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by konad 16y ago
hehe savages, what will they do next
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by konad 16y ago
I wrote a VHS take tracking system in Basic for a guy that rented out pirate VHS tapes from the back of a van around his council estate. I was about 11 (so about 1982), my dad used to rent tapes from him. - I'd never used whatever computer
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by konad 16y ago
I've done that bit :) I bought Loeliger and wrote the TIL from that in AVR assembler.
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by konad 16y ago
Forth, still. Written a few bits but want to get serious.
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by konad 16y ago
I've been banned by HN twice, no appeal, no explanation, in fact you don't even know because you can still log in and post comments. The first time it took me a couple of weeks of "how come no-one replies to my posts any more" before I thou
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by konad 16y ago
> I can't begin to describe how much I loathe seeing page upon page of apps Did you miss Steve's memo : teh app store is not for discovery. You should only ever see ONE app, the ONE you already knew about and came to download. /sarcasm
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by konad 16y ago
* Inability to debug Javascript without Visual Studio * Terrible error messages * Firefox
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by konad 16y ago
you're right but they want to change that
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by konad 16y ago
The theory is that liquidising your food means more chemical reaction can take place. I don't have soda in reach. One 330ml can of soda a day is 5kg of weight gain per year to work off.
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by konad 16y ago
Seth Roberts reported on this a long time ago, though he added a bit of fructose to his water http://www.sethroberts.net/about/whatmakesfoodfattening.pdf A farmers know, taking water with your meals increases calorie uptake too.
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by konad 16y ago
AFAIK you can't weasel your way out of product liability like that.
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by konad 16y ago
No. Germany (and the UK) applied the American drafted European legislation that says it is illegal to distribute software that could be used to break into computers. http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/567 http://www.schneier.com/blog/arc
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by konad 16y ago
Not the word jail but the threat is in plain sight http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20021836-52.html "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a company spokesperson told CNET. "With Kinect, Microsoft built in numero
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by konad 16y ago
isn't it illegal for a German to post on how to crack passwords ?
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by konad 16y ago
that's fantastic, I'm so going to make one
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by konad 16y ago
Hi, I'm thinking of getting RepRap. Do you find your printer brings you any business opportunities ?
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by konad 16y ago
Even though I've read it twice, I still don't understand exactly how you get anything to run and start writing arbitrary files. The way to do it is to send a tar file that happens to extract exe files to ~/bin. Besides, if you run a fancy
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by konad 16y ago
OT but hey I can afford the burn The charging a cow should do is with its horns, right in your fat belly. Cows milk is for baby cows.
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by konad 16y ago
After a spell at Bell-Labs working on Plan9 (his Mothra web browser is my favourite HTML2 renderer), Duff is now at Pixar.
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by konad 16y ago
Do you know any off hand ? I've had referer headers stripped for a few months now and afaik it's never caused my any problems.
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by konad 16y ago
Pike, Ritchie and Cox, those simple fools
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by konad 16y ago
I do wish they'd change the name, R is such a difficult search term
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by konad 16y ago
C and C++ most definitely are not the same language.
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by konad 16y ago
It's 1994, Windows for Workgroups is on your computer connected to the other machines on the LAN via a Novell Network. No WAN. Word 6, Access 1.0, Excel 1.0. VBA is all you've got.
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by konad 16y ago
You can use Excel / Word as a COM object and use any language that does COM.
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by konad 16y ago
What does that have to do with http referer headers ?
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by konad 16y ago
You do know the referer header is optional don't you, I mean, you'd look pretty dumb relying on it for any web service because, you know, some crazy people turn them off altogether, perhaps with the Firefox add-on RefControl.
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by konad 16y ago
see also Scheme in a Grid http://siag.nu/siag/
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by konad 16y ago
I would say that "smarter over time" is the wrong conclusion of the Flynn effect.
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by konad 16y ago
you can still buy them, I got a zx81 with 16k ram pack not long ago for $40

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