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by jamesdhutton 3y ago
I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small,
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AI-generated image of Jesus flipping over the tables in the temple(twitter.com)
2 points by jamesdhutton 3y ago|0 comments
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by jamesdhutton 3y ago
I have had the experience myself of getting an unexpected and mandatory “resort fee” added to my nightly rate in NYC, and I agree it’s a scam. I read somewhere that the practice came about as a result of price comparison websites. It gives
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
I do understand the sentiment. I think it might be better if it was framed more as a touch-up service, like this: take a headshot of your own, against a neutral background. We will touch it up so that the lighting looks good, the background
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
I like the idea. I am surprised by the negative comments. Getting a professional headshot is both time-consuming and expensive, so if this service works as promised it definitely will be useful, and I would be willing to pay for it. So why
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Ask HN: Why is there so little info on the web about IBM mainframe programming?
169 points by jamesdhutton 4y ago|134 comments
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
Earlier this year I got a chess board for my 6-year-old. He took to chess with enthusiasm and plays many games a week with me and any other adult whom he can convince to play. Definitely one of the best things I’ve bought for him.
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
Yes. I made a game for S60, in 2004. I agree the SDK and the API were poor. But I think the real mistake they made was failing to build an app store. IIRC I think they might have had some kind of rudimentary app store but it wasn't acc
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
If you made business apps, then in some ways it was quite similar to today. You built a backend server sitting on top of a database, and and client app with a UI that made calls to the backend. You would have backend and frontend developers
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with DOS programming who might be trying to understand the code, you will find it helpful to know that INT 21h makes a call to the DOS API, and the value in AH indicates which API function to call, in this case the &qu
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
Looks good! I will try it with my 6-year-old later today.
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
Andrew Ng's machine learning course on Coursera is a good introduction to the theory. https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
Question for OP: did you attend an interview? In my experience, companies will usually provide a rejection reason if an interview has taken place, especially if you have been through multiple rounds.
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US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)(phys.org)
126 points by jamesdhutton 4y ago|92 comments
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
What is the difference (if any) between a runbook and a process? Genuine question; I am interested to hear people's answers.
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
The theory that officers who are “too smart” will get bored and leave could be tested empirically. One could look at past hires, and make a graph of test scores vs length of service. This data would help inform the discussion.
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
It was a bug in the algorithm, resulting in wrong results. For example, I recall that to fix the linked-list insertion code, you needed to add a line of code to increment a pointer.
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by jamesdhutton 4y ago
In a previous job of mine, we would show candidates a printout of some buggy code, and ask them to find the bugs. We would leave the room and let the candidate work through it on their own. The code in question was basic algorithms and data
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
Bit of a random one but I give kudos to the winged corkscrew. That's the type that has two levers on each side, which you push down to raise the cork. Wikipedia tells me it was invented by one Domenick Rosati and patented in 1930. Why
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
I think “too clever” often equates to “too short.” There is real intellectual pleasure in figuring out how to express an algorithm in as few lines as possible. I personally love doing this. And, usually, shorter code is better code. But I h
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
My organisation uses Aha ( https://www.aha.io/ ) for all of our products. Personally I like it and I believe it meets both of your requirements. Regarding 1): it has a structured framework where you define your product vision
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
Of course. That’s exactly my point. I don’t know what cut Amazon takes from sellers. But you would expect it to be higher than Apple’s cut, since it is dealing with physical goods. The comparison would be interesting. (Unlike the comparison
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
I don’t think the article’s comparison with Stripe is valid. The App Store is not just payment infrastructure. It provides distribution and discovery as well. A more valid comparison would be with Amazon.
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
Question: when they list these speeds, what is is relative to? The earth? The surface of the sun? I would be interested to hear from anyone who knows.
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by jamesdhutton 5y ago
Q. What do you call the object-oriented version of COBOL? A. ADD 1 TO COBOL Oldie but a goldie.
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by jamesdhutton 6y ago
"Stack Overflow Trends" lets you search for number of questions by tag. I personally think this is a more robust indicator of language popularity than TIOBE's method. Here are the results for Objective C vs Fortran. As you ca
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by jamesdhutton 6y ago
... and probably not much else. I love the way I can type in whatever combination of ingredients I happen to have in my pantry, and get a bunch of free recipes with those ingredients. I doubt that would have happened without internet advert
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by jamesdhutton 6y ago
The author blames Google for the fact that recipe sites force you to wade through a long preamble before you get to the recipe. But if internet advertising didn't exist, then the recipe site would be charging him for the recipe. Recipe
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by jamesdhutton 6y ago
When it first came out, Delphi was streets ahead of the main Microsoft options available at the time, namely VB and Visual C++. I remember it with great affection.
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by jamesdhutton 6y ago
The article is unfair in its descriptions of DuckDuckGo's search quality. I tried the same searches that are mentioned in the article, namely "best beach Sydney" and "Australia leader". The results were fine. The fo

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