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by watmough 12y ago
I tend to think of Gates not so much "dropping-out", but pivoting, once he was convinced he could make it with software.
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by watmough 12y ago
The awesome WireWorld prime number calculating computer is also a one instruction computer. http://www.quinapalus.com/wires10.html
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by watmough 12y ago
Personally, I'd lock myself away and write a bunch of Apps. If I was you, I'd do some cheap traveling in South America or Southeast Asia.
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by watmough 12y ago
Perhaps someone can recall the study, but this has been studied and documented. From a small sample, a significant percentage of students, simply could not fill in the correct values for a short sequence of C-style assignments. Ability to
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by watmough 12y ago
Poor old Commodore didn't have the money, so management couldn't deploy the resources until their backs were against the wall. If the A1000 had managed an 80-column non-interlaced mode, it might have done better initially, but as
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by watmough 12y ago
It would seem reasonable to think that age-related slackening of the skin may have something to do with this.
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by watmough 12y ago
Shocker. Glad I stick with drinking tea, milk and water. Soda is bad news.
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by watmough 12y ago
You are missing the wood for the trees. The real skill is collecting 2.5 billion in fees, for essentially no value added.
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by watmough 12y ago
Nice that you live somewhere that an hour makes a difference. I work 6am to 3pm, and I still get stuck in traffic pretty regularly.
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by watmough 12y ago
How are you getting traction against the encumbents? Disclosure: I help look after about 5 million lines of code for one of the encumbents...
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by watmough 12y ago
Linq in C#.
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by watmough 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the Amiga couldn't have run Zarch at anything like the smoothness that the Archimedes managed. And the difference was purely down to the stripped down Acorn RISC Machine chip running at 8 MHz, compared with the 8 M
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by watmough 12y ago
And satirized by XKCD: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/locke_and_demosthenes.png
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by watmough 12y ago
Most of these answers are good, but this is the best one. Keep it short and sweet.
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by watmough 12y ago
Wyrd Sisters. Granny Weatherwax along with DEATH, are my two favorites.
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by watmough 12y ago
I would highly recommend the books of Radcliffe Hall.
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by watmough 12y ago
https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYT... An ad for the Apple III. Perhaps a warning of the overheating MacBook Pro logic board woes to come!
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by watmough 12y ago
Interesting how times change. I remember as a child, being bitterly disappointed with how bad Ferrari Formula 1 was on the Amiga, and I ended up blaming the slow speed on C. That colored my attitude toward the language for years, though onc
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by watmough 12y ago
I still have a trapped nerve from lifting one of these.
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The Boy Whose Brain Could Unlock Autism(medium.com)
20 points by watmough 12y ago|4 comments
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by watmough 12y ago
Interestingly, all these things, screwed up credentials, weird refresh issues when editing network file names, hang-ups, all happen to me on Windows 7, too. My biggest issue with my Mac was eventually working out that my Ethernet over Power
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by watmough 12y ago
Train yourself to simply act more slowly. Give yourself time to reply, to think, to relax. MAKE TIME. Everyone is anxious in stressful situations. Simply slowing everything down, within reason of course, and finding time for yourself is one
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by watmough 12y ago
This is a pretty sad day, but it's been a year since I set foot in a RadioShack. Then it was to buy a relay so I could solder up a 'hack' to allow me to watch DVD's on my Pioneer car DVD player without have to jiggle the
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by watmough 12y ago
Kingdom support checking in: Yep, it crossed my mind it might be an escaped fault polygon.
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by watmough 12y ago
What would be the typical use of a machine like this? I'd assume basic roll-up accounting, with programs written on a custom basis per client. Anyone with practical experience?
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by watmough 12y ago
You know, there's something about these damn Fujifilm cameras. My Finepix F100fd knocked out perfectly exposed shots, with fantastic color and skin-tones all day. Even my GF1 can't seem to manage the same thing, though my D70 does
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by watmough 12y ago
I once had a sheet of plastic blow on to my windshield at 70 mph on the Houston Beltway effectively blinding me. It takes significant presence of mind not to do something dumb.
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by watmough 12y ago
Gah, it's like re-inventing the skateboard, but without wheels.
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by watmough 12y ago
On my Radeon 6850, under FF, everything is super smooth. Intel i7 quad-core.
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by watmough 12y ago
I'm old enough that my first experience of 'big computer' graphics in the mid-Eighties was on one of these: http://www.pdp8.net/tek4010/tek4010.shtml Tektronix 4010 storage tube display. It was actually

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