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by dublin 8y ago
Really? Although the Ivys turn out many great people, they also graduate many stinkers. Several of the most useless people I've worked with or hired have been from "top" schools, and some of the very best have come from &qu
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by dublin 8y ago
I guess Hacker News is the "new Slashdot", but Slashdot really was much better in its peak years. It's not unreasonable to mark the downhill decline to beginning shortly after Roblimo's departure. I never met him, but
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by dublin 8y ago
I'd argue she's flat missed the most important aspects of programming, as shown in these two books: 1. Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, and, 2. Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Really, almost anything b
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by dublin 8y ago
We don't need academia to do this. Those of us old enough to remember know that Infoseek was once a far, far better search engine than Google, but sadly, it was borged by Disney, emasculated as Go.com, and eventually, killed. (It&#x2
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by dublin 8y ago
You've never heard of Progressive Insurance? The name is not an accident - it's a very deliberate expression of their pretty much communist values...
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by dublin 9y ago
Not exactly a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
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by dublin 9y ago
I had lunch with Eric Raymond here in Austin a 15-20 years ago, and he was lamenting the fact that he couldn't read his own Perl programs less than a year after writing them, so he was rewriting them all in Python. I never get relig
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by dublin 9y ago
Good embedded programmers are good programmers, period. They have to be. Today, we're seeing that even embedded programmers are getting lazy, because 32-bit ARM core parts and plentiful RAM allow wasteful and error-prone approaches
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by dublin 10y ago
BTW, my iPhone battery life is much longer than many of my friends, and the only substantial difference is that I have every part of iCloud disabled. (Well, that, and I don't do Facebook...)
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by dublin 10y ago
My current new iPhone SE is pretty good, as smartphones go - until the recent release of the 7, it had the longest battery life of any Apple phone, and still hangs right with it. I really miss my old Palm Treo 755P, though - it ran a solid
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by dublin 10y ago
I saw Dune on the big screen when it first came out, and it is unquestionably the second-worst SF movie I've ever seen - so bad it put this formerly avid SF fan off the genre for years...
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by dublin 10y ago
Now that Microsoft has finally integrated at least some of the good parts of Sunrise into Outlook (which I've historically hated, but this is enough to make me give it a look, especially on my phone), I expect they'll be doing the
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by dublin 10y ago
Postfix definitely predated that by at least several years, and I think qmail may have been out a little before that as well...
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by dublin 10y ago
Datacenter cooling can be problematic in unexpected ways: NASA's Mission Control datacenter at the Johnson Space Center was an interesting beast - designed for the IBM vacuum tube behemoths of the 1960s, it was both huge in acreage (on
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by dublin 10y ago
Sure seems to be a lot of Fahrenhate here... Hey, look at it this way - the more granular Fahrenheit degrees (roughly half (5/9) a Celsius degree) are more useful for determining comfort - including setting a thermostat: I've had
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by dublin 10y ago
Getting ready to build a couple of blogs yet this year to try out a couple of static site generator/CMS platforms: Hugo (Go) and Lektor (Python/Node). Both look quite capable. Likely will host on Netlify, although could be deplo
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by dublin 10y ago
In principle, it should be easier to build an AI that writes mobile or web apps than it is to build an AI that can reliably and safely drive a car on open roads with human drivers. Think about it. Why don't we have one of these? It