torpor

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by torpor 16y ago
This is really a great idea. I'd love to be involved in such a startup .. iPhone/Android/PlaszmaOS/Angstrom developer here, ready to be recruited!! :)
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by torpor 16y ago
>To be honest, what more do you want to see in it? An App Store for OSX would be nice. Or even just a repository mechanism - I am so sick of updating the apps on my Mac systems when my multiple Linux boxes are always up-to-date wit
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by torpor 16y ago
This set of data is just screaming to be turned into an iPhone app .. imagine, you're somewhere in Europe. The GPS figures out where, and gives you a picture (modern-day) to wipe your fingers over .. revealing the WW2-era pic underneath. F
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by torpor 16y ago
The pictures of the Heldenplatz (here in Vienna) are particularly sobering, considering that its a very bright and vibrant place these days .. oh, except for the one week a year when the Austrian military put on their big displays there, of
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by torpor 16y ago
I live in Vienna, and am constantly on the lookout for signs of the old wars. Its a very sobering experience to walk down some street and then realize later that was the site of intense street fighting and massacre.
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by torpor 16y ago
I first encountered the Levenshtein distance at work (where I am part of a team developing SIL-4 level operating systems for use in the transportation industry), as part of our coding rules which describe the differences in variable names a
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by torpor 16y ago
>Too bad people will stick with their stereotypical nonsense regardless. Doubleplusgood, brother. Non-pharma though-proc, rectified!
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by torpor 16y ago
In light of the WEIRD study, medicating children for anything deemed by this society to be 'un-normal' is a tragedy.
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by torpor 16y ago
Great article, and as it happens right now I'm using this algorithm in a hardware MIDI sequencer I'm working on .. it works very well for phrase-based recognition of patterns in a MIDI context, also ..
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by torpor 16y ago
The reason for this all-encompassing effort, I believe, is that it gives the Developer everything they need to get started and get rolling .. while at the same time giving the Artist everything they need to get started as well. It doesn'
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by torpor 16y ago
So buy two packages, put an Ion drive in one, payload in the other, have them mate in orbit.
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by torpor 16y ago
Because you're too busy waiting for all that C++ code to compile before you can be too busy debugging it .. FtFT! :)
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by torpor 16y ago
Meh. Wake me up when you can use the device itself to write software for the device. Until then, the barrier to entry is still too high.
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by torpor 16y ago
>threat to national security The real threat to national security is the predominance of special-interest groups who are currently in control of the US Military machine, having it fight un-just, disgusting wars, in the name of the Unite
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by torpor 16y ago
Audio too?
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by torpor 16y ago
Australian here .. I've always had a bloody atrocious time in my travels, with my accent .. so I just standardized on "American-sounding" and I get along just fine with people understanding me, mostly, about 100% of the time .. except when
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by torpor 16y ago
>Despite your jabs at my theoretical personality flaws, we clearly agree. Just wondering if you've considered the delivery, not the message, is what may be getting in your way here .. I've seen it go both ways, also. If the person has
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by torpor 16y ago
"Culture through Osmosis" isn't really a popular model around these parts .. you're going to have to burn, baby, burn ..
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by torpor 16y ago
Paul is no longer in Austria - he moved to the States, following that grand hacker dream of success in Silicon Valley .. but as far as I know, he was Mr. Startup, indeed..
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by torpor 16y ago
Doing something theoretically difficult in code during an interview is one thing - but having a compiler in front of you to help you get through that difficulty is another thing entirely. The point is to determine whether you are a programm
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by torpor 16y ago
A couple things from this forty-year old: 1. If you want to have kids, do it sooner rather than later. The sooner you have them, the better: they grow up so fast, you'll still have time in your 40's to enjoy life with them as teenagers, if
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by torpor 16y ago
In fact Paul may be one of the reasons why "startups", as a subject, is such a tender one in the Metalab scene. You can talk about "startups" for years without actually starting one. It seems that there is a particular brand of arrogance r
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by torpor 16y ago
No, you're wrong about Metalab - there are plenty of people in the Metalab scene who would respond to your ideas if you were to make the effort to present them .. metalab is a hotbed of new-startup activity and some of the hackers there are
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by torpor 16y ago
Well, you're wrong. There are tons of people in the Metalab scene who are into making money, and who want to get their startups rolling .. otherwise why else would there be so many startup meetings there in the first place? >I don't th
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by torpor 16y ago
Alternative: Learn to use Inkscape.
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by torpor 16y ago
Instead of 'doing coffee' with all these guys, why don't you come to Metalab on Friday night and hold a few lightning talks? http://metalab.at/
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by torpor 16y ago
>I think a bit part of Austrians having inhibitions about starting their own businesses is as you say, the mindset. I think its the rampant Marxism, frankly. So many brainwashed people in this society think that success = criminal beha
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by torpor 16y ago
>Ah, I thought everybody wanted to be successful? ;) In Vienna? HAH AHA HAHAHA HAHA AHHA HAHA HAHA HA HAAA!!! ROFL You haven't lived here long.
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by torpor 16y ago
Getting down on the ground and playing with your kids > dating/video games/movies. If not, you're doing it wrong.
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by torpor 16y ago
You're right, sys/queue.h is wonderful ..

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