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Ask HN: How can I work on simpler things, closer to the machine?
8 points by craftsman 8y ago|12 comments
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by craftsman 8y ago
Have you tried NASA's Earthdata Search? https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/
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A review of Yasha Levine’s “Surveillance Valley”(librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com)
76 points by craftsman 8y ago|12 comments
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by craftsman 9y ago
Two friends and I built and submitted _At Journey's End_: https://github.com/w0hrk/js13k We used TypeScript along with rollup and uglifyjs and got the zipped artifact just under 13k. The contest was a lot of fun a
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French government considers law that would outlaw strong encryption(dailydot.com)
3 points by craftsman 11y ago|0 comments
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The Free Software Foundation Vision Survey(fsf.org)
8 points by craftsman 11y ago|0 comments
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RMS: Applying the Free Software Criteria(gnu.org)
2 points by craftsman 11y ago|0 comments
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Libreboot working to join the GNU project(libreboot.org)
5 points by craftsman 11y ago|0 comments
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by craftsman 11y ago
This is spot on. Regarding the last paragraph, I was once in a meeting at a very large company in which an AVP asked me and several other experienced engineers : "Ignore the technical details; is there any reason we shouldn't pur
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by craftsman 11y ago
It's probably worth (re)watching Cory Doctorow's talk at 28c3: The Coming War on General Computation. He mentions this issue around the 23:45 mark, but the whole talk is great. https://youtu.be/HUEvRyemKSg
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by craftsman 11y ago
Regarding "it imposes rather strict conditions": Yes, it imposes the condition that the user of the software retain their freedoms with respect to the software. Software freedom is a double-edged sword: to have it, you have to res
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by craftsman 11y ago
I do understand your point here. But, as the article points out, the very thing in question here is: are we going to determine science funding solely by politics, or are there measurable, objective ways of determining where to allocate fund
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by craftsman 11y ago
I greatly admire Donald Knuth. He's humble, dedicated to his work in a healthy way, and has fascinating outside interests in organ music, for example. Most of all, I see in him the playful attitude about computer science that Alan Perl
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Questions about Teaching Technical Topics Online [pdf](cs.berkeley.edu)
1 points by craftsman 12y ago|0 comments
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by craftsman 12y ago
These data are available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC): http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/index.html
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by craftsman 12y ago
I know you're being cynical, but these weren't the originals--they were photographic images of the originals displayed on a TV monitor (!). So though what they received were unopened boxes, they were unopened boxes of poor copies.
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by craftsman 12y ago
It was a crisp fall Saturday when I first learned about the basement full of computers. The previous night my dad's boss hosted a party at his house that my parents had attended. My dad was in the IS department of a medium-sized insura
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by craftsman 12y ago
We've got a whole house fan and it's awesome. We live in a climate that cools off nicely at night and it works like a charm. We do run the AC for a few hours on really hot days to 'cut the top off' of the heat, but at ni
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I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee(ergoemacs.org)
363 points by craftsman 12y ago|301 comments
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by craftsman 13y ago
I agree, but why not use, say, a library? The Library of Congress comes to mind. Perhaps the National Archives would be appropriate as well.
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by craftsman 13y ago
Please do post an update. I have a side project I'm starting that will be a paid service, but I'd like to AGPL it in keeping with the free software philosophy.
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by craftsman 13y ago
Awesome! You guys were great. I thoroughly enjoyed that, so thanks to you too.
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Jim Weirich: Ruby Coding High(confreaks.com)
1 points by craftsman 13y ago|0 comments
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by craftsman 13y ago
I met Jim at Rocky Mountain Ruby a couple years ago. He was friendly, easily approachable, and had that hacker humor that is so fun. You could just tell he loved everything about Ruby, hacking, and teaching and learning from others. He sang
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by craftsman 13y ago
It's interesting that nearly everything that was wrong with the Space Shuttle was accurately predicted in this article. Both catastrophic breakups were essentially predicted (a booster failing and tile damage from falling fuel tank ice
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by craftsman 13y ago
I'll let the accountants and economists weigh in on that. But I'd rather rely on data than the argument "they all play accounting tricks therefore it must all cancel out". In other words, I'd like to see a similar a
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by craftsman 13y ago
Or just: when China's per capita GDP surpasses that of the US (since the 4.2 probably won't remain constant).
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by craftsman 13y ago
NPR's Marketplace did a story on this recently and it turns out that there are some tricks they play that, if properly accounted for, indicate that China is not the world's largest trading nation. http://www.marketplace
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by craftsman 13y ago
If it was "fucking nothing ," I doubt they would bother. Rather, they look at it as a good investment that pays off. I know this to be true because of the intense earnestness with which they encouraged me and so many others to do
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by craftsman 13y ago
I used to work for BigCorp which had a PAC. Each year they had a campaign to drum up contributions to the PAC. Officers of the company would send emails and make calls, letting everyone know how important it was to contribute to the PAC. Th

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