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by jasone 4y ago
These are books that I've reread major portions of repeatedly because they consistently trigger broader thinking about their subject matter. Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki broadened how I think about algorithmic c
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by jasone 4y ago
This might not be the primary initial motivation for calloc(), but I think you're right about why it takes two arguments.
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by jasone 4y ago
I really don't care if my code gets ingested and regurgitated by Copilot, but it seems rather a stretch to imagine that this is fair use, in part because it separates me from the legal protections afforded by the licenses I released my
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by jasone 4y ago
The brain doesn't engage in the same process when presented with translated subtitles, to such an extent that you're better off watching a familiar show with no subtitles. However it can be helpful to have same-language closed cap
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by jasone 4y ago
One might think so, but I saw a neighbor's declawed bell-laden cat routinely catch prey. The bell surely didn't help the cat, but the birds, mice, shrews, snakes, etc. needed more than a bell to save them.
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by jasone 4y ago
The FreeBSD manual pages. They are thorough, accurate, and well maintained. I still refer to them on occasion even though I've not actively developed on FreeBSD for the better part of a decade now.
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by jasone 4y ago
I read it at age 11, again at age 28. The difference in personal experience was remarkable. The best parts of the story were very different between those ages.
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by jasone 4y ago
Books have to be rather exceptional to earn even two readings. So far only the following have gone 3+. Dune - Frank Herbert The Hobbit and LOTR - JRR Tolkien Magician - Raymond E Feist The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
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by jasone 4y ago
This article gets a lot right about the shortcomings of the standard malloc API. But I find it unfortunate that it starts off citing modern allocators including jemalloc, yet makes no mention that jemalloc has for nearly a decade provided t
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by jasone 4y ago
I found the prequel, "A Deepness in the Sky", even more compelling. The book's theme is the inevitable collapse of legacy software under the weight of its own complexity. And the book views codified government as a form of le
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by jasone 4y ago
I've read eight of the Culture novels now, and "The Player of Games" was in the bottom two for me. I'm mystified that most others seem to rank this book so high. "Use of Weapons" and "Surface Detail"
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by jasone 4y ago
Hah, you could have done worse. The double-dose introduction to stack-based programming via HP calculators and Adobe PostScript in the 90s led me to spend on the order of 3000 hours developing Onyx ( https://github.com/canonw
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by jasone 4y ago
It held up for me. I played a lot of Stratego with family and friends as a kid, but there was one friend in particular who routinely wiped the battlefield with my pieces. I couldn't understand how he so consistently beat me, and as an
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by jasone 5y ago
I could have been happier with the soundtrack, but I think most of that is on the director rather than Hans Zimmer. The Dune Sketchbook Soundtrack [1] was in my opinion quite good; I think the director just chose to avoid some of the really
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by jasone 5y ago
Turbo Pascal 2.0. It was a fantastic IDE for learning to program.
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by jasone 5y ago
I (an American teen) also ate there in April 1990, with partially overlapping observations. The food was higher quality than anything else I ate during a week in Moscow, but it struck me as pretty standard McDonald's fare. As for the l
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by jasone 5y ago
I have found Jekyll on GitHub to be a pretty good solution overall. I put this Makefile in the git repo to make my workflow simple: https://gist.github.com/jasone/b0208286b44208b705156fdf046ca... The one issue I'm
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SQLive: The SQL database that tells you when your query results changed(sqlive.io)
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by jasone 5y ago
Similarly, I have used dc as my desktop calculator of choice since the mid-90s. It has been useful in many one-liner scripts too. A simple, powerful tool.
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by jasone 5y ago
The single best book I've encountered for this sort of learning is Programming Language Pragmatics, by Michael L Scott. I read an earlier edition (3rd?) cover to cover well after entering industry, and it was invaluable for both broade
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by jasone 5y ago
When I was finishing up a bioinformatics doctoral program in 2009 I looked far and wide for postdoc positions in the field. My recollection is that the typical salary range was $27k-$30k. What surprised me was that I dug far back in a syste
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by jasone 5y ago
Ah, East of Eden. I'm halfway through it right now, and it is fantastic so far. I've found many good recommendations over the years from HN threads. For example, I've read 7/10 of the Culture novels by Iain M Banks now,
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by jasone 5y ago
A great thing about working in California is that state law makes employment contract clauses that say the company "owns your brain" unenforceable. Among other things that puts a real damper on lock-in with non-compete clauses. Em
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by jasone 5y ago
I'm surprised the speedup for Lark is so small (<2X). Back in the Python 2.x days I wrote an LR(1) parser generator, and ended up porting it to Cython because it was taking several minutes to generate the parser I was working on. II
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by jasone 5y ago
I read this article a few years ago, and it put me off reading Cloud Atlas for quite a while; I didn't know which version to read, and didn't want to read both. But last year I decided to just go for it and read the American versi
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by jasone 5y ago
First off, recognize that peer review is a deeply flawed process, but it's generally less bad than no peer review. Peer review is primarily capable of catching methodological flaws, and of improving how the results are contextualized r
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by jasone 5y ago
Previously discussed: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13271746
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by jasone 5y ago
Perhaps you are imagining less imperfect, less egotistical, less insecure scientists in a past Golden Age of Science. I for one have stopped believing such an era ever existed, or will ever exist. But I continue to believe that the scientif
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by jasone 5y ago
Ugh, drivel. Even people in high-reputation positions can, and do, spout nonsense. There are many risks when bicycling, including motorists treating bicyclists even worse on average when they wear helmets. But when when the head hits the ro
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by jasone 5y ago
This is a cool paper, though it doesn't solve the problem that a general purpose tracing accelerator would have to. In order to handle diverse object/value layouts there needs to be some way of determining from the run-time type w

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