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by xirium 19y ago
All of a sudden, Lemmings looks really easy.
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by xirium 19y ago
The majority of the re-designs are bad. The Compaq logo especially.
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by xirium 19y ago
I've read a lot of ELisp code, and I have very rarely seen the equivalent of Ruby-style monkey patching. Even the advice mechanism, an AOP-like feature which enables functions to be dynamically wrapped and chained, somewhat like Rails' alia
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Silicon Insider: How Ask.Com Could Overtake Google.Com(abcnews.go.com)
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by xirium 19y ago
If you take into account the bathtub curve ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve ) then using a trusty old computer is a very good way to start.
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by xirium 19y ago
Times certainly change. In 2000, having any experience in open source software was a certain method to get ignored by recruiters.
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by xirium 19y ago
User mixmax already mentioned this ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126306 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Avoid wearing bright clothes like yellow and orange, this will definitely attract sharks. Wear a suit to attract venture capitalists.
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by xirium 19y ago
I wonder how often Paul Graham gets requests to signs books.
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by xirium 19y ago
I was going to print a TShirt which said "I gave VeriSign $199 and all I got was this lousy certificate: [cipherblock]". It looks like I'll have to increase the price.
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by xirium 19y ago
768 custom processors with hardware garbage collection in a 14U case is quite impressive. I'd given up all hope of seeing a Java mainframe like this 10 years ago. Regardless, I'd like to see this benchmarked against a PlayStation3 cluster (
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "Counterfeit network hardware entering the marketplace raises significant public safety concerns and must be stopped," Its not good for the stock price either.
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by xirium 19y ago
I certainly hadn't associated Bresenham's algorithm with leap year algorithms but it is a good explanation.
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by xirium 19y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126382
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by xirium 19y ago
I posted three weeks ago about another start-up doing this already ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112421 ) and it got no response.
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by xirium 19y ago
Portability shouldn't be under-estimated. An ex-colleague had the opportunity to re-write a bad implementation. After gathering the requirements, he had a very nice specification which was portable, lightweight and extensible. Then manageme
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by xirium 19y ago
This response ( http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/AddComment.aspx?ArticleId=58... )?
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by xirium 19y ago
A completed website is a dead website. A completed application is a dead application. A completed open source project is a dead open source project.
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by xirium 19y ago
I thought that understanding program flow was a huge implediment to non-programmers and that if we had graphical flowchart method then at least small tasks could be performed by non-programmers. However, after using ETL software which works
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by xirium 19y ago
That would give a maximum arbitrary resolution of 8192 pixels in two colours. Not so good. Anyhow, why didn't these fellows get sued for producing hardware so similar to Sinclair?: The Jupiter ACE was a British home computer of the 1980s, m
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125572
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by xirium 19y ago
The PlayStation3 has gigabit Ethernet, which is ideal for multi-tier servers. However, the PlayStation3 only has 512MB RAM. Regardless, it may be useful for many computationally intensive tasks: The PS3's hardware has also been used to buil
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by xirium 19y ago
It used to be common practice to coredump a Perl script and edit it in debug so that you could skip the initialiastion phase of a frequently run script. This was most commonly performed on CGI scripts. CryoPID would make it trivial to do th
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by xirium 19y ago
Ignore your competitors otherwise you'll obsessed with their success and/or end up with a clone of their product and significantly less users.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Jupiter Ace, RAM: 3K, Resolution: 512x368 That'll be tight. 23552 pixels in 24576 kilobits of RAM. From the article: VIC-20, RAM: 5K, Resolution: no hires mode That's wrong. You can get VIC20 to do 128 128 in two colours o
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: I'd expect hard core OSS folks to want Freedom Zero in their operating system as well as the software they build. I expect freedom zero for my hardware. OpenCores ( http://www.opencores.org/ ) and Arduino ( http://www.a
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals. That quite natty. I know ma
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by xirium 19y ago
Some DBAs wear Hawaiian shirts ironically. Its known as the Hawaiian Shirt Protocol ( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/10/12/myth_legend_4/ ). Ironic or not, a Hawaiian shirt will keep you out a board room.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: 5. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have become gazillionaires who buy 757 and 767s as well as a party plane. It's hard not to shake your head at that kind of behaviour. This isn't unique in Silicon Valley: [Larry] Ellison is a
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by xirium 19y ago
Tea can provide a nice, steady dose of caffeine.

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