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by jackhack 8y ago
Apologies if this was covered somewhere on the web site, but I wasn't able to find it -- may I ask what are the serving sizes? Are these individual servings suitable for one person, or for a larger group/family (4).
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by jackhack 8y ago
There is a hot-sauce shop in Austin Texas that makes you sign a legal release waiver before purchasing some of the sauces they keep in a locked case. Apparently there is a real risk of airway collapse -- a fine line between "hot sauce&
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by jackhack 8y ago
ha! Yeah, I guess that's the secret -- just do something for a 10,000 hours and it comes naturally. But I still remember the learning process "X and Y index, what's that good for? and why do I need an accumulator? Stack? flag
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by jackhack 8y ago
Maybe a few seconds per page? Truly, it's really not that much of an accomplishment -- the comments are superb. I spent 10 years writing games in 6502 assembly, so it feels pretty natural to me. Keep in mind that a lot of this kind of
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by jackhack 8y ago
>Your worry seems misplaced. I wish I could agree with you, but I cannot. Industries are hiring psychologists in order to increase the addiction of software (especially videogames) -- perfecting just the right amount of time before a rew
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by jackhack 8y ago
Surprisingly sophisticated. I didn't remember them being much more than annoying when my kids "had to have one." Hey, I recognize those opcodes. 6502 (Commodore, Apple 2, etc) Cool! I had no idea what was running these things
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by jackhack 8y ago
Ha! They just set about redefining "evil" as "that stuff that other people do." "Don't be evil" went out the window a long time ago. I can't imagine any new revenue seeking business model being reject
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by jackhack 8y ago
Not a backdoor; more accurately described as "lack of a door".
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by jackhack 8y ago
Great catch. You're right, I completely missed that and probably wouldn't have made the distinction even if I had seen it. I will now, and in the future, though.
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by jackhack 8y ago
These two competing cars aim at very, very different markets. Forbes' breathless prediction of Toyota's hybrid market demise is a myopic opinion piece and a stretch of wishful thinking. The lower-tier Prius' are profoundly le
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by jackhack 8y ago
Can we please keep YC a civil place without the entirely unnecessary profanity which is pervasive everywhere else? It's fine to disagree; but do so based on the strength of your argument and facts.
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by jackhack 8y ago
Madworld? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MadWorld While no-one would argue that Quake was truly photorealistic, it was as realistic as the hardware of the day would allow at a videogame framerate (30+fps).
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by jackhack 8y ago
There is also : "There must be a problem with your Microsoft account. Click here to fix it" alert on the notification bar. The only problem with my Microsoft account seems to be that I didn't create one. Not a problem to me,
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by jackhack 8y ago
That's a real gem! I also started out on the Apple ][, writing my own versions of the games I saw in the arcades (donkey kong, pacman, joust, etc). My kids are old enough to be curious about how games are actually built, and we've
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by jackhack 8y ago
There used to be plenty of room for innovation. General Magic made a PDA to compete with the Apple Newton Messagepad (the first "Personal Digital Assistant"). The Newton had a lovely pen-based user interface, and with the second r
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by jackhack 8y ago
thus the rise of the $100 counterfeit iphone which is actually a rather clever facade on top of an android: https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/qvmkdd/counte...
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by jackhack 8y ago
That's a bit like asking what did carpenters did with hammers and hand-saws in this age of CAD/CAM. :) I assure you the Altairs were quite useful. Mostly, owners enjoyed the luxury of working on their very own computer, rather tha
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by jackhack 8y ago
Not to mention the "Butt Head Astronomer" product model name! The best part is when the offended astronomer sued Apple for defamation, but was put in the unenviable position to argue he was the "butt head" in question. E
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by jackhack 8y ago
You summarized my thoughts pretty well. I would have thought it obvious but I forget sometimes what a hypersensitive world we live in, and how quickly some want to rush to judgement.
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by jackhack 8y ago
It's an equally effective way to end a career (perhaps before it's even begun, as this is a graduate student's work we're talking of). Regardless, it's a stunningly bold lack of judgement. But then, bad decisions of
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by jackhack 8y ago
Awe inspiring is correct! My grandmother was born in 1888. In her lifetime, she saw the first automobile, the first airplane (propeller-driven, followed by jet aircraft!), radio, "talkies" (movies with soundtracks), television (bl
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by jackhack 8y ago
Interesting it's so firmly a part of the ritual of serving sherry. But then aeration is known to improve the flavours of many types of spirits and even electronic wine bottle toppers are available to spin the air.
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by jackhack 8y ago
computer advert in 2018, truth in advertising version: "stalk your ex on Facebook, 37% faster" "Cat videos on youtube look great in Retina full screen" "Your stolen music files sound fab thanks to deeper bass respon
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by jackhack 8y ago
For the record, citizens have been arrested and tried for assault on a federal employee for passing gas in the presence of TSA, and for having an erection during a pat-down/groping after refusing the millimeter-wave body scan. (of cour
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by jackhack 8y ago
>> They called in an outside insultant. This is either a great typo, or a hilarious moniker I have somehow missed (almost 40 years in the business). Either way, it's worth recognizing. Equal parts hilarious and accurate as "
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by jackhack 8y ago
So then what caused the prior ice ages and following warming spells, spanning hundreds of millions of years? Or were things different that time around?
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>the same people moving the goal posts Perhaps, but I see this from the pro-climate-change side, too. First it was a "coming ice age" (1970s) then it was Al Gore banging the "global warming" drums (1990s), now it&
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by jackhack 8y ago
any improvements to printing capability (especially color coding)? (v1.5 has limited printing features http://manual.macromates.com/en/printing#printing ) I know it's strange, but as someone who began a career on t
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by jackhack 8y ago
But did it even engage the brakes? I wouldn't be shocked if it could not stop fully, but for it to not even attempt to stop is very troubling.
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by jackhack 8y ago
What happens next? Nothing, until somebody important dies, at which point lawyers for the family will swoop in to feed on the company involved. Meanwhile, lawmakers will preen and posture and create eventual regulations and restrictions on

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