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by spitfire 14y ago
That's not true in the least. We used to do 4K's in dos. Which was a glorified executable loader. Once your program started executing you were on your own, graphics, sound, memory management, everything. People still managed to get the firs
842.
by spitfire 14y ago
Utter crap. Rewriting history after you get called out is just pathetic. They owed him money and either through mistake or malice didn't pay him. When he contacted them to correct it they tried to legalize their way out of it. If I wouldn't
843.
by spitfire 14y ago
I'd counsel the company to turn a profit. But I'm not in silicon valley.
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by spitfire 14y ago
This attitude has killed many in aviation. The aviation industry is so conservative they've resisted electronic fuel injection for decades. Sticking instead with carburetors which can ice up. and many many people have in fact died from carb
845.
by spitfire 14y ago
Currently, Ada. It's a fair tradeoff between formal verifiability and time/space control. You have to do a lot more extra work to meet these three requirements. In the future, as we figure out how to make things like Haskell or an ML meet a
846.
by spitfire 14y ago
That's understandable. Not everyone will be addicted. I get bored with fighting games, but scorch/worms and such absolutely enthral me. Count yourself lucky I guess.
847.
by spitfire 14y ago
Sounds like red dwarf. Good show. Sadly dry wit doesn't come across well on HN. Sorry.
848.
by spitfire 14y ago
The same thing that made scorched earth so popular. Simple, addictive gameplay.
849.
by spitfire 14y ago
I'm not sure that word "accelerating" means what you think it means.
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by spitfire 14y ago
This gets into the nitty gritty of running trials (A/B, split testing). If things like this get baked into libraries it has the chance of pushing the state of the art forwards. Very worthy of an HN post. EDIT: Actually, check out their enti
851.
by spitfire 14y ago
It's funny. I see the clear value in what patrick is doing here. I respect Patrick (and yourself). I just don't like the approach he took. For that it seems I'm being told I'm not welcome. Perhaps this could be A/B tested.
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by spitfire 14y ago
You've misunderstood me. I love getting mail. If you're going to make a list full of useful information sign me up! In fact I'm subscribed to a few lists that I really enjoy reading every month. So I'm not against email. But don't bait, "fo
853.
by spitfire 14y ago
There was never any doubt on that bet. Which is my point - it's an annoying behaviour. Yes, people will give you their email, but they won't like it. That damages your brand (just a little). EDIT: One technique that'd make this cool is to o
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by spitfire 14y ago
You're wonderful patrick. But stop the signup rubbish. Just give us the video. You'll just be collecting throwaway accounts anyways.
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Kickstarter rejects synergy aircraft.(kickstarter.com)
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856.
by spitfire 15y ago
I like that they use feminine "she" and "her" regarding their future employees. Knowing that they're actively trying to build a balanced, healthy culture is very attractive.
857.
by spitfire 15y ago
They actually come across fairly well. They mention the history of timesharing. Which is an important indicator that they pay attention to history. This is key, we've had "social networks" since the 80's. We called them BBSes. We dialled th
858.
by spitfire 15y ago
He was seeing if you had a depth of understanding. I do that too. I want to see that people are aware of what's going on below them. Not that it's just "magic" to some keyboard basher. ruby on rails attracts an extreme number of keyboard ba
859.
by spitfire 15y ago
Knuth, Dijkstra, Godel, Bach.
860.
by spitfire 15y ago
Bottom line: (a) We're not in a bubble. We're in a revenue tsunami like nothing any of us have ever seen in our lifetimes. Instagram didn't have a single dime of revenue. and the CEO basically waved away any thoughts of revenue when pointed
861.
by spitfire 15y ago
Stop telling us what to do.
862.
by spitfire 15y ago
Back in the NeXT days there were a bunch of variable based spreadsheets. The stars were Quantrix and Lotus Improv. Data and formulas were kept completely separate so you could change them at will.
863.
by spitfire 15y ago
Please share more. You can't tease us like that and leave us hanging.
864.
by spitfire 15y ago
Ben Horowitz is an investor. You wouldn't think he has a vested interest in this, would you?
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by spitfire 15y ago
People are still using Eiffeil and Overon? All the other results I believe (Even clipper and module-2), but that is a bridge too far.
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by spitfire 15y ago
I had a IIIx, Vx, M500, Tungsten something and tungsten something+1. I remember how horrible the SDK was and the hoops you had to jump through to develop on the thing. It was after all a memory starved, M68K embedded system. I also remember
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by spitfire 15y ago
My browser was showing me pictures of fat cats at the bottom of that article. Then I figured out adblock was showing me cats for april fools day, and I was a bit disappointed.
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by spitfire 15y ago
That is an unfortunate analogy. I really don't want to see investors riding entrepreneurs.
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by spitfire 15y ago
I prefer quantitative researcher myself.
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by spitfire 15y ago
Algorithmic trading. Hint: backtest on decades of data, not just the friendly waters we have now. Forward test your work for a few months before going live. Use the same amount of capital as you intend to trade with for all your tests. Also

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