watmough

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by watmough 15y ago
Imagine merging thousands or millions of records into disparate timelines by various attributes, merging similar records, or overwriting, changing lengths... This is the sort of stuff that filter/map/reduce is really really good at, but als
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by watmough 15y ago
Boom! http://www.korg.com/ikaossilator
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by watmough 15y ago
Picture several thousand lines of C++ being reduced to 27 lines of Clojure and you get an idea. That's not to say that you couldn't do something similar in C++, but I've met like 4 really really good C++ programmers in about 15 years of pro
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by watmough 15y ago
Enterprise programming would have been a LOT more fun if I'd been allowed to use filter/map/reduce directly, instead of writing thousands of lines of C++. In the end, I just resigned to go and do iPhone software for a while. I suspect any o
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by watmough 15y ago
I'd suggest that the podcast is worth listening to. It's slow moving, but once Siracusa gets rolling, you can taste his frustration with the crappy job that Isaacson did with it. edit: typo.
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by watmough 15y ago
My HP-41C has made maybe $5 so far. ROFL! edit: Just adding the name in case anyone wants to buy it; Calc41C. The source is up on github.com/watmough
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by watmough 15y ago
I actually made myself a Broadcom airport card, for less than $20 and it's faultless. Atheros cards have always worked great for me too. The only time I've ever had WiFi problems is under really really old versions of Ubuntu on a ThinkPad.
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by watmough 15y ago
This is kinda sad, but flying to NY and buying it on 5th Avenue would probably get you exactly the same computer for much less! *Aside from the keycaps of course.
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by watmough 15y ago
I fixed my WiFi not reconnecting by zapping my PRAM. Cmd-Opt-P-R on boot and hold down until you get a couple of loud bongs. Yeah! I know! First time doing that has ever fixed a damn thing for me, but not reconnecting to my WiFi was startin
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by watmough 15y ago
You can't blame Lion for not having a delete key! It's a hardware choice. Add a wired USB keyboard (I use the long Apple one) and there's a perfectly functional delete key, right there! What you can blame Lion for, is the fact that Xcode4 c
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by watmough 15y ago
I've managed to get used to most of the new stuff in Lion, but the screwing with the File save stuff is just mind-bendingly awful, and has broken things as simple as trying to re-save a text-file or image from a read-only folder to a read/w
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by watmough 15y ago
Here's what the mail box toolbars look like in the old versus new, and the author does cover these. I think these pictures speak for themselves. One is a model of clarity and the other is a context-sensitive, icon-infested mess. http://img
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by watmough 15y ago
All the articles I've seen about this provider say that the price is low because they expect to utilize WiFi for a significant proportion of calls, not supplied by Republic, but supplied by the cable or DSL provider, in my case AT&T UVe
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by watmough 15y ago
It's highly likely that without Jobs, we wouldn't have had the awesome velcro that holds the top cover of an Apple II closed. For those that haven't had the privilege, first move the monitor and Disk II units off, then grasp the back of the
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by watmough 15y ago
"Jobs’s most important contribution was just general hustling." This is where I think you went wrong. You can have the greatest product in the World, and if you can't sell it, you're toast.
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by watmough 15y ago
Normally, I enjoy these kickstarter ideas, but this is a ZX Spectrum flavored abomination. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=223&s... My wife's reaction was: What is that? Why? It doesn't make any sense...
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by watmough 15y ago
I pretty much just get my wife's IM messages via Adium / Growl. Growl lets me scan them to see if I need to switch workspaces to respond, and if I don't, then I don't break flow. Nothing much else bugs me in Growl on any regular basis.
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by watmough 15y ago
And the Atari 400 my brother had, we had to buy the damn BASIC cartridge separately. Of course, my brother became a Star Raiders ace, rather than a programming ace like me, ahem.
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by watmough 15y ago
:) Yeah, I'll take a look at your link, but the new styles are surely reminiscent of the awful YUI, which much as I love Crockford, I'd have to write off as crap, due to its convoluted programming model and wretched bad appearance and inef
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by watmough 15y ago
Someone at Google needs to get a Goddamn clue and look at a UI design manual. What the hell are they thinking? Has Larry let the MBAs get out of control? There's clearly something wrong, as no sensible, actual user of these products surely
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by watmough 15y ago
"temporarily". If enough people hate this, they may slow the intro, but this may be the worst of all Clust s, the one that fails, but is hailed as a glorious success.
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by watmough 15y ago
Non-scrollable regions containing ads and doodads are a killer for me. Once this is forced on us, I will withdraw to a native client.
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by watmough 15y ago
Voxatron. Frantic-ish action. Plays like Robotron. (hold down fire key to strafe) Voxel effects are awesome. Great sound, much less harsh than Robotron. Lots of power-ups. Very fun game. I happily paid $10, as it's supporti
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by watmough 15y ago
How much would they need to bump them to get on a par with the 12 and 16-core MacPros? Is it a lot, or has Sandy Bridge narrowed that gap? Perhaps, and this is worth a thought, that Apple could push xgrid support, if it's not already there,
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by watmough 15y ago
This comment contributes nothing to the discussion. Dave's gone ahead and written a stand-out post that reflects upon bullying in general, and in tech in particular. Why not take the reasonable viewpoint that whilst we might not agree with
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by watmough 15y ago
The 60 Minutes interview passed over the Apple II very briefly, but it was tremendously significant, for being one of the first computers popularized with a killer app. Obviously, this wasn't the be-all and end-all, but VisiCalc did for sur
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by watmough 15y ago
Interestingly, my i52400 only manages 25 fps (average over 1 minute). Hmmm. Ahhh, it's only single-threaded. Is that intentional, or a problem with Nightly?
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by watmough 15y ago
Or as my anti-motivational book will be called: "If You're So Smart, Why Are You A Motivational Speaker?" I just, errr, haven't got round to writing it yet.
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by watmough 15y ago
My 2007 MBP manages a decent 20 fps but starts pretty slow and averages 15. That's a 2.4GHz C2D. Need to try it on my i52400.
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by watmough 15y ago
I hacked my dinosaur toaster so it toasts a picture of RMS. it's awesome.

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