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by bane 2y ago
Many years ago, as a fresh out of college young coder, I had to come up with a way to check types on an text input file in C++ -- long before C++ had even a standard String type let alone regex libraries like pcre. The standard conversion f
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How Communists Made Unbreakable Glass(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 2y ago|0 comments
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by bane 2y ago
Wow. This was decades ago and I'm not even sure some of the companies are around, but I looked up current paper companies and the only one that seems to register is Hammermill which looks like was absorbed into International Paper Comp
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by bane 2y ago
I grew up in a family printing company and we were surrounded by trade publications and product catalogs - ranging from the paper industry to digital imaging (way back in the early 90s!). Many of them were the usual sort of drab industry st
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by bane 2y ago
The way I've heard it used is thus: In a complex system you are attempting to simplify (or deprecate components of), and where you cannot find an owner or stakeholder over some component system -- unplug the component and wait for erro
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by bane 2y ago
I might be wrong, but I've read on other project pages that it is. https://github.com/sylefeb/a5k
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by bane 2y ago
The product owner in a company should be defining success for the development goals in agile, not beta tested on the paying public.
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by bane 2y ago
VMs really can be. They have a long history in code portability. In the old days it really wasn't uncommon to use an approach centered around some interpretable byte code running in a vm, where the reusable vm was all that needed porti
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by bane 2y ago
Nintendo seems to go through these litigious cycles every once in a while. I wonder if this is them asserting their IP as part of a larger strategy to focus attention on an upcoming system launch?
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by bane 2y ago
With Google, I always feel like the side hustles (waymo, X, etc.) Really exist to be sold off in the future to prop up the add/search business and ensure future profitability. Everything not adds/search is on that list, and anythi
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by bane 2y ago
ChuckMcM, I just wanted to say, I really appreciate the long view you bring to HN discussions. When you've been in tech for a few decades you start to see predictable patterns. History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
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by bane 2y ago
It's funny, I just wrote your exact experience in another reply as a hypothetical scenario. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114530
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by bane 2y ago
Imagine every time a decision had to made where you were clearly the only person who needed to be met with and 20-50 people had to be plowed into a room to make that decision. Instead of 2 person hours going into that effort, now we've
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by bane 2y ago
Middle management time breaks down like this: - 40-60% trying to figure out how to turn large strategic goals into projects digestible by your staff - 20-30% coordinating up to get permission and sync with senior management, and then coordi
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by bane 2y ago
Tautologies may be unsatisfying, but there's nothing specifically wrong with them.
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Japanese minimalist and his designs for a minimalist lifestyle(youtube.com)
20 points by bane 3y ago|7 comments
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by bane 3y ago
I didn't use it, but have a question for anybody who did...did it automatically fill it out for you with all the information the IRS already has? If not there's really little value in the effort as that's what makes doing tax
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by bane 3y ago
I know that participating on HN has made my comments on all forums more thoughtful, less hyperbolic, more serious, and generally better considered. The reasonable rules, excellent moderation and the community culture here have been exce
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by bane 3y ago
Here's the viewing of it at the Demoscene competition Revision 2024. https://youtu.be/DYbFUr7-RZw
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Evoke 25 – Demoscene production in pure HTML/CSS(demozoo.org)
1 points by bane 3y ago|1 comments
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by bane 3y ago
I love these as an example of what I've called "scaling deeper". Elasticsearch is a fabulous technology for a general set of use-cases. But if you can define certain tasks specifically, there's often a very fast/che
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by bane 3y ago
My understanding that the difficult part of these blended wing concepts is the uneven volume of the aircraft makes pressurization difficult.
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by bane 3y ago
There's several interesting stories like Adam's. In the early 1600s a number of Dutchmen ended up in Joseon Dynasty Korea, which was still recovering from a series of devastating invasions from Japan which ended in 1598 (which are
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by bane 3y ago
I think Paul's right in the sense that reddit seems to thrive as a community when the smallest amount of effort is put into running it. The series of leadership horror shows that all mostly left the site alone demonstrates that. The re
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by bane 3y ago
Perl has a weird way of letting you go from thought to code, and disappearing in between, unlike any other language I've ever used. You really can go from idea to functioning system as fast as you type without a lot of pre-planning. It
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Toy models, Tadashi Tokieda (2008)(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
Now do the same calculation in units of hubble space telescope and james webb space telescope masses. Then look at expected reusable launch cost and figure out how many HSTs or JWSTs we could have put in orbit for the same cost.
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by bane 3y ago
Here's a fun thought, how many Starship launches would it take to put the equivalent mass of the ISS up in the same orbit?
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by bane 3y ago
ha! I get that sometimes too. I suspect it's fairly common which manifests in people having great ideas in the shower or somewhere similar when their attention isn't focused.
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by bane 3y ago
This scenario is mostly the plot of the movie Phenomenon. It doesn't end well for the main character (played by John Travolta) so you might want to get checked out. Maybe more boring, when trying to create I find I spend lots of time i

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