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by jll29 3y ago
You make sure that employees don't own what they write, but sign it over to the company (usually language to that effect in the employment contract, if there is none). Also running tools like Black Duck over your source code tree to ch
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by jll29 3y ago
War is nasty, it brings out the worst in people. Look at this, listen to their laughter while conducting their "work": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw (2007) "The video shows Reuters journalist Na
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by jll29 3y ago
MM lines of JavaScript! That is bloat incarnate. I've been thinking of re-implementing something like LI, or rather implement my own contact database (without the "FB" features, please). The only problem would be how to make
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by jll29 3y ago
This is a FORTH-like language by a programmer-artist who aspires to live a minimalist nomadic lifestyle of self-reliance (resides on a boat with his partner, no permanent home, sold most material goods), and who creates minimalist computer
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by jll29 3y ago
Could the change of the Website be due to the deal with Microsoft that the Financial Times reported today?
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by jll29 3y ago
That episode (releasing the AOL search query log file for research purposes and subsequent aftermath) led to some firings at the company, but some information retrieval searchers used this log to conduct important experiments. The "60s
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by jll29 3y ago
Mobile phones! I'm always shocked how couples on dates in restaurants don't talk but each attends to their own screen. Governments will need to switch off the signal on Saturday nights to ensure survival of the population (looking
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by jll29 3y ago
This could be an explanation, but the old rule says "Never ascribe to malice what you could attribute to incompetence or ignorance." Based on what I have heard from people who work at Google (and read on the personal blogs of Goog
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by jll29 3y ago
The famous British one is Sandwich => Earl of Sandwich. The online Britannica has an entry on things surprisingly named after people: https://www.britannica.com/story/9-things-you-didnt-know-wer...
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by jll29 3y ago
Edison also had a winter home in Orlando, Florida. And Orlando was NOT founded by George Boole, despite containing both substrings "or" and "and" (but not "not").
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by jll29 3y ago
Sure, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) calls that "meta-linguistic abstraction", and there are many complex systems that contain a Domain Specific Language (DSL), or a complete programming language (e.g. E(
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by jll29 3y ago
One way to make URLs printed in books more durable is to submit them to the Internet Archive and then use the archival URLs to include in the printed book instead (kind of how folks here circumvent paywalls..).
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by jll29 3y ago
This is a good tool for people who have something to say. I like its minimalist approach, although realistically, one probably still needs LaTeX to create figures for mathematical formulae in scientific/technical fields. I also see val
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by jll29 3y ago
It's his contribution to increase Android quality.
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by jll29 3y ago
On the topic of "UNIX shell one-liners versus Python", I enjoy letting my students solve the "make a list of the words in a file with their counts" exercise in Python, then I show them a sh one-liner. The Python scripts
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by jll29 3y ago
C does what I say but not always what I mean. C++ is too complicated to even bother, and looks a completely different language every five years; I have yet to meet anyone that knows its syntax fully (C++ compilers included). Writing C/
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by jll29 3y ago
It's interesting that Microsoft never succeeded with a smartphone, given that their other hardware products enjoy a decent reputation (keyboards, mice, tablets); I suspect it's because of the software side - stuck with the desktop
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by jll29 3y ago
This is more fun than a lot of gigabyte-oozing brainless ego-shooters, and a fantastic engineering accomplishment on top of that! Thanks for sharing!
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by jll29 3y ago
Complementary: How to Write a Paper (University of Cambridge) http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmd/ashby-paper-V6.pdf
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by jll29 3y ago
shame!
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by jll29 3y ago
He is a world expert on Web rendering, and an extremely capable C++ developer. One of their success recipes is to code up the various specifications directly, which is - today - the best way to go about this. They are also heavily test-driv
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by jll29 3y ago
I suspect making a list of "I think these ones are not critical." is not sufficient. You may overlook some subtle forms of interdependence. To be sure, you need to test your documentation by actually switching off the "uncrit
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by jll29 3y ago
Moved to a department in another country for work, got a mandatory introduction into the annoying expense reclaim process for new employees there. She was from finance and instructed me, I was from R&D. Expenses were duly filed, we were
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by jll29 3y ago
Because it's Hacker News, not Baker News... sadly, statistics posits there still isn't enough interest in hacking with girl geeks (although I know some boy geeks who are teaching their daughters how to program etc.).
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by jll29 3y ago
> move in together, have a couple of kids then get married pipeline I know you might be a geek, but that really isn't the definition of "one-night stand"...
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by jll29 3y ago
A BERT-based summarization system for financial earnings calls. It can take a 60-minute transcripts of such meetings can compress the contents down into 5 bullet points. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/97
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by jll29 3y ago
% python main.py https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/bill/web2pdf/main.py", line 7, in <module> from readability import Document
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by jll29 3y ago
Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc ( https://pandoc.org/ )?
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by jll29 3y ago
I think Rust is here to stay, but I wish folks had designed a systematic standard library (as Java has) rather than let a set of crates evolve uncontrolledly. Hopefully, the language will develop further and then reach ISO standardization -
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by jll29 3y ago
You may just call it "put on hold indefinitely until I feel picking it up again."

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