dws

9 ms·

31.
by dws 5y ago
LastPass, 1Password, ...
32.
by dws 5y ago
Consider that part of the audience are developers who've dabbled in HTML/CSS over the years, but never frequently enough to stay current. We have old habits to unlearn. The context helps.
33.
by dws 6y ago
La Bamba, which had moved to Middlefield and Rengstorff, recently gave it up and went truck only. The truck parks in the O'Malley's Sports Pub lot on Old Middlefield.
34.
by dws 6y ago
That one was wonderful. C programmers would stop at the mention of '%' and go "aha!", but no!
35.
by dws 6y ago
I've yet to have an issue with a Samsung Evo (or Evo+) card.
36.
by dws 6y ago
Multiple Families / Single Family / Married / Single, and I apparently live in 3 different states. It did get the "Chrome" part right, though.
37.
by dws 6y ago
I stumbled on "Le Morte d'Arthur" in college. It was one of the few books that having a few beers really helped with.
38.
by dws 6y ago
Google mentions sharding in a 2005 patent. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2007011957A2 http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/01/sharding-for-st... notes the term in use within Google
39.
by dws 6y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot There was serious intermingling back then.
40.
by dws 6y ago
Yeah. Looks like that changed after Raspian Jessie. Still, that shipped on a lot of Pis.
41.
by dws 6y ago
Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu ) on millions of Raspberry Pis.
42.
by dws 6y ago
You might take a look at how Java got its JIT.
43.
by dws 6y ago
Years later. What later became Google was initially prototyped in Java and Python.
44.
by dws 6y ago
The ones I'm thinking of were were in "boring" places like large power companies, and back-end systems for telecom. The stories we heard, which are hard to grok now but make sense if you think back to mid-90's hardware,
45.
by dws 6y ago
ParcPlace hired a CEO who knew how to solve problems by buying and selling companies. It worked for him once or twice (he previously sold Ashton Tate to Borland).
46.
by dws 6y ago
From inside ParcPlace, it looked like we were starting to gain traction. There'd been a number of spectacular C++ project failures, and people seemed to be willing to try this weird, new (to them) thing that let them get prototypes up
47.
by dws 6y ago
A bit of context that's gone missing: In 1977, the Fortran source for Adventure, by Crowther and Woods, leaked from Stanford and starting making the rounds on PDP-10 magtapes. Zork, from MIT, came along shortly thereafter, and was seen
48.
by dws 6y ago
Until reading the backstory a few years back, I had this grudge. I picked it up from my late father, who was a Lieutenant in the Marines in the late 50's. He'd picked it up, with the admonition that "the Marines never forget&
49.
by dws 7y ago
"Pirates go out of their way to minimize the impact that their actions have on small time authors." Citation, please.
50.
by dws 7y ago
I enjoy the story. It's a chance to reconnect with past times when those same things happened to me or someone on my team.
51.
by dws 7y ago
Oh god. I did the binary tree tree thing, too, and also in C. We needed a symbol table for a thing, and I assumed symbols would come in in random order. Oops. Someone suggested AVL trees. The reference I used (which may have been Knuth) lef
52.
by dws 7y ago
To avoid clock-stretching problems, using one of the small Arduinos that support USB serial to handle the I2C bus can help considerably, at the expense of a bit more programming complexity.
53.
by dws 7y ago
The codebase that has no TODOs has no vision of its future.
54.
by dws 7y ago
I get weird, vivid dreams after drinking some wines. After a lot of experimentation, I narrowed it down to Lodi Zinfandels, which raises an interesting puzzle: Is it something in the soil, or are the local winemakers in some sort of competi
55.
by dws 7y ago
The same approach works. Under-specify a problem, then see what questions candidate asks, and at what level they jump in. When Windows used to ship with Minesweeper, I'd ask candidates how they'd approach implementing Minesweeper
56.
by dws 7y ago
On the Pi at least, once you've got a card set up you can `dd` it onto another card. Saves a lot of time when rebuilding. I tape them to their respective cases so they're easy to find when needed.
57.
by dws 7y ago
When making this comparison, it's worth noting that Jeffries is showing his work process. Norvig is showing a cleaned up version of his final result after throwing away some earlier attempts. (Source: I spoke with Peter about Sudoku so
58.
by dws 7y ago
most of those, plus set hlsearch
59.
by dws 7y ago
A Pi 2 at work runs a Grafana playlist on a spare display. A Pi 3 at home runs a Flask server that collects data from sensors around the house (ESP8266 + SHT20 for temp/humidity), and provides a web page that overlays sensor data on a
60.
by dws 7y ago
That 'appearing to take writes but reverting on restart' thing drove me nuts. Switched to Samsung Evo Plus SD cards. A year later, all good.

More ›