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by sspencer 18y ago
Kind of interesting, but really it would have been a safe prediction even without the supposed leak. Now if there is a leak concerning the mythical OS X Netbook, I'm all ears...
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by sspencer 18y ago
If you live in NYC, every airplane looks like a problem. Or at least, I imagine that is the fucked up rationale behind that particular kill switch. While it could conceivably drop a hijacked plane before it nails a building, I can't help b
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by sspencer 18y ago
I really like the idea of being able to search for a molecule just by drawing it! It's a fantastic and intuitive idea, if it works... Which it doesn't, at least for me. When I click the draw link, all I see is an empty white popup box wit
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by sspencer 18y ago
Is there a particular reason underwater is in quotes here? It IS an (insane) underwater startup. The fact that it is underwater does not need to be quoted. I think people have completely lost touch with what quotation marks mean. Sorry
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by sspencer 18y ago
Beautiful design! I signed up, same name as here.
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by sspencer 18y ago
Yeah, I was thrilled with the $10 million available for funding until I realized that I wouldn't actually get to work on my brilliant idea. Watching someone else realize my dream project would be like some bizarre form of torture. I'll jus
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by sspencer 18y ago
The last one is an excellent jab at devotees of dynamically typed languages. Neat submission. Copied and saved!
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by sspencer 18y ago
I signed up. Camden is close enough to my stomping grounds in Boston, and I have wanted to get my genome sequenced ever since it was possible. Now if only they'd let you patent it, a la Manfred Macx...
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by sspencer 18y ago
Ouch, zero points for Arc. Even MPI has one (prospective) devotee! I voted Haskell, because their libraries are finally getting the language to a point where it is competitive. There's even a story about this on the front page today!
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by sspencer 18y ago
I have Edward Hopper's "Two On The Aisle" behind me. It's one of my favorite Hopper paintings, and people often comment that they think it is a nice change from everyone's maps of the internet and automotivators. http://www.toledomuseum.o
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by sspencer 18y ago
That doctor deserves some serious kudos. I cannot even fathom how grateful those parents must have been for his work after being told by all other doctors that the baby was too small for dialysis. That kind of fuck-you-I-can-make-it-small
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by sspencer 18y ago
Want to know what a real hacker profile is like? http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/appendixb.html I always thought that was fairly accurate.
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by sspencer 18y ago
The step of deciding whether the "chunks" relate to one another and grouping them accordingly is a brilliant idea, and probably the key to really clean interface design.
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by sspencer 18y ago
Man, I might use this service. Seems like an excellent, hassle-free way to unload junk. Excellent submission.
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by sspencer 18y ago
RE Number 4: His mention of the difficulty of getting users to trust AI agents is dead right. All the supposedly wonderful Bayes-based filtering today STILL sometimes crashes and burns, to the point where Thunderbird often thinks that fair
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by sspencer 18y ago
Make sure to include Neal Stephenson's disclaimer from Cryptonomicon "EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, r
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by sspencer 18y ago
Ugh, how can he miss Quicktime? VideoLAN is all anyone I know uses on OS X (and often on Linux, for that matter). And as for Pidgin, I actually appreciate its economy of interface and simple notification methods. The trackpad bit is spot-o
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by sspencer 18y ago
Any links anywhere to some sample applications or code snippets written in T? Sounds like an interesting variant of Lisp.
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by sspencer 18y ago
Judging by the number of zombie/pirate/vampire/werewolf invites I get, I think the majority of people don't give a shit about the usefulness of the apps. Even if 95% install FacebookCthulu, I still don't care. In fact, as was mentioned bef
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by sspencer 18y ago
Brevity is overrated. And make sure you send me a link for those shirts! ;)
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by sspencer 18y ago
Make something people want? The hell with that. Make something DANGEROUS. You will be missed, Reginald. Great blog.
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by sspencer 18y ago
I meant simple in the sense that it would be a pretty straightforward way for me to help people like Ms. L. I doubt it would be in any way easy. And I taught my mother from basic computer illiteracy into practically a power user (well, a r
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by sspencer 18y ago
Excellent submission. That was an extremely well-written and particularly trenchant piece of writing. It is interesting to compare the experiences of Ms. L to various people in their 40s returning to school when I was in undergrad. They t
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by sspencer 18y ago
Not to mention 4 different Flashlight applications, each of which simply displays a white screen, and three of which the author has the audacity to charge money for. Thus far the App Store selection is very underwhelming.
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by sspencer 18y ago
VxWorks: For when it can't crash...ever. Some of the most entertaining and enlightening projects I have ever worked on were centered around VxWorks. Interesting interview. I liked the bit at the end about not allowing dynamically allocat
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by sspencer 18y ago
Was that available in 2006? If so, I guess he just meant the book, which is even more bizarre. So he won't sign any book not published by a "free as in speech" publishing house? Curiouser and curiouser.
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by sspencer 18y ago
Stallman's inability to see how damaging his rhetoric is to his cause is rapidly overshadowing any of his achievements. I went to HOPE 2006 in NYC a few years ago, and ran into him while heading to a lecture about Asterix PBX use. As a hug
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by sspencer 18y ago
Probably going against the grain here, but that was spot-on. PG's analysis of NYC in that article made me wince, especially that nonsense about restaurants and jackets. I also snorted at the notion that NYC is all about money. It is such
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by sspencer 18y ago
I saw an incredible presentation on this at the MIT monthly Lisp meeting by the ex-OLPC security guy and BitFrost architect Ivan Krstic. Fascinating idea, and something that made me really want to explore the uses of JavaScript in terms of
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by sspencer 18y ago
I'd be interested. I kind of envision something like the threads page, but viewable by anyone who clicks on my profile. Additionally, I could post self-contained entries not spawned from comments. Still 10 lines of code? ;)

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