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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm going the other direction - I've been in embedded/systems since forever, but focused mainly on mobile since forever .. and now I'm more and more convinced that the insanity of hell that is mobile development, is no d
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I daily ride my bicycle 8km's to get to work, and back. Its pretty good exercise, gets me really awake by the time I get to the desk. However, I don't think everyone can do this. I suggest to my friends, equally endowed with a b
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I just added a CPC6128 to my retro collection, and promptly blew it up. :( I'm going to repair it though, even if I have to replace every single chip. :)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Maybe porn isn't the butterfly. Maybe sexism is the butterfly, and porn just the wind ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Tardigrades have been demonstrated capable of surviving in space for extended periods and withstanding extreme conditions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12855775 Then there is the whole recent "Octopus RNA too weird
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The #1 thing that has always worked for me, and I've been addressing this for years .. since 1983 .. has been to switch things up.. Change my keyboard at least twice a year. You know that whole vim vs. emacs debate? Actually, thats r
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Just freakin' roll your own, sheesh. Bake your own bread, get some bicarb-soda from the natural side of life, ingest it regularly instead of a trucked-in consumer-ingredient. Its not so hard. For a lot of us, its a huge duh that bica
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Chains are chains are chains. Can you construct a sail?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The last time this is posted, the author had me at "Interlude: why is there no Lua, Erlang, or Forth memory model?" .. and .. a year later, it still holds true. Lua doesn't get quite the cred it should, in the language wars.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
It was a hazmat site whether there was porn shot there or not. Porn happens, with or without the camera. Its called sex. A lot of us have it at AirBnB precisely because thats the point .
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Well, and then there's multitouch. ahem touchegg &etc.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I think the point is, they kind of need to get a bit ill from dirt, recover again, and .. rinse and repeat .. but, y'know, far be it for me to worry about your kids. Mine won't stay out of the mud.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
My family lives in one of these "clean freak" cultures of Europe, where there is a high priority placed, mostly by the heads of households, on maintaining the absolute pristine cleanliness of everything and staying out of the dirt
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by mmjaa 8y ago
You can totally set up multiple mouse(s) on Linux, and graphics cards too, and even use one machine with multiple keyboard/mouse/monitor rigs to give everyone their own X session .. assuming you've got the metal for it.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm doing something similar for the Oric/Atmos at the moment, and I'm finding it really refreshing to go back to the age of assembly coding for such simple things as scrolling effects, which we take for granted in this day an
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I see it completely differently. This is a fantastic body of work, and as far as documentation goes: read the source. If you don't have time for that, its not the problem of the authors. That said, were this a commercially driven ente
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Interesting, I think the presentation is superb and the overlying purpose is great, but I really would've used Lua for this.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The article does mention that at different sites around the area, at the same time of the year, the same symbols (concentric circles) are indicated .. which means, its not coincidence, but rather co-incidence. ;)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I guess you didn't read the part where there have been multiple sites discovered, with the same degree of 'co-incidence' (pun!) discovered..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
http://airwars.org/ Pay attention to the facts behind the curtain.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Are you paying attention to how many "good guys" are being killed by 'your side' daily? Because thats more important than your other stat.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I once worked for a large industrial group in Europe. The kind that has a bit of a piece of every little pie there is - military, transportation, etc. I was pretty happy working there .. until I got a demo from the 'defence' gr
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I think that whats missing in this assessment of HR these days, is that interviews are just as much an opportunity for the prospective employee to evaluate their potential new employer, as it is the other way around - only, we're serio
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I do this often with my MagicShifter: http://magicshifter.net/ It allows me to serve up a web page to anyone in WiFi distance - and is quite useful for the purposes of promoting interaction with location participants .. it
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I am excited for this phone, for one reason: that I may some day be able to VNC to it from my desktop and use it that way .. or, even better, set it up as a target for Synergy, and simple integrate it into my existing computer fleet as a fi
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by mmjaa 8y ago
You simply cannot compare the scale of the Netherlands' use of bicycles with Australia. The nations are so far apart - literally - on the scales of distances involved, that its just not sensible. The Dutch are used to living within 2
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by mmjaa 8y ago
That's some cult-level doublethink going on here. Of course you need to understand motivation. "Who cares what the motives of ISIS are, they're rebuilding towns and cities destroyed by imperialist aggression.." <= t
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by mmjaa 8y ago
"Blind opposition to industrial progress -- which is what you are suggesting -- carried by the rising tide of public opinion will cause a ton of damage in the century to come, and the damage will never be repaid." The OP is clea
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I've been into GUI's and so on since before the birth of the web, and I've always had this deep discomfort with where we have arrived here and now, today. The Web and its UI is such a disastrous, convoluted mess of abstractio
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Oh, no question there is abuse going on here - this thought experiment is really reaching and extending beyond a certain horizon, which may or may not be idiotic. ;) Perhaps you're familiar with the wonderful and super-crazy TempleOS?

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