mstevens
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Comment · 2 years ago
Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack. See https://reactormag.com/randomacts/ for a great review by Jo Walton (also a great scifi author who deserves more attention).
Comment · 3 years ago
Probably a reference to https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Comment · 4 years ago
I love the building in subnautica, I'd love something that focuses on that aspect of the game.
Comment · 8 years ago
I found the CG Maximite lately, which powers on to BASIC and has composite video or VGA out:
http://geoffg.net/maximite.html
There's also the fignition which has a composite out and powers on to forth:
https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition
But does require assembly & soldering.
Comment · 9 years ago
From that page, "use ++g instead of g++ (it’s faster)"
I've seen people say this a repeatedly when talking about "embedded" environments, but never understood why - won't it end up compiling to the same thing either way?
Comment · 11 years ago
When I saw this post I thought it'd be a report on the very first Y Combinator Demo Day ever and where they are today.
I still think that'd be really interesting.
Comment · 12 years ago
I have a meta-proposal. Random westerners are a terrible source of ideas - you should talk to people from developing countries and if possible go there. The local knowledge will be 100x more useful than anything we can come up with.
Comment · 13 years ago
As far as I know this is no longer true - there's an official firmware image that enables fastboot:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
However I've not yet actually tried this on my ZTE Open.
Comment · 14 years ago
ooh, cool, I didn't know that was there.
My more active interest in perl was pre-git :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Slightly self-promotion, but you can get a variety of old perl sources at http://www.etla.org/retroperl/ (collected by someone non-me, I can't remember who though)
I had thought someone had done a perl 1 release that built on modern systems, but on a quick hunt I can't find it.
Comment · 14 years ago
So I've decided to try the experiment. Ordered a 7" android tablet - http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-discount-price-Free-ship... described as running ice cream sandwich from aliexpress for $57.68, with free shipping.
It's not quite $45, although it looks like I could've got that price if I didn't need shipping.
Should be interesting to see what I get and how cheaply made (or not) it is.
Comment · 14 years ago
I used to find http://musicforhackers.com/ the perfect background to coding, but they're down, and I've never worked out another source of the sort of stuff they played.
Comment · 14 years ago
The obvious one is that it saves you the hassle of running postfix on a self-managed VPS.
And you do get rather more than just postfix - there's webmail, IMAP, etc, all managed for you.