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by zandorg 16y ago
What's IAMA/AMA? I am a founder? Or am I missing something?
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by zandorg 16y ago
Nokia is a little bit like BT in the UK. You buy Nokia regardless of the competition, because it's what you know.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I use 3.5" (DD) disks in my 1988 sampler, an Akai S950. Each song uses 2 or 3. Luckily I have about 20 disks.
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by zandorg 16y ago
2 things: +Hypertext guru Ted Nelson's brother Ralph took all the on-set publicity photos for Wargames +On the DVD box cover is a photo of Matthew & Ally - unfortunately it's clear that though the reflection is them, they're not the non
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by zandorg 16y ago
It took me a few days of reading the x86 (586) instruction set guide, to make a Lisp function called 'get-opcode-byte-count' which, given a few bytes (eg, 20 bytes), calculates the MOD/RM stuff, to give the number of bytes in the next opcod
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by zandorg 16y ago
I was waiting for an RPG to come onto Google Wave as hyped, but it seemed they all faded away.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Slow on Threads page, images didn't load recently. Images fine now (but not Threads) However... The 'GREEN Certified Site' image now loads after about 6 months as a dead image!
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by zandorg 17y ago
(also answer to pavs) Well, when Google acquired ReMail, everyone here said "It's a talent acquisition". So why should this be any different - $1b for the world's best Lisp hackers?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Because it's a language in which you can be incredibly productive. The only downside is speed of execution, but optimisations help. Why I think Google needs one? Because they don't have one, and considering their financial resources, they c
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by zandorg 17y ago
I think Lisp would be one reason TO buy them. Google needs a Lisp team and I imagine they realise this.
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by zandorg 17y ago
What about Google Scholar?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Simple. He had a Lisa.
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by zandorg 17y ago
The Kindle runs on Linux, so the issue is more: Why did they screw up the GPL (< version 3) to allow an open-source operating system to run on a jailed device?
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by zandorg 17y ago
For a more general look at this topic: http://johnaugust.com/archives/2006/air-vents-are-for-air
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by zandorg 17y ago
I had a friend criticising me for writing my 'app' (an email archive and indexer) in C++ not C# because it "didn't use .NET". I replied that as it runs on a Windows 98 box with 128MB of RAM and a 400MHZ CPU, it's perfect to put on the iPhon
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by zandorg 17y ago
Google seems the best fit with people like Vint Cerf there.
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by zandorg 17y ago
They need a cartoon mascot that can itself be person of the year.
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by zandorg 17y ago
But Firefox (Mozilla foundation) make around $100 million a year from Google already.
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by zandorg 17y ago
My ambition is to get rich just so I can go into space, pay people to invent robots for me, and live forever.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Always when this story comes up, I reference this: http://www.dreamsongs.com/LessonsFromNothing.html - a Lisp guru talking about this story.
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by zandorg 17y ago
It doesn't show anything to compare it to in size. Useless.
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by zandorg 17y ago
The Kindle software is absolutely awful. It's slow - you can list 4 bookmarks and it takes 20 seconds, and the same goes for substring search (buggy AND slow). Also, the system has a 534MHZ CPU but because it's Java running on top of Linux,
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by zandorg 17y ago
All they need is a flag which says 'This is XP, don't use those features'.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I do like favicons on my sites.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Well I was working on a decompiler at the time (reverse engineering). But I only thought they were 'after me' because they rang at 2AM.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Once at my Mum's (in England), a cop rang the doorbell at 2AM. I thought 'They're coming for me!' but it was just the car's boot lid was wide open and the policeman was concerned!
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by zandorg 17y ago
Oh yeah, just one thing: If you could pay a secretary cash ($17,000 a year maybe), why would you give them precious stock? If I was running a company, I would pay cash in anticipation of the stock becoming more valuable. I refer to the $9 m
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by zandorg 17y ago
And it was in stock, so if they didn't sell it that's even more cash.
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by zandorg 17y ago
When my Geocities 'Computer game novellas' collection page went down (after Geocities shut down), I uploaded it to a Tripod site, but Google refused to index it. Later, I put it on my corporate site under /homepages, and added that to Googl
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by zandorg 17y ago
I've used Elance twice as a buyer of services (not a provider). What it did was get me past mental barriers preventing me sitting down and learning. The expert I'd ask would clear the cobwebs and then I could do the rest. I also pay them as

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