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by jll29 3mo ago
Did you do it by hand, or did you write a script to make your LI profile self-sustaining (which others may also run)?
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by jll29 3mo ago
QNX is fine, but it's an acquisition. Can we have our BBs back, please?
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by jll29 3mo ago
google::dense_hash_map is faster than this new implementation according to their benchmark's diagram (google::dense_hash_map has the lowest runtime of all tested methods).
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by jll29 4mo ago
1st Word on the Atari ST 520+ with monochrome monitor: that was how the far future felt like in 1986. With the exception of the somewhat wobbly cheap keyboard, that was the best and most distraction-free setup I have ever seen for WYSIWYG w
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by jll29 4mo ago
> he accomplished this without the source code Sure thing, who needs source code? This is HN. But instead of reverse-engineering, I would just find or write an emulator, in case I would be asked to "port" another software. It&#
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by jll29 4mo ago
Strangely, Peter's 1987 Ph.D. thesis cites itself (reference 90), but with the year being off by one (1986). Writing a LISP in Python is only for educational use, or to have a boostrap LISP that you can write a better (faster) LISP in.
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by jll29 4mo ago
> Typescript for C You mean "C with Classes", later to be replaced by "C++" (Stroustrup pick this as favorite from a list of candidate names he crowdsourced) as implemented by Cfront.
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by jll29 4mo ago
It is conceivable, for both Pascal and C, to have more than one string implementation side by side, so the developer can choose to use the best-fitting one. In C++23, variant<> permits to do what Rust's typed enums introduced (e.
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by jll29 4mo ago
beautiful
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by jll29 4mo ago
I like how this treats writing (text prod.) as software engineering.
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by jll29 4mo ago
Can anyone comment on the "distance to publication-worthiness" of the typical question from this set?
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by jll29 4mo ago
Interesting how this post coincides with the Leyden declaration in mathematics: both documents are abot how human-human trust ("in good faith") is eroded by large language models, because a substantially-sized artifact does not ne
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by jll29 4mo ago
People are apparently willing to pay a premium for older Lego sets, provided the original packaging is still intact. Older sets are offered and sold on eBay for substantially more oney that they cost when originally sold.
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by jll29 4mo ago
The temperature parameter cannot be set to 0 via GUI, merely to a sall vale close to 0, as that would lead to a division by 0 in the code.
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by jll29 5mo ago
+1 for "S has a bit of reputation"
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by jll29 5mo ago
To spend nine pages full of mathematical formulae just to write a single letter (more) nicely shows the rigor/perfectionism/OCD that is the hallmark of Donald Ervin Knuth. Thanks for giving us beautiful layout and better-looking f
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by jll29 5mo ago
Could the be a good "mom and pop" OS to reduce (remote) IT maintenance workload for geeks from parent "clients"?
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by jll29 5mo ago
E pluribus duam?
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by jll29 5mo ago
I started with HP-UX 9.03 on a PA-RISC-powered 715-75 (to use Emacs, our whole research group logged into the 735 server to edit there, which was faster than running it locally). Any unclean pointer fiddling in C, and the process was termin
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by jll29 5mo ago
My favorites: GEM + Ventura Publisher http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/ventura-publisher-1.... Viewpoint http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/6085-viewpoint-2.0-p... AUX http:
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by jll29 5mo ago
Thanks for that. For what it's worth, two days ago on the radio some politician said that for more software sovereignty to take off, all we'd need is such a catalog! ;-).
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by jll29 5mo ago
I love that idea, and had a similar one once (never realized), because I run many projects at once (and more than one role: personal / job_1 / job_2). What I'd suggest is that you isolate the project spaces from one another s
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by jll29 5mo ago
Now you if you wanted to visit the best city in the world (Edinburgh), you could of course take the Caledonian Sleeper night train from London up to the Scottish capital; but then you would completely miss out on the beautiful views of th
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by jll29 5mo ago
Solution: Latin block chain
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by jll29 5mo ago
My spouse and I lived in London, but we both come from (other) European countries, so for our wedding, three countries and four languages were involved: the church's forms are all both in the local language as well as in Latin. This is
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by jll29 5mo ago
Latin is the Web's primary language: In the beginning, there was index.html ("index", Lat. "one who points out").
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by jll29 5mo ago
Assuming there are some libraries for it, would this make a pretty good case for LLM-generated ports of these existing libraries into other languages or onto other OSs/platforms? One implementation could be treated as "the spect&q
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by jll29 5mo ago
The SAP application model is such a form-based model (no surprise given that all five co-founders of SAP were ex-IBM consultants that were fired for moonlighting - specifically, for writing a payroll software for chemical giant ICI in assem
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by jll29 5mo ago
Wait for Ladybug to come out, it'll bury all the company-controlled browsers.
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by jll29 5mo ago
If you want it to happen, we should talk requirements - what would you want from a LinkedIn NextGen? - A professional profile page - Contacts - Introductions/referrals - Ask my (sub-)network? Anything else?

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