mstevens

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).

Probably a reference to https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

I love the building in subnautica, I'd love something that focuses on that aspect of the game.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

ooh, cool, I didn't know that was there.

My more active interest in perl was pre-git :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm just generally very suspicious of any "expert judges situation by magical intuition" story.

I do generally have a good opinion of Oxbridge, despite the fact they turned me down :)

What evidence is there for the quality of these "detectors"?

I don't know, reports suggest a lot of people give up.

I've just switched to xubuntu for similar reasons.

I'm finding it a big improvement on gnome 3 or unity so far, although I've only been using it for about a week, so I still count it as testing at the moment.

I really like http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/prayer/ (prayer webmail).

It's very much hitting the basic, fast spot though, rather than the gmail style.

I had facebook for a while, but I quit when I realised it was sharing more than I wanted to.

These arguments never quite make sense to me.

The reasoning appears to be "since technique X can cause problems in some circumstances, it can never be used in software for domain Y (usually avionics, space, or similar)".

However, obviously every technique could cause problems in some circumstances. Therefore I conclude it's impossible to ship software into space.

Since software clearly is shipped into space, it seems likely there is some problem with the above argument. My suspect is the "could cause problems? Can't use it!" line of reasoning is oversimplified for the purposes of explanation, and hopefully something better justified is actually occurring.

Spelling mistake in "Android" in the link title.

ciphergoth produced an ebook of Eliezer's posts recently which I'm finding useful:

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/72m/an_epub_of_eliezers...

I assume "GitHup Pages" is meant to be "GitHub Pages".

The problems I personally find with launchpad are:

a) It's slow. Pages seem to take an age to load.

b) I can never find anything.

My problems with github:

a) Fork queues never seem to work. Support will occasionally respond to complaints and fix a specific one, but never the general problem.

Personally I'd guess at the name scaring women away.

However I wouldn't necessarily trust my intuition and would prefer testing it.

Hmm. They actually look so similar I'm wondering if ZTE make doro phones, or something along those lines.

I was keen and had a google. Couldn't find any UK sellers.

far far too often.

Indeed, that's why I don't expect to get anything.

I applied, but from a UK address. So I'm not expecting to get anything.