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by dmazin 6y ago
Every time I read about Stripe, it seems that the most interesting people work/have worked there (Julia Evans, Aditya Mukerjee, Mudge, Brandur, Greg Brockman). And it seems like a great culture. But the CEO's "progress studie
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by dmazin 6y ago
I remember when in 2006/7ish he said that Apple should give up on hardware and license MacOS. I assume that he knows that vertical integration is Apple's whole strategy, so I guess his grift is just going for the stupidest takes p
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by dmazin 6y ago
This happened to me after I moved to NJ recently. When I told someone about this at a coffee shop, they said "it's because your last name is Putin" (I'm Russian). :/
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by dmazin 6y ago
For sure. Let me clarify a bit -- I used this specific course as an example, but I am talking about the novel field of Progress Studies in general. The entire _field of study_ that this course introduces suffers from the problem I described
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by dmazin 6y ago
"What problems, challenges and hardships in life and work were faced by people in earlier generations and centuries? And how did we solve those problems through science, technology, and invention?" I respect Patrick Collison, but
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by dmazin 6y ago
I distinctly remember we would watch movies and music videos in Second Life. The feeling of presence was very strong.
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The Shareware Scene, Part 4: Doom(filfre.net)
149 points by dmazin 6y ago|58 comments
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by dmazin 6y ago
Wow! I wonder how many of the famous Bash people are on HN (probably quite a few)!
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What Happens Next? Covid-19 Futures, Explained with Playable Simulations(ncase.me)
1 points by dmazin 6y ago|0 comments
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Why strace doesn't work in Docker(jvns.ca)
4 points by dmazin 6y ago|4 comments
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by dmazin 7y ago
Honestly, for me, the lack of a web app is a show-stopper.
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by dmazin 7y ago
We are in agreement -- I do not believe the funding has compromised Signal's security. It has, however, compromised my trust (how do you know the funding has no strings attached?)
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by dmazin 7y ago
(As a Russian) I feel worse about the Russian gov't -- Signal's American gov't funding is a red flag, but afaik Signal has not been compromised by this (Signal's awful UI is why I don't use it). On the other hand, i
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by dmazin 7y ago
Strange that there is no mention of encryption... which is the very first thing I want to see mentioned. I am happy to see a new app because I _do_ feel like there's still no chat app that checks all the boxes (not owned by an advertis
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New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems(landing.google.com)
1429 points by dmazin 7y ago|217 comments
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by dmazin 7y ago
Speaking for myself, when I say that I wish companies spent more of their warchests, I mean investment, not buybacks.
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by dmazin 7y ago
He gave us so much more than cut, copy, paste. It's clear from all the design history books that I've read that he's a legend.[1] NO MODES! https://itsthedatastupid.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nomode
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EU lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard(iphone.appleinsider.com)
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by dmazin 7y ago
My favorite Hammerspoon use is binding applications to hotkeys, e.g. Ctrl-3 for editor, Ctrl-4 for terminal, Ctrl-5 for browser, etc. It is so much faster going directly to an app than cycling through the apps in the alt-tab switcher. Addit
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So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?(joelonsoftware.com)
27 points by dmazin 7y ago|18 comments
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Apple will reportedly release an iPhone without any ports in 2021(theverge.com)
14 points by dmazin 7y ago|5 comments
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by dmazin 7y ago
You’re right, math is a little bit less collaborative than other endeavors still. Lone mathematicians still make huge contributions, e.g. Perelman. But for example, one could call the endeavor of classifying all the finite simple groups a b
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by dmazin 7y ago
That’s a great point. The silver lining is that many of these companies publicly release their research. i.e. Rob Pike and Ken Thompson may be working on advertising, but we can still benefit from Golang.
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by dmazin 7y ago
There is no reason to think we are no longer producing people with colossal intellect. They are probably now collaborators on a large project, since that is what math and science have become. Plus we haven’t had enough time to make myths ab
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by dmazin 7y ago
Yes! It’s a pretty big controversy so far as computing goes and a very interesting read. ENIAC (ISBN 978-0802713483) is a good account that includes it. I have to wonder what else gets washed away in all the myth-making about these guys.
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by dmazin 7y ago
> The bulbs Flagstaff relied on for most of its streetlights were low-pressure sodium—a variant that only emits light at a single wavelength (589 nanometers) near that yellow color, producing something resembling candlelight. Even 10 yea
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by dmazin 7y ago
I think something mostly unmentioned, but implicit, in a lot of the power features of iPadOS is that they work great with a keyboard using shortcuts most people are already familiar with (e.g. command-c). The three-finger gestures, I agree,
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by dmazin 7y ago
I think it's actually only available as a PDF!
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How Judy arrays work and why they are so fast (2002)(judy.sourceforge.net)
77 points by dmazin 7y ago|13 comments
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by dmazin 7y ago
I think the idea here is that this version is largely unknown?

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