terra_t

31 ms·

241.
The Theology Of Tetris(gamasutra.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
242.
by terra_t 16y ago
too much work & not scalable. sh1tm0nkey and all the "make money fast" people online tell you to do this... I used to hang out on forums with people who do this and I can say that 95% of them are broke, the other 5% are making money
243.
by terra_t 16y ago
building an A.I. that has something at least marginally interesting and more-or-less correct about any subject
244.
Economic Analysis Explains 1945-2010 Economic Growth and Decline Fueled By Debt(debtdeflation.com)
4 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
245.
by terra_t 16y ago
I don't like how (i) the card is pseudo-randomly generated and (ii) the people as passwordcard.org potentially have access to the key used to generate it -- it certainly would cut down on the size of the password space that ~they~ would nee
246.
by terra_t 16y ago
launch a web site that brings in enough income that I can quit my day job
247.
by terra_t 16y ago
In my experience, successful RIAs require close co-design between 'client' and 'server' components. Many people think they can "encapsulate" these issues away but distributed systems break most people's assumption. You can have people who
248.
by terra_t 16y ago
Yep, a complete disregard for compatibility between versions means that there is no such thing as the "Python Language" anymore, just Python 2.2, Python 2.4, and so forth. Back around 2001, Java apps were the scariest things to install
249.
by terra_t 16y ago
When it comes to wall street bankers, there seems to be a consensus that money is the only thing that's going to bring in good talent. When it comes to programmers, the consensus seems to be the opposite. I mean, they ought to be motiva
250.
by terra_t 16y ago
I dunno, these patient narratives have a way of driving me up the wall. It seems like just about everybody who can't cope has "Obstructive Sleep Apnea" these days... Enough that I'm starting to wonder if it's not just fashionable, but con
251.
by terra_t 16y ago
I just do what feels good, and it's not dealing with governments. My web sites appeal to students, teachers, and others all over the world -- and they earn me a check every month.
252.
by terra_t 16y ago
It's a frustrating area for "techies" to get involved with because, like a lot of areas where there's an "establishment", decisions get made by political processes and "techies" don't have the right credentials. For instance, to be taken
253.
by terra_t 16y ago
FB has great targeting technology, but horrible demographics/behaviorals for most advertisers; as @nudge points out, you're not catching people when they're thinking of a purchase, but you're also dealing with a population that has more
254.
"Take a look into PhpBURN Documentation, let be burned by it's power."(phpburn.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|1 comments
255.
by terra_t 16y ago
You don't have to like Python. I don't. Of course, I don't have any pretentions of being a "good person" either.
256.
New Film Visualizes Our Wireless World(nearfield.org)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
257.
by terra_t 16y ago
it's pretty different; for one thing, they want people to use it to pay for downloadables. You can, ~in theory~ sell downloadables through Paypal, but just try selling $100k in downloadables and withdrawing the money from your Paypal a
258.
NASA resets computer, repairs data corruption on Voyager 2 interstellar probe(jpl.nasa.gov)
135 points by terra_t 16y ago|48 comments
259.
by terra_t 16y ago
I found that neither cardio or weightlifting made any difference in my pattern of weight gain over the last few years. I switched to a standing desk and lost about six pounds in the first three weeks: just bopping around to rave music whil
260.
by terra_t 16y ago
That's the whole problem with REST; getting transactional semantics requires distributed transactions. In RPC you can do everything you have to do in a local transaction and package it as one RPC call. Fast and simple...
261.
by terra_t 16y ago
I ~love~ REST! People who don't know anything about building distributed systems hop on the REST bandwagon and before you know it they've got a monstrosity that doesn't work. I come in as a $150 an hour consultant, explain really clearly t
262.
by terra_t 16y ago
Lisp is blub. It ignores Noam Chomsky and a large amount of research and development in linguistics and CS that goes way back to the 1950's. Sometimes I wonder if the MIT CS department was so hot on LISP in the 1970's as a way to spite Noa
263.
by terra_t 16y ago
What I've seen is that outsourcing goes across the board. There are high-end outfits in India like Infosys that compete with the big consulting operations like IBM. They are cheaper than IBM but pricey compared with lower-end shops in the
264.
by terra_t 16y ago
Not "with solar panels alone" but with lots of batteries. Seawater Uranium and Thorium from Monazite are much more credible energy resources.
265.
by terra_t 16y ago
Toronto has long surpassed Silicon Valley in the dark side of Internet Marketing such as Acai Berries, Porn and Black Hat SEO.
266.
by terra_t 16y ago
Interlingua gets less press than Esperanto, but I think Interlingua is a much better interlanguage -- interlingua is a latin-derived language that has some modern features and the corners squared off; people who know English or other europ
267.
Where is the SpamAssassin or DNSBL for Web Spam?
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|1 comments
268.
by terra_t 16y ago
I've got some sites that are 'quantified' with Quantcast (have the tracking code) and the numbers agree within a few percent with other analytics: that's for sites that get anywhere between 50 visits a month to 500k. If you're not quantifi
269.
by terra_t 16y ago
I dunno... When I was in high school I wrote a subroutine threaded FORTH for OS-9 on the TRS-80 color computer; it was 2000 lines of assembly code and it (almost) worked right the first time.
270.
by terra_t 16y ago
I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who expect to have a private playhouse online where they can say anything without any consequences, particularly if they want it as a consumer product. If you're going to boast in public that you l

More ›