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by bootload 10y ago
To build a new language/compiler combination for a specific problem domain. Nothing fancy, just something that spits out geometric shapes using code rather than a GUI. Start small, web accessible and cheap.
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by bootload 10y ago
“The big issues are sourcing, labor, and price points,” Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University, ... David Friedberg, a former Google programmer with a degree in astrophysics, hopes to overcome these
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by bootload 10y ago
" I always knew what I should be doing, communication overhead was low and the list was a measurable measure of progress over a day." It's no accident, and I'm really getting to see why this technique works. It's
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by bootload 10y ago
"he would stand in front of management and say "no, fuck that, that's useless". He was quite successful and could "get away" with this behaviour, though I suspect it was this very behaviour which had something
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U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote(reuters.com)
223 points by bootload 10y ago|177 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
read away ~ https://github.com/peterrenshaw/pageglut
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by bootload 10y ago
such a great read, here's the video ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErHiET5YPw
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by bootload 10y ago
it's evil and slow, I'll make a few mods and whack it up, got an email or twitter acct & I'll contact u. -- PR implemented in py using - Beautiful Soup 4 - Requests - htmllib Core idea is to grab an index url and determin
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by bootload 10y ago
what is the hn.angolia search term for the "past" of a story? i.e.: for "So what's wrong with 1975 programming?" it is https://hn.algolia.com/?query=So%20what's%20wrong%20with%201... Having
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Want to Sell a $24M Painting Fast? Instagram for the Win(bloombergquint.com)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Artist Who Knitted Stuxnet into a Scarf(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"It's not that their lazy, it's that the sites hosting them almost feel hostile." Agree with that. A driver of the page size (JS, images, video) is advertising. Advertising and advertising techniques are distorting the
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Smog Refugees Flee Chinese Cities as 'Airpocalypse' Blights Half a Billion(theguardian.com)
3 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C" What I mean is the reason C isn't faster is because of the hardware support at processor level and extra library support for example in IFort. Is writing
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by bootload 10y ago
"Best of HN" collection" that @Mathnerd is a good idea. It would not be hard to do this remotely via a script.
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by bootload 10y ago
"What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?" Some versions of Fortran are optimised at compiler level for hardware, hence question #2 is moot. [0] Note the level of optimisation on linux [1] required to speed the code u
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by bootload 10y ago
HN does need a gold or classic posts tab so we automatically note this reposting. Appearing again and again hints to the fact the article is ^more interesting^ than usual.
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by bootload 10y ago
"hire for attitude, train for skill" [0] is the business usual, this reads more like "hire for attitude and aptitude" [1] [0] https://hbr.org/2011/02/hire-for-attitude-train-for-sk [1] htt
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by bootload 10y ago
I wrote a simple bit of code to calculate the size of index pages with includes (js, css, images) and here's what I get: page resource total url (b) (b) (Kb) ---------------------------------------------- 33857 143
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The Daunting Task of Making AI Funny(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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How cooking vegetables changed humanity 10,000 years ago(arstechnica.com)
3 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
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Apple’s Mac team gets a lot less attention than before(arstechnica.com)
15 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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John Hammersley: Why I left academia post-PhD for the world of driverless cars(timeshighereducation.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Bruno Benavides: Beyond the Limits of ETS(medium.com)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company(nytimes.com)
426 points by bootload 10y ago|326 comments
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Carry the Docker Engine in your pocket(blog.alexellis.io)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Michael Osbourne: Automation to fundamentally change the job market in 20 years(abc.net.au)
3 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists(mjtsai.com)
10 points by bootload 10y ago|2 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"The desktop is very strategic for us. It’s unique compared to the notebook because you can pack a lot more performance in a desktop — the largest screens, the most memory and storage, a greater variety of I/O, and fastest perfor
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by bootload 10y ago
" The Alexa-enabled Echo is a true unicorn, one of those rare products that arrives every few years and fundamentally changes the way we live. In 2017, we will start to see that change." Given this is all about one company, I co

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