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by bch 8y ago
He’s essentially a performer/personality though, and I’m inclined to say his answer is a self-serving performance itself. It would be fine, except that he writes out people who have valid reasons for anonymity - from “i feel like it”,
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by bch 8y ago
> There really should be a name for the phenomenon I’d say it’s a sort of affordance[0], but I’m sure Don Norman[1] suggested material properties can be described as the “psychology of materials” in his book[2]. He describes how British
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by bch 8y ago
As imagined by Marilyn Manson...
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by bch 8y ago
Even “M” is confusing, where financial millions are often (usually?) MM (thousand thousands, where M == Roman 1000).
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by bch 8y ago
Let's say you get an idea—or, as Pooh would more accurately say, it gets you. Where did it come from? From this something, which came from that something? If you are able to trace it all the way back to its source, you will discover th
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by bch 8y ago
The comment was about engineering marvel though, not lifestyle progress.
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by bch 8y ago
> ...as they only happened once. If you made the same mistake twice, then you were in trouble. I guess I’d be worried about classifying. “Play” part of discovery might have multiple cases of (nearly) identical “mistakes”.
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by bch 8y ago
This paper also cites MAGI[0] who would go on to bring us light cycles and recognizers[1][2][3]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Applications_Gr... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by bch 8y ago
As a BSD user w partial dtrace support[0], very interested to see what impact this has in the instrumentation world, considering Linux has gone w eBPF[1] for their workalike implementation. [0] https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutori
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by bch 8y ago
This paper was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19343398
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by bch 8y ago
> allow a dying man smoke some marijuana FTA: > Sousley tells them that all he has are pills containing THC
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by bch 8y ago
Cool - I’d like to talk about your design and how you arrived at it if you’re interested.
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by bch 8y ago
> use a kv store for this, trust me Order is important here - is this inherent in your key?
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by bch 8y ago
And hope for the rest of your life nothing comes of it crossing the border
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by bch 8y ago
I can’t, but I can say: 1) Heidi Howard’s papers are very fun to read. She’s done lots of work I’ve enjoyed esp wrt Raft 2) She touches on two things in this story’s paper that I first read in another paper of hers that are a joy to realiz
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by bch 8y ago
Less important, but also colour-related and entertaining, the mixed metaphor “white elephant in the room”.
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by bch 8y ago
Ahhh... I think I misunderstood your “dialup noises” as dial tone noises. You’re talking about the high pitched squelch-y initial negotiation of a modem.
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by bch 8y ago
So, a high frequency DTMF[0] construction should render a pre-echo? What’s the lowest definition of “high” pairs that would satisfy showing this encoding breakage but be hearable by a majority of people[1]? [0] https://en.wikiped
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by bch 8y ago
Example?
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by bch 8y ago
> “Are you” she asked “the most famous programmer in the world?” > This was a question which I had, believe it or not, never thought about before. But it’s a reasonable one to ask... That is precious.
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by bch 8y ago
Too much to not mention: davidw, antirez, and Richard Hipp (SQLite) are all current or former heavy hitters in the Tcl world. David contributed to the second ed. of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit[0], co-authored Rivet[1] (an Apache httpd Tcl module
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by bch 8y ago
> “What [the computer field] needs first is a William of Occam, who said “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” The idea that it is worth while to put considerable effort into eliminating complexity and establishing the simpl
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by bch 8y ago
Relevant webcomic: https://xkcd.com/554/
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by bch 8y ago
Tcl is ready for it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1024711/hidden-features-...
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by bch 8y ago
It’s not, in this case. Last word: 3/4oz ea of gin, maraschino, green chartreuse, lime juice. Shake over ice. Delicious in served in a coupe glass garnished w a maraschino cherry.
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by bch 8y ago
I like this. I love the aesthetic of a clean “organized” workspace, but damned if mine aren’t often the opposite. Your observation of what-follows-what is actually profound in light of what I guess (and you suggest) an “obviously organized”
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by bch 8y ago
Or just use their name (“coleifer”), since the HN comment in question was already linked. Knowing gender is unnecessary in _this_ case.
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by bch 8y ago
...and name, work, phone number, and requires consent to receive emails from nginx...
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by bch 8y ago
Inclined to agree, expounded upon here (“Classes should be deep.”): http://alex-ii.github.io/notes/2018/10/07/philosophy_of_soft...
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by bch 8y ago
The best kind of wrong? :)

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