins/ Scroll down to Java and hit the disable link.
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by kator 14y ago
According to this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_fl... Oracle knew about this for quite some time..
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Java Pwns Everyone Again(blog.beyondtrust.com)
1 points by kator 14y ago|2 comments
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by kator 14y ago
My father always says life is like a roll of toilet paper. The further you get on the roll the faster it spins and the less of it you have left the more you cherish it. Time is clearly a solid and measurable component of our physical world
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by kator 14y ago
LOL I read that as "A mormon in a hurry" and briefly thought to myself "What does religion have to do with trademark law"..

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