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by jdblair 7y ago
The great thing with Lyft/Uber is that I'm in the car and I can say "please take me around front to the main entrance, not here in the alleyway."
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The Top 10 Things Executives Should Know About Software(cacm.acm.org)
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by jdblair 7y ago
This explains a lot. I can just barely use the regular Pixel 3 in one hand, and I never want a phone that is any bigger. If my thumb were a little bit smaller then I couldn't use the Pixel 3 one-handed and I might as well have a bigger
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by jdblair 7y ago
Don't tell Dave Cutler you're running OpenVMS on top of a *nix!
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by jdblair 7y ago
This is my favorite line, at least so far: There were microphones at each typewriter, and at the computer. When the on-air talent tossed to the newsroom for a live report, the journalism factory noises in the background were real. This is a
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by jdblair 7y ago
There would be tradeoffs, but rhat could be made to work. It is different from how things work in practice today.
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by jdblair 7y ago
You need persistent storage for OTT applications to store authentication tokens. Without this storage users will have to re-authenticate every time they start an OTT application, usually this means entering their email and password using an
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What do you do with your PrtScr key?
2 points by jdblair 7y ago|2 comments
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Hong Kong's protesters find ways to outwit the surveillance state(washingtonpost.com)
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Detecting Facial Manipulations in Adobe Photoshop(theblog.adobe.com)
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by jdblair 7y ago
But then I would have to tell them my email address.
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by jdblair 7y ago
I replied to the commenter. I started thinking not about boolean logic, but about a third arithmetic sign. I was thinking, if there are conceptual dimensions we can't perceive, maybe there are directions in those dimensions we also can
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by jdblair 7y ago
When I started thinking about it I made a number "line" that had an origin (0) with positive in one direction, negative in another, and urgative in a third. The reasoning is that a different sign takes you towards the origin, then
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by jdblair 7y ago
When I was 18, I "discovered" three-value Boolean logic by thinking about what it would mean to have three signs in arithmetic. I called them positive, negative and urgative and had a symbol for urgative so I could write expressio
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by jdblair 7y ago
The biggest thing I miss at my current job is interaction with people I don't work with. When I commuted from Oakland to San Francisco I would talk to people on BART, at restaurants when I went out for lunch, and sometimes just made co
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Mass anomaly detected under the moon's largest crater(phys.org)
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by jdblair 7y ago
There are taxes in international waters. If you are a US citizen you owe income tax no matter where you earn your income. Hiding your income and not paying income tax is evading taxation. https://www.irs.gov/individuals&#x2F
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by jdblair 7y ago
Yes, next month we do.
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Is WeWork worth nearly $50bn?(bbc.com)
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by jdblair 7y ago
I remember when PDF came out, I didn't get it. I thought the problem was already solved by compressed postscript files! I was already used to downloading and sometimes printing paper documentation in this format. It was natural to view
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by jdblair 7y ago
You have compassion with yourself when you are inevitably less disciplined. You notice that you need to improve again and you do so without judging yourself. It also helps to work with or associate yourself with people who exhibit the habit
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by jdblair 8y ago
It goes without saying that you have get the endian right when you store the values. That's what the endian macros are for.
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by jdblair 8y ago
But if you're slamming in-memory structs over the wire, you're using packed structs. You explicitly don't want padding when you use structs that way. Whether you should do this in 2019 is another question, but sometimes it&
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by jdblair 8y ago
I'm a beginner at rust, but I think this sentiment is correct. I'm finding developing in rust to be similar to the overhead of test-driven development. When I do TDD, I spend a lot more time getting to my MVP, at the benefit of ca
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by jdblair 8y ago
There is also the approach of only keeping the people who self motivate. I've been in a organization like this a few times in my life and it's fantastic.
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Boston Dynamics robot does heavy warehouse work(gfycat.com)
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by jdblair 8y ago
I still disagree. I also travel a lot, and I set the meetings in the timezone where the meeting is. It's not a paper calendar.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Its not that you want no time zone, you want to mark the appointment as "local" time. That could be useful, though I expect it would create as many problems as it solves. The explicit timezone is crucial for conference calls that
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by jdblair 8y ago
That won't work, because the protocol has changed. No pilot today will open the door, even as someone dies every 20 minutes. The pilots will divert to the closest airport and land.
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Man Who Grounded Dreamliner Says FAA Should Ground 737, Too(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jdblair 8y ago|0 comments

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