alayne

41 ms·

121.
by alayne 11y ago
I don't know a less blunt way to say this, but the tools you use are usually not as important as the software you write. It sounds like you're more focussed on padding your resume with buzzwords. Try to work on writing an interest
122.
by alayne 11y ago
I thought the limited 255 byte strings were a nuisance in Turbo Pascal. It was one of the many reasons switching to C/C++ felt like getting out of jail.
123.
by alayne 11y ago
I'd argue that emoji are going to be culturally short lived and don't record information in the same way that language characters do. It would be better to move them into a separate standard.
124.
by alayne 11y ago
AI has fairly consistently overpromised and underdelivered. That's one reason the field crashed in the 80s/90s. Marvin Minsky thought we'd have human level AI in the 1970s. None of the people you mentioned are neuroscientists
125.
by alayne 11y ago
It obvious that look was written as an optimization for this specific case though. The default file is the user dictionary which is interesting. Do you think they didn't know about grep in 1979?
126.
by alayne 11y ago
It's probably much faster in most cases of text files though. I also think your constant time claim sounds too strong. You can eat a lot of end of line search time after the binary search and still beat a linear/regex search. As s
127.
by alayne 11y ago
Is the incident with GM's ignition switches that killed 100 people the kind of learning from failure we should shoot for?
128.
by alayne 11y ago
Engelbart demoed hypertext in the 60s. There are many underappreciated people in history, but TBL is not one of them.
129.
by alayne 11y ago
Tim has received many, many honors. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_honours_presented_t... There was a large amount of right place/right time to what he did. It wouldn't have been possible
130.
by alayne 11y ago
I don't understand. Aren't collisions why a hash of any kind isn't sufficient for proving equality of inputs?
131.
by alayne 11y ago
I think you're being a little hard on Gassée. He held numerous high level positions at technology companies and worked on the Newton, BeOS, and other technology which while not market successes, were still influential. At one time BeOS
132.
by alayne 11y ago
I started using Homebrew when I was a new Mac user because MacPorts didn't work out of the box through the corporate firewall. It's kept working for me so I haven't found a reason to try MacPorts again.
133.
by alayne 11y ago
iuguy is not talking about use of /usr/local, but rather the fact that homebrew makes it owned by the user who installed homebrew with permissions so that the user can maintain homebrew packages without sudo. Usually /usr&#x2
134.
by alayne 11y ago
I just assumed he had a multi sheet scanner and cut off the binding.
135.
by alayne 11y ago
What logic? The cost of the physical paper/ink is not what you are paying for. Some Kindle books have more features than the print versions as well. What about the ongoing server costs for Kindle book distribution and syncing?
136.
by alayne 11y ago
Please just write normally formatted sentences.
137.
by alayne 11y ago
I'm an Apple user, but I have no interest in Apple curated news via a dedicated app. I can't believe there's a significant market there.
138.
by alayne 11y ago
"How an Unvailable Simplified Version of Google's new Logo Could be 305 bytes."
139.
by alayne 11y ago
It exists with K&R parameters: void foo(a,b,c) long_type_name a,b,c; { ... }
140.
by alayne 11y ago
They're avoiding the "not used right" problem in flight control software. The full quote is "Simpler control flow translates into stronger capabilities for both human and tool-based analysis and often results in improved
141.
by alayne 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339999
142.
by alayne 11y ago
I liked this little personal piece about his desk/apartment http://sciencefriday.com/video/11/09/2012/desktop-diaries-ol...
143.
by alayne 11y ago
Even if you had people agree on standards, there would be misunderstandings and people would deviate. Have you ever worked with standards for any sort of protocol/process/language? Try it some time.
144.
by alayne 11y ago
I'm not arguing about too many features and you know it. Complexity and subtleties in a large language can make it difficult to write correct software.
145.
by alayne 11y ago
cma hit the nail on the head and you dismissed it. Two departments or companies aren't going to use the same subset of C++. Coding standards also evolve over time as languages evolve and better ideas about software engineering happen.
146.
by alayne 11y ago
In the first thread, it looks like the mods admit to making a mistake.
147.
by alayne 11y ago
Sounds very similar in plot to Walden.
148.
by alayne 11y ago
I'm not arguing anything about children or sexual consent here. Please improve your comment quality.
149.
by alayne 11y ago
If people weren't so nutty about distributing file transfers, we could have a much more robust Internet.
150.
by alayne 11y ago
She did block him. He started using common hashtags of their activist network to still get attention. If you knew someone was trashing you, it would be very difficult to just ignore it even if you could block it. I'm sorry, I think thi

More ›