YesThatTom2

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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Why does anyone care? Are you using a browser from 1999? I don’t get it.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Great article! Reminds me of the “Dear CEO: software is not magic” article in ACM Queue: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3325792
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Nobody believed the hem when they made the deal. It was an obvious Trump illusion. The mend is just didn’t want to say anything in print and look like jerks.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
I don’t believe that time travelers live among us… but this kind of thing makes me wonder.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
> I think what bugs me most about this problem in the shell is that it's so uncharacteristic if the Bell Labs people to have made such an unforced error. Bell Labs fixed it with the shell called “tc”. They can’t be blamed that you
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
I’m on the Queue advisory board and I’d appreciate hearing your suggestions for a better title.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
We need to figure out how to make cell phones out of the refuse salt / salty sludge. We’d find new ways to desalinate in a week!
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
The follow-up article should be about Google. Google saw the bandwidth glut (global fiber deployments were over-provisions and under-utilized) and took advantage of this. While earlier starts were in a "bandwidth is expensive" me
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
So.. by that logic we can conclude it didn’t have a built-in economic system? No, I think think the conclusion is that spam will destroy all open systems.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Suppose you regularly mailed hundreds or thousands of people. How would you do it in the 1970s and 1980s? (i.e. before your office had a PC) Method 1: have a secretarial pool type them all out each time Method 2: if you were lucky enough
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Related: one of the fake cancer cures that James Randi (“The Amazing Randi”) debunked didn’t have very good test results in December when a particular person would take vacation. She was very Christian and took the whole month off to prep
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
sz and rz! Such good memories.
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Improvement on End-to-End Encryption May Lead to Silent Revolution(queue.acm.org)
2 points by YesThatTom2 4y ago|1 comments
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Not just a description of the problem, but a model executives can use to avoid the problem.
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A Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants(myresources.itrevolution.com)
3 points by YesThatTom2 4y ago|1 comments
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
I highly recommend this mini-book;: “A Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants" https://myresources.itrevolution.com/id006657127/A-Leaders-G... You’ll learn a model for understanding the trap and how to av
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Is this going to change how 8-but adders are implemented in chips?
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
I’m confused. This sounds like a good thing if the problem was an oil shortage, not CO2 pollution. Explain why they aren’t solving the wrong problem?
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
I covet Ada’s feature where you just specify if a parameter is in, out, or inout; the compiler’s figures out whether to copy or pass a pointer.
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
They recently screwed up a transfer if a .to domain I own. They charged an extra $700 and then messed up the process. The domain was useless for 24 hours. Luckily it was only used for non-revenue services. I asked for a post Morten and to
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Code readability isn’t for you. It is for the next person that maintains the code.
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
This language is so… reasonable!
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
There should be an emoji/symbol that means “wishful thinking” vs. “I have data that indicated/predicts this will happen” A long time ago I realized the difference.
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
If there is exactly one field with the “may contain spaces” problem there’s a better solution: parse the line forwards for the fields up to that one, parse the line backwards for the remaining.
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
The URL should be to an article from 5 years ago with the OP saying that he’s sure nobody has seen this before, and 15 replies with links to all the times that URL was mentioned on HN in the past.
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Commenter: yeah, but he forgot X Reply: He says X in the second paragraph. Did you even read the article?
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
In this case the solution (cross-coverage) worked for that organization. However I agree that more often than not, it won't work. I didn't have the word-count to go into this (that could be the topic of an entire book... or at lea
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Glad you found it useful! I highly recommend the Teams Topologies book cited in the article. Its a bit dry at first, but the solution leverages everything you learn in the earlier chapters in a jujitsu-like "use the enemy's powe
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Author here. Thanks for the positive feedback so far. AMA
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by YesThatTom2 4y ago
Here’s an article that refutes your claims. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

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