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by daly 6y ago
I tripped across the paper while researching another topic. It is still important today. I spent time as a visiting scholar at CMU. Lenore Blum resigned over this issue in 2018. She cited “professional harassment” and “sexist management” on
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Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?
2 points by daly 6y ago|2 comments
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by daly 6y ago
Anyone interviewer who asks this question should be fired. This shows a lack of respect for the person being interviews. It shows a waste of company time and effort. It shows a lack of critical thinking by the interviewer.
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by daly 6y ago
Planes are infinite. Assuming the simplifying assumption that tennis balls are 2D, there are an infinite number of them.
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by daly 6y ago
Taxes pay for roads... which are not used when working from home. So they should get a tax break. Taxes pay for schools... which are not used when learning from home. So they should get a tax break.
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by daly 6y ago
I've used make for all my projects. Highly recommended.
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by daly 6y ago
Companies die on average after about 15 years. IBM had a set of core principles that helped it survive, even through tough times like the depression. IBM was known for its excellent management training (ask about the Monkey lecture) and pro
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by daly 6y ago
I can't bring myself to leave a bug alone. So my "debugging saga" continues. I've noticed 3 things. First, if you use the arrow keys to move around, the cursor lags and even disappears. This is really not useful when try
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by daly 6y ago
It is nice and useful if you just want to do a "hit and run", like grep a file. I'm just suggesting that it is not a tool for larger tasks. Install VirtualBox, which works well.
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by daly 6y ago
I hardly consider typing text as "a heavy IO task". I max out at 40 WPM I'm not running a production server (or anything else compute-intensive). I agree that Windows does the "toy" things better than Linux, such as
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by daly 6y ago
Relax. I limit myself to 1 visit per website per day because I have to get things done. On HN I limit myself to the first 1000 posts so I have a breakpoint. Clearly I've returned within 8 hours, violating my own rules (but it IS sunday
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by daly 6y ago
I normally install VirtualBox. It runs just fine and has not ever had a lag problem. I didn't install VirtualBox, opting to use WSL instead (Ubuntu). Normally such a lag is due to paging. But paging lag has a "blocky" kind of
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by daly 6y ago
WSL1 editing a local file. Start WSL, type 'emacs -nw file' I have no idea what 'conhost' is so I can't comment.
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WSL Isn't Linux
28 points by daly 6y ago|26 comments
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by daly 6y ago
I was involved with 2 startups where I was the technical co-founder. Within a month my shares were reduced to 10% in one and 7% in the other. But I was doing all the actual work. Don't be "that guy".
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by daly 6y ago
The computer systems running this LISP code had 4k of memory. There are a few subroutines (e.g. APUSH, FPUSH, CAR, CDR, etc.) but the inner loop looks pretty much like a tightly coded state machine. I suspect most of the FORTRAN statements
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Beauty is in the eye (and hand) of great programmers
4 points by daly 6y ago|4 comments
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by daly 6y ago
PlusAI drove across the country in a self-driving truck nearly a year ago. https://plus.ai/Plus-ai-Completes-First-Cross-Country-Commer...
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by daly 6y ago
https://www.fleetowner.com/technology/autonomous-vehicles/ar...
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Conway CPU in Hardware Memory?
3 points by daly 6y ago|2 comments
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by daly 6y ago
FOSS projects with a very few, part time, developers (usually only 1), have very limited time to handle bug/feature requests. Half the time I'm spending on my projects involves fixing bugs introduced by changing tools (e.g. the pr
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by daly 6y ago
Because business people are not engineers. Telling a business person they have a software problem is meaningless. Showing them losing a LOT of money because they ignored it gets attention. Ask any hospital about ransomware. Our local hospit
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Missing Element in EU Open Source Strategy
4 points by daly 6y ago|2 comments
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by daly 6y ago
I have run an open source project for nearly 20 years. The mailing list has over 14,000 entries by 380 people. Anyone can post. Anyone can contribute. There are no women postings. This puzzles me. Yet MIT and CMU seems to have CS classes th
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Why Women Don't Stem?
4 points by daly 6y ago|2 comments
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by daly 6y ago
I have my photocopied version... but I also bought the book.
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by daly 6y ago
Pardon implies 2 things: (1) you are now guilty and (2) you can't invoke the 5th when testifying. The inability to invoke the 5th means that every question has to be answered (truthfully or you end up with a new charge). A pardon mean
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by daly 6y ago
Depends. How can you get your boss off your back? :-)
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by daly 6y ago
"Nice website you have running on your own hardware. It would be a shame if it was DDoSed from the cloud."
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by daly 6y ago
Having worked in security for years I can say that almost no one attacks encryption. The fruitful attacks are on the channel and the endpoints. Watch metadata, compromise the endpoints, use the xkcd wrench, follow the money. Why attack the

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