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901.
by zandorg 18y ago
I have no respect for them. They ruined DejaNews, by deleting anything imaginable. But people should have done an open source/free DejaNews alternative by archiving newsgroups. Where oh where is the competition?
902.
by zandorg 18y ago
It's a wiki, so I could add my own company to the list and let it become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
903.
by zandorg 18y ago
Brewster's an incredibly nice guy. I emailed the Internet Archive about a piece of OCR software I've developed, and, even though I just emailed their generic contact, Brewster got in touch (email in lowercase!) and said "Can you scan the nu
904.
by zandorg 18y ago
Went away with: @Eric wants people to capture evil police people on their phones. @Those crazy 20-percenters will solve how to make money off YouTube SOMEHOW. @Micropayments of 1 cent, 3 cents, per video, so Ted Nelson now vindicated. @Eric
905.
by zandorg 18y ago
I loved the little CPU noises coming through as interference on his soundcard mic (noting that it's probably a motherboard sound 'card').
906.
by zandorg 18y ago
An overlay surface (in a PC's video driver) smoothes out all Divx, Flash, DVD, etc video sources. You'll see, when the overlay surface is not available, that the video/DVD is actually blocky without it.
907.
by zandorg 18y ago
One old trick of mine on Windows is to install an Apple Laserwriter, 'Print to file', and then output the filename for the .ps to load into Ghostscript. As a bonus, you can take out textual watermarks in some cases, because of the Postscrip
908.
by zandorg 18y ago
Yes, I LOL'd at that domain once I saw it. Don't forget the dash, kids....
909.
by zandorg 18y ago
Academics in Europe have an addiction to grants/funding (and that's as much their fuel as coffee). I've met a few academic people who were astonished that I'd work on software for free, for sale or glory. There's also a perception that you
910.
by zandorg 18y ago
Reading between the lines, they're not avoiding revenue solely to get/keep more users - I think they're doing a last man standing, and waiting for all their competitors to run out of cash and go out of business. Then they bring on the adver
911.
by zandorg 18y ago
Or because you're older? At the age of 14, I used to carry a Commodore 64 to my friend's house, and once the police stopped me thinking I was a burglar, and I showed them this thing with circuit boards hanging off, and said 'Would I steal
912.
by zandorg 18y ago
I don't see what's wrong with Valleywag, I read it every day. It's hilarious, and interesting, and seems well-researched for a gossip site.
913.
by zandorg 18y ago
Has anyone here got TokyoTyrant working under Windows? I found a static library binary for Windows, but the header files need to compile are either not there, or the code references some bizarre POSIX stuff which isn't easy to hack into wor
914.
by zandorg 18y ago
I recently packaged up a piece of software for distribution, and I would never have a ZIP file to unpack. It HAS to be a standalone setup.exe which installs to Program Files/program so nobody has to make a decision. Access is with an icon
915.
by zandorg 18y ago
He was offered a near $1-million offer from Microsoft, just for a job there, so his ability's not in dispute (unless $1-million is peanuts nowadays).
916.
by zandorg 18y ago
One thing I really like about HN is that you have chance to, once in a bad light (low karma), redeem yourself with future posts that are more carefully written.
917.
by zandorg 18y ago
To be more concise: When using Hotmail in 1997 on a college machine, I found that the cache contained people's Hotmail passwords. That's not a sign of genius.
918.
by zandorg 18y ago
Five words: Passwords in the browser cache
919.
by zandorg 18y ago
Ridiculously sluggish Javascript pages which are still loading after 5 minutes.
920.
by zandorg 18y ago
IMHO, IMDB.com qualified as Web 2.0...
921.
by zandorg 18y ago
No Solzhenitsyn either.
922.
by zandorg 18y ago
A guy at a conference referred to Loudcloud as 'Loudmouth', referring to Andreessen's self-promotion. Pretty amusing, but unfair.
923.
by zandorg 18y ago
I have a wonderful data backup story. I was backing up one nearly-full 1TB Seagate Freeagent to another one, and then after 180GB of data transferred, I knocked one of them over by mistake, it fell 15 cm to the floor and died! I sent the br
924.
by zandorg 18y ago
I think that if you make enough money, you get to mix in circles with people who can make you happy. But I could be wrong.
925.
by zandorg 18y ago
And blatant Vannevar Bush, Xanadu and Ted Nelson references!
926.
by zandorg 18y ago
I almost got into Hollywood by getting paper, tags, washers, from LA, and printing/binding my script, and sending it from the UK to the screenwriting agent in Los Angeles. They only read properly bound US Letter scripts (with the right WEIG
927.
by zandorg 18y ago
Even if I'm not a U.S. citizen? That's kind of worrying...
928.
by zandorg 18y ago
Is he ruining it for everyone by abusing the service? I once requested my FBI record (I'm British). There was no file on me. More interesting, I also asked for deceased film producer Don Simpson's file - to my surprise, he has no record.
929.
by zandorg 18y ago
I once suggested a virtual MIDI interface in WinUAE (the Amiga emulator), after having implemented one in a C64 emulator (Vice). This was mainly for Bars & Pipes (by Todor Fay, who worked on DirectX). They did it, too!
930.
by zandorg 18y ago
Thanks so much for taking the trouble to tell me why it's impractical, hard to prove and not interesting. I'll probably remove the webpage. I'll move onto my other (software) projects.

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