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811.
Happy Birthday Quicksort(plus.maths.org)
1 points by asplake 5y ago|0 comments
812.
by asplake 5y ago
Referring to this incident, presumably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_cra...
813.
by asplake 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27313686
814.
by asplake 5y ago
I don’t see how the article – even if it’s accurate – justifies in any way its title. Poor effort really
815.
by asplake 5y ago
More trees, more biosphere
816.
What do I mean by ‘generative pattern’?(blog.agendashift.com)
1 points by asplake 5y ago|0 comments
817.
by asplake 5y ago
I’m UK-based (English, specifically) and definitely hear it on the second syllable in that usage
818.
by asplake 5y ago
I absent myself from this discussion
819.
by asplake 5y ago
And that period up to at least the 70s was highly productive in fields such as cybernetics and organisational psychology. Some of that way ahead of its time culturally, and some genius-level deep thinking behind it. The best of that work (S
820.
by asplake 5y ago
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes
821.
by asplake 5y ago
Lots of lower-level goodies to appreciate – really helpful to have them brought together. Top of the list for me: Jinja 3.0, Macros have access to the current template globals ItsDangerous 2.0, Added support for key rotation by passing a li
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by asplake 5y ago
Literally half the number of workstations. No option but to pair. I would find that oppressive.
823.
by asplake 5y ago
“Teams had half as many workstations as they had engineers.”
824.
by asplake 5y ago
In ways that smaller companies don’t, large organisations have choice about where they pay taxes, and that’s highly unfair both to companies and to countries. Hard not to see this leading in the long run to taxation on turnover.
825.
by asplake 6y ago
The money motivation isn’t that relevant but there’s some truth here. I used to work for a CASE tool company and I have long attributed their decline to the rise of IDEs and other programmer productivity tools. And not a bad thing either.
826.
by asplake 6y ago
Busy selling “self-charging hybrids” (I did a double take when I first heard that one), not EVs
827.
by asplake 6y ago
Habituation? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation
828.
by asplake 6y ago
Misleading headline, or at least I think so: “We have no appetite for dealing with customers, whether taking them on as new clients or having an ongoing relationship with people, whose main business is backed by an exchange for cryptocurren
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Know the Two – Very – Different Interpretations of Jobs to Be Done(jtbd.info)
1 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments
830.
by asplake 6y ago
I don’t know how true it still is, but didn’t Russian programmers earn a reputation for doing amazing things within very restrictive constraints, particular in memory?
831.
by asplake 6y ago
And still they won’t let me reuse an old one
832.
by asplake 6y ago
“China powers nearly 80% of the global cryptocurrencies trade”
833.
Product-focused and sales-focused companies(itamargilad.com)
202 points by asplake 6y ago|127 comments
834.
by asplake 6y ago
A recipe for dysfunction not just in science but in any field
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by asplake 6y ago
I’ve been looking for something like this to tempt me away from Flask and get me using an ML-derived language. Best of luck with it!
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by asplake 6y ago
That page doesn’t link to the examples in GitHub whose README [1] is unexpectedly informative, having its own roadmap. Anyone using this in anger? [1] https://github.com/aantron/dream/tree/master/example#
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by asplake 6y ago
As a Zoom user, I want Zoom to forget me on my laptop when I sign in on my desktop, so that I can enjoy typing in my details again whenever I switch machines
838.
by asplake 6y ago
Not a great headline. What if I touch thousands of surfaces? Better (and based on the text): Few SARS-Cov-2 transmissions reported to have been via surface transmission. And note: However, it is not clear what proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infec
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by asplake 6y ago
The word’s origins are more dubious unfortunately: https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/08/23/the-myth-of-pop-cul...
840.
by asplake 6y ago
...and reducing yields. Ultimately, it’s self-correcting.

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