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by khazhou 8y ago
A huge part of the appeal of C64-style BASIC is the lack of distractions. I mean, you're already talking about CSS! :-) A better match than Javascript (which doesn't have an interactive console, and HTML+JS is event-driven) would
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by khazhou 8y ago
Sorry but none of that has anything to do with OPs request, except for where you say BASIC is terrible. - Lack of resources (books, mags, etc) -- no longer a problem - Platform differences and PEEK/POKE -- also not relevant. The Basic
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by khazhou 8y ago
$20 says it was Greg. Again!
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by khazhou 8y ago
I will kindly suggest that in the future, instead of phrasing advice in the form of "Any particular reason you didn't do the thing which to me is obviously the only smart thing to do?", you could give feedback more prescripti
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by khazhou 8y ago
> Is this him resigning in the same way Yukio Mishima committed suicide? This seems like an obscure reference (I am not Japanese). Care to explain?
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by khazhou 8y ago
Exactly what happened here: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/prank-swat-call-...
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by khazhou 8y ago
Ha! In DIGDUG/DIGDUG.S: 1950- LDA ROCKSY,X 1951-* SEC ; CARRY IS CLEAR HERE 1952: SBC #$06-1 ;MIGHT NEED TO TWEAK THIS I'm guessing it never got tweaked. I wonde
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by khazhou 8y ago
I am not postulating a hive mind, and my question is not based on any racism (as you are implying). Your DJT analogy is wrong because every single president has been white, so DJT's rise to prominence is not exceptional in that regard.
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by khazhou 8y ago
I will clarify my question, since that is not what I was wondering.
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by khazhou 8y ago
I think it was a sarcastic way to say: Founders and investors still often stand to make millions even while engineers get zero. I.e.: don't be a sucker.
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by khazhou 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm an ex-FANG, ex-founder, now-again-FANG, so I'm also biased. I'm somewhat bothered by your comment about money: > If your goal is just money (which is fine, don't be afraid to say this), then definitely
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by khazhou 8y ago
Because with this javascript library, you can run BASIC programs on the web. BASIC was for many people their introduction to programming, and it has a simplicity which is nearly unmatched today. By providing a way to run the language inside
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by khazhou 8y ago
The misleading language is designed to hide that problem.
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by khazhou 8y ago
I see little relevance of this to HN. That said, the opening line stands out: > A Dallas officer fatally shot a 26-year-old man Thursday night This is a departure from the way this is usually written up these days, which would be: &quo
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by khazhou 8y ago
My all-time favorite MIDI, circa 1996-98: http://gamma.nic.fi/~rikuh/main/music/Girl%20from%20Ipanema.... Can you add it? :-)
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by khazhou 8y ago
Ha! The trashcan is usually full of crumpled-up failed attempts. But the smell of typewriter ink. Man, I miss it.
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by khazhou 8y ago
If they are like a standard SV startup, they are indeed receiving salary, plus equity many orders of magnitude smaller than founders.
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by khazhou 8y ago
Good for them. And by "them" I mean the founders and investors. Employees may make some money if the company exits, but not much relative to time/sweat investment, certainly several orders of magnitude lower than the guys u
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by khazhou 8y ago
This is on your hands, too. I mean, it's probably not even worth me making the same cliched points about responsibility to vote, that you can read anywhere else. I'll just note this: the disappointment in Obama, the lack of perfe
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by khazhou 8y ago
There wasn't even a single issue you agreed with either Hillary or Trump on? Because even if there was just one thing you cared about and which only one side supported, then by your stated principle that both parties are (otherwise)
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by khazhou 8y ago
On the Bitcoin gravestone will be written: "I challenged"
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by khazhou 8y ago
Seems to me if Bitcoin was going to "become a thing" (to use American parlance), it would already have done so by now. What milestone could mark success for this currency? Conversely, when shall we declare failure?
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by khazhou 8y ago
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdJRjihJpCs (longer version of the one posted by evo_9)
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by khazhou 8y ago
"Punk's not dead, it just deserves to die when it becomes another stale cartoon." Dead Kennedys was on constant repeat on my walkman or home stereo as a 14-year-old in the late 80's. Every Friday was spent at the tiny a
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by khazhou 8y ago
If you're projecting from your own laptop, shut down any apps that might give bouncing notifications. Really, just shut down all apps. And don't have your browser open with bookmarks tab and window tabs showing. Don't spent
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by khazhou 8y ago
There's a non- Jewish-vs-Muslim argument: no country that does not today have nukes should be allowed to develop them. Hold the line. It may not be "fair", but it's safer for the world.
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by khazhou 8y ago
Interesting solution. Also interesting: there are people for whom a kilo of rice is meaningful. Holy f'ing hell, this world is imbalanced.
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by khazhou 8y ago
> the sign, which is just an old real estate advert that originally said 'hollywoodland' to encourage development. Oddly dismissive. It's iconic, and no less so because it was originally a real estate advertisement.
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by khazhou 8y ago
Loading... (iPhone safari)
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by khazhou 9y ago
> So the moment another company becomes popular they have automatic rights to your existing family's business domain name? Is it only domain names they have to rescind ownership of, or should they also be forced to change their busi

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