dca
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14 years ago
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on: Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83
My first program was on the C64 when I was very young. Had it not been available to my parents and me at that time, I'm not sure I would have the same passion for technology and programming I have today. Thanks Jack, for helping bring it to the masses.
dca
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15 years ago
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on: The Programmer Dress Code
under GVR:
"...he has an afro that would make Snoop Dog smile."
LMAO
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Poll: how do you use HN?
Tried RSS feeds but it sucks. There needs to be an RSS feed that only shows items that make it at least to the front page. Or maybe beyond some configurable vote threshold.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Steve Jobs on WWDC: "You won't be disappointed"
I ignore posts like this for exactly that reason. Its sad they get as many votes as they do.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Apple: iPad and Emacs
Nice. Thanks!
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Flash Co-Creator Responds to Steve Jobs
"People built it in Flash because there was no other decent technology from companies like Apple, Microsoft or Real Networks that enabled this kind of content to be created and delivered. To say that all this content should be discarded because Steve Jobs is afraid that people will build Flash content that runs on mobile devices running any operating system instead of building content that will only work on Apple mobile devices is doing a disservice to the efforts of all those individuals."
Interesting perspective I haven't seen in other articles on this topic. By existing for years in popularity, its almost a required technology in order to truly maintain internet history, as would be the case with image formats for instance; though, granted, its arguable whether the majority of Flash content is truly worth maintaining in perpetuity.
While certainly it may be displaced as a choice for new content, can Flash ever truly "die" given that a likely sizable portion of the web will never be converted to anything else?
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Apple: iPad and Emacs
That's incredible. I've wanted something like that for a while now. Thanks for pointing it out. Are you aware of a vim oriented one anywhere? (I switch back and forth on which I prefer given the time of year / language of the hour)
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Jupiter loses a stripe.
BP was mining for some toxic gas on the surface of the planet when something went horribly wrong. Now they're pumping out 5000 Bcfe's of it per day into the southern hemisphere and its destroyed the red stripe we'd become so accustomed to.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is there a market for a "Facebook circa 2006" clone?
Is there a market? Yes (edit: otherwise articles that we've seen recently regarding their changes wouldn't cause an uproar)
Will it completely disrupt Facebook? Not likely. At least not soon.
I've been wondering whether it might be possible to charge a small monthly fee to cover hosting expenses for such a service, with a value add being essentially flexible privacy controls, and lack of a business need to monetize in ways that hurt privacy.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: This is what Flash can do in 2008
Exactly. And flash was introduced 14 years ago. It really has no excuse for not having better performance at this point. I'm glad its dying.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Real geeks die early
It's not a huge problem. I enjoyed your post and can relate. Thanks for sharing it.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Real geeks die early
I just found it to be an unnecessary distraction.
It's not that it bothers me. It just makes it more difficult than necessary for me to read. I make an assumption that by posting something on the internet, the person wants me to read it and wants to share their ideas with me.
Why distract readers from one's ideas by not following simple grammatical convention?
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Real geeks die early
Apparently so do their shift keys.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Show HN: Hacker News like site for South Africa: ZA-Coders
I may be missing something, but why wouldn't they just use the real thing?
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Just finished coding my new startup; need ideas for getting traction
Maybe your key difference could be ship people instead of stuff. Kind of like an AirBNB but replacing Taxi's and busses instead of replacing hotels.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Thoughts on Flash
How is it so different? Microsoft at least did not control the hardware. Apple has always been worse than Microsoft in that respect - they even wanted to control the printer at one point! The only difference now is that for some reason its working for them now and iPhone is incredibly popular. But they're much more monopolistic than Microsoft ever was, and they always have been, and I would imagine they always will be.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical Tetris"
Thats one of the more innovative Tetris oriented games I've seen in a few years. I was surprised how smooth it works in the browser, even though I've seen a few of the other cool things folks are doing with HTML5 these days. Good stuff.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Microsoft Responds to Abusive Labor Conditions at Chinese Manufacturer
I guess in my experience with this site, the vast majority of folks are capable of viewing life and the world around them from many different perspectives, which is why the conversations are so engaging, and why I keep coming back frequently.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Microsoft Responds to Abusive Labor Conditions at Chinese Manufacturer
They are interested in generating controversy, which generates buzz, which generates ad revenue.
dca
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization?
> Edward Tufte's book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is a monumental book.
Agreed, its absolutely excellent. Thanks to Y Combinator for listing it in the book list.
> Additionally, if I were you, I'd stay way from statistical approaches to displaying information...
Not agreed. In my opinion you might have missed what I felt was a main point of that book: Always learn the appropriate statistics required to understand the data, choose a correct visualization method to communicate those statistics effectively, and once you've understood it fully, confirmed the results, and removed all the cruft, then publish it.
