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An 8K Microbee was the first computer we owned at home, the ability to incorporate machine code with basic was a great feature of these computers, got me my start to really understanding computers.

EDIT: oops seems it must have been a 16K model.
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Trampolines on the market has grown in recent years and new shapes and sizes trampolines were born on the road. Any other benefit is based on how it is used and what it is. Thus, rounded shape is more designed for children and home.That if, if you buy 12 or 14ft trampoline, it would be an excellent tool for training an adult or a child, and units of good quality it may take more than one bouncer.Garden Trampoline.Oval garden trampolines are fresh on the market and continue to find their own class. Some retailers reported as safe as they can be more than bouncer at a given time and the bouncer did not affect any other use.Originally designed to work in gyms, clubs and schools, the trampoline design was changed into a round shape for home use and accommodate multiple bouncers. Whoever you are and whatever you do, no one can be tempted to at least try to resist a garden trampoline.
I find it pretty funny that _after_ you graduated (and according to the hardware you had at the time) you decided to completely change careers :)
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The giant impact theory predicts that Earth did, at one point, have a proto-ring of debris from the collision. That proto-ring slowly accreted into the moon.

I'm not sure what evidence we would expect to observe on the moon to indicate whether it accreted from a proto-ring or was captured intact - could you elaborate a little?
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Have you ever counted cards properly, and if so did memory tricks actually help? I can only imagine it complicating what are frankly easy-to-remember tasks.
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I started programming aged 6, in BASIC on an Acorn Electron, back in 1986. That means I've been hacking for fun and profit for over 25 years now. Can't imagine life without code, despite doing less and less of it for profit as time goes by.
This post deserves to be read much more widely than it probably will.
I use NetBSD exclusively for three years now (desktop system), and it is a very comfortable experience so far.
Unprocessed starch, as in brown rice or oat, or fructose (bananas etc.). Potatoes, white rice, and most fruits will give you an even shorter term energy boost, spiking your blood sugar more sharply. By sugar, people normally mean processed sugar; they do not mean starch or fructose found in vegetables or fruit.
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Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting, merchandising, agile content tools, primarily in internet marketing. We're funded by First Round and OpenView (among others).
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* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and real-time API problems at scale.

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Being a programmer, I want an OS that gets out of my way and lets me focus. I find the 'busyness' in some of the OS's distracting and a drain on productivity.
Availability of tools and one's aesthetic preferences are also important, for me once I switched to OSX there was no looking back.
That being said Windows or Linux may be better choices for people with other needs or preferences.
Mingw _is_ native gcc on Windows. Even more native than Visual C, since it doesn't need additional c runtime redistributable, like msvc needs.
Besides that, while I'm not sure it's still a valid concern:

When I switched from Windows to Linux in the mid 90's it was a transition from a box with an illegal copy of MASM and a not-really-working copy of a C++ compiler to a box with a plethora of PL's, databases, code-examples and whatnot with an enormous educational value for me. On the winbox I learned Assembler, on the linbox I learned to program, that made the big difference for me.

Is it still that way for others or is the current situation on windows better? (not considering OSX as you can install pretty much anything there nowadays)
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Linux Kernel with BSD userland?

(https://www.mirbsd.org/)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirOS_BSD)

It's mostly OpenBSD. I haven't used it. I do know the BSD man pages are better (sometimes very very much better) than the Linux equivalents.
Id say that running without shoes is only a good idea if you plan to die quite young, and therefore wont be needing your feet, ankles and knees in old age.
Manual Directory Submission
SEO has changed with the times and search engines have become smarter to judge the quality of websites. On-site optimization is now a must for all websites but that alone will not get the site to rank higher on Google search.
Adoption has increased, but the web is also far more interesting than playing another text based adventure game. So, I think the percentage of total people has stayed about the same. It's only the percentage of people with access to a computer who learn to program that's changed. Because, the further back you go the fewer things there where to do with a computer other than learn to program.
Connecting users who don't speak a common language [a social web experiment]
Today I'm launching a little social web experiment to connect people that don't share a common language through the medium of Weibo.com.

I recently visited China on a business trip and found that the Chinese people were exceptionally friendly and polite wherever I went. Yes, China has a despicable human rights record, and this is absolutely not an endorsement of the Chinese Government. This project is simply a bridge between individuals on which we can share the trials and tribulations we carry as individuals and as human beings.

I want to start some truly global conversations, tear down stereotypes and connect those who don't share a common language.

If we communicate then we will be united in our similarities not divided by our preconceptions.
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Sometimes concise is (arguably, of course) better.

Whenever I pass a simple and short function, for example as a predicate to grep/filter or as a tiny implementation for map/reduce I feel that "function" is half of what I type - and distracting. Worse, explicitly "return"ing adds more noise.

Most of my anonymous functions are really, really small. If they are usually on the level of "d % 2 == 0" or "d.slice(42)" then removing the overhead of "function (d) { return" seems a good idea. Not a huge deal, but nice nevertheless.
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It'd be a great sequel to Farmville.

Imagine the viral traffic you could get when people have seen "moe clubbed two obnoxious baby seals" in your facebook ticker a few times an hour for a while.
Today I'm launching a little social web experiment to connect people that don't share a common language through the medium of Weibo.com.

I recently visited China on a business trip and found that the Chinese people were exceptionally friendly and polite wherever I went. Yes, China has a despicable human rights record, and this is absolutely not an endorsement of the Chinese Government. This project is simply a bridge between individuals on which we can share the trials and tribulations we carry as individuals and as human beings.

I want to start some truly global conversations, tear down stereotypes and connect those who don't share a common language.

If we communicate then we will be united in our similarities not divided by our preconceptions.
What I find disturbing is that exchanging contact data between mobile devices has become more complicated rather than less.
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I bought it too. Any tiny fly in the ointment for the people who brought Farmville on us is worth a dollar to me.
Nobody advocates running barefoot on asphalt. And yes, running can wear out your joints, but even if you wear running shoes.
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The first thing I thought was: Oo, I just figured out how to work with Twitter Bootstrap, and now Elegantizr? hahaha.

Then as I read I realized it was April Fools joke. Peace!
Impressions of SXSW (and how Australian startups stack up)
An Australian product manager goes to SXSW for the first time and gives impressions. He also compares the US startup community to that in Australia.
And learning how to use the copy and delete keys to make modifications to existing code without having to retype the whole line.
LOGO and VIC-20 basic. So close but not quite 30+.
A DOM would give the benefits of homoiconicity, though the quote is We want a language that’s homoiconic. As an example, recent versions of Java include the compiler in Java, and therefore the classes for the AST (though undocumented). That's a DOM; you can use it to implement macros. (There's also ANTLR and BCEL to do AST twiddling - just consider them part of the standard classes of a Java variant).

But I think to be homo- (same) iconic (symbols), the language has to be those symbols. By this strict definition, it has to be a lisp. Maybe there's a looser definition possible, between a DOM and Lisp. I think a parallel lisp-syntax would do it (i.e. you can write everything using a lispy syntax; but there's also a friendlier syntax.

hmmmm, you could do this for any language, provided a AST representation (i.e. lispy) syntactically unambiguous with the rest. That subset of the language would then be homoiconic. e.g. add a first-class AST syntax to Java. Is that the kind of DOM you were thinking of?
My first code was written on a TRS-80 at my jr. highschool. The first work I did that had a wider audience was done at Sears on a Tandy Color Computer it went something like this:

10 Print "Sears Sucks"

20 GOTO 10

The first computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20 and I typed in plenty of proggies out of magazines. They were stored on cassette tapes and we bought a modem - then a phone because we needed to be able to disconnect the hand piece once we'd connected to a bbs and plug the cord into the modem. All our phones were slimline and disconnecting those dropped the call.

The 80s were a really fun time to be a geek.
How many of your tax dollars are spent preventing counterfeits, that could be used in your benefit otherwise?
Um yourself.

That page doesn't exactly scream "reliable", and doing both a regular google search and a google scholar search of "Cursorial hunting" doesn't come up with a lot.

At best that term talks about animals that chase prey over distance rather than try for quick attacks, but that's not in the same category as endurance hunting which can last an entire day.
Someone who, even if found guilty, would be guilty of a victimless crime, denied access to the internet, cannot live in his own house, and needs permission from a judge even to go to a music studio.
version.next, ie. the next version of Windows.
At my highschool - the progression was Basic on Apple IIe machines and then Pascal. I remember talking to an older friend who was already doing Pascal and he said, "There are no line numbers." I was stunned. "What?! How can you write a program without line numbers?"
Indeed. The actual title of the paper is "The proto-Earth as a significant source of lunar material."
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I'm growing weary of reading long posts which dispense advice or tell stories and then when I go to the users profile, it's blank.

It would be nice if users were encouraged to say who they are, perhaps with a special colored handle for verified identity.

Thoughts?
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> The prosecution naturally objected to Dotcom continuing his work and said that his album, a collaboration with several international artists, was unlikely to succeed.

What a strange objection. Can any HN lawyers comment on a legal reason why the prosecution would say that?
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If you hadn't guessed already, the author confirmed this was a fake this morning: http://seb.ly/2012/04/gotcha-fake-mmo-asteroids-april-fool/
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You can get fired any time - get laid off, become a victim of corporate politics, or get fired for whatever other reason. Just last month, someone I know got fired on the spot after 15 years at a company for not reporting some personal stuff between other employees.. something he wasn't involved with, at all

This 'at wil'/'can get fired for any reason' stuff is unique to the USA, and is illegal in the EU.

The lesson is that employment rights laws are not some "socialist" horrible laws that will make the public sector fat, but are instead laws that benefit white collar, highly paid professionals like us computer programmers.
I played with a lot of basic stuff as a kid - but it was my senior year in high school that I think I hit a real pinnacle. My friends and I that spent all our time in the schools computer lab wrote a game - now it was just a simple text adventure game. It was like a choose your own adventure book - using goto statements based on choices but it was incredible. We called it "Computer Room Adventure" and it was full of amazing, witty and cutting commentary on the school and the people in it. It was cutting edge - there was a section where it didn't matter what keys you chose, we printed out a message that made it feel like you were typing it. And we made fun of Andrew a lot - and you know that guy deserved it. It was probably one of the greatest losses of our civilisation when that 5 and a quarter floppy bit it.
With a connection to fast internet my IQ increases by an order of magnitude(with high latency), I can answer almost any question in one minute, without internet, my IQ decreases back to average.

What happens when we start merging with technology so the internet is always with us 24/7? When I get charged of a crime, am I immediately unplugged and and reduced the mental capability of a child so that the prosecution can have an easier time of it?
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I started at age 8 or 9 on my VIC-20. This was in 1988-89. Later I got a C-64 followed by the Amiga models, and found my way to assembler and along with that a fundamental understanding of how computers work, what's possible and what's not, and how to (in terms of performance) properly and efficiently make computers do what you want them to do.

Commodore computers played a huge part in raising me.
Did anyone regularly using OSX, Windows and/or Linux vote OSX just because it was listed first?
Sicilians are great programmers. The best in the world. I'm sicilian. My old man was the world heavy weight champion of sicilian programmers. And from growing up with him, I learned the errors.

Now there are seventeen different things a guy can do to give himself away when he programs. A guy has seventeen errors. A woman's got twenty but a guys got seventeen. And if you know em, like you know your own face, they beat a compiler all to hell. What we've got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothing but you're telling me everything. Now I know you know what this function does, so tell me before I do some damage you wont be able to unit test your way out of.
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The only thing the market backs up, is that decades of lock-in, billions of dollars in advertising, pre-installation of the OS and lobby-ism make the difference when the competition has no such resources.

The reason people don't switch may very well be that noone except tech-aware people has ever heard of Linux (I'm pretty sure my parents don't). And as this poll suggests, for people that know Linux, it is a very very good alternative to Windows, even better than that ;)

Do you honestly think so many people here would use Linux instead of Windows when it's not "usable"? You know, i'd like to get my work done, so i'm using what makes me most productive. Certainly not Windows.
I was a little disappointed to see this today, so it got my hopes up of it being real. But the JavaScript frameworks one more than made up for it.

"That's why I don't buy cream, I just microwave cheese"
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Agreed, one should know the strengths of your language, and avoid the pitfalls. Every language has its share of both. But the effort, I suppose, is to increase the surface area of the strengths.

So one of the claims of Julia is that you write code in the most natural manner, and depend on the compiler to make it fast. So, for example, the claim is that adding the optional type parameters do not necessarily make your code faster... type inference is good enough in most cases (there are obvious counterexamples, eg with global variables, but its true in the majority of cases). Also, unlike for eg. Matlab or R, vectorising your code does not necessarily produce performance gains, arrays are good enough. One of the side effects is that the standard library is implemented in the language itself, and thus extending built-in types is a breeze.

Therefore, I think its a very interesting effort in itself. Whether it is good enough to displace any other language is a completely separate issue. As said below, the base of useful libraries in languages such as R is phenomenal. But that should not, I think, preclude admiring a very interesting new language, for the possibilities that it hints at, if only as a highly engaging mental activity.

Personally, and subjectively, I think the combination of the above, and multiple dispatch, causes the language to have a highly pleasing sense of elegance.
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No, that introduces the same type of bias, just from the opposite direction. The key is to keep a broad range of browsers quickly on hand to regularly check _while_ you develop.

There's no reason not to have multiple browsers quickly available - modern computers have sufficient processing power to run multiple applications simultaneously these days.
Right, but a kid who uses the web and wants to make their own web page, has basically zero barriers to overcome. All they need is the browser they already use, and Notepad. Sure hosting it somewhere is a bit more work, but trivial compared to distributing a program you wrote in the 80s, where you had to physically exchange cassettes or floppy disks with your friends in the school playground (!) or persuade a magazine to distribute your program as a listing or on the coverdisk.
1 based array indices are indeed a very opinionated decision. But I must say it isn't a very difficult thing to switch one's mental models around. Its very easy to get used to.
noone will want to hire you because you are too old.

In some regions this is about as legal as "noone will want to hire you because you aren't white enough".

e.g. in the European Union: http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/employment_and_social...

White people aren't going to become black. Vast majority of men aren't going to become women. However we're all going to get old, so it's in lots of people's interest to campaign for ageism laws like that.
it's true but that's what they should do.. After these guys, I guess our responses on application are too naive and honest :)
A little OT: there's a great book called "The sound of two hands clapping", about an American who was trained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. This requires immense memorization, and coming back to the West, the guy realized how much we rely on our information being easily (and physically) available to us, as opposed to retrieving some of it from our memory. It's a great read and offers an interesting perspective on how things might be different elsewhere.
Disk drives are dirt cheap, and a single blu ray can hold 25+ GB of data. Try putting that down a 1mb home connection.
Yup, the first lump of non-line-numbered BASIC I'd ever seen. I learned on the Spectrum 48K and when I switched to PCs I kept all of the limitations with me until I read those two.
I switch between Windows and Linux, with some OpenBSD thrown in as well, but I am considering switching back to Mac OS X.
I'm so sorry everyone, I didn't think for a minute that anyone would be even remotely convinced. It was of course an April fool - here's my full confession : http://seb.ly/2012/04/gotcha-fake-mmo-asteroids-april-fool/

I hope you see the funny side :)
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