dandrews

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by dandrews 11y ago
And perhaps, to demonstrate the will to use it.
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by dandrews 11y ago
Accidentally upvoted. Boy, I wish I could take that back.
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by dandrews 11y ago
GP made no such point.
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by dandrews 11y ago
"Warmth" and "depth" seem imprecise to me. Do those words have quantifiable meaning to an audiophile?
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by dandrews 11y ago
In re: the vast number of available programming languages... not really a new problem. I've always been amused by the "Tower of Babel" illustration on the cover of Jean Sammet's 1969 book, Programming Languages: Histor
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by dandrews 11y ago
Not only s/w this time.
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by dandrews 11y ago
"...I don't see how you could effectively encode your knowledge of a programming language on to flash cards." I've occasionally wondered if an Anki deck composed of Clojure idioms would be valuable. It would be depend
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by dandrews 11y ago
Originally published: http://theconversation.com/scientists-discover-fundamental-p...
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by dandrews 11y ago
"Botched shuttle design"? You don't know much about the orbiter, I take it. Shuttle was meticulously - even lovingly - maintained, a hairy complex scrupulously documented piece of kit, well built and designed if not well co
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by dandrews 11y ago
Ken Iverson spoke at a local ACM chapter meeting, circa 1971 or '72, and advised one of my pals not to spend a lot of time on this book. The implemented language had deviated from "Iverson Notation", and he recommended that
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by dandrews 11y ago
An oldie but a goodie: "Lisping at JPL". http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
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by dandrews 11y ago
Don't do anything rash. Be prudent sure, e.g. move assets around before a big surgery. But don't retire early, don't upset your daily existence any more than you have to. Collect as much clinical data as you can. My oncolo
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by dandrews 11y ago
COL did have support for NetWare, which made it possible for me to swing to Linux when IBM lost interest in OS/2.
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by dandrews 11y ago
OBSD and a tailored pf, running on a Soekris 5501. I'd probably do OpenWRT today on a commodity router, but I was having too much fun back then rolling my own.
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by dandrews 11y ago
Takes me back a bit. In 1980 I was writing an APL interpreter for the Apple ][ (alas, not half completed) and purchased a copy of "Software Manual for the Elementary Functions" by Cody and Waite. It still sits on my bookshelf 35
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by dandrews 11y ago
That's a little ungenerous of you. The toy VM has presented an aha! moment to all of us at one time - or more than once, when you learn about Turing equivalence and the rabbit hole that leads from that. Skip the articles beneath your
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by dandrews 11y ago
Yeah, pancreatic cancer patient here. Mine presented as acid reflux, which my GP treated with Prilosec. Only after I went anemic and the ER staff scanned for a bleeder did they find the 8-9 cm tumor. Push your GP if necessary for some sof
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by dandrews 12y ago
That's "Ralf"! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/
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by dandrews 12y ago
Doesn't get much simpler than Richard Nixon's: http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/hi...
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by dandrews 12y ago
Hurd not welcoming outsiders? My experience was opposite; for a short while I was a tourist on the dev list, and was never made to feel out of place.
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by dandrews 12y ago
I was thinking along the lines of SLIME, where your evaluated code is preserved by the editor. Sorry for being unclear. Been a long time since I used a raw REPL.
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by dandrews 12y ago
His "sketchbook" sounds an awful lot like a REPL to me.
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by dandrews 12y ago
More applications taking advantage of deep learning opportunities: perhaps in 2015, deployment of (Dr.) Watson and its derivates when its diagnoses are become credible.
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by dandrews 12y ago
Telco (FSVO "telco") may well not be able to fix CLID, broken as it may be - they can replace it for all the good it does. But it's always aggravated me that they can provide ANI to 8xx customers. Way different service I&#x
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by dandrews 12y ago
Flagged for misleading (re)title.
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by dandrews 12y ago
CLID is trivially spoofed; indeed there are CRM vendors that will do that for your sales force. Telco should fix CLID.
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by dandrews 12y ago
Quitting the secure and high-paying Day Job and freelance doing dog knows what at uncertain rates. I'm older than most of you here on HN, and retirement is ever on my mind. It's hard to go all-in on a dream at this stage of my l
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by dandrews 12y ago
Yes, do please be (generally) serious. Feel free to criticize and to assert an opinion, but you should also present your reasoning. I come to HN specifically because it tries hard not to be one of those peanut gallery sites we love to de
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by dandrews 12y ago
Flagged for editorializing (and inarticulate) title change.
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by dandrews 12y ago
Flagged for an unneccarily editorialized title. What was wrong with "Glitches Force a Day's Delay in Orion Spaceship's First Flight Test"?

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