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by daly 10y ago
Do you avoid surgeons who seem over-qualified? Do you avoid pilots who seem over-qualified? Do you want your autonomous car programmed by someone who doesn't own a driver's license? Sigh.
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by daly 10y ago
I worked 106 hours a week for 2 years (three jobs) due to a lot of personal factors. It got so tiring I fell asleep standing up at a urinal, head resting on the water trap. I don't believe it is possible to do 130 a week for any contin
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by daly 10y ago
John Cleese (Monty Python) in "Meetings, Bloody Meetings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYnVt-umSA You need to rent this video and show it to the team. (and rent "More Bloody Meetings"). Scrum is a ma
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by daly 10y ago
Suppose you want to make a salad. register: a tomato in your hand level 1 cache: a tomato on the counter level 2 cache: a tomato in the refrigerator level 3 cache: a tomato at the store main memory: a tomato on the plant at the farm disk:
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by daly 10y ago
Love puzzles? What does this do? rootRadius(p,errorQuotient) == errorQuotient <= 1$R => error "rootRadius: second Parameter must be greater than 1" pp : UP := p rho : R := calculateScale makeMonic pp rR : R
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by daly 10y ago
Actually, large data centers are using FPGAs at the network edges. The FGPA does data compression and/or encryption. This optimizes network bandwidth and does not tie up the CPU. I expect to see distributed network routing code so the
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by daly 10y ago
I do computer algebra so I end up reading math textbooks a lot. Here's my secret: Read 5 different textbooks on the same subject. The first one will introduce names, the second will introduce concepts associated with the names, the thi
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by daly 10y ago
IBM enforced a dress code as part of the company image of quality. Quality wasn't just a word, it was a culture. IBM's management had to go to "manager's school" and were sought after because everyone knew IBM inves
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by daly 10y ago
I am unable to make payroll this month. The problem on my desk is how to either increase revenue or reduce expense. Banks don't loan money these days (try it) and they especially don't loan money to cover operating expenses. You w
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by daly 10y ago
Mad Men: I worked at IBM Office Products Division Headquarters in the 1970s. Dress code was full suit with a white shirt. I was a systems programmer on the IBM 360 Mainframe. One day I walked from my office, into the hall, to the print room
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by daly 10y ago
I've taught at 3 Universities as, two of those were as adjunct faculty. I've worked in an industrial research lab. I've worked as a University employee on research grant projects. You seem to dismiss "the freedom to do r
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by daly 10y ago
You need peer-to-peer, fully encrypted applications. Sites are coordinated with a "publish-subscribe" mechanism. You put up a service on your local machine (chat, webserver, etc) You "publish" the IP address and public
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by daly 10y ago
People centered? So will we see a list of locally hosted websites available using peer-to-peer, open source, end-to-end encrypted software? Or will we see the usual global "data collection" through centralized services? There used
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by daly 10y ago
Another issue is "sustained development". I collected over 100 "computer algebra programs" on a CD. I distributed this at a computer algebra conference. All 100+ were academic attempts, usually by small groups or one per
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by daly 10y ago
I sought government funding for Axiom. One of the direct comments in feedback was that the government does not fund software that competes with a commercial product. There were other issues (such as a lack of professional accounting for han
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by daly 10y ago
Actually, Paul, your advice needs a caveat. I'm a huge fan of Clojure, have attended a conj, and forked it into a literate program. Hickey's insights are brilliant. But I wouldn't use Clojure to write code my company consider
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by daly 10y ago
(disclosure: I'm the Axiom Lead Developer) I really applaud William's effort to build a company. I wish him all the best and will be willing to provide what help I can. I wrote an AMS diatribe http://www.ams.org/no
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by daly 10y ago
Some Intel boxes have a Management Engine which can boot a powered-off machine remotely and take complete control. Wireless connected machines can be attacked using skip-level packets. Some ethernet interfaces have controller boards that ca
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by daly 10y ago
Don't know. But did you notice that t-shirt read "bitcoin" in season 2?
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by daly 11y ago
Also, I can highly recommend the book Common Lisp Recipes by Edi Weitz. I literally laughed out loud in Section 9.7 "Recursive Processing of FORMAT controls". The idea of combining FORMATTER, user-defined FORMAT controls, and recu
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by daly 11y ago
It would look like a magician's trick... Look at this shiny object (money for impossible algorithms (aka just a little bit pregnant)) while setting up the real goal. Now that the phone company keeps the records, we have access to more
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by daly 11y ago
I don't know if I'd ever use the word "enjoy" related to programming. For me, at least, programming isn't something I do, "programming" is what I am. Think of a musician. Anyone can learn to play but some
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by daly 11y ago
Physically Based Rendering by Pharr and Humphreys (a literate program) is exceptionally readable ndncdall of the source code. It won an Academy Award.
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by daly 11y ago
You NEED to learn about keyboard macros. And C-/ (which is undo). Actually, it helps to be around other emacs users. I've seen people do something magic and I stop them so I can learn the trick. Usually they have to do it again be
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by daly 11y ago
You've done great work. But speaking as an old lisp programmer it doesn't seem useful. Code, for me, is a means of communication with both the machine and the human reader. The machine doesn't care about lisp indentation but
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by daly 11y ago
I am at CMU working on an artificial general intelligence (AGI). The system is self-modifying (as a form of learning). It uses Scone ( http://github.com/sfahlman/scone ), a knowledge representation system as its core.
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by daly 11y ago
I've been using literate programming for 15 years on many projects. The largest and most visible one is Axiom ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom ) which currently has many thousands of pages with embedded code. I
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by daly 11y ago
Actually yes. I'm one of the original authors. But it has only been an open source side project since 2000.
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by daly 11y ago
15 years...axiom-developer.org Of course the project has a "30 year horizon" so ....
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by daly 11y ago
Ah, the thing they never tell you when you learn to program... computers are the source of all frustration. I have spent all day editing a backup copy of a file, wondering why nothing I changed fixed the bug. I've spent a whole day cha

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