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by brent_noorda 7y ago
The cities of the Peninsula voted against getting a BART subway line decades ago, leaving them in the car-dependent, flat suburbs of the 60s
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by brent_noorda 7y ago
I led the team that created the JavaScript interpreter JWST is using, and I still occasionally work with them on it. 16 (or so) years ago I was blown away at the amount of research NASA did covering all of the control language options, and
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
So true. After over 30 years as a programmer, I recently switched to being a nurse in a hospital where half the day (it seems) is spent charting in the very old DOS legacy charting system. No one would write a system like that today, but wi
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
When I was new at programming, it was so exciting, and exercised all my brainpower, to figure out solutions. But after 30 years, as I got better at it, even if I couldn’t come up with a solution right away I was sure I could soon enough. No
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
For most states, no nursing jobs on your site. They're hard to find (none of the aggregators do well) for the reasons I mentioned. Most of us take 6-12 months or more to get our first job and we mostly learn about them through social c
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
I switched to nursing. At 55 I've now completed nursing school, have an RN, and am looking for my first job (at about 1/5 or less of what I could earn as a developer). Programming had become too easy. Now I'm doing something
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
Huge need for something like this, but I think the business model here doesn't work. Entry-level employees are a dime a dozen ($0.10/12), but you're asking employers to pay $99 ($99/1) to post a job. In other words, you&
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
Hope they don’t lose the funny update notes.
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by brent_noorda 8y ago
I think about pink spotted aardvarks when I feel I’m about to come down with a cold. The cold usually doesn’t come. This is a lot quicker and less sweaty than the sauna trick.
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by brent_noorda 9y ago
Sun? Netscape?
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by brent_noorda 9y ago
Works great. My passion is convincing people that air flight is environmentally wicked and you just shouldn’t do it. One barrier I hit is people thinking “there aren’t enough flights going on to make this a problem”. This app gives a viscer
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by brent_noorda 9y ago
Scientific American and Atlantic Monthly. Gotta have something next to the toilet that won’t set me back hundreds of dollars should it fall in while I’m reading.
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by brent_noorda 9y ago
Second on that use of assert. "Be assertive!" I always say. Most language offer a way to run in DEBUG mode, or something like it, use that, along with assert (which only runs in DEBUG mode) to make sure all your assumptions are co
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Treatment/Side-Effect Recursion – simple algorithm for medication proliferation(brent-noorda.blogspot.com)
2 points by brent_noorda 9y ago|0 comments
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How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great(nytimes.com)
27 points by brent_noorda 9y ago|7 comments
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by brent_noorda 10y ago
The link isn't actually created until you respond to an email saying "did you really create this link?" So it is as secure as your email is secure.
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by brent_noorda 10y ago
similar in the effort to make links easily pronounceable. Different in many other ways. Say, since https://sayable.co/ uses three words to link to any web address, and http://what3words.com/ maps any geogra
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Show HN: Catchy.link: make urls short, memorable, manageable, and temporary
4 points by brent_noorda 10y ago|4 comments
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by brent_noorda 10y ago
So "googling" our personal health data would serve the doctor 40% google ads, 50% bait, 9% invalid information put there by some crackpot, and 1% (buried in there somewhere) of actual valid data?
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by brent_noorda 10y ago
The Gates data is inspirational. Glad you put that in perspective. However, we need to see more data on the impact of the Giving Pledge, and whether it has led to more giving. In your chart, the assumption is that this money is more than wo
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by brent_noorda 11y ago
"Taxes" from the rich? No, where did you get that idea. They are "donations" from the rich. Most of us who are reading HN are probably rich, and can (and should) easily donate at the GiveDirectly web site.
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by brent_noorda 11y ago
The Quantity of Money isn't increasing. In other words, GiveDirectly isn't printing cash, only transferring the fixed quantity of cash from those with too much to those with too little.
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by brent_noorda 11y ago
30 Years. Too many cycles of one popular language/design/data-model/patterns replacing another. Too many bubbles. Too many me-too products. Too many bugs produced faster than they're squelched. Too many simple paradigms
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by brent_noorda 11y ago
False. There is no "sustainable tourism" if it requires you to fly a long distance to get there.
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by brent_noorda 11y ago
I don't think it's extremely common to get career help from family members, because it's unusual (these days) that they would have been in a similar situation. So that aspect of your situations seems normal to me. I hope you
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
I was investigated for allowing my child to play in the schoolyard across the street without shoes on. The investigation went on for weeks and was extremely stressful, for both parent and child.
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Open letter to Larry Page: Let's spin off blogger(blog.calbucci.com)
4 points by brent_noorda 12y ago|0 comments
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
iphone "do not disturb" mode can do something like this, I've been told
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
A service that acts as a personal secretary which will intercept all the asynchronous events that interrupt me every few minutes (email, texts, app alerts, phone calls, etc...) and will make them stop and make me feel safe that I'm not
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
My sarcasm detector is having trouble. Was your comment sarcasm? Was the original article and accompanying graph sarcasm? Is it sarcasm to say that unix time is incrementing at the same rate in 2015 as it did in 2014, and therefore it being

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