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by codevark 5y ago
In the '90s-'00s I worked on a seminal ecomm product for 9 years. It won several awards, blew the competition out of the market, and sold 50K units in the first 8 months. We were bought by a clueless (Canadian) company whose first
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by codevark 5y ago
Problem: No spider that size (or, really, anything far larger than it's "normal" size) could even move itself around. It would have to have wildly different body structure, and would probably not resemble a "spider"
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by codevark 5y ago
Which is why there should never be a "cannabis industry". We created a food industry that produces sub-standard food and much of it goes to waste. Applying the same obviously flawed principles to cannabis is another mistake. Pot s
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by codevark 5y ago
There are approximately 8 times the number of humans on this planet as is optimal. This is not a threat, it's a promise.
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by codevark 6y ago
Every number in this story, from the half a million dollars, to the 10 engineers, to the 1600 hrs, is basically nothing compared to the full goings on of our military. It's like pulling your toothbruch across your front teeth one more
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by codevark 6y ago
Amiga 1000, 1985. Nothing else like it at the time.
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by codevark 6y ago
One word: hypnosis. Worked for me in a big way, when I had lost something very valuable and was going nuts trying to remember where I left it (in a drunken journey on foot through a city). I found it, because somewhere deep inside, one part
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by codevark 6y ago
People who don't realize that they are alive today because their parents trusted doctors and took the vaccines. These things sort themselves out, over time :)
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by codevark 6y ago
I started programming in the 70s, on Z80s and a PDP-11. Then I moved to the Apple IIe. Also got a bit of early exposure to MS-DOS in the early 80s. When I first was able to get my hands on an Amiga 1000 (my friend got one as a graduation pr
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by codevark 6y ago
Export/save to a 3D format, please.
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by codevark 6y ago
In the late eighties, we'd render scenes on an accelerated Amiga 2000 that often took over a week - at resolutions that were so low, they'd be useless toady. Waiting..
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by codevark 6y ago
...if she's ever had the drumpf's disk in her mouth? That would go a long way towards clearing up all this shiite. Jest sayin'..
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by codevark 7y ago
Around 1992, my friend and I started doing desktop database apps as a side gig while we worked at a consulting firm doing IT. We decided to do this full time. With connections in the music industry, we started doing websites and online stor
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by codevark 7y ago
I agree. I use FF almost exclusively on every system I use, both at home and at work. Other browsers are only for testing whether my web stuff works acceptably in their twisted environs, more or less. Whenever I mention anything related to
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by codevark 8y ago
Studies have estimated that the ideal Earth population, living sustainably at an average Western standard of life, would be less than 2BN people. The numbers vary, but the suggested populations are all well below the current. https:/&
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by codevark 8y ago
In one part the author says "In English we write them identically, but we speak them differently: in different tones.". A few paragraphs later, he states that English speakers have trouble with the 4 tones of Chinese, which are so
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by codevark 9y ago
I had had two fairly good long term relationships before, both of which ended abruptly, The first time, I got kicked out, the second, I initiated the breakup. I said to my self, "the next one that comes along is going to be the one&quo