sammyo

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by sammyo 19y ago
Yes, for certain approximations of Evil.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Thanks a bunch! Just what I needed to get my head around the current boundries of the release, and I'll get it running on my lap quicker. Now, if you'd just add an itty bitty little patch to implement Unicode... ;-)
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by sammyo 19y ago
But they could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
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by sammyo 19y ago
Watch any good movie with the devil, he always presents himself as a really nice guy with just a really great deal for the world. Not that I'm going to stop using gmail or anything.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Bit of a slam on Viaweb and lisp here, but well meaning and has a point worth considering. The wrong abstraction or fantastically efficient highly optimized (and, er, undocumented) DSL, that only one person in the world can work with, perha
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by sammyo 19y ago
But then you miss the great photo op...
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by sammyo 19y ago
I wonder how Google tracks it's short term outages and what it does with that to maintain it's perception of 'always on'.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Bah, humbug. ;-)
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by sammyo 19y ago
I just can't believe that there isn't a forward thinking Angle/VC out there that wouldn't be willing to keep the servers hot for such a classic viral internet 'phenom' until, over time, a natural monetary use appears. Twitter (like youtube)
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by sammyo 19y ago
Do you know what kind of animal will be on the Oreilly cover?
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by sammyo 19y ago
Spooky, just made several (checked in, checked, released, reverted) fixes... this is a time of year of deep internal distractions. I know I just don't get as much exercises as other seasons, just a good walk can help. Spooky that I was jus
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by sammyo 19y ago
Posted over the sink!
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by sammyo 19y ago
Look at the Sony reader sometime. I remember seeing a single letter on a breadboard E-ink display years ago, and since then I've wanted a reader with that surface. It seems like everyone that handles one wants it. The ideal is an entire lib
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by sammyo 19y ago
I for one am waiting for the gReader.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Andreessen forgets the PT Barnum effect. Movies are not like a business, they are a carny show. People go shows that grab them, not for something useful that they'll use day to day. H'wood sells vapor, really, literally vapor. That's the pr
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by sammyo 19y ago
Oil futures?
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by sammyo 19y ago
>And who likes pain? Let me guess, you? I remember seeing a 3D JS/DOM 1st person shooter and a raytracer in JS, wonderful intelectual excercises. Probably not products.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Remeber the 'Crazy Uncle Charlie' factor. There are folks that chase after one hairbrained scheme after another, never quite hitting the big time. Resilience is vital, yet not sufficient.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Sounds like the article is describing this guy that left here to pursue an amazing startup in genetic algorithms for financial yadda, but left shards of incredibly clever (wrote his own html parser) but largely unusable bits of applications
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by sammyo 19y ago
Hmmm, most amusing, this community has a blind spot.
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by sammyo 19y ago
I use IE... once a week to submit my time to a lame corporate outsourced timesheet.
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by sammyo 19y ago
Ha, inbred are we? First link I clicked at random even had PG's photo!
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by sammyo 19y ago
Note that the list is in reverse order. We'll have true AI sometime before the semantic web. The Singularity will straighten out all the messy html.
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by sammyo 19y ago
I know what it was about instantly, but software geeks are not your customer. Your demographic probably needs some flash glitz but get to the point quicker.
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by sammyo 19y ago
One missing point: preparation I've been trying to get into a small program I need to write and am a bit stuck. After glancing at the (great) list in the article and realizing I can roughly control most of those elements, I think 'now why