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It's also a miniature version of literate programming. You can go through all the commits and get an explanation of how the program evolved -- not just the actual lines changed.
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Bill Gates and Neil Konzen wrote DONKEY.BAS. His name doesn't show up in the program listing, though, even on PC-DOS 1.0. :-(
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> I'm not a particularly good player, and I got 3 out of 4 corners on my first attempt by just relatively haphazardly following the above, which means the default settings and/or overall strength of this version is pretty weak
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> it came with an embedded windows runtime - I think it was Microsoft not sure quite yet how they'd license it. The Windows port of Microsoft Excel also initially came bundled with a Windows runtime. It wasn't really until Win
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> The Mac is great -- just as I remember it when I was a little kid. Actually, not exactly -- the emulator seems faster than the Mac we had. Also, I tried to get it to crash but wasn't able to. You really shouldn't see a cras
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> QBasic didn't come until MS-DOS 5, the demo uses MS-DOS 2. Actually, the demo is PC-DOS 2.0, not MS-DOS 2.0. Notice the disk that's in the emulator's drive. Also, IBM replaced all of Microsoft's copyright notices:
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> Once "they've" run malware on your machine it's no longer your machine and nothing can be trusted. Wipe and re-install, then very carefully restore backups of data. That is a general rule for malware that you do
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> There are costs associated with each sale, not everything is revenue. "Costs associated with each sale" are irrelevant when considering revenue. If you spend $400 to make a $500 sale, it's the same as if you spend $100
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If they play games in Q1, then they'd simply take a hit in Q4. The annual report is audited, and the quarterly numbers have to add up to equal the annual numbers. It wouldn't look good to play the Surface write-off trick twice in
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> Windows revenue is (finally) down. I say finally only because many people wouldn't believe this would happen, even a few quarters ago. Right now they are offsetting that with enterprise deals, but do they really think that's
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You used the wrong term. What's lethal is not "infection" with rabies -- but a full-blown case of rabies. Rabies infection is very survivable if caught before symptoms start to show up. We have a post-infection vaccine th
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> It's actually fairly common throughout the western world that the loser of a civil suite must supply legal fees. It is uncommon in the United States. Which is why it's surprising. In the last 200 years, American common law
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Sure, see http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the... You don't even need computers to piece together shredded work. Iran pieced together the shredded US Embassy documents by ha
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Helium is considered a strategic resource. Going as far back as the 1930s, when it was restricted because of its scarcity and use in naval airships. For example, the United States refused to sell helium to Nazi Germany -- which is why the
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> And I've just noticed that the "save file" icon in word processors isn't a floppy disk as it used to be. Maybe the one you're using. But the "Save" icon in the most popular word processor is a 3.5&
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> Oh, and if you thought $1000 is annoying to trade, check out Berkshire Hathaway: If you want to trade Berkshire Hathaway, you're supposed to trade the B shares -- not the A shares. Berkshire A usually trades under a thousand sha
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> Shareholders don't have voting rights, how can they pressure Google to do anything? Shareholders do have voting rights at present. The problem is that Google Class B shares carry 10x the voting rights of Class A shares. Thus,
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LNKD is expensive because it participates in the social-networking stock bubble.
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There is so much liquidity in MSFT that it'd trade at a penny spread with or without HFTs. Thus, the only advantage is speed. So you got your order filled in 5 milliseconds instead of 6 milliseconds. So what? You're a person. A
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Tighter spreads were made possible by electronic exchanges, penny pricing, and direct access brokerages. You didn't need HFT for that. You could've gotten the same thing with LFT. If all you want is a penny spread, then nanoseco
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> It's possible that the situation for executing giant orders in one fell swoop hasn't gotten any better under HFT, but it hardly seems to have made it worse. Plenty of stocks went "no bid" during the 1929 crash. 1
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You can manually initiate an upgrade by opening Internet Explorer and entering into the address bar: ms-windows-store:WindowsUpgrade (Be warned: 8.1 Preview to 8.1 RTM is a fresh install. Your Metro apps will come back, but your Win
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> 5. Buy in 1973 and sell in 1992, realizing 2% annualized over 19 years. Again, you'd have to suffer losing over half your capital before you eventually came out on top. You seem to be ignoring dividends. The S&P 500 gave a t
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> Incidentally, Soyuz is considered the safest craft with only two accidents (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11) in 46 years. No. There were only two Soyuz missions with fatal accidents. However, there have been a number of Soyuz missions with n
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> Wondering how much is the impact of crowd-funding / public micro-funding on deal quality and deal flow for these traditional VC firms (Mattermark anything?)? Why are the VCs lowering their fund size so rapidly? Crowd-funding is
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Imagine looking for a style every time you needed to italicize a letter. Body text, italicized. Header, italicized. Subtitle, italicized. Why not let the user italicize, and then let Word itself find the style? Because that's what
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Indeed, disk transfer speed mattered a great deal in the early days. People used to save all their data to floppy disks, and use their hard disks only to load programs. Say you had a large document of 600 KB size. Floppy drives wrote at 4
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> As an aspiring mathematician, the thought of not using LaTeX for mathematics frightens me. The thought of using Word for mathematics terrifies me. Why? You can type LaTeX into the Word equation editor -- a fact that is little-known
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> Wordperfect still is very popular in law offices. Lawyers love the "make it fit" feature, which word doesn't have. Lawyers are always trying to put 17 ounces into a 16 ounce glass. Word does not have a "Make it Fi
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> I'm disappointed to see that MS Word has become the default for publishers. ... FrameMaker allowed you to do ad hoc formatting, but it was designed for a stylesheet approach. ... It is possible to pop open a style inspector in Wo

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