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jCanvas | 11 years ago | on: Implementing a Virtual Machine in C

I think the title is very misleading. This is not a virtual machine but an interpreter for a made up assembly language. There is nothing wrong with that and I am sure a beginner would find it very useful. But reading the title I was expecting something quite different.

jCanvas | 11 years ago | on: Announcing Starfighter

I am surprised that Patrick is moving onto yet a different project.

After leaving his job he works as a freelance online marketing expert. Then quits that despite implying making a lot of money. Instead wants to create online marketing courses to reach bigger audience, but takes forever to produce any content and is now abandoning that track. Creates AppointmentReminder with some good initial success but reading between the lines that is going to be sold/abandoned as well.

Now moving onto yet another project. Seems you have created several great opportunities for yourself but cannot stick and focus on any one thing?

jCanvas | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

http://www.componentfactory.com

A suite of .NET WinForms controls for Windows UI developers. I no longer have the time to keep developing it and the sales are not enough to support a developer full time. Maybe someone else can take it further or make use of the software.

jCanvas | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft Office Online

Does anyone know how they have implemented it? Looking at the page source there is lots of javascript involved, as you would expect. Are they using the DOM or a Canvas that fills the screen?

jCanvas | 12 years ago | on: Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation

Does anyone know they type of setup these probes have? Is it running a custom OS on custom hardware or plain old Linux on a x86 processor?

jCanvas | 12 years ago | on: Super successful companies

Good point. These kinds of list imply that if you attain all the characteristics on the list then you are bound to also be super successful. Which is not true at all. You have all the listed properties but if your product/service actually sucks or if you no competitive advantage then you will still not be super successful.

jCanvas | 12 years ago | on: The Limits of Neuroplasticity

I would agree that the media do jump on anything that sounds like it is the fountain of youth and hype it up. Obviously everyone over 40, like me, would love to think some pill is going to give them youthful characteristics such as improved learning ability.

But...I also blame the academic journals. Why is it published in the current form when the study was only completed by 18 people. How come the peer reviewers did not insist on toning down the over hyped conclusions. Maybe they should have gone further and refused to publish until a more extensive and reliable follow up study was performed.

In short, the academic world has to stop publishing such marginal results before we blame the media for picking them up and adding another layer or hyperbole.

jCanvas | 12 years ago | on: Tycoon Warning

Anybody have a link/copy without the 'must register' wall?