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by watmough 15y ago
If it's not too personal, can you outline some of your OCD symptoms and behaviors?
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by watmough 15y ago
Reddit did two brilliant things: 1. They didn't screw up their site. 2. They scaled. Not without struggles tho. Pretty good demo of letting competitors destroy themselves.
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by watmough 15y ago
Here's a link to the hilariously primitive looking 1.3 MP F3 based DCS100. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS_100 The box next to it is the unit that holds images, and a 5 MB SCSI disk. (About equivalent to a 1st gen iPod I guess)
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by watmough 15y ago
And it's not like they didn't have time to react, as the article points out. Digital cameras were moving farther and farther downwards in price, and upwards in capability quite slowly. Digital cameras had been an expensive curiosity for yea
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by watmough 15y ago
The answer just has to be "yes", subject to the number of party-based network marketing type operations, especially those for "soft-goods" such as semi-precious jewelry, soaps/toiletries, candles/ornaments, lingerie/(err)novelties, etc. Hos
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by watmough 15y ago
"Basically, "level 3" seems to span everything from Norvig and djb to someone who got a BS and just read Code Complete." I was going to post that reading Code Complete is one way perhaps to help OP recognize when you are improving, but ther
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by watmough 15y ago
Here's a 5 - 10 minute iterative version in C. https://gist.github.com/1567842 I tend to like to rough code out Lispishly, but if I'm actually running stuff I'll often do it in C.
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by watmough 15y ago
Why would you even expose yourself to this? It just makes no sense.
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by watmough 15y ago
The same thing happened with SUN NeWS, a PDF-based rendering system, some 10 years or so ahead of OS X. It was beautiful, but slow. Give it time, even as an iOS programmer, in my opinion I'd think that HTML/CSS/JS is long-term , the better
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by watmough 15y ago
I suspect the brakes are off on Wii piracy at least. I've no idea how it's done, but I've seen a Wii hooked up to a network or hard drive that had every published Wii game on it. Personally, I'd rather not break the law, I have about 15 gam
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by watmough 15y ago
For anyone wondering about "C upvalues", which wasn't clear to me, there is some explanation here: http://www.lua.org/pil/27.3.3.html Essentially, they are unbound variables that have to be reachable from the function by some mechanism, m
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by watmough 15y ago
I think my development experience in php is up to maybe 15 - 20 lines or so now... Thanks for the pointer!
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by watmough 15y ago
Writing in assembler, it's easy to construct linked records, and recursion works correctly, since you have a stack. It might take awhile, but it doesn't seem like it would be as hard to macro up some higher-level routines for parsing and co
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, totally agree. There's a dead feeling that comes with movies that have been made as commercial vehicles, rather than as pieces of art. Sometimes the results aren't too bad, Batman, Ironman etc., but other times they are just phoning it
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by watmough 15y ago
In romantic comedies... - Lonely woman meets strange man, - Man drags woman around, - Woman is *mildly inconvenienced*, this is key, causes conflict, - Situation is somehow happily resolved. Not sure about everyone else, but I
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by watmough 15y ago
That's neat, I didn't realize that you could just type 'php file' to run things. Thanks for that. My Core Duo MacBook gave the following results: Inserting 32768 evil elements took 19.348465919495 seconds Inserting 32768 good elements
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by watmough 15y ago
"Finally, you can set up Pinboard to auto-add bookmarks from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Instapaper, Read It Later, and Delicious." Links from people I follow on Twitter would be a killer feature, as would 'links I have already
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by watmough 15y ago
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispIsTooPowerful Yep, came here to post that too.
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by watmough 15y ago
This sounds really promising. Hopefully, and it would be silly not to, you'll have something in place to detect smart people following along outside.
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by watmough 15y ago
The documentary 'A State of Mind' is available for streaming on Netflix. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/A_State_of_Mind/70038815 Excellent documentary that follows a couple of young gymnasts through family life and training for a big e
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by watmough 15y ago
Wow, the last I heard of this, it was an engine-less hulk bought from Russia in order to study how to build aircraft carriers.
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by watmough 15y ago
I've seen some relatives' kids accounts on Facebook. I'm not sure I can be as optimistic as your last paragraph. If anything, I'm pessimistic that many kids are writing utter utter trollish garbage online that may never ever go away. Of cou
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by watmough 15y ago
Wow, that is just incredible. Just randomly hitting a few of the buttons, it produced really excellent 2 x Atari 8-bit style explosions, and as near as damn it, a perfect Defender gunfire effect. I haven't looked to see if it can do musical
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by watmough 15y ago
At least one problem is that overzealous moderators seem to be clamping down on every tiny little deviation from perfection. A thread, an old thread on Stackoverflow, was linked from HN the other day, and was in fact now dead, but it was cl
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by watmough 15y ago
Damn, my Nixie Clock Radio app must have hit the zealous end of the pool. I was rejected 3 times, pretty much validly really, with 6 - 10 day review cycles. Yes, it took around a month to get in and accepted, during which I removed features
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by watmough 15y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted, there are many worries about exactly this, compromise of components used in the US military, when imported from foreign countries. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058849/Chinese-coun... Also,
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by watmough 15y ago
Firstly, thanks for drawing my attention to the fantastic Processed World. Secondly, the issue you linked actually is unrenderable in Snow Leopard on my Mac using Preview. It locks up on page 25. Even if I try to print it to PDF, locks on P
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by watmough 15y ago
Maybe at the leading edge, but I joined a death-march project in 2004, then left another one in 2008. And I believe that many young programmers are still being thrown onto late projects. I'd really love to believe that UML is dead, but can
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by watmough 15y ago
I have to confess, I emailed the recruiter back and let her know that this gave a bad impression, though in this case, it seems that it may be the company that's clueless. Either that, or they have a bunch of H/L1-Bs that have exactly these
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by watmough 15y ago
I should be pretty easy to find, but if not, my email is jonathan.watmough@gmail.com, any recos or leads gratefully received. My iOS apps are at http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/watmough-software/id302009... I also have 10+ years oil and

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