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by geophile 8y ago
Hadn't heard about Elvish, thanks for the reference. I've thought about a new version of osh, making it less of a command-line utility, and more of a shell. What do you think would be the main properties of a "more modern she
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by geophile 8y ago
What actually happens if you call 911, and your call is intercepted. Do you just not get through? This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially now that this information is public. There is some emergency, someone calls 911, help
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by geophile 8y ago
Along the same lines: https://github.com/geophile/osh Osh (Object shell) is a command-line utility for running sequences of operations connected by a pipe-like construct. Objects are piped, not strings. Included in the
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by geophile 8y ago
As a developer, who spends a lot of time on my MBP with a Linux VM, it's the updated Mini I'm most interested in. Apple has pretty much destroyed the MBP, due to bad design decisions (keyboard, touchbar) and bad QA. A reasonable w
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by geophile 8y ago
Oh. I thought it was going to be things like scooters, motorcycles, and motorized skateboards.
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by geophile 8y ago
Maybe the issue is that intelligence itself is inscrutable? When you are asked why you did something, and provide an explanation, is your explanation accurate? Do you really have access to this information? Or did you think, "I must ha
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by geophile 8y ago
Microsoft is still pretty big too. They are both entrenched , with momentum guaranteeing their size and growth in spite of increasingly crappy products.
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by geophile 8y ago
Apple is really heading down the 90s Microsoft path. Increasingly buggy software, terrible design for their native apps, terrible design decisions for their hardware (keyboard, dongle proliferation), the iCloud mess. They had a good run.
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by geophile 8y ago
> using a Hilbert Curve for sharding doesn't seem like the best approach. You can partition by anything you like, it doesn't have to be arbitrary points along your index. Using 1-dimension to shard 2D data isn't optimal. I
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by geophile 8y ago
Can we please start with the entire Republican party?
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by geophile 8y ago
TFA (and other reporting) says the keyboard is marginally more reliable. But 1) it's still a keyboard with almost no travel, and 2) not only is the touchbar still there, but the non-touchbar option is gone.
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by geophile 8y ago
So they’ve caught up to Windows laptops on specs but still have that abomination of a keyboard. After all the complaints.
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by geophile 8y ago
I keep coming across popular discussions of this research. Each time, I am struck with the emphasis on trees "speaking", scientists understanding their "language". It's gotten to the point that it seems unlikely thi
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by geophile 8y ago
Hey, mathattack and philip1209, those are really useful points of view, thank you.
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I was thinking about online exercises, although not integrated into the lectures. I'd rather have students stay with the material than wander off to questions.
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by geophile 8y ago
I figured there were people here for whom the pain was fresh :) Thanks for the pointers, I will check out those resources.
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by geophile 8y ago
The university solicited feedback, and the questions and answers were quite detailed. That was the basis for my question posted here.
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by geophile 8y ago
There were five lengthy assignments, three of which involved programming. I think that could be stepped up a little, but what I've already concluded I need more of next time is more rapid feedback through smaller, quicker assignments.
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by geophile 8y ago
Right, so I have a mix of theoretical background and practice, including both toy examples, and not case studies, but brief discussions of real situations from experience. Now my question is how to combine prepared notes (the HTML lectures)
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Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students
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by geophile 8y ago
Many years ago, I wrote a Java ORM that solved that exact problem. But I still have come around 180 degrees to the view that ORMs are terrible. Even aside from this N+1 problem, to use an ORM well, you have to understand the SQL that you wa
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by geophile 8y ago
Yeah, no. No, I don't wish this was real. I want a real keyboard. This one looks even more ridiculous than the current disaster that is the butterfly keyboard. Current trends are leading us to a laptop that is basically two iPhones (or
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by geophile 8y ago
Clippy 2.0.
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by geophile 8y ago
From USA. Lived in Canada for nine years. Does that count?
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by geophile 9y ago
When did Eclipse not suck in comparison to Intellij? I've been using Intellij since 3.x, and every time I looked in on Eclipse, there was simply no comparison. Intellij had a far more cohesive design -- at least for me, it worked the w
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by geophile 9y ago
I don't recall SETL, and relational algebra doesn't have functions. I meant functional in the sense that the 1st-class objects (arrays, sets, relations) are not mutable. (My memory of APL and SETL is fuzzy, so maybe there is some
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by geophile 9y ago
osh gets extensibility by reading a file on startup (~/.oshrc by default). That file is Python, and contains both configuration (e.g. database login info, ssh login info), and functions that can be used in osh commands.
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by geophile 9y ago
APL, (which is the array language I had some exposure to), had three interesting characteristics: 1. It implements an algebra: Operators take arrays as input and yield arrays as output. 2. The special characters bound to those array operato
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by geophile 9y ago
I have been using Java extensively since the language was released. I'm tired of it. For every release (since JDK 7, maybe), the new features are either irrelevant to me, or a step in the right direction, but not far enough. I think th
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by geophile 9y ago
The research arm of CCA disappeared in 1988, at the same time that Symbolics (and other Lisp machine companies) was failing. So I, along with a few Symbolics people, were looking for the next thing to do, as OO databases were becoming a thi

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