jackhack

7 ms·

421.
by jackhack 9y ago
Everything old is new again: We did that exact thing 30 years ago: Auto-Graph Computer Designing Systems' "Kitchen & Bath design". Draw walls on grid paper. Choose placement of items. View in 3d. It was used at home impro
422.
by jackhack 9y ago
Welcome to the future, indeed! Where we do simple things in the most complicated way possible. No more boring screen wipe, dissolve, or fade transitions from one slide to another... Now we have tumbling 3D transitions that induce vomiting t
423.
by jackhack 9y ago
Same here, it turns me away. If somebody has to tell me what a cool geek girl they are to try and buy credibility, then they are already losing. Maybe I'm just cynical, but my BS detector starts alerting. A real technologist doesn&#x27
424.
by jackhack 9y ago
They're already on it. (Sad to say. 20 Trillion national debt, and climbing.) How 'bout taking some of that fresh money to set up a new department of Federal officers who drive around and break windows? Think of all the business t
425.
by jackhack 9y ago
>Never in the history of this country have we had a problem in where the government has too much power and private entities have too little. Not once. I suspect the American Indian might disagree. I don't recall them being hunted do
426.
by jackhack 9y ago
It's not exactly encouraging to see, on the Willow Garage ROS website, that the page seems to have been last updated in 2013 ( http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/software/ros-platform ). You'll instead want
427.
by jackhack 9y ago
This is an important distinction and deserves repeating: The employees a of company (from executive level, down) work for the Board of Directors, who are a proxy for the shareholders. The employees do not work for the customer. If there is
428.
by jackhack 9y ago
Network is a problem. As I understand it, the ME subsystem is an overseer, and is running even if your main PC is powered off. It has control over the network, unobservable from the downstream CPU/OS. It could therefore receive command
429.
by jackhack 9y ago
>>Thus making some customers safer Customer. Or customers (plural)?? I ask, because I assume this amount of complexity wasn't created because it was cheap, or end-users were crying out for it. There may be other customers -- thos
430.
by jackhack 9y ago
For those that missed it "Bless your heart" is a very typical "southern" (US) insult; it's a condescending statement of pity and yet mild enough for polite company.
431.
by jackhack 9y ago
Chapel Hill, NC... Atlanta, GA... Austin, TX... New York City,NY Yes, are all despised by their rural neighbors. And vice-versa. But the bias is bidirectional: Those in the cities look at the rural folks with just as much contempt and disgu
432.
by jackhack 9y ago
Debugging was just different. You had to get into the mindset of the original developer and understand what he intended and the impact of poking a memory-mapped location (could cause a graphics page flip, or toggle the speaker, or executing
433.
by jackhack 9y ago
That's the most insightful explanation I've ever read on this subject. Thank you for helping me to understand.
434.
by jackhack 9y ago
Or so the Toxiplasmosis Gondii parasite in your brain would have you believe.
435.
by jackhack 9y ago
The last episode, where the honeybee population collapsed, left me on the edge of my seat. I can't wait to see what happens next. edit: Seriously, wouldn't it be best to solve existing problems with direct threat to food productio
436.
by jackhack 9y ago
That exists now on TaxCut software - when it says "checking your return for possible errors or red flags" or similar. It has some blinky lights animation or arrows or such that runs for about 10 seconds. It was probably done befor
437.
by jackhack 9y ago
That's true. Waiting to load a program from a Tandy cassette tape was a challenge. Floppy disks were a big jump forward. Before that, the Big Jump for me was a move from a Hayes 300 baud modem to an AppleCat 1200. I clearly recall thin
438.
by jackhack 9y ago
Back in 1990, some guy named Michael Abrash wrote about this in Dr. Dobbs magazine. He actualy used computers in 1983. He published his first game in 1982 and worked on another game called Quake with John Carmack. Michael is an Oculus Chie
439.
by jackhack 9y ago
>No offence by why are the founding fathers put on such a high pedestal in the U.S.? Because they were exceedingly well educated, with a knowledge of the rise and fall of nations, and of the shortcomings of human nature. They designed a
440.
by jackhack 9y ago
>Any of the tasks above seem like it would be a reasonable accomplishment for a good programmer. I think that's understating it. I would consider any of those accomplishments to be a monumental undertaking. Combined, it is legendary
441.
by jackhack 9y ago
> Oracle's licensing prohibits any benchmarking That tells me all I need to know.
442.
by jackhack 9y ago
100% correct. Besides, these are not "just" math PhDs, but math PhDs backed by some of the largest private equity trading firms in the world, armed with multiple datacenters of 5000 blades each, running machine learning algos and
443.
by jackhack 9y ago
the wheel must change direction and move quickly to follow imperfections in the road surface. Increasing this weight decreases the wheel's ability to follow the undulations. Increased mass also contributes to centripetal force, inhibit
444.
by jackhack 9y ago
Physical property -- yes. It is expensive to maintain a building, or an antique vehicle, for instance. A valuable oil painting requires climate controlled storage. Gems and paper money must be held securely. But Intellectual property is a d
445.
by jackhack 9y ago
I've seen this too many times before. They want the developer to show up with a laptop, all tools, documentation, licenses, etc. and work for peanuts. All for the "opportunity" to learn under a "seasoned professional&quo
446.
by jackhack 9y ago
Yes. Orders of magnitude more. While it's commonly understood that coal-fired power plants release more radiation than ( properly operated ) nuclear plants per year, with Fukushima we are talking about a core meltdown and uncontrolle
447.
by jackhack 9y ago
write once, spy everywhere.
448.
by jackhack 9y ago
I posted it, and your implication of some deeper reason is rubbish. Race or sex has zero to do with anything. The reason I chose this video is due to the stunning contrast between the news reporter describing the "debate" team&#x
449.
by jackhack 9y ago
that's it in a nutshell. Modern debate has nothing to do with logic, reasoning, rhetoric, facts, persuasiveness or eloquence. It is a perversion of the concept.
450.
by jackhack 9y ago
I was expecting Stanley Kirk Burrell, now an ordained minister. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hammer

More ›