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by zandorg 17y ago
Netscape was working on a Java browser before their "problems".
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by zandorg 17y ago
I had the idea of a webserver on each machine in 2002, and they were connected across the p2p Gnutella network, where searches were contents by substring (not just filename). I got as far as writing a webserver, which ended up in Gnucleus (
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by zandorg 17y ago
There's an SDL extension which does ASCII art graphics drivers...
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by zandorg 17y ago
In 2006 over 2 months, I wrote an OCR (optical char recognition - turning images back into text) system in Lisp using macros. First it finds all 'features' by traversing a 1-pixel wide representation of the text character's image. Then you
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by zandorg 17y ago
Well, it's good for a laugh.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I know from experience that Winamp plugins are hard to make money from. I also know a guy who put out a CD burning plugin. To distill his email: X 30,000 downloads and 10 copies sold X The French don't pay for software X On average, more Am
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by zandorg 17y ago
I stand corrected. I just remember reading about Viaweb using C on your website. But I was right in that the cart used it.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Viaweb used C on the backend.
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by zandorg 17y ago
A little bit. I was given an SDK by a Symbian partner company, but it was a pain to use, it was integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio. So I never got anything other than a simple command-line app (file conversion from Symbian Word to RT
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by zandorg 17y ago
Interesting. I actually use Ovi to host music online for free, because MySpace won't work properly. Ovi is good! Other than that, I have a couple of software projects which would be ideal for a Symbian smartphone, so this is great.
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by zandorg 17y ago
As a public company, they want to not compete, but improve and expand into new markets (growth). So in effect, they're in competition with themselves!
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by zandorg 17y ago
Yeah, if you can make software run 100 times faster with lots of profiling and hand optimisations, that $300 laptop is basically a $30,000 laptop.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I love moonbase films! Not that there ever has been one... And there's a bit of Dark Star in there!
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by zandorg 17y ago
Basically, I can't go into it properly because the project is confidential, and I can't think of a similiar table example. In SQLite: 2 inner joins took about 10 seconds. 3 inner joins in one query were taking 10 minutes. I was using inner
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by zandorg 17y ago
" About the inner joins - SQLite can be small because it doesn't have the tremendous amount of query optimization that e.g. Postgresql does. That's like complaining that a bicycle makes a lousy tow truck; significantly improving its query o
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by zandorg 17y ago
I think a patch would be looked at, but he'd have to admit it was a bug to accept it. My complaint isn't that he won't fix the bug for free, it's that he won't acknowledge it's a bug, and thus won't fix it even in a year's time. Also, I'd p
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by zandorg 17y ago
The sad truth is that there are bugs in SQLite which aren't being fixed. For instance, .quit doesn't exit the program when running a script from the command-line (or C's system() ) via .init. Also, have more than 2 inner joins and a query t
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by zandorg 17y ago
He had a dedicated researcher on the Baroque Cycle books.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Actually, it's because the attention of the masses is finite. Therefore, less books are published than written. And getting published depends on your academic credentials, (if you're lucky), where you went to University (like East Anglia),
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by zandorg 17y ago
Lulu can be very expensive. XLibris is a good alternative which is quite cheap in bulk.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Looks like decompiled code (with random constant names, etc).
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by zandorg 17y ago
Yes. Sometimes I don't want my ramblings on public record, or I may think it's way off topic.
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by zandorg 17y ago
But music videos are promotional, meaning the label would pay YouTube/Google for the cost of distribution. You don't get CD quality on YouTube (and I actively buy CDs because they sound better to me than MP3). I mean TV shows, lectures an
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by zandorg 17y ago
Eric Schmidt was talking about how 'micropayments' were the solution. Maybe people would pay a couple cents per video.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I just hope they don't run out of cash 'in the Long Haul'. Must be some secret revenue source they're not mentioning.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Don't forget the joys of collecting copies signed by the author!
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by zandorg 17y ago
Doesn't say how much it costs to print a book.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Not currently. It's in an early alpha version which doesn't work all the time, and I haven't touched the codebase in a couple of years. I'll post to HN when I've checked it out. It rips text from images so OCR can be more accurate. For some
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by zandorg 17y ago
I have developed license plate-reading technology which can use a modern digital camera. Just put the technology in the hands of the masses and we can track our own cars.
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by zandorg 17y ago
"I used to work for a company " Note highlights... Company, not government. That's data protection, not politics.

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