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RandomJoeHacker··on CSS Hexagon Tutorial
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.

RandomJoeHacker··on Edison: Never waste time inventing things that people would not want to buy
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. :(

RandomJoeHacker··on Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later
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"

RandomJoeHacker··on Edison: Never waste time inventing things that people would not want to buy
He is the exact opposite of what defines a "hacker".
RandomJoeHacker··on Edison: Never waste time inventing things that people would not want to buy
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.
RandomJoeHacker··on Edison: Never waste time inventing things that people would not want to buy
I am amazed by how, you, in one sentance have succeed to capture the exact essence of what I imagine Tesla would be like. :-)