mmphosis

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1051.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Here's an off-topic legal question: Are you allowed to copy intellectual property like fonts, perform a function like averaging on the intellectual property, and distribute the result of the function performed on the intellectual property?
1052.
by mmphosis 15y ago
> Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. Is the essay is a lie?
1053.
by mmphosis 15y ago
because 99% of money raised to "fight" cancer is spent on finding a "cure" whereas only 1% of money raised is spent on prevention. 0% is spent looking at environmental factors: - nuclear waste alone: bomb testing in the 60's and 70's, uran
1054.
Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds (youtu.be)
4 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1055.
by mmphosis 15y ago
> How a language can be faster than C? Turtles. Turtles all the way down. Translation: If your language is "Turtles" then you need to use "Turtles" all the way down the entire stack, and that includes your "Turtles" CPUs.
1056.
US to levy 5% tariff against China-made solar products(digitimes.com)
2 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1057.
by mmphosis 15y ago
I use a "text editor" and I also use a "programming editor." The two are separate programs for different tasks. The "text editor" is for editing (English) text, spell checking, and on rare occasion adding some formatting. The programming
1058.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Yup, the Toyota Sienna is a (North) American built car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_manufacturing_fa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_manufacturing_fa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufactu
1059.
by mmphosis 15y ago
0. free internet - as in beer and as in liberty 1. a new search engine http://duckduckgo.com/ 2. replace email - with a todo list? - as I look at that old Palm IIIxe sitting in the cradle on my desk, my mind swims in
1060.
'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation(aljazeera.com)
3 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1061.
by mmphosis 15y ago
It's not for everyone, but car sharing has been working for some time now... http://www.citycarshare.org/ http://www.zipcar.com/ (mentioned in the article) http://www.igocars.org/ http://www.autoshare.com/ http://www.modo.coop/ h
1062.
by mmphosis 15y ago
1mm?
1063.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Joy - Manfred Von Thun http://www.latrobe.edu.au/phimvt/joy.html Cat - Christopher Diggins http://www.cat-language.com/
1064.
Loper is a "Lisp-All-The-Way-Down" operating system (2008)(code.google.com)
2 points by mmphosis 15y ago|1 comments
1065.
Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood(entertainment.slashdot.org)
2 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1066.
Microsoft, Intel Face Their Kodak Moment(informationweek.com)
2 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1067.
What's in a Domain Name?(thetyee.ca)
1 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1068.
by mmphosis 15y ago
In the 80's I got the gist of spellchecker algorithms. An Apple II spellchecker that I used a few times seemed to spell-check using brute force means with the dictionary filling an separate 143K floppy disk. It was a somewhat slow batch-li
1069.
by mmphosis 15y ago
; initialize CALL -151 1000:BA 8A A8 49 80 AA 9A A9 2 48 A9 FF 48 BA 86 6 98 AA 9A A6 6 A9 30 85 6 A9 C0 85 7 A0 0 0 N 1000G ; six bytes! 300:9A B1 6 4C ED FD 300G
1070.
by mmphosis 15y ago
; enter the machine language monitor CALL -151 ; toggle the speaker and load the accumulator with the "floating bus" value--the byte last read by the video refresh controlled by the video scanner. 0300- AD 30 C0 LDA $C030
1071.
by mmphosis 15y ago
NEW 1HOME:A=9200:B=13168:C=100:FORI=768TO796:READN:POKEI,N:NEXT:HGR:POKE-16302,0:HCOLOR=4:HPLOT0,0:CALL62454:HCOLOR=2:HPLOT0,63TO279,63:HPLOT0,62TO279,62:HCOLOR=6:HPLOT0,61TO279,61:HPLOT0,60TO279,60:HCOLOR=1:HPLOT0,59TO279,59:HPLOT0,
1072.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Math vs. Language. I don't refer to the first inch of a ruler as inch 0 or inch 1, I refer to it as the first inch. There are two things being described which I think is a set up for confusion and the many off by one errors that I've seen a
1073.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Apple’s Mac OS X, Adobe Illustrator, Facebook, Google’s Chrome browser, the Apache MapReduce clustered data-processing architecture, Microsoft Windows 7 and Internet Explorer, Firefox, and MySQL — to name just a handful — are written in pa
1074.
Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1075.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Interesting. Would you elaborate, and/or give an example of some non-Von Neumann designs and how they accomplish table lookups more efficiently?
1076.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Meh. Who needs the new economy? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3336286
1077.
by mmphosis 15y ago
The MacBook Air is my personal preference. Your points, all seem to point to the Air except for the .7 Ghz, >There is a difference of .7 Ghz between. It is that big a difference? no.
1078.
Who needs the new economy? (2001)(salon.com)
2 points by mmphosis 15y ago|0 comments
1079.
by mmphosis 15y ago
eighteen quintillion four hundred and forty-six quadrillion seven hundred and forty-four trillion seventy-three billion seven hundred and nine million five hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and sixteen 18446744073709551616
1080.
by mmphosis 15y ago
Here are some entries in my /etc/hosts file... 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 facebook.net 127.0.0.1 plusone.google.com 127.0.0.1 gooleapis.com 127.0.0.1 clients6.google.com 127.0.0.1 gstatic.com Anyone know how to fi

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