kingmanaz

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by kingmanaz 10y ago
>Why Did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? Mandated equal outcomes coupled with racial diversity.
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
It seems an additional color-e-ink display for relatively-static text would be useful for reducing eyestrain. From personal experience I can vouch that my old Nook Simple Touch is far easier to read for long periods than my wife's bac
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Amazing. That seems to be almost exactly what I was thinking of. I would think that the sensor would need to be on one's head, though, particularly if one is trying to achieve the "poise" I was speaking of. >I can't
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Seems most of mankind's daily labors are inclined toward predatory monopoly these days; either creating their own or wage-slaving toward preserving another's. One laughs with today's comedians as they parody the manners of y
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
NetBSD scales well. See SDF.org for working example. Hundreds of users from around the world online simultaneously at any given moment, thousands of Unix commands and services being used and consumed, and despite all that, a great securit
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
For a good read on what happened to Lake Tulare, read "The King of California". The world's largest cotton plantation now sits in the lakebed and holds primary water rights. Pink sheet stock. Ticker BWEL.
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Maybe I missed something. What's the big deal if Wright is Satoshi?
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
One of the more productive programmers I'd come across primarily used Pascal and PowerBuilder. He was a one-man dynamo. As to the Pascal language itself: You may want to look into Ada as it shares more than a little in common and can
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Perhaps someone should create a "learnxinyminutes" for this.
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Or an Amiga 2000.
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Ban hasbara editors.
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
An experienced AS400 programmer in our organization recently shot himself ( 2013 ). His decades of RPG experience failed him. He tried but never made the transition to web development from the green screen. He never survived to retiremen
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by kingmanaz 10y ago
Banging out GUIs in Tk is a delight when contrasted with developing in whatever javascript framework is popular this hour. Tcl itself is pragmatic to an extreme; a great framework for both organizing large projects and heaping up fast prim
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
That's because it paints black people in a negative light. Search for videos of its use, they're out there.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
>I am constantly amazed by the way in which people will try anything to get high. Research "jenkem". Doubt anything will ever top it. Proof even amazement is finite.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Sacrilege. Ksh93 and nvi here. <Hoping no-one runs "w" while I'm in elinks>
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
The UNIX philosophy is still alive and kicking and just a terminal away courtesy of SDF.org.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Indivision ECS will correct the flicker for OCS and ECS Amigas. I have one and it works flawlessly: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php...
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Same here. Never could afford one. I recall playing a side-scrolling arcade RPG put out by Neo-Geo sometime in the late '80s/early '90s. From what I remember there was leveling and different classes of characters ( fighter,
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Epictetus' "Enchiridion", the cheap Dover Publications edition, is all many need in getting started with the stoics.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
1992 F-150. 4.9 straight six. Upgraded to the ZF-5 five-speed from the Mazda which wore out reverse. 300,000 miles strong. Regularly haul 5000lbs of hay with no issues. No plans on retiring it.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Perhaps this is a red flag that mankind is nearing "peak science". It could be that periodic Dark Age timeouts are not only healthy, but necessary.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Read Tacitus' writings on Germania. While the Mediterranean and Near Eastern peoples were issuing violently long-winded, and ultimately hollow, discourses on the subject of ethics, Northern peoples were holding to faithfully monogamou
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
...right before gold shot up ~15%. Bad timing.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
There are some funds which target such investors. For example, the Parnassus Endeavor fund: "The Parnassus Endeavor Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets(plus borrowings for investment purposes) in companies believed by
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
OpenBSD has a conspicuous philosophy which involves a strong preference for C over C++, a ruthless minimalist pruning of the packages and ports tree, and an allergy to prevailing fads (see the reasoning behind OpenBSD's use of comic sa
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
"By Grabthar's hammer ...what a savings." Amazing how such deadpanned misery can be so funny.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Up and running on a 366Mhz Pentium II based Dell CPi. Using w3m-image through FVWM for browsing.
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by kingmanaz 11y ago
Hated when they killed YUI. Spent several months learning the library and showcasing a YUI3 portal to coworkers and suddenly development was halted and Yahoo's pages pulled. Poof.

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