LordGrey

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by LordGrey 3y ago
I worked at an Apple dealer when the Portable came out. We called it the "Mac Luggable". Its carry bag had only a shoulder strap. It should have had a full-blown backpack to distribute the weight better.
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by LordGrey 3y ago
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars. -- Douglas Adams
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by LordGrey 3y ago
Apple moved me from Cupertino to Austin (granted, ages ago). There was a region-specific salary adjustment then, and to my knowledge that adjustment still happens. I believe most large companies impose regional cost-of-living adjustments.
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by LordGrey 3y ago
> In October, researchers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, discovered that 2 of the 35 screws that fasten the lid of the sample-return canister couldn’t be removed — blocking access to the remainder of the space rocks. That
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by LordGrey 3y ago
While it depends on brand, the detergents and other additives are often better in higher-octane fuels. They help keep fuel injectors and other parts of the fuel system clean, which reduces potential problems down the road (ha ha).
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I worked for Apple back in the day (the Sculley/Spindler years). They put a lot of thought into interfaces. The Human Interface Group had hard-to-get-into classes on the psychology behind human thought and behavior, and how to write
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by LordGrey 3y ago
Your #2 is one of the most important items, I think. I've been coding for -- holy crap I just did the math -- 46 years. I've been around computers almost my entire life, and like anyone with a similar background, I have a very dee
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I had switched from Google to DDG years. DDG seemed to be marginally better at the time, but I really switched because DDG was not Google. Google had become annoying. About six months ago I tried Kagi, then I signed up with them. Kagi del
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I agree, at least statistically. The last paragraph of the article has this line: > It’s very rare for Y Combinator, which selects a few hundred startups from tens of thousands of applications, to remove a firm from its coveted batch. I
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Y Combinator removes Indian startup from batch over 'irregularities'(techcrunch.com)
2 points by LordGrey 3y ago|2 comments
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I wonder how a group of aphantasics would affect the results. Everyones' mechanisms for remembering things is undoubtedly different, but aphantasia means you don't have mental imagery to consult. Does this mean that aphantasics r
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by LordGrey 3y ago
Yeah, every car other than the Camaro I've owned has had a donut spare tire. I forgot to address that my original comment. The challenge with a donut on my car is trying to fit over/around the brake calipers associated hardware.
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I own a 2010 Camaro SS and it doesn't have a spare. Part of that because those tires are HUGE -- I doubt I could fit one into my trunk -- but also because the front and rear tires are of different sizes. Which size should you carry?
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Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on Rapattoni(arstechnica.com)
3 points by LordGrey 3y ago|0 comments
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by LordGrey 4y ago
The system is fully expandable to 65K, with the entire data and address busses, clocks, control signals ( i. e. IRQ, NMI, DMA, RDY, etc.), and power sources available at the connector. Were any of those (few) sold boards ever expanded to
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by LordGrey 4y ago
Trust funds: Pierce the Checker (Peersa) said, "The dead cannot own money. The courts decided that long ago." "Corsicles" had to pay The State back for storage and resurrection, as you mentioned, which was the reasonin
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by LordGrey 4y ago
MacPorts also has the package: :~ $ port search diffoscope diffoscope @222 (sysutils, python) in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
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by LordGrey 4y ago
Around 30 years ago, I was working for Apple and writing software for internal consumption. I was coding C/C++ in MPW/MacApp and even Lisp using Macintosh Common Lisp. I was also writing some stuff in HyperCard, if I remember co
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by LordGrey 4y ago
Apple went through the Myers-Briggs phase in the 90's, along with a lot of the other tech giants. It was a half-day seminar. "Professionals" gave the tests and told everyone their type. That took only an hour. The rest of
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by LordGrey 4y ago
My strategy: I know I'm going to get over this eventually. I might as well start now. It helps that I have aphantasia and a very poor autobiographical memory.
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by LordGrey 4y ago
Thanks, I'll check out your links.
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by LordGrey 4y ago
I love lisp and I currently use SBCL now that CCL is fading away, but I'm a bit skeptical of your claim. Can you provide sources to back that up? (This is aside from the assertion that "faster than language x" is not the sam
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by LordGrey 4y ago
You may be right. The developer does, objectively, write good code. Was it so much better than the old code that it was a worthwhile endeavor? That is debatable. Some of it was style change, some of it was idiomatic changes. There was,
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by LordGrey 4y ago
I think your approach to this situation is fine. There are poor ways to handle it, though. A recent example: The developer maintains a tool that communicates with another internal system maintained by another group. That system is being
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Ask HN: As a dev manager, how do you deal with a prima donna?
18 points by LordGrey 4y ago|19 comments
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by LordGrey 4y ago
BBEdit is the only application besides the Finder that is always running, on all of Mac systems. I've been a paying user since v2 or thereabouts. BBEdit just rocks.
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Very much so. Edit: To determine the number of records created from permuting a single string, use this: for (r = 1; r <= e; r++) numRecs += (fact(n) / (fact(r) * fact(n - r))); where e = edit distance and n = length of
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by LordGrey 5y ago
What they are calling "Symmetric Delete" seems to be the same as an older concept called "deletion neighborhoods". It is a term coined in an academic paper written by Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, and Burkhard Stiller from the
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Cargo cult programming, as defined in the Wikipedia article referenced in the blog[1], is bad. The blog post asserts ways to identify cargo cult programming but, unfortunately, they are probably even worse. Forcing code authors to eloquent
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Thank you for the link. I have tried to use memory palaces. The result is that now I have to remember two things rather than one (the memory palace location and the thing I'm trying to remember). To be fair, I also seem to have Severe

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