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I tried to implement my own version of such menu here: http://barabbas.github.com/blog/sandbox/hexmenu/hexmenu.html

It is very Q'n'D and cumbersome but at least it has novelty value.


I recently found a 1.44" floppy with my first serious game, written in, ahem, Visual Basic. Neverless it still runs and is actually very playable and fun!

Now I wish I knew better then to shove it in a cardboard box and forget about it for so many years. I could have made some serious $$$ from it.

The worst part was reading the source code and realising that, despite being written in Visual Basic, the alghoritms are actually smarter and better than something I wrote very recently.

"With great system resources comes a great carelessness about ones performance"


He is the exact opposite of what defines a "hacker".


Unfortunately, many modern hackers (myself included heh) are adopting Edison's method: Build before learn, try everything, bruteforce a solution, skip math. Hackerspaces are particulary guilty of this non-optimal behaviour. The opposite of this is a man of science.


He was a bro.


It is interesting how, any mention of Edison on the internet quickly turns away from his achievements to an impromptu discussion of how he was a dick and tried to fuck Tesla over. Every single comment in this thread is about Tesla. This amuses me greatly.


Maybe because those same articles are trying to portray Edison like a genius inventor, which he clearly wasn't.

Tesla was the genius inventor, Edison was "just" a great businessman. There's nothing wrong with being great businessman, but don't try to present him something that he wasn't.


Yes, it sucks that Edison screwed over Tesla, but how about the fact that he had serious BALLS?

And Steve Jobs wasn't a dick at all? C'mon.

Edison was a great entrepreneur. Despite his personal failings, he had the vision and determination to bring a lot of great things into the world.


Yes I see the correlation, come to think of it Steve did kind of screw Woz over that breakout game.

Anyway maybe it doesn't suck at all, I believe Tesla needed to learn the customs of the American entrepreneurship if he was about to start his business there. And, um... I am afraid he didn't. :(


american craptalk alert! Actually J.P Morgan OWNED HIS BALLS. Typical poster boy, kind of Einstein was.


I am amazed by how, you, in one sentance have succeed to capture the exact essence of what I imagine Tesla would be like. :-)


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