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by dcminter 1y ago
I think the Hunkin exhibit really did look a bit tired - I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to try something else. After all, Secret Life only got its chance because they were willing to change something back then. If you
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by dcminter 1y ago
I want to see these!
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by dcminter 1y ago
I do recall a "late" at the London Science Museum where you could collect wristbands with the names of STDs to win prizes. Ok, still not very educational, but it was quite amusing to hear people trading gonorrhea for genital lic
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by dcminter 1y ago
It drives me absolutely bananas that the "interpretation" (fancy museum word for "signs") at science museums is so parsimonious. Some fascinating device vital to the history of an important branch of science will have a
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yup. Tim Hunkin went for a last look around his Secret Life of the Home exhibition¹ at the London Science Museum and quite a few things were out of order; this may be because the exhibit was imminently closing, but my impression is that tha
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by dcminter 1y ago
> I never said that guy does not need Excel. You literally wrote "You don't need Excel."
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by dcminter 1y ago
> Are the tags themselves AI generated? Yes. The full explanation's on my blog and the code's public in my GitHub repo btw. The main nuisance is that it will use inconsistent synonyms, so an article might be "ai" or
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by dcminter 1y ago
You know I nearly added that caveat, but I figured it counted as more being arseholes rather than a solution per se despite the long-term reduction.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sadly there are no technological solutions to humans being arseholes to each other.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Thanks, all I could think of was a Harry Potter reference which definitely didn't fit!
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by dcminter 1y ago
> You don't need Excel This is the kind of thing that gets tech people a bad reputation. YOU don't need Excel. I don't need excel - but that guy? You have no idea what he needs and if the people he's supporting ne
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by dcminter 1y ago
There seems to be a lull right now. I did this silly thing: https://hntags.com Mostly 'cos I was trying to track whether the surfeit of AI stuff was real or my imagination - when I did it I was consistently getting four to
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by dcminter 1y ago
> There was even a double-high, double-width mode for easier reading I'd forgotten that; now that waa a fugly font. I don't think anyone ever used it (aside from the "Setup" banner on the settings screen) I think the
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by dcminter 1y ago
Printers aside the VT220 terminal from DEC had a 132 column mode. Probably it was aping a standard printer column count. Most of the time we used the 80 column mode as it was far more readable on what was quite a small screen.
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by dcminter 1y ago
If you were expecting it to appear on the front page, that isn't guaranteed. It will be on the "new" page, but won't appear on the front (default) page unless it gets sufficient upvotes. I, uh, may have been confused by
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by dcminter 1y ago
You do you, obviously, but "now let npm work its wicked way" is an offputting step for some of us when narrowing down which tool to use. My most comfortable tool is Java, but I'm not going to persuade most of the HN crowd to
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by dcminter 1y ago
The declarative form of clap is not quite as well documented as the programmatic approach (but it's not too bad to figure out usually). One of the things I love about clap is that you can configure it to automatically spit out --help
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ok, we're done here.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Do you know a lot of devs who, having tried VCS, were against it?
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not in fact true, or not as a general case, according to this paper, which is why this paper is interesting.
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by dcminter 1y ago
But here's the money quote from Mr Lowe's take on the paper: " If you were presented with these data without being told that stirring was the variable under consideration, you’d have to conclude that whatever it was, it wasn’
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think you're confusing neutrons and neutrinos. Firing neutrons at the floor will definitely give you a very radioactive floor.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I was reminiscing in a comment about the dot com era earlier - it occurs to me that this little documentary gem might have passed by some of the HN crowd at the time or (gulp) been made before they were born. It's a pretty great perspe
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Startup.com(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by dcminter 1y ago|1 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm wary rather than skeptical I think. There's clearly value here. Whether we're paying the true costs or not, however, won't be clear until all the VC fumes have cleared. Much like the internet era actually - obviousl
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yeah, RCS was what, early 80s? Devs I knew were mostly on CVS by mid 90s and around the time Subversion became common (late 90s) things like PVCS and Visual Source Safe were starting to be required by management. Perhaps a bit earlier wit
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sigh, enforced is always top down, sure, if you want to be pedantic. But normally the process starts with enthusiastic devs, propagates out through other devs until a consensus is reached (e.g. source control is the only sane way) and the
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Stirring Bars Are Superstition?(science.org)
2 points by dcminter 1y ago|8 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's a very odd take. Not sure on what basis the author's blaming Trump for it either (and I'm no fan of the orange guy).
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by dcminter 1y ago
Nope, all of those things were dev driven until they'd diffused out as far as management and only then did they start getting enforced top-down. Often in awful enterprise software ways actually.

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