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by gavinpc 10y ago
I was hoping this was going to be about designing message-passing systems.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Okay, it's been said. Now let's move on. For more, see all previous submissions with SW as the author. Beneath all the bluster, the product does in fact appear to be an embarrassment of riches for programmers (or at least its cu
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Was it called "Rocky's Boots"? That's what this brought to mind. You could take components from room to room to solve puzzles. As I recall it was kind of self-documenting, in that you just had to figure out from examp
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I really enjoyed the writing style. It was funny throughout, so the length doesn't matter. And it's for a general audience so some cushion is needed.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Apprentice comes into the workshop and the master carpenter performs mysterious steps to make things. Apprentice is baffled by what appears to be difficult and says, "I was wrong about wanting to do this, if this is what it is. I&#x27
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by gavinpc 10y ago
What exactly are the implications of this for construction engineering, which must already have some way of measuring vibrations? I.e. does this measure something previously unmeasurable, or is it just that the visualization provides an ext
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Backus and von Neumann have a history, from their time at IBM. When Backus first proposed the idea of Fortran to his boss, he first "had to overcome the persuasive arguments of von Neumann, who was then a consultant to IBM." In B
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Backus himself admitted this, in an interview circa 1995: > Doing a functional language and combining it with the ability to do real things is very hard. And everybody has had a problem with it.[0] Or, as the editors nonsensically summa
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by gavinpc 10y ago
So "demand side" means industrial efficiencies? I always thought of it as, you know, less end-usage. Yes it's a small share of the total, and no I don't believe it's a matter of policy. It's cultural. Whose
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> I'd rather write code to solve all my problems than have a solution that solves 90% of my problems out of the box but then makes solving the remaining 10% a hacky, unpredictable process. So are you saying that, absent a better fra
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by gavinpc 10y ago
TeX has its own stackexchange site [0], and so does Emacs [1]. While both TeX and Emacs Lisp questions are still treated on StackOverflow, it probably explains why TeX in particular appears to be such an outlier. (It's sure not becaus
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> That's what you do in a pop culture, not in an engineering one. According to Alan Kay, the whole computer industry is a pop culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956430 http://queue.acm.org&#
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Kent Beck discovers the S curve. Of which Peter Norvig says > You could say that Google makes its living by finding problems that have this kind of shape [0] Kent Beck says, > I hope I’ve convinced you that this really is an awesome
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by gavinpc 10y ago
169/208? Reagan would never have let this happen. #makeamericarectangularagain
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I agree with you and the parent, but let me play devil's advocate for a minute... CSS? Put that sh!t in feature freeze, like, yesterday. Because javascript. Javascript? Put that sh!t in feature freeze, like yesterday, because wasm. E
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by gavinpc 10y ago
"A businessman will not run the country like his business; he will run it for his business. We've had this in Italy for twenty years." To quote my brother-in-law. Besides, government is not a business .
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Question: who wrote the book? > Howard Kaminsky, the former Random House head, laughed and said, “Trump didn’t write a postcard for us!” Is that a lie? Because Trump says: > I wrote the book. I wrote the book. It was my book. One of
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by gavinpc 10y ago
My CPU fan begs to differ. Or maybe you meant something different by overhead?
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Where's the data? A "data flow language" that only visualizes functions isn't. IMHO. I agree with most of the perennial discussion that takes place here for all of these projects: text is good, but not for everything an
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> Controlled defects > ... > hpv vaccine: from a parent's perspective, it can admit that their kid needs to be protected from something that the parent prohibits; it's an admission of weakness of their authority Interesti
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Okay, I stand corrected about the Spanish breakfast. My wife spent a year there as an artist in a sort of fisherman's villa in Valencia, and had me believing that was the norm.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
When I get to the end of the article and it says in large print > Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight and then the heading over a video > The science is in: exercise isn't the best way to lose weight I can't help
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Seriously. I also quit Facebook many years ago, and—based on regular posts here—the extent to which apparently intelligent people confound Facebook with "the world" is troubling. edit: Yes, I'm confounding HN with "the
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Come to think of it, the "strictness" of the Promise constructor is more ergonomical for concrete, day-to-day usage, where you're binding specific things together. It became a pain point for me when using Promises as part of
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by gavinpc 10y ago
There may be a way for users to opt out. I think EFF's point is that new browsers wouldn't be able to ship an EME feature without specific approval from the studios... at least that was my reading from previous articles here.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
But is Fathom supposed to be for annotating your own web site, or analyzing others'? If the former, then I'm truly bewildered, but it's not clear which it is. As for rel=next/previous, I don't use them because Goog
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Great writeup, full of sharp details. In the 90's I worked on a FoxPro application, also for DoD. My boss, a retired Navy Captain, used very terse variable names, partly because he was a hunt-and-peck typist, and partly because earlie
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Their "Machine learning first" position[0] makes them even more dependent on data collection, even for basic things. I doubt the two trends are unrelated. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11954988
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Yes, well if they are really running an eye tracker with your webcam to time GC pauses, then it's a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. But umm... they don't really do that, right?
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I was even left with the sense that the tragedy actually felt by the writer was not so much the death of "a friend," as the fact of a blemish on the near-perfect safety record that Tesla has made part of their brand's cachet.

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