pjbrunet

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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   Try a dictionary. Look at the latin root. That's the original meaning of intelligence.
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   "Sign up for a lobotomy" Correlation does not imply causation. If I unplug your LCD, that doesn't imply the application failed. If I pull out your CPU, doesn't imply the cloud app is not still functioning. Possible ex
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   Call it what it is, an expert system, market research, a database of decisions/observations. Real "artificial intelligence" only exists in science fiction, in the minds of children playing with toys. Your computer (doll) wo
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   "100% FREE, ALWAYS" What's the catch? How are they going to make money? Harvest invoice data? Really the only reason I use Freshbooks is for the 50-cent Paypal invoices but I first create an actual PDF invoice in OpenOffic
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   Upvoted for OS/2. That was OS/2's claim to fame back when I interned there. And OS/2 could run Windows apps, so you could be using OS/2 without knowing.
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   I find "indoor" malls are great for working on code. Even in bad weather you can take a break and stretch your legs, do some window shopping and then get back down to work. It's nice to have a predictable environment like t
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   Do you have data to back up the CPU claim? With Linode, it really depends who you're sharing a server with. I don't have as much experience with D.O. However, dollar for dollar, I think D.O. is slightly faster.
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   Ok I got way off topic. I don't understand why Amazon.com is so intuitive but Mechanical Turk and AWS are so "bizarre".
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   by pjbrunet 13y ago

   It's easy to get started with D.O. but Linode's interface is much easier if you need to upgrade. Last I checked, D.O. doesn't even have an option to add more disk space. With Linode it's just a few clicks to resize. Wi
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Well, I voted twice on the same IP so maybe the results are meaningless. But considering HTML5 > native, iOS is more like 1/4th of the pie. Objective-C is not a language option, but maybe because it's not a backend language?
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Assuming Google/Apple maintain respective strangleholds, continue to share the wealth, etc. The "app store" craze could fizzle out, nobody knows for sure.
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers Not sure how much it has changed (revisions) but my old copy has a few chapters on Woz.
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    I agree about the iPod, before that Apple was a sad story. They just rebranded the Diamond PMP for the Napster crowd, which was pretty smart. Nobody knew what an MP3 player was till Napster came along: Diamond Rio MP3 player - 1998 Napste
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Not a movie but there's more about Woz in here than anyone else... http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Or "Building on the Bitcoin Blockchain" ;-) I agree, they tricked me too!
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    But none of that is new. A market for what? You mean an altcoin exchange? There's already websites where you can buy your own white-label exchange. Mastercoin was supposed to be an application platform/protocol layer on top of
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    If you set up 10 Digital Ocean accounts ($50 / month) and mined some scrypt-based coin (optimized for CPU mining) and pointed all ten at a pool, that's only ~30khash/s. Your desktop PC probably has more than 30khash/s m
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Last I heard, Mastercoin is just a specification. It's too early to pretend it's going to work. I heard an interview w/ the author and it sounds like lots of talk and big dreams w/ no real technology to back it up. Wh
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    If you have some kind of email list, please add me "pj at pjbrunet.com"
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Assuming you trust your hosting company (maybe that's another discussion?) I don't think it's possible to leak memory contents VPS-to-VPS but I could be wrong. In any case, if I had a pile of Bitcoin (unfortunately I do not)
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Wish this was elaborated: "Ideally I wanted this to have all the capabilities of a full wallet, but that would require, for example, linking to to berkeley db to parse the wallet.dat. I wanted to write this entirely in node." So i
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    For perspective, Zuckerberg was 7 y/o when Windows 3.1 came out: http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=5&d1=...
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Microsoft went public in 1986. Dial back your time machine a little earlier ;-)
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    or "edlin" ;-)
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Pastbin makes this very impersonal. This reads like a good first draft.
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Fighting for mindshare with click-baity headlines ;-)
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    That's fascinating, especially the C compiler, maybe I'll try it. But how to get C applications into Play? Still the "Allow UNSAFE Binaries?" setting is BS "WARNING: You are about to open your device to hackers! Ar
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    As far as ssh, I bet it was already installed on the device when you got it. Can you uninstall ssh and install it again without rooting Android? If you downloaded some ssh "app" from Play you probably just downloaded a cute inte
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    "producers, scientists and gamers" You're really over-simplifying here. Just go to McDonalds and count all the screens. Order tracking terminals, animated menus, registers, back office--must be 12 screens in there just to se
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    by pjbrunet 13y ago

    Exactly. If your job is reply "Yes" or "No" or "OK" that's great for mobile but not realistic for most of us in the trenches.