clawrencewenham

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by clawrencewenham 8y ago
Almost all of the software I've written is as useless outside of the company as air pockets taken out of a loaf of bread. The big-rectangle diagram of what I do is fetch data from A, apply B(A), and send the result to Z. This is great
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by clawrencewenham 13y ago
> Much of Boston is not the same as "a large portion of New England." Alright, much of Boston is not "a large portion of New England" but to use your figures, even 600 thousand is still huge. Does it really disprove my point that this m
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by clawrencewenham 13y ago
I don't know what 128 is, but I know of people who were taking Amtrak to Connecticut but had to get off at NYC and travel uptown to Grand Central Station to get on a commuter train. They weren't going to Boston. Amtrak service was halted no
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by clawrencewenham 13y ago
The ending to The Blues Brothers seems prophetic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0 To edit and elaborate: they shut down a large portion of New England, affecting millions of people. Amtrak service, for example, was suspended no
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by clawrencewenham 13y ago
Yes, they can be subdivided by up to eight decimal places.
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The Law of Unintended Opinions(chriswenham.com)
3 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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How the Anti-IP movement can compare copyrights to slavery(chriswenham.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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I, For One: AGI and the Thermodynamic theory of life(chriswenham.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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Why the future isn't here yet(chriswenham.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: My first iPhone app, Spent Better(spentbetter.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 14y ago
That part is cool, but it's also "FaceTime with a head-mounted camera". They spent most of their time showing something that is better but not unique. I was under the impression that Glass is supposed to put a UI in your field of vision, ye
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by clawrencewenham 14y ago
All they really showed in the skydiving stunt was that they were wearing head-mounted cameras.
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From Bedrooms to Billions: UK gaming industry in the Thatcher era(indiegogo.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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Signs that you're a good programmer(yacoset.com)
36 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|3 comments
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Basic Literacy (yet another response to Atwood)(yacoset.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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Naming an app is hard, and goes hand-in-hand with its function(plus.google.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 14y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 14y ago
http://www.thinkinginanutshell.com/nootropics But saying it's worth "10 IQ points" is a bit of a stretch. There's no drug that's like the one in _Limitless_. Piracetam and most other nootropics are either stimulants, like caffeine, or age
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by clawrencewenham 14y ago
I used to be the Editor In Chief of the OS/2 e-Zine! ( http://www.os2ezine.com ), although I began as just a contributor. The e-Zine was started by Trevor Smith, who slowly handed over more responsibilities until eventually retiring to do o
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Illustrated cross-section of the Kowloon Walled City(urbanphoto.net)
2 points by clawrencewenham 15y ago|0 comments
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A better way to store and search on people's names(plus.google.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 15y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
Boss: "This new feature is similar to one that's already in another program, so you can just copy that code. You can do that in a couple of hours, right?" Me (coining a metaphor): "The fuel distributor in a Pratt & Whitney Turbojet engi
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
One of them mentions a shutdown from Amazon because they ship too many orders late. That rang lots of bells for me, because it sounds like IT at an independent fulfillment company, which will usually have its own web store and sell through
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Habits I'm Glad I Have, Habits I Wish I Had(yacoset.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 15y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
The post office themselves claim it's a congressional mandate to pre-pay 75-years worth of employee pensions and benefits in a 10-year window. They give Congress 5.5 billion dollars every year, and it's that which is driving the crisis.
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
You may be able to grasp the instantaneous distribution of forces in a building or charges in a circuit without needing to know the order that they deploy. While a computer itself is an example of a circuit where the order of execution matt
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
I guess "ends justify the means" would be another article.
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
I think you'll still learn much from osmosis, anyway.
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
I guess I can't log-in and add a link to its new home, eh?
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
I wrote this years ago to get it out of my system, and after Infogami went to the big web host in the sky I ported it and my other nonsense to Google Sites. The slightly updated version of the same article is now here: http://www.yacoset.c
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by clawrencewenham 15y ago
I spent about an afternoon on it.

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