zandorg

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   by zandorg 16y ago

   I admit I was way off - Windows has only been around since 1985 or so, and in usable form since 1990. And Java does have some very fast code. And I agree about optimisations too. It's easy to go overboard to get more speed.
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   I once decompiled a Windows Microsoft DLL imported function, and it clearly had a lot of optimisations such as quitting if the 1st character is 'n', etc. So I've seen this optimisation with my own eyes.
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   I just started learning .NET and C#. My first impression is that it makes using all the Windows API really easy. So, you can get the time without fiddling with C time structs, and use DLL's without allocating memory. Here's the main distinc
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   My rule of thumb is that any government proposing to introduce ID cards in the UK is about to lose the next election. It's happened twice (Conservatives in 1997, Labour in 2010).
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   It's also such a universal constant that some sci-fi stories or movies (eg, Contact (1997)) use them as a tool to indicate an intelligent civilisation. In other words, transmit 2 blips, 3 blips, 5 blips, 7 blips, and it soon becomes clear i
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   "Keyboard not found. Hit F1 to continue"
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   Get on the phone with Michael Milken and raise a few $100 million by selling junk bonds to eager investors if your idea is high-growth (note: he's banned from the industry but it's how a few billionaires got started).
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   Would there be a business in reverse-engineering and then patching important binary applications (lacking source code) to use IPv6 instead of IP4?
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   I wrote my own class which created the data (basically an array) once, passed it around, and automatically deleted the data once its parent function returned. I did this by having a reference counter which goes up on a constructor, and down
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Just read the article. Looks like a good project.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I had this idea in 2005: Sneakershare.com was going to be my domain. Never mind.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I don't know their margins, but they definitely are leveraging (eg, using) technology to take place of both legacy systems, and loads of people in mission control replaced by just a few people with powerful instruments.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Or Microsoft's Most Valued Person.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I'm waiting for the (also Musk-led) SpaceX IPO. I hope there is one soon.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I used SQLite until I found a query that locked it up seemingly forever. It had 2 inner joins. It worked with 1 inner join - NOT 2. The author of SQLite said "Not my problem buddy, it's yours". So I'm switching to PostGRE (which CAN handle
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Snap, I thought Joost's GUI was like an SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) experiment gone horribly wrong. It was verging on Gibson cyberspace, but more likely, a kind of useless Minority Report interface.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I was thinking about this. You don't charge people to add data - just to remove it.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Someone on Hacker News told me about the Dell Precision M70 a few months ago. It's 1920x1200 15.4" screen. Cost me the equivalent of $300 (though it is second hand off Ebay).
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I wrote a cheque but the margin was too small.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Anyone got a fake ID and a false beard?
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I was a little unclear. Knight 'n' Grail is a game done in the style of a 1985 arcade adventure platformer - like the BBC's Citadel. I used to love playing games like that. My point is that apart from Ultima Online - which I got bored of -
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Well, when I want to convert a function that uses recursion but the stack isn't big enough, I make it have a queue where each new item goes on the end, and the next item goes from the front of the queue. This way the stack is replaced by th
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I just played a C64 game written in 2009, Knight 'n' Grail. The interesting thing is it's the first game I'd played to completion in 8 years. So I can't say it's me that's the problem (and not the modern games), it's that modern games suck.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    At first glance, I thought 'pulse' meant it took your pulse. Not sure how that'd work.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    As for Graham's preference about recursion, a Lisp interpreter/compiler should convert recursive loops into queues.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Or suck on a boiled sweet.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I've been waiting for this for months. Go Elon! The funny thing is everyone calls him a 'Internet billionaire'. But he's never BEEN a billionaire! He only got $200 mil from Paypal. It's a bit ridiculous to throw that term around. [Additiona
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I'm sure it's micro torrent...
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    You can get electric wind-up torches with a mobile phone power socket. You just wind and the phone charges (in minutes?)
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I thought modern mobile phones had locked-down DRM which prevents you being able to disassemble the app? You know, RSA-encrypted assembly code sent straight to a proprietary CPU with nobody outside Apple and the internal of the CPU able to