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by pcof 16y ago
Actually, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy says it in its introduction. "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the
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by pcof 16y ago
"Method and device to remotely deploy a stack of patent applications to block the passage of moving vehicles at a designated intersection"?
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by pcof 16y ago
I can't believe UK has only two companies (the Royal Non-Software Company and the Royal Software Company?). Apply for other positions in other software companies. Even non-software companies with strong IT departments have nice jobs, techni
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The latest version of the LittleDog robot (youtube.com)
173 points by pcof 16y ago|61 comments
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by pcof 16y ago
We could call her Bacteria Zero and build a whole religion around her life and times...
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by pcof 16y ago
A new attack on Windows machines. In the immortal words of the Slayer, "Dawn is in danger. It must be Tuesday."
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by pcof 16y ago
It's worth reading the Abstract Heresies' entry that turned my attention to this paper: http://funcall.blogspot.com/2010/05/c-vs-lisp.html (After giving it a thought I posted this entry to HN too, as I probably should have done in the fir
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C++ vs. Lisp or JRM vs. Ebhakt(funcall.blogspot.com)
3 points by pcof 16y ago|1 comments
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Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages(home.pipeline.com)
29 points by pcof 16y ago|10 comments
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by pcof 17y ago
It reads somewhat like "The Occult for The Arcane", doesn't it?
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by pcof 17y ago
Am I getting too old and grumpy or are the kids today getting too young and clueless? For the sake of Odin, it's Monday - even the Sumerians had problems with incompatible newline markers depending on the type of clay used to make the table
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by pcof 17y ago
There are an infinite set of mathematical tricks available here, some of them so obfuscated that enforcement would probably need a few years to catch up. Not to forget that printing a hard copy of the bytes of an MP3 may even warrant you fr
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by pcof 17y ago
Allright. It can run the Control Panel applet. What else? Notepad? At the same time?
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by pcof 17y ago
I predict you will get a great deal of pythonic fire. Nevertheless, I find it very nice that you plan to deal with the specific libraries you're using in the next posts. The greatest problem in adopting CL seems to be the extremely decentra
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by pcof 17y ago
I think I will need a botnet to fill that form...Anyone renting?
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by pcof 17y ago
I had two issues, one during the upgrade process, the second with proprietary wireless network drivers. I upgraded a 3-years old HP laptop from Windows XP. My initial plan was to make it boot both systems, but the install hang up during rep
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by pcof 17y ago
I would tend to believe that some significant portion of CIA tasks would require (or at least largely benefit from) some form of security clearance elsewhere in the world, which in turn would require (or at least largely benefit from) the s
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by pcof 17y ago
Pretty accurate, as far as predictive articles go (even "very near-future predictive articles"). Funnily conservative sometimes - it never sees the "all of them, for free" option ahead.
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by pcof 17y ago
Is it only me or the whole article reads, smells and looks like an hoax? Consider the evidence: a) "... are tuning the strength of the laser so that it kills mosquitoes without harming other insects or, especially, people." Laser barriers
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Jon Johansen subpoenaed in Apple lawsuit(nanocr.eu)
2 points by pcof 17y ago|0 comments
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by pcof 17y ago
Oh, my. It is free as in "freedom", you idiot, not free as in "gratis", RMS would tell you. And he would be right. You've debunked only your own misunderstanding of the problem...
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by pcof 17y ago
The cable nightmare should be enough to open up anyone's eyes. There's a line somewhere that companies should not cross in their willingness to protect their investments.. Apple trying to disallow other gadgets from using iTunes is one thi
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by pcof 17y ago
Let's just hope something so expensive will at least give our species some control over the world we live in. Oh, wait...