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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Mirage, that sounds familiar. My impression was ACiD and iCE were the two top groups and you had to be pretty good to get in. Everything was tenebristic because of the way the ansi colors mixed (had no idea what tenebrism was) and the subje
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
OK I see what you mean, it's in the pack but not rendering. I don't even remember what that is.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
-Z-Trasher I was not into the warez scene but I had some classmates who were. I did ansis for Dragonworld and Asylum, and maybe Sanctuary. The ansi scene was separate but associated with the warez scene (I think the cracking groups paid to
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I was in GRiM around ~1992 and an iCE trial artist ~1993 ;-) But I'm probably not in any of these packs. I didn't make it into iCE though, I heard there was some kind of Canadian merger and the management changed. I first discover
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I was just thinking yesterday, it would be cool if I could select a block of code and then pull a slider and walk back and forth just that one block of code while leaving everything else untouched. Anyway, we're way off on a tangent.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
The assumption underlying the whole article: property values rise because a neighborhood is "cool" and appealing, because artists live there. (And then artists must leave because they can't afford rent.) There is data showing
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Revolutionary, sure. I just think it solves a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Like if we could prevent cancer, we wouldn't need revolutionary cancer medication. If I go into Google Docs, I can watch different peop
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JQuery Is Useful, Thanks John Resig(pjbrunet.com)
1 points by pjbrunet 12y ago|0 comments
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
- If there's more data showing that artists help improve a community's quality of life, I think that's important data to share. The author figures that's a given (and I agree) but I don't think the general public ge
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
"I secretly hate programming, debugging, programmers, git, the whole enterprise - just seems so stupid & futile." Git seems like an evolutionary step tovards something more intuitive and efficient.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I would move on to starting the next business, but maybe you need the steady paycheck? You started company A, company B will be even better. On a related tangent, I would love to know how someone in his shoes could get crowdfunded to start
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Depends what they're doing. With a Linode + LEMP stack you can serve millions of users. I'd say MySQL is usually the bottleneck but if you have time to perfect your software, there's no telling how many users you could serve
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
FWIW, eating once a day is recommended in the "Hacker Diet" book, written by the author of Autocad. The book says multiple (smaller) meals are fine too, but you have to read it yourself, I won't do it justice here.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I agree, it wanders all over the place like they had to meet a quota of words. I don't think the article really communicates what it was like for the "computer nerds" off in a weird, unproven, tiny little corner of the world
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Hypothetically, let's say this writer is really talented. Few writers use hyphens for maximum effect. So few readers get to experience the hyphen-joy. When they do finally encounter it, they might be confused or annoyed. To some of us,
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
None of these are bad enough to ban a book. Even though "red-head scarf" is strange, it sounds like intentional wordplay in that sentence. Remember, writing is a creative activity. It's not engineering.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I was too young to remember much TI-BASIC but as for "draw pixel" I really enjoyed VGA's "Mode 13" which was very fast, great for making games, even without tricks like page flipping.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I still keep the Casio fx-7700GE on my desk and I still use it for quick calculations. Hasn't failed me since ~1990. Faster than using my tablet. The programming language was useful for some tests that involved using a formula. For ex
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I think that's a great question and I could list some contributing factors but I think a thorough answer could upset a lot of people. I lost 100+ karma just for some criticism of Apple ;-) Yeah, let's critique all the modern langu
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Looks like typical apps we all created during the early 90s. I taught my little brother Pascal in what seemed like a few minutes (I think he was in 5th grade) and within a weekend he created a file manager that would blow this one away. My
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I agree. And what are the implications? Wasn't Google sued by people unhappy with their rankings (Howard Stern?) and wasn't Google's defense that their algorithm was unbiased? (Not a rhetorical question, I never followed how
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
At first Google was a search algorithm, but at some point they decided to have humans review and rank the important queries. Important as in query volume. Why use humans? People can decide if your navigation is intuitive. They can decide i
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Drawing your own Windows was great because every application had its own character and style. It was an art. Then Windows came and made everything boring. (I see Zuckerberg following Gates footsteps--let's make the interface boring.) M
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
The random shell output from "background" apps never bothered me that much ;-) Crunchbang you can just press F2 and get auto-complete and launch commands with no shell output. Ubuntu has something similar. If you have terminator,
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
How viable is this in the real world? I could imagine it working on a lone, quiet server at 4am with no other people on it. The average server with 100s of accounts, 1000s of users all doing various stuff, that's going to introduce eno
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Looks like "folk art" to me. Like dropping an IBM PC on Gilligan's Island ;-)
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
You have to pay if you want to play.
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How much (per hour) is social media consulting worth?
1 points by pjbrunet 12y ago|1 comments
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Note: I decided this was too off topic and deleted the post.
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Expand Your Brand(pjbrunet.com)
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