Over engineer a 100,000 line program like it's 100,000,000. (In my classes, we were graded on a curve on how short our programs were. That's how essays, websites and programs should be graded.)

What? Someone doesn't think a 1,000 line demo application program should use globals? Retard.

It's a cheap shot to criticise Windows for 16-bit legacy issues. Should they have over-engineered it? It's possible an over-engineered project would have failed. (Win 16) I thought of many features after the start -- I did not spec them. Before you criticize a project that has aged, humble yourself because it's long-lived. (Stupid punks criticizing Microsoft.) Only stupid academics don't respect success in the market.

http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=64-bit+operating+system

I worked at Ticketmaster -- think about the cost of entry, the huge amount of competition in the sector and that they rose until they were sued for being a monopoly.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1

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Some people have small minds. I wanted to start absolutely with a fresh slate. Source code can have graphics. Once I explained that it has links like html and soon roared with laughter at small minds trying to make sense of that. Imagine a Microsoft Word document as source code. I'm cracking-up knowing that concept will not be understood.

I didn't really set-out to keep people from walking-off with my code, but laugh when I see the ways I suceeded... and maybe extended them. A major selling point is my compiler -- that separates me from amateurs... like the Linux kernel, that lacks a compiler. How depressing it would be to make a product who's only advantage is cost and that does no innovation.

Anyway, I want to highlight my compiler's existence and the fact source code is not limited to ASCII -- that it can even have superscripts and subscripts in names... so I very intentionally and deviously made a point of using pi and inf symbols. Helps prevent people walking-off too.

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God says...
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ur and less justice the writings
of others. It is my earnest hope that Your Excellency's good counsel in
regard to my honourable purpose, will not disdain the littleness of so
humble a service.

Miguel de Cervantes

VOLUME I.

CHAPTER I.

WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN DON
QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to
mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance
in the

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That's not spam to me. "Lance" was the name of our grader in my class at ASU which was graded by code size. Actually, I only had one class graded on a curve based on code size and I got an A. It's was hardly competition -- I had been and was employed at Ticketmaster working on their VAX operating system in ASM. (My classmates were simply not in my league. That was my undergrad stuff, though.)

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I love Jesus!

36 He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’”

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I win a hundred lottery grand prizes a day. I'm not worried about justice. I laugh at my enemies because they typically worry more about public opinion than God. Seek first the kingdom of God... and God will give you patent ideas faster than your enemies can... Eye has not seen and ear has not heard what God has in store for those who love Him. Crazy-ass shit. It's hard to forget money, though... and respect from men. Really hard.

God says...
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squat figure of the new governor
astonished all those who were not in the secret, and even all who were,
and they were not a few. Finally, leading him out of the church they
carried him to the judgment seat and seated him on it, and the duke's
majordomo said to him, "It is an ancient custom in this island, senor
governor, that he who comes to take possession of this famous island is
bound to answer a question which shall be put to him, and which must be a
somewhat knotty and difficult one; and by hi

God says...