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by simmons 14y ago
I couldn't have said it better, myself! I do enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but my fondness for computer history is mostly about understanding how to build the future.
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by simmons 14y ago
That's a great idea! Home and office phones are just begging to be pulled out of the 1980's and into the modern world. I'd love to have a stationary desk phone that runs Android, integrates with my Google contacts, etc. Unfortunately, the
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by simmons 14y ago
Ah, that explains it. I haven't played either, but I was trying to reconcile this being a 1993 DOS game with the reference to Jetpac in the "Hey, Hey, 16K" song.
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by simmons 14y ago
I hear that some work on Apps/Docs and Chrome happens there. This morning's Google Drive SDK hangout featured at least one person in Boulder... he had a sweet view of the Flatirons behind him.
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by simmons 15y ago
Heh. I've been immersed in video coding for the past few weeks, so not only was I shocked and intrigued at the title, but it took me a few passes to realize what was actually being said. :)
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by simmons 15y ago
My bank's branch in my neighborhood only has a drive-through ATM... and a sign disallowing pedestrians from using it. (A lot of drive-through places have such signs... liability, insurance, etc.) It's annoying. Of course, pedestrians wal
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by simmons 15y ago
Yes, sign me up! :)
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by simmons 15y ago
You may be on to something. In some places, even walking downtown is suspicious. I'll never forget an experience I had in the 90's while working for a regional ISP in Alabama. I was spending the day at a town 60 miles away to work on our
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by simmons 15y ago
I'll second that -- I loved living in Downtown Denver, and still visit as much as I can. Funny, when I was reading about the seven-minute commute in Nashua, I thought "that sounds like the commute I had in Downtown Denver," then saw your c
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by simmons 15y ago
Like many here, Jack Tramiel's vision of an affordable yet versatile computer certainly had a huge impact on my life. I keep my old C64 set up in my office to remind me that I have to live up to the expectations of the 10-year-old kid who
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by simmons 15y ago
Adium is great and I use it every day, but I wish libpurple could be modernized. Last I checked, it doesn't support a lot of the modern XMPP features. A colleague and I are always wishing we could use our libpurple clients to transfer fil
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by simmons 15y ago
Nice! I recently added ethernet to my C64, and finally bought the 1581 (3.5" disk drive) that I always wanted as a kid. After 25 years, I can finally have all my GEOS apps and data on one disk without having to swap them. :)
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by simmons 15y ago
Yes. _Rainbows End_ and _Halting State_ were the first things that went through my mind when I saw this headline. :) I personally find a lot of inspiration for my work in such stories.
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by simmons 15y ago
I remember being asked this question in interviews when I was starting out in the job world in the late-90's. It certainly came across as a cliché, and I suspected the interviewers were just following an uninspired script. I still suspect
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by simmons 15y ago
I think I do have a better picture of the situation now, thanks. (And thanks to the others above who elaborated on the state of binary packaging in Macports and Fink.) I can certainly understand finite time and resources, and I'm grateful
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by simmons 15y ago
My Fink seems to always want to perform builds, but I haven't really studied it closely. I have a vague recollection of it offering binary packages for Leopard but not for Snow Leopard when I installed it, back in mid-2010. If Fink can pr
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by simmons 15y ago
I ran into this problem, myself, after I upgraded Xcode a while back. Fink was no longer able to build a tool I wanted to install. I wonder if there's a compelling reason for these add-on distros (Fink, Homebrew, Macports) to be strictly "
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by simmons 15y ago
I agree with the author's point about QR codes mostly leading to advertising. When QR codes first became popular, I was snapping pictures of everything to get a glimpse of the fascinating world hidden behind these squares. Now I just thin
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by simmons 15y ago
Indeed -- I've often manually set AllowDeactivateGrabs in xorg.conf just so I can use ctrl-alt-/ to kill poorly written programs that XGrabKeyboard() then freeze. Of course, my workstation is physically secure so I don't need the screen lo
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by simmons 15y ago
Whoa... I recently observed this very scam while using the network at a local coffee house. The interesting thing was, it wasn't an end-user computer that was infected -- their router had been reprogrammed to direct users to this DNS serve
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by simmons 15y ago
Boulder's startup scene has skyrocketed in the past several years. At monthly startup meetups, hundreds of people usually show up to check out what everyone else is working on. It's not quite a Silicon Valley, and its score is probably exa
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by simmons 15y ago
I've been using Android-x86 in a VirtualBox for development for a long time, and totally recommend it if your app is pure Dalvik (i.e. no native ARM code). It's a night and day difference after using the emulator. One pain point I have, th
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by simmons 15y ago
I've noticed that this problem exists even beyond software documentation. It's often hard to figure out what a company does by looking at their web site, for instance. I wish every such document started with "Product Foo is ____. It does
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by simmons 15y ago
_Get Lamp_ was a steller documentary! I pre-ordered the DVD, and had a chance to meet Jason Scott when he came to Denver for a showing. He's an awesome guy, and really seems passionate about creating these niche documentaries that help pr
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by simmons 15y ago
It may be a serious problem for Google+ that Google Apps users cannot sign up. They are alienating their most loyal customers. I still check G+ every day, and there's a core of active users in my circles. But it would be more useful if I
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by simmons 15y ago
In less-than-near-future SF, the antagonists in Alastair Reynolds' _Century Rain_, the "Slashers", were supposed to be the intellectual descendants of Slashdotters. From Wikipedia: ``...they trace their existence back to "an alliance of p
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by simmons 15y ago
I got signed up (I think), but I can't log in because my email address has more than 30 characters!
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by simmons 15y ago
Why would the nonpaying client, or future potential clients, care what the developer does with his property? If they wanted it, they could have bought it from him. (I'm assuming that the developer didn't sign any IP assignments upfront, o
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by simmons 15y ago
Using Eclipse gets better as you get more comfortable with its peculiarities. I think the author did a good job of summing up the Eclipse experience--there's a lot to hate, and a lot to like. After using Eclipse for several years, it stil
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by simmons 15y ago
I mostly use real Android devices for developing and debugging. However, another alternative is running Android-x86 in a VirtualBox. (If you aren't trying to test native ARM code, of course.) It's very fast, and I use it sometimes to tes

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