rasur

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   by rasur 14y ago

   You mean like in "Swordfish"? Now that was a film that could be measured in facepalms per minute.
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   by rasur 14y ago

   > The Internet is only 20 years young Are you confusing "the web" with The Internet?
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   by rasur 14y ago

   Drug dealers have a ploy: "The first one's free, the rest you pay for". Always seemed to work out well for them financially (I'm obviously ignoring the other aspects of the ploy here). EDIT: For typo
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   by rasur 14y ago

   I was hoping the article would go into a little* bit more detail about how they manage to be so resilient, to be honest. * where little means "any"
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   by rasur 14y ago

   There's a link on the home page - "About" which goes into a bit more depth.
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   by rasur 14y ago

   Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client. Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!
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   by rasur 14y ago

   Whereabouts in Switzerland are you? There's plenty of stuff going on here.. certainly if you picked something like Ruby, and became proficient, you'd be able to find work.. (edit: I realise finding work probably isn't the focus, but.. just
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   by rasur 14y ago

   "this is how liberty dies.. with thunderous applause"
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   by rasur 14y ago

   You should read his book "Intelligent Image Processing" for a bit more information on what he's been doing in the area.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    I've been a follower of Steve's work since meeting him in '96 at work, and I can only echo your sentiments here. The EyeTap would be my preferred solution (compared to Glass, for example).
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    by rasur 14y ago

    And if you specifically mouse over the links contained in the email received, the domain looks like it could even be a phishing scam: e.g.: http://links.evernote.mkt5371.com/ctt?other_params_removed I just went straight to the site instead
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Aww, it's so sweet! Whatever next? DJ's learning to play an instrument?
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    by rasur 14y ago

    There's also cdist which is python and shell-script based - does not even need python on the target machine, only ssh and a posix shell. check it out: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/ disclaimer: I work with the author, but
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Side point, unrelated to the article.. If you like Forth, you could do worse than to have a look at Factor.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    I was expecting it to be a complete horror-show on my G5 mac, but it was actually really smooth (once it had settled down of course..). Really nice work. Well done!
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    by rasur 14y ago

    "Graveyards are filled with indispensable men".
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Credible alternatives? Well, IIRC there was a Liberal party.. It's debatable that they would be considered credible, but an alternative they might have been, but then the voting system in place.. I leave it to the reader to decide if there
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Leading the article with Britain under Thatcher as - presumably - a good example (of Government reform).. Not their brightest move to anyone British that grew up in the 80's and not in the "elite" classes. I was not compelled to read furthe
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    by rasur 14y ago

    IIRC, Fabio works at the Swiss Ruby shop Simplificator, who are all very nice chaps indeed! Glad he helped you along. EDIT: I just checked, yes he does (well, unless we're talking about another Fabio of course, which is possible...)
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    by rasur 14y ago

    I had similar issues - glad I'm not the only one.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    "You are what you eat", when applied to software is something along the lines of "software's eating the world, and the world is turning to crap". We've all seen it, at least those in the audience that have worked at some corporate of any si
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    by rasur 14y ago

    E17: Codename "Walthamstow" <joke> Congrats to the E17 team!
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    by rasur 14y ago

    sure. email's on my profile. edit: ok.. my username at bluewin dot ch (however, i'm going to bed soon, so you may get an answer in some hours..! ;) )
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    by rasur 14y ago

    It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite "under the thumb" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief. Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Now the GPS dataset is something I had not considered. A good point! Thanks.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Some of the guys at work are raving about this, but.. I guess it depends on your priorities. I'm unable to get excited about yet another online thing that wants to claim my time (or rather, might claim my time if I had an Android phone).. K
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    by rasur 14y ago

    I sometimes get the feeling that the movie studios could be outsmarted by a box of rocks. This example doesn't really do much to change my mind.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Big deal. Guy is broke, guy finds job, guy gets money. Not exactly newsworthy, even if it does have a few tech buzzwords.
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    by rasur 14y ago

    I read this, and then wondered why it managed to get on the front page on HN. Just because it mentions perl and C++?
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    by rasur 14y ago

    Prior Art: Basically the life work of Professor Steve Mann ("EyeTap").