krying_krab

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Forth, Basic, and VGA output. The 80s had some surplus, multi-core chips.(parallax.com)
2 points by krying_krab 17y ago|1 comments
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Basic still is relevant, sort of. http://www.parallax.com/tabid/407/Default.aspx The Parallax Propeller is an 8-core microcontroller (with each core named a "cog") with very small amounts of memory on each core. The Propeller can fairly e
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Why stop at the American Midwest? I'm fairly certain that there's no "inherent virtue" in Africa. Oh, and let's add China too. India maybe. Everyone should just come to America. Yes, you Canadians playing peekaboo in the corner too. The Mid
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Implement a Forth on the OS. If the rest of the OS is in ASM anyway, you can do high-level work in Forth.
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Which one is more active, KolibriOS or MenuetOS?
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So, A Client Walks into a Bar(socialoptimized.blogspot.com)
2 points by krying_krab 17y ago|0 comments
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by krying_krab 17y ago
The idea is very similar to Firefox's incremental search (and for that matter, even more similar to Emacs C-s and C-r).
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What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987(video.google.com)
3 points by krying_krab 17y ago|3 comments
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by krying_krab 17y ago
You could have saved keystrokes by saying "I totally believe in the Capitalist version of Marx's Socialism-Wins theory. All socialist things will fall! MUAHAHAHA" Please, approach the debate with some sensibility or an eye to analysis. This
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Faster than Opera too? Edit: Yes, at least the Javascript engine is significantly faster on this benchmark. On Chrome 2.0.172.39 on Windows I scored 1051.2 ms, on Firefox I scored 4633.8 ms, and on Opera I scored 6230.2 ms.
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Our intro to computing class involves learning about gates, an academic architecture (LC-3), programming in bytecode, programming in assembler, learning how we assemble the bytecode into assembler, then learning C. Our final project is a ba
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Old-School Cracking(tbp.org)
6 points by krying_krab 17y ago|1 comments
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Now I'm no expert on this but, wouldn't it be a security risk if any old citizen could inquire about the credentials of another person? Recent homegrown terrorists come to mind. That said, he could just be a phony who invented degrees. The
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by krying_krab 17y ago
Perhaps what most interests me about the article is not the dichotomy of the two cultures, but in the area between them. I'm a college sophomore studying EE in a notable university, but I spent most of my free time (and much of my homework
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Differences in the Windows and Unix cultures(joelonsoftware.com)
43 points by krying_krab 17y ago|30 comments
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by krying_krab 17y ago
I suspect your university library will have more than enough subject matter about the theory. http://www.timefracture.org/D16docs/wire_wrap.html describes the practice of wire-wrapping, the technique used here.