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811.
by zandorg 17y ago
Tons of songs are just: Play a bass note, play it an octave higher, lower, higher, with a 4/4 beat. Then there's a note, play a note higher, one note higher, back to the first note. For instance, The Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust
812.
by zandorg 17y ago
I have a theory... They're collecting queries made with the Alpha release, and they'll just implement the suggestion (in a general form, like slurping up an alcohol database in reply to someone's query complaint), and keep adding and adding
813.
by zandorg 17y ago
Funny coincidence, because I was setting up a wireless network card and kept pinging Google to test it and it dropped out a lot! Damn you, Google ping!
814.
by zandorg 17y ago
This is incredible if it's built on New Kind of Science (game of life, etc - see Hackers by Steven Levy), but if it's just entered by hand, then it's merely useful. One thing I can forgive is that you have to learn what you can do, you can'
815.
by zandorg 17y ago
I guess it's because it requires various bits of hard-to-get hardware and uses a separate modern PC as a kind of IMP (Interface Message Processor - in other words, an Internet router). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Process
816.
by zandorg 17y ago
An Amiga 500 is barely faster and has not much more memory than a PC-Jr, but we don't "parody" the 500 like this article appears to parody the Jr. The 500 could connect to an ISP over a 56k modem and even had a reasonable browser.
817.
by zandorg 17y ago
I'm in Britain and I can read it without subscribing.
818.
by zandorg 17y ago
Jerry Yang slept under his desk, Amazon had door desks. I tried to emulate Yang by renting an office - I wanted to sleep nights in it. But I chickened out and continued to work from my bedroom (a UK equivalent of a USA garage).
819.
by zandorg 17y ago
Maybe the optimism was to do with the ever-growing 90s economy?
820.
by zandorg 17y ago
I dunno how a little email gadget made him billions. His research centre is the exciting thing, not the NHL.
821.
by zandorg 17y ago
Miracl is one.
822.
by zandorg 17y ago
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure: Jerry Kaplan (Jerry is such a nice guy that he answered my email). Another one, though this guy did NOT reply to my email, is about a publishing (not coding) startup, Burn Rate.
823.
by zandorg 17y ago
Ditto, the family bought Sharp MZ-700 when I was 7 (c.1985), and only I became interested in it. I upgraded to a Commodore 64 in about 1988, after my aunt didn't want it, and then a disk drive 2 years later with freezer cartridge. I had a l
824.
by zandorg 17y ago
I looked for 'E' both for the Amiga language, and Mark Miller's language. Neither was there! Bizarre...
825.
by zandorg 17y ago
Vaguely, but not quite the same level of glory, but I basically dropped out of high school when I was 15, but they gave us a quiz to do in the holidays around that time, with a £25 prize. Me and a friend won the quiz (there was no Web in th
826.
by zandorg 17y ago
I have a theory that prestigious schools give you a 'clever grin' which greases the wheels of business AND gets you venture capital. Almost like an old school tie. Evidence? Look at Mark Zuckerberg's grin. He also wears his tie now...
827.
by zandorg 17y ago
Paranoia is a useful tool in business, according to Andy Grove of Intel. Don't leave anything to chance!
828.
by zandorg 18y ago
I have terrible handwriting, so that has to be noted when choosing paper & pen, so people don't get penalized for poor handwriting.
829.
by zandorg 18y ago
Huh, and I thought logos were right first time around. I do believe mine is though :-P
830.
by zandorg 18y ago
Recently there was a Amazon comedy logo where the smile went DOWN wards, because it was failing.
831.
by zandorg 18y ago
I find the machine you use dictates your writing habits. I've used many different computers/keyboards over the years, and I find it helps.
832.
by zandorg 18y ago
I wasn't trying to get at JWZ, I was just making a silly unrelated joke, almost a pun. I don't have anything against him. But I'll try and be more clear next time.
833.
by zandorg 18y ago
Double meaning is the guy who picks up the litter in his nightclub.
834.
by zandorg 18y ago
Sorry, that was a bit flamey of me. I have read Craig's interview in Founders at Work, though. The thing I'm pointing out, is that given all the online newspapers, and startups probably to do it, I'm surprised Craigslist could take off. My
835.
by zandorg 18y ago
I never understood Craigslist. The most baffling thing is they took on EBay and won, which I put down to luck. But the initial concept of a listing for a small town (whether it be San Francisco or not) is laughable.
836.
by zandorg 18y ago
No mention of Turing and Bletchley park cracking the Enigma code?
837.
by zandorg 18y ago
I have a crazy 15" Omnibook laptop with 1400x1050 (!) resolution on it. I still design my Windows app dialogs to be no more than 600x400.
838.
by zandorg 18y ago
In 1996, my friend and I made good use of Geocities by writing an online magazine. The most amusing thing was the rule that you had to link to Geocities at the bottom of the page. So we had stupid little slogans, derived from the article's
839.
by zandorg 18y ago
It's time to admit that the Web was never intended for long-term storage, with staunch personal sites the rarity, and fads, and news (up to 4 weeks old) is the trend. It's just a total failure, archive-wise. Note: Why don't they just sell G
840.
by zandorg 18y ago
I recently made a GUI for a search utility which is filled in, and then it builds an SQL query from the GUI, and then displays the results of the query in another GUI. My point is that you can map a search to whatever language you like - wh

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