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by wernsey 8y ago
The "white monopoly capital" was not incited by McKinsey, though. What happened was that the Gupta brothers and the president received a lot of negative media attention for a series of very serious corruption allegations, so they
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by wernsey 8y ago
Well, email was immediately useful, being like normal mail, only better.
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by wernsey 8y ago
Here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292476
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by wernsey 8y ago
Art transactions: Just the other day there was a long discussion on here about a guy who managed to convince a blockchain that he owned the Mona Lisa.
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by wernsey 8y ago
I also thought of that quote while reading the article, yet I disagree with Dijkstra. I think an appropriately skilled developer would be able to write a useful application in BASIC in the same way that the same programmer would be able to
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by wernsey 8y ago
To clarify, he's the only one that uses Edge in our company of about 20 people. I do appreciate him finding the compatibility issues, but I also find it _cute_ when he discovered issues that no one else ever encountered because of Edge
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by wernsey 8y ago
My manager insists on using Edge because "it is the default browser on Windows so everybody uses it". I'm working on an in-house Angular application, and he has discovered a lot of compatibility issues that none of our other
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by wernsey 8y ago
Thanks. I was also disappointed with the change in graphics, but I will try this.
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by wernsey 8y ago
Yeah, this brings back fond memories. I think Dune II was the first game I heard on Sound Blaster. That or Wing Commander II. I was at a friend's house when he showed me those games on his dad's computer. I couldn't wait for
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by wernsey 8y ago
Sheesh, and even that had a spike in price and volume at the start of the year
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by wernsey 8y ago
I started with Extra Credits https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz/featured for their game design videos, but I stayed for their Extra History and their new Extra Sci-Fi side projects. The Great War - Covers
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by wernsey 8y ago
Yes, there are differences. I used only standard awk facilities, and tested my project with gawk, mawk and nawk. I've also been burned when I discovered that Raspbian ships with an older version of mawk that did something differently i
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by wernsey 8y ago
One thing I also really like about Awk is that you can keep 99% of the language in your head. With Awk it is seldom necessary to even reference the man page. I don't have to interrupt myself with looking up the syntax or the order of t
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by wernsey 8y ago
Wow, I remember reading that postmortem when it first came out. I was still in university at the time and at the time I was only marginally aware that Lisp existed as an alternative to the Java/C++/Pascal we've been taught. A
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by wernsey 8y ago
I'll just share my biggest Awk-based project here: A tool that creates HTML documentation from Markdown comments in your source code. It does essentially what Javadoc does, except it uses Markdown to format text, which I find much more
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by wernsey 8y ago
The Digital Antiquarian wrote an extensive history of the Philips CD-i https://www.filfre.net/2016/09/a-slow-motion-revolution/ In a nutshell: Philips developed CD-i, but then DVI was invented which solved th
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by wernsey 8y ago
Thank you. I'll take a look. In retrospect I think there might be several ways to improve performance by using other data structures to index the facts, but I haven't had the time to work on it lately. There is a pull request from
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by wernsey 8y ago
Awesome. I look forward to browsing its code. I implemented a Datalog engine in Java a while back. Looking back on it now there are a bunch of things I might have done differently, but I've never tried to implement anything like it bef
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by wernsey 9y ago
I carry a PocketMod http://pocketmod.com/ with me, to the amusement of my colleagues. I used to have a TiddlyWiki and then later a Wiki-On-A-Stick http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/ in my DropBox, but they b
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by wernsey 9y ago
I find it an interesting concept, but as with so many of these solutions I don't really see why you have to have Bitcoin Cash to make it work. They could charge your credit card for upvotes and pay you in fiat like Patreon does, and th
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by wernsey 9y ago
I would love something like this to replace Evernote, but being able to synchronize my notes between work and home is what keeps me locked in. Also, can one of these apps add the ability to cross-reference notes? I used Wiki On A Stick back
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by wernsey 9y ago
It has actually happened before. In 1944 a bunch of codenames used by the allies for the D-Day invasion appeared as answers to the crossword puzzle in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_D
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by wernsey 9y ago
Wow, what an unfortunate name. I'm not even American and I recognized the problem immediately. I'm sure I've heard the slur used in movies (Forrest Gump, maybe?) After reading parts of the thread, I'll give them the bene
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by wernsey 9y ago
I'll concede that if any of these happen, then I might just turn into a believer, but I think it very unlikely. On 1. I have yet to see an example of where decentralization through block-chain solves a problem more efficiently than a
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by wernsey 9y ago
I foresee a problem with maintaining code that has been written with gestures or voice. How would that work? Would your IDE play back the voice or display animations of the gestures to you. It just feels as if text is the simplest solution,
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by wernsey 9y ago
I've also switched to Paint.NET. One thing that convinced me to switch was when MS Paint switched to the ribbon interface.
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by wernsey 9y ago
Very cool. I recently got a Waveshare 4.2" e-paper for my Pi, and I've been playing around with a variety of dithering algorithms to get it to display images. The Floyd-Steinberg algorithm seems to bring out the most detail if you
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by wernsey 9y ago
I am not convinced that what the article describes actually counts as "creativity". My reasoning: The computer does not understand the meaning of what it does, and as such a computer that can generate images or compose music is ju
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by wernsey 9y ago
TDWTF had an article about MUMPS that stands out in my memory [1] When I see COBOL fixed width data at my workplace, I just think about that article and thank my lucky stars. [1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_o
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by wernsey 9y ago
Thank you for your feedback. I only discovered that article by rsc quite recently when I was putting the finishing touches on the article and going over the sources, but it has some very interesting points and ideas. You are probably correc

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