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by gonewest 9y ago
Just last week, some of us were reminiscing in Slack about reading mail and Usenet via emacs. It’s amusing and a little unsettling to find the emacs/vi debate has been abandoned because you’ve gotten to the age where your colleagues ha
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by gonewest 9y ago
Sounds a little more like someone "threw a cinder block through a window" and then climbed in, wandered around the office until they found the records room, found a way to pry the locks open on the filing cabinets, and then staye
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by gonewest 9y ago
Within the city limits alone, Houston population is 2.3 million people at a density of 3830 people per square mile. NYC is 8.5 million people at a density of 28356 people per square mile (ref [1]). MTA New York City transit has an operating
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by gonewest 9y ago
Well, for instance, for roughly a year on my Macbook (2014 Retina 13"). It gets in a state where the keyboard and trackpad are unresponsive but the laptop is clearly still running. USB devices are probably hosed too, because attaching
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by gonewest 9y ago
So far 3 out of 3 reader comments at the bottom of that article somehow interpret the root cause as being the Navy's focus on diversity goals? Seriously?
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by gonewest 9y ago
I don't have much to add to @Spivak's comprehensive response, except this one thing: IF we agree backend services should be freely developed in multiple languages with multiple frameworks or "middleware" as the needs of
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by gonewest 9y ago
Because no one looks at an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi and says, "I would pay top dollar for a version of this thing that has x86 instructions."
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by gonewest 9y ago
That hasn't been my experience -- the same physical devices work for a while and then fail usually after an OS update. My iphone6 paired inconsistently with my car until iOS 10.2 then it failed completely. Then the dealer did a routine
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by gonewest 9y ago
In the source he says its command-click: * - see if we can do anything to one-button-ise the multi-button * dependent puzzle UIs: * - Pattern is a _little_ unwieldy but not too bad (since * generally you never need the middle b
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by gonewest 9y ago
The irony on the "high quality code contributions" being that this partnership between Intel and Rackspace was supposed to be a substantial testbed for software development, and a sort of residence program for corporate developers
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by gonewest 10y ago
Peter Shirley's "Raytracing in One Weekend" e-books are a nice resource for people who want to do this themselves from scratch.
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by gonewest 10y ago
I would add to that MIT taught me how to learn new topics very quickly without much handholding at all. That's the skill that makes one not so prone to obsess on one framework versus the other, because if necessary you can learn both.
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by gonewest 10y ago
Totally agree. With GDrive you can share a folder with a group of collaborators and anyone can modify or add to the files therein.
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by gonewest 10y ago
Seems to me Intel is placing their bet on the compiler doing the lion's share of the work here -- and where hand optimization is needed, another bet that having a consistent instruction set across their big Xeon cores and these MIC dev
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by gonewest 10y ago
Anybody know what's going on with the "HAL Project" screensaver? Looks cool but the site is down.
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by gonewest 11y ago
You could say Ruby, Python, Perl, C, Java, etc are really ALGOL-like languages whose data structures are generally mutable, and whose syntax is made for expressing how the state of the program is mutated in-place. Whereas LISP-like language
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by gonewest 11y ago
Except, computer science is the study of algorithms, computation, and the design of computational systems. Software development methodology is something else. Call it process engineering or workflow, and yes, it calls for measurable perform
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by gonewest 11y ago
I'm not sure I'm following you, but in short I'm not trying to attack this piece of software. All I'm saying is that I have a particular point of view and it appears based on the description that this tool isn't the
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by gonewest 11y ago
Of the many password vault tools out there I still prefer ones that store the data locally, secure with published and and peer-reviewed crypto, sync directly across devices without uploading to a service. I just don't need the hassle o
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by gonewest 11y ago
I don't see the male stereotype as being all that great. In practice you have men declaring as fact things that are easily debatable. The inevitable response comes back as a challenge, an argument of semantics ensues, and at the end of
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by gonewest 11y ago
For convenience I ended up with two aliases: "dm" for "docker-machine", and "dmenv" for "eval $(docker-machine env dev)". But before all that, I simply downloaded and used the docker toolbox installer
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by gonewest 11y ago
Is the following information still relevant? Basically it suggests a flashable device must be classified a "SDR", but FCC jurisdiction does not extend to independent software developers. https://www.softwarefreedom.org&
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by gonewest 11y ago
Phooey. The linked article that was supposed to substantiate minimum wage as a reason for so many closures explicitly says: "Though none of our local departing/transitioning restaurateurs who announced their plans last month have
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by gonewest 11y ago
I guess it doesn't matter that git itself was created for Linux kernel development. Oh well.
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by gonewest 11y ago
Not only that, but in my case frequent kernel patches have been triggering this bug over and over for months: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-dr... To the point that I hesitate to update
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by gonewest 11y ago
That's a good answer. Here's one more example from the visual effects industry. This is for parallel evaluation of potentially complex dependency graphs in an interactive character engine. http://www.multithreadingand
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by gonewest 11y ago
Not even Chomsky's interview can avoid being juxtaposed with the utter nonsense "sponsored by Taboola" links below it.
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by gonewest 12y ago
I read this article as "STEM education to the exclusion of other liberal arts" versus "STEM in balance with liberal arts" and I tend to agree the latter is more preferable for the overall well being of a society.
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by gonewest 12y ago
I think it's fair game to point a finger at Microsoft for this, they can't claim lack of involvement or interest in their device ecosystem. They could be putting all vendor drivers in the Windows Update repository, insisting that
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by gonewest 12y ago
More interesting question is why the JavaScript curve is decaying at the same rate as Perl (add it to the graph and see).

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