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World's first 16-bit home computer game in your browser (original machine code)(mlsite.net)
1 points by mxh 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I built an app to help you make friends (and you can try it for free)(fairoakslabs.com)
2 points by mxh 16y ago|0 comments
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by mxh 17y ago
1.) Since Sept. 2009 (Working on other things as far back as Feb. 2008.) 2.) No. (I usually apply, though.) 3.) No. (Doesn't seem like a good use of time to try.) 4.) http://www.fairoakslabs.com/iknowpeople/ or http://itunes.apple.com
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Implementing Full-Text Search for Core Data (iPhone)(mlsite.net)
1 points by mxh 17y ago|0 comments
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by mxh 17y ago
Thanks for your comment. I agree with you (and roundsquare) that the first point has problems. To give you some idea of what I was getting at: The way I, and I suspect most gamers, play adventure games is to: a.) Run through the room gra
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Things I Learned from Adventure Games(mlsite.net)
22 points by mxh 17y ago|7 comments
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Norvig's Sudoku solver generalized for KenKen, ported to Javascript(mlsite.net)
1 points by mxh 18y ago|0 comments
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by mxh 18y ago
Nice to see that the http://bikeshed.com/ is alive and well.
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by mxh 18y ago
"They want unions to cut them a break" Sort of. It would be at least as accurate to say that the UAW wants the US gov't to hand over $25B (or $50B, or $75B) to the big 3 s.t. all 4 entities (Ford, GM, Chrysler, UAW) can carry on with busin
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by mxh 18y ago
As a hacker friend put it: "Programmers are paid to think, and occasionally type". Not the other way 'round.
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by mxh 18y ago
I recently looked at the bandwidth costs of S3 vs. traditional hosting, and found them less than compelling; in particular, they seemed much higher than those of shared hosting providers. EC2 has the same bandwidth pricing structure as S3,
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D-Wave talking up "Orion", their 28-qubit machine(tomshardware.com)
1 points by mxh 18y ago|0 comments
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by mxh 18y ago
it is taxed much higher than passive income Could you elaborate on this a little bit? The passive/active divide is a little fuzzy to me, especially since you apparently include "subscription fees from web apps" in the "passive" category.
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by mxh 18y ago
(oops! I mean "37Signals") I'm pretty sure you mean "37signals".
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by mxh 18y ago
But doesn't this "fact of life" just mean that developers should spend some time learning to market? Not getting great at it, but at least competent?
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by mxh 18y ago
Ok, I guess I'm officially grumpy. "The routines in your code should be treated like tiny, highly polished diamonds, each one more exquisitely polished and finely cut than the next." This makes no sense. Each routine can't be more exqu
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by mxh 18y ago
In my view, if you're going to do a business on your own, you have to be focused. Between the other parts of life that need some attention, the care-and-feeding of the business, sales, marketing, and promotion, there isn't that much time l
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by mxh 18y ago
Bray's conclusion, as I understand it, is that there is no "Web OS". I think he's wrong, because he's not looking in the right place. "OS"es started as collections of low-level utility code that helped apps run on particular pieces of hard
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by mxh 18y ago
Mesh abstracts devices and operating systems into objects that can be coordinated and orchestrated to deliver the appearance of a single or composite device. That’s the guiding principle behind virtualization, which permits applications to
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by mxh 18y ago
10,000? 10,000 is a large number. For instance, 10,000 days is about 27 years, 5 months.
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by mxh 18y ago
I've had good results with Tkinter. The widgets look native enough on Win32, and it's supposedly pretty portable.
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by mxh 18y ago
I didn't much agree with this guy's post, but here's where he really lost me: "Javascript is on the verge of becoming part of the assembly language family, and toolkits like GWT are making sure that this will happen before too many develo
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by mxh 18y ago
"This is so big, it's tough to imagine our memristor based future. Please speculate wildly about humanity in the Memristor Age." Not since the inductor was discovered has there been such cause for rejoicing. My guess is that people in this
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by mxh 18y ago
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/web/libraryview.jsp?... Particularly tutorial 5. It's a pretty good/quick overview of how all the bits of Ajax (JS, the DOM, XHR, Markup, etc.) work together, along with brief, functional examples.
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by mxh 18y ago
FWIW, the smallest US infantry unit is the fireteam, comprised of 4 men. I think it's 2 fireteams to a squad. Sounds like a 2-pizza outfit to me.
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by mxh 18y ago
"What was it like to quit your job in February? Were you ready before you decided or did you become ready once you decided?" I made my decision back in October, and gave notice then. I was in my cube, an email with a busywork task popped i
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by mxh 18y ago
I'm starting a business. (Quit my job in February, in fact.) I don't have a co-founder. Here's my cunning plan. I build things I find interesting, and search for product ideas that other people are willing to pay for. I talk about what
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by mxh 19y ago
'Asshole' is strong, but tx's points are valid. I, too, much prefer the open web, and resent anything that promotes the adoption of closed alternatives. You're right that one can't fault a guy too much for picking the tech. he likes best
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by mxh 19y ago
Two things leap out at me: "So far this method has produced some exotic algorithms for ... minor variations of [problems] which are known to be NP-complete or NP-hard." Well, I guess all they have to show is that those "minor" variations do
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by mxh 19y ago
William F. Buckley wrote: "[I'd] rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty." Posted without comment.

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