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by cicero 10y ago
He said, unless you mean...privileged. In THAT case, it's redundant.
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by cicero 11y ago
Mice are not a 100% replacement for keyboards. If you're doing lots of typing, there is something to be said for keeping your hands on the keyboard. Vim and emacs facilitate this much better than GUI-based editors.
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by cicero 11y ago
This idea was around much earlier. See what Steve Jobs said in 1983 to John Sculley, then CEO of Pepsi, to get him to come to Apple: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and chang
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by cicero 11y ago
This engine appears to burn gasoline rather than diesel fuel. I suspect the compression must be much higher to ignite gasoline than is required for diesel.
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by cicero 11y ago
It's a quantity. However, the aspect ratio of US Letter paper, 8.5/11 is a ratio. If you used a copier to reduce a US Letter page by 50%, it would still have the same aspect ratio.
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by cicero 11y ago
Would you prefer r.haps0dy?
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by cicero 11y ago
I've read elsewhere how in the earliest days of computers, men designed the hardware and relegated the programming to women because it was seen as clerical work, albeit advanced clerical work. Because of this, women, such as Grace Hopp
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by cicero 11y ago
The computer technology world has changed a lot since then, and I expect that intelligent people at Microsoft know that the old ways won't work again.
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Cities first to benefit from Internet of Things, if we can write better software(techrepublic.com)
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Europe’s Largest Data Observatory Turns Big Data into Big Images(motherboard.vice.com)
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Into the uncanny valley: 80 robot faces ranked by creepiness(newscientist.com)
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by cicero 11y ago
There is value in the old and they young, and ideally you would have both on a team or faculty. You need youth for innovation and boldness, and you need age for experience and wisdom.
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by cicero 11y ago
I was pro-Apple and anti-Tandy back then, so I looked down on the CoCo and didn't realize how cool a computer it was until later. Now that I'm older and wiser (?) I realize how silly technology partisanship is. Each device and tec
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by cicero 11y ago
It's not that classic things are inherently purer, but they are the best of the best. The classics survive over time while the bulk of their contemporaries are forgotten. Popular art is attractive because it's new, but after a whi
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by cicero 11y ago
This is a good story. After being a developer for 22 years, I got involved in education, and now I'm blessed to be in a great job at a great school. I still think software development is a good career with a lot of advantages over the
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by cicero 11y ago
One of the most cheerful people I met was a guy on the commuter train about ten years ago poring over a greenbar fanfold[1] listing of COBOL code used in a gas station point-of-sale backend. I asked him about it, and he enthusiastically tol
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by cicero 11y ago
I do. It's less convenient, but I feel more secure.
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by cicero 11y ago
For example... Welcome to DrRacket, version 6.2 [3m]. Language: racket; memory limit: 128 MB. > (= (+ 0.1 0.2) 0.3) #f > (= (+ 1/10 2/10) 3/10) #t
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by cicero 11y ago
I am beginning my second time of teaching out of HtDP/2e at the high school level. My experience last time I taught it (3 years ago) was similar to what Carmack describes. There are many advantages to the DrRacket environment and the R
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by cicero 11y ago
> Why do people who write or talk about Lisp always have to start with something like this? Because to them it is awesome. People are different, and just because it isn't awesome to you doesn't mean it can't be for others.
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by cicero 11y ago
I think it's only a small (though vocal) minority of Americans who care about that. It certainly doesn't affect the majority of the Supreme Court.
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by cicero 11y ago
I like Anathem better, but Seveneves is interesting and worth my while.
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by cicero 11y ago
I worked for General Dynamics on the A-12 Avenger II program[1] that was cancelled by Dick Cheney. Even when the Navy threatened to cancel the project, a lot of people thought they would never do it because so much money had been spent on i
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by cicero 11y ago
Try reading this: https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/ "Why: asm.js is great, but once engines optimize for it, the parser becomes the hot spot — very hot on mobile devices. Transp
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by cicero 11y ago
What fits into Mother Russia. https://youtu.be/N3lz2GFfkEg
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by cicero 11y ago
I didn't claim a miraculous explanation; I only said I no longer think these cases are faked. I think "incorruptibles" are a fascinating phenomenon that I can't explain. I believe in miracles, and I think some incorrupti
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by cicero 11y ago
I was downvoted because I dared to hint of something supernatural on Hacker News. I didn't even explicitly claim a supernatural cause; I only said I used to think these cases were faked, and now I don't.
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by cicero 11y ago
I read this article in order to compare this case with those of Catholic and Orthodox saints who are incorrupt. Sure enough, this woman lived her final years in a convent. For some reason that I've never heard explained, living a holy
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by cicero 11y ago
I think it is possible that a news app done well could provide a slightly better mobile UX than a browser (better navigation and pagination), I would want the content to be mirrored on the web, and it should be easy to get at and share the
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by cicero 11y ago
My experience is it's the other way around. I am the Technology Director at a school, and when a teacher tells me "the Internet is not working," he is saying that when he clicks on the Internet Explorer or Chrome icon, he&#x2

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