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New July 17th Satellite Imagery Confirms Russia Produced Fake MH17 Evidence(bellingcat.com)
8 points by jdblair 5y ago|0 comments
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git outta here!
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In the early 90s I had a minimum wage summer job loading boxes of just manufactured aerosol cans onto pallets. The boxes were uniform and there was a prescribed stacking pattern, so that part was simple. The hard part for me was that I was
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by jdblair 5y ago
It's going to be called WebV (like RISC-V). Then we go back to Arabic numerals for web6.
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I don't ask candidates to code on a phone screen. For coding proficiency, I show them code with flaws and ask them you do a code review. To break the ice I just ask them to describe the program behavior line-by-line. For a good candid
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IEEE Oral History: Frederico Faggin, Designer of the Z80 (2004)(ethw.org)
2 points by jdblair 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple’s $13k operating system (2013)(cnet.com)
140 points by jdblair 5y ago|29 comments
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The macros are always the deal-breaker. I tried sublime text, set up emacs keybindings, then tried to ctrl-x-( to start a macro and... switched right back to emacs. (and then proceeded to modify me emacs config so it approximated many subli
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by jdblair 5y ago
I've been using emacs for approximately 30 years. Every once in a while, someone ask me what editor or IDE I suggest they learn, and I never suggest emacs. It's incredibly powerful, but it's a fossil. I keep using emacs mostl
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Zoning is the biggest impediment. Most US cities have parking requirements, rules for setbacks, and limits on number units in a building. There is a strong incentive against changing the rules to allow more construction because scarcity inc
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From the article: The damned thing was just too expensive! From Wikipedia “When introduced, a basic system with monitor and 20 MB hard drive cost US$5,498” I respectfully disagree that price was the issue. The competition was a Sun workstat
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Build it Yourself Modem for under $50 (Byte Magazine, 1980)(archive.org)
11 points by jdblair 5y ago|6 comments
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There’s a market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
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I have a renovation in progress in Amsterdam, and the cost increase is coming from the 40% increase in the price of structural steel (rebar and shell for pilings). Maybe I'll get a break on lumber prices, but I doubt it.
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by jdblair 5y ago
This isn't as hard as you make it sound. You know the bonuses you awarded last year. Being transparent means you reveal that. Foo's salary is X, last year Foo received Y bonus, which was Z% of his then salary. A sales job that pay
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by jdblair 5y ago
Bonuses and RSU are part of a pay package. If transparency is required, it will include all forms. After all, the IRS already knows.
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First reaction: surely there must be a better language to describe algorithms than a made up assembly language. 2nd reaction: holy shit, this is how programmers thought until the 80s. It is worth working through some of the code until they
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I did read the whole thing in high school in 1990. I learned to program lisp as a direct result. GEB was one of the more influential books of my late teens, up there with Doors of Perception and The Cuckoo's Egg.
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by jdblair 5y ago
The ED detail buried in this tweet: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437450014507376649 --- cut here --- sorry, the tweet length got me here! they have temporarily forgone an ED. that is, they deliberate
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by jdblair 5y ago
The facts are pretty thin here, but this seems to be the core tweet: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441118745071617 To summarize: * Amazon has too much administrative influence * Amazon has marginaliz
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Bravo!
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It looks like the medium piece was taken down.
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Government Report: Erroneous Prediction(washingtonpost.com)
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Oh, this takes me back. I used to spread my swap out across all my disks on my system. When I had 2 disks. I put /boot, / and /var on one disk and /home on the other. When I had more disks, I moved /var onto its own
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by jdblair 5y ago
1980's Volkswagen pickup was perfect for stuff like this.
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Device Testing at Netflix: Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform(netflixtechblog.com)
1 points by jdblair 5y ago|0 comments
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Why are train wheels connected with an axle? Is it structural? If the wheel pairs were independent then it wouldn't matter how fast each wheel in a pair rotates.
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I thought this post was one long gag until I found WUFFS on GitHub: https://github.com/google/wuffs
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The author skips the first decade of database systems in the 1960s. The oldest databases were not relational! They were hierarchical or navigational. Hierarchical databases were much like a filesystem, but for records instead of files. Navi
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Machine Learning's Crumbling Foundations(doctorow.medium.com)
3 points by jdblair 5y ago|0 comments

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