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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not quite willing to go that far into the madness with the crackpot'edness. But I think Protong is an intriguing idea, and that it is being represented artistically with skill, well .. why not .. Zermatism? That can be
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Awesome! I have walked past it a few times and wondered how it was ever supposed to have worked, so its going to be wonderful to see it in action one day ..
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Hubris protects us from the self-damage incurred by reflection.
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There's an emulator for EDSAC too, written in .. BCPL: https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
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I love it - as a fan of the crackpot Szukalski, seeing real science making similar conclusions to his, just tickles my pickle. For those who don't know, Szukalski saw these patterns and similarities in ancient art, decades ago - and fr
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>At what point are these people going to wrap their heads around the concept that there's no way to implement these sorts of policies without compromising security? You make the mistake in thinking they're ignorant of how much
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Your novelty and my depth are entirely subjective realities.
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I think there is a sizeable community of musicians for whom "doing things different than the mainstream" is a means by which important cultural development occurs. In fact for them, its probably more important than playing at t
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Music is one of those things that can have a very high-quality top end, and a very low-quality low-end. It doesn't really matter, ultimately the 'quality' is in the ears of the perceiver. So much great stuff now considered
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Musicians are one of the first groups to adopt new technology, and they're also one of the most stalwart of groups when it comes to keeping old technology around. Take MIDI, for instance. It took a while to get rolling, but its still
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SGI. I wish they'd return, and build laptops and pocket computers. You know, give Apple a run for the money ..
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I agree 100% and this is why its such a clustfuck: the only way out is for me to create my own, competing, UI standard. Oh damn, its a burning pile of garbage, I'll just throw some more on it ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Why can't we have simple declarative markup to create UI? Having spent years on this crap, I can only conclude that it is such a dire, revolting mess for one reason and one reason only: vendor lockin. You're not going to be ta
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One wonders just how this will proceed once it gets out of the 'junk science' phase of cargo-cultism, and becomes some kind of valid means of investigating the spiritual realm posited by various and sundry new-age religions. The
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You can do all this with the MagicShifter3000: http://magicshifter.net/ .. and more! It has WIFI, MIDI, OSC, Serial I/O, an onboard Webserver for the UI, and more! (DISCLAIMER: I'm a developer on the MS3000 proje
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Putting every single item in this on my list of "reasons to kill a motherfucker". Seriously though, I find myself oddly attracted to the Python-braces style .. if only I could use it without running afoul of my own list.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I think you're being a bit too diplomatic by calling it 'optimism' about Arc's eventual success .. to me at the time (and even more so now) it was more like hubris. Personally, one of the most important principles for cr
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm using protobufs for an embedded product, and I think they're awesome. Not the solution to everything - certainly - but definitely a highly useful tool for the right circumstances. In my case, I have a single .proto file that
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by mmjaa 8y ago
This is sort of, a new frontier of technologic disenchantment. On the one hand: public safety. On the other hand, drones are a very decent means of inspiring people to go beyond the public, and explore the universe. We have to temper one f
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Vienna, Austria. Great quality of life, very intellectual environment. You'll probably find it easy to move here and get a job, too ..
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What I'm seeing is "authority fatigue". Nobody really trusts their authority's views any more. And I think that's a good thing, personally. Not sure that I'd agree that Youtube is the best source of it, but y
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yeah, if we could harness the energy that Americans' use to run away and hide from Clinton's history, we'd have world peace, probably. /s Does nobody remember the wars this woman started, in her reach for power? Are we
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.. and of course, the old standard, if its mainstream .. you are replaceable.
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There are CEO's who haven't written a book. Maybe you're like those guys.
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All startups go through a cargo cult phase. What differentiates the successful ones from the non-successful/zombie ones is that it is recognised as a phase, and people work damn hard to get out of the cargo-cult zone. When you have
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This is so true of the Austrian startup scene, I had to double-check that it wasn't written by someone I know. IMHO, the worst thing a startup can do in Austria is get involved with AWS funding .. state funding of tech. Its just so de
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I am filled with despair that this is normalised behaviour now. I can't honestly think what its going to take to back off from this direction - younger generations aren't cognisant of the risks enough to want such tracking to be
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Ultimately, they have users too. However the context is general application development - certainly, special-case users have their value as well...
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The 'user' of a virus is the virus author - not the person running the software. A user is someone who attains some gain from running software. So, no, this would be a very low user count.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I had great burgers in Shibuya. Good Pizza in Koenji. Great Italian in Asagaya-kita. McDonalds Roppongi: not so great, but then .. low expectations there. I think it depends where you get out - these are not tourist-type restaurants, but

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