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by dalke 10y ago
I remember using the UI through telnet archie.mcgill.ca. It showed percent progress. The location used a 32-bit signed int. When the archive exceeded 2GB, the percentage became a negative count to 0% rather than count-up to 100%.
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by dalke 10y ago
I used to telnet archie.mcgill.ca to search the collected index of archive sites, back in 1991 or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine
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by dalke 10y ago
"Charter schools are pubic even though their books are not open for audit" Bloomberg? "Raising minimum wage is 'one of the most misguided things we can do'" Bloomberg? "Tax breaks to big corporations"
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by dalke 10y ago
Those interested in the HN comments should read the 9 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340234 . The biggest objection was that it compared the bpython shell to Julia, and not the IPython/Jypter one. The bigges
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by dalke 10y ago
The Wikipedia section on the bombing of the MOVE house is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing . Philadelphia, "The City that Bombed Itself."
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by dalke 10y ago
I pulled the 2011 version off archive.org (at https://web.archive.org/web/20110826073121/http://robertprid... ) and did an HTML diff with the current version. I put the result at http://dalkes
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by dalke 10y ago
"Sweden moving towards cashless economy" - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sweden-moving-towards-cashless-e... "Sweden close to being a cashless society" - Four out of five purchases in Sweden are made
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by dalke 10y ago
It's an improved version of Google's sparsehash, with better performance and actual key deletion (instead of erasure), though with a slight memory hit. It links to a performance comparison of their sparse++ with g++ version 4.8.4&
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by dalke 10y ago
Portions of the Central Valley do not flow to the sea. Salt stays in a basin. To note, we were discussing land which emerged from the sea due to post-glacial rebound, or where the sea was lowered through engineering effect, not basins. Nor
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by dalke 10y ago
These wolves are not outsiders. They are native to Norway. Brevik killed Norwegians, in opposition to immigration. He did not directly kill outsiders. This is not a one-off event. The Norwegian government has done this before. From 2001, h
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by dalke 10y ago
HN is a bit negative for this sort of thing, except as a "ShowHN", where it's clear that the interest for HN readers is that it's from another HN reader. The question you should have, as a technical matter, is why your
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by dalke 10y ago
They wrote a paper about it for Usenix, at https://mosh.org/mosh-paper.pdf . In general, it's always possible to put your own reliability layer on top of UDP. Other protocols do it too. g, https://en.wikiped
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by dalke 10y ago
Isn't that like asking "With all the failures in cryptocurrencies, do you all think they serve a purpose at all?" Well, obviously a senior editor for Bitcoin.com would say they do serve a purpose. But obviously economists als
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by dalke 10y ago
That looks very much like the sorts of resumes I see. (Software development in pharma/biotech.) I looked at enhancv.com's example. I've never seen resumes like those. They do not have much information content.
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by dalke 10y ago
Minor comment, I think you should point out that you run the site. Unfortunately there are a lot of hit-and-run self-promoters on HN, and they tend to use a style similar to this. I usually flag them if I see them, especially when the conte
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by dalke 10y ago
Agreed. Here's what one looks like where I used to live: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.685061,-105.9393468,3a,75y,5... . Centrally located, no public entrances, and no windows. I imagine the lack of windows also
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by dalke 10y ago
I wondered how long it took for the fields of Carthage to be fertile again. If my supposition is correct, it should need only a few years for normal rain to carry it away, not generations. I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by dalke 10y ago
I think the problem is getting enough rainfall to rinse salt from the topsoil. I don't know how much is needed. Parts of Sweden were in the Baltic during Viking times but are now farmland, so perhaps no more than a few hundred years? T
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by dalke 10y ago
Nice! It's not just some detailss of how it works, but also the history and evolution of the dictionary API and implementation.
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by dalke 10y ago
If "Having a relationship during your PhD is insanely difficult" then does that mean that married people, or those with children, should not get a PhD? If so, then it sounds like the PhD process is systemically discriminating agai
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by dalke 10y ago
I think it takes away some value. 9to5mac says: > there’s a simple plastic bumper where the actual cutout used to be. iFixit says: > a component that seems to channel sound from outside the phone into the microphone... or from the Tap
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by dalke 10y ago
I read both of Yglesias' articles. You wrote "the simple solution is to build more housing", and point to Houston and Dallas as examples where there is no housing problem. Yglesias proposes a more restricted solution, high-de
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by dalke 10y ago
The GNU HURD kernel was named after his then girlfriend. http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/free_as_in_freedom.richard_stallm... In "Free as in Freedom" we read of another romantic relationship with a woman: http:&
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by dalke 10y ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/aboriginals/starlighttour... as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_tours and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_
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by dalke 10y ago
In the 1933 election the party had 43.9% of the vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March... > This would be the last contested election held in Germany before World War II. Two weeks after
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by dalke 10y ago
I have read through folklore.org but I never noticed that change in UI from 1979 to 1980. Thank you for pointing that out. Now that I am paying attention to that, I see in Jan. 1980 Raskin wrote "A lightpen for graphic input is being c
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by dalke 10y ago
I didn't say otherwise. It's absolutely clear that ideas in Macintosh were inspired by PARC, just like ideas at PARC were inspired by SRI. My complaint is about the assertion that "[Jobs] was inspired to base the user interfa
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by dalke 10y ago
I think you have drawn an incorrect inference from that text. Raskin, the founder of the Macintosh project at Apple, was a visiting scholar at Stanford for a year. He and others in the AI lab "were tightly intermixed with the people at
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by dalke 10y ago
I'm more interested in what was going on before the visit, because the myth is that Jobs was like Prometheus. To counter that myth, we must look into what people knew earlier. Quoting from the Standford link I mentioned before, at htt
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by dalke 10y ago
I know it's not really relevant to the repair work, but I jumped back to the first article, at http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-resto... . It says > The biggest impact of the Alto was

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