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by vparikh 25d ago
I spent my entire 8th grade summer vacation playing Sid Meier's Pirates. In many ways I considering it one the best games on the C64 (along with Ultima V, Uridium, Arkanoid, Ghost Busters and Ghost and Goblins). The thing that blew m
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by vparikh 6mo ago
Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine, a short poem from 1981, feels like it somehow snuck a peek at the future of AI
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The Homework Machine(insightfultroll.com)
2 points by vparikh 6mo ago|1 comments
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by vparikh 8mo ago
I recommend these two books for 6502 assembly: https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-machine-language-for-... and https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-the-second-book-of-ma... These two books w
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by vparikh 1y ago
I would argue that we have that today in the form of the Apple MacMini ( https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini ) -- the Commodore 64 was priced at around $300 in 1984 or $950 in 2025 money. The basic model Mac
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by vparikh 1y ago
Looks like you are linking to static libraries. You should link to DLL not to static libraries - this is will cut down on the application size dramatically.
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by vparikh 2y ago
Yes - you are completely right. I just looked up my receipt for my C64 and it was Dec. of 1984. Still have it all! So long ago, yet seems like yesterday :)
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by vparikh 2y ago
My uncle bought a TI-99/4A when Texas Instruments were blowing them out for $49 around the summer of 1987 or so. Played Parsec with the voice module and that was it - I was hooked. I needed to figure out how it did this. Started wit
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by vparikh 2y ago
Location: Wayne, New Jersey Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS/React, Ruby, Java, Linux / UNIX, Windows SDK, AWS, Networking, JIRA, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD, ETL, PostgreSQL,
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by vparikh 3y ago
Location: Wayne, New Jersey Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS/React, Ruby, Java, Linux / UNIX, Windows SDK, AWS, Networking, JIRA, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD, ETL, PostgreSQL,
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by vparikh 3y ago
So many memories. This game was a masterpiece. I spent three weeks missing class (nearly failing my compiler construction class) and broke up with a girlfriend playing this game. Glad they don't make games like this anymore.
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by vparikh 3y ago
This is not going to change anything - Apple makes $109,229 per second ( https://tipalti.com/profit-per-second/ ) - this so called penalty is 3.8 hours of Apple's profit. This is equivalent to a parking ticket for
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by vparikh 3y ago
Apple didn't bring programming to the masses - for the following reason: - Just to expensive. The Apple Macintosh in January 1984 cost $2500 - thats $7000 dollars in todays money! - Too complex to get started. The amount of knowledge
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by vparikh 3y ago
Microsoft killed VB for one very simple reason: They were terrified of Java and the JVM that went along with it, as it would make their cash cow - Windows possibly redundant. They basically switched everything to .Net and the CLR. Also, yo
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by vparikh 3y ago
My simple rules about money and investing for the future: - Max out 401K and place it in S&P 500 mutual fund - Take an additional 15% and but into an S&P 500 mutual fund - Don't look at it, just keep buying at regular intervals
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by vparikh 3y ago
Yes - I meant $37,500
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by vparikh 3y ago
The full auto pilot option is $15,000 additional
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by vparikh 3y ago
Sorry meant to say $37,500
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by vparikh 3y ago
Sorry for the confusion everyone - I meant to say $37,500
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by vparikh 3y ago
Electric cars are still a luxury good. I can afford to buy a Tesla Model that equipped with AWD, and auto pilot (for me the marquee feature on the Tesla) comes in at 67,000 before any state & federal incentives. To put it into perspect
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by vparikh 3y ago
https://insightfultroll.com/ Just random stuff I come across and my thoughts on it - more of entries that have interested me and so I have a log of it over time. More for me then others so - hope someone also gets somethin
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by vparikh 3y ago
I have been think about this also. I am about to turn 50 in six months, and probably will not have the opportunity to have children (I am not dating 20-30 year olds). I see more of the population in the US going the way of Asian cultures (I
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by vparikh 3y ago
Ha! You are right - I still can't type :)
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by vparikh 3y ago
I have been in the software industry for 30 years as of this month. I have never had a gap of longer then 6 months and the shortest time with a company was 4 years 8 months and the longest time was 16 years. I have worked on the followin
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by vparikh 3y ago
That db product was Paradox I believe. Yes Microsoft had a lot to do with it. Microsoft in its embrace and extend strategy would keep adding / mucking around with the C/C++ compilers by introducing proprietary extensions that alw
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by vparikh 3y ago
What is really infuriating is when the leaders of these companies "claim full responsibility." Really? I don't believe you until I see you cleaning out your desk with 1000s you made clean out theirs. After all, hiring 1000s
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by vparikh 4y ago
The simple solution is if you purchase a property and are not living in it - i.e. its an investment property - you get taxed at a substantially higher rate. Both in property taxes and taxes on the profit made.
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by vparikh 4y ago
I am waiting to see the C-suite get some accountability - not holding my breath. if you over-hired by 7-12% over a an 18-24 month period that's a pretty significant management mistake - you clearly did not have a pulse on the business
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by vparikh 4y ago
If you want to se the ultimate MVP demo of a product look no further than the 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone - https://youtu.be/MnrJzXM7a6o It was not a finished product and the dev team was terrified that the system
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by vparikh 4y ago
> There are key differences between an emergency and traditional model that increase the costs of making and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine,” Pfizer told Quartz via email. These costs, the company says, include distributing through mu

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