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by jll29 3y ago
Think about the _user_: Is your use case "I'm a tourist in New York, who would like to learn more about my whereabouts." or "I live in New York, and I would like to be surprised with historic facts about places in my com
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by jll29 3y ago
> To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly". I used to teach how to write serial letters with Word to secretaries when I was in high school. I used to write VBA
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by jll29 3y ago
It's ideal for hiring - you immediately know which resumes to read and which one to dump into the trash.
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by jll29 3y ago
This is potentially useful for "partner search" functionality (as operated by governments and e.g. the European Commission) - e.g. when people want to team up to co-apply for research grants.
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by jll29 3y ago
Company research is a very important field, and you can buy datasets (D&S), appliances (Bloomberg) and software/Web apps (LSEG/Refinitiv, Factset) for this purpose. If your purpose is competitive intelligence, then including i
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by jll29 3y ago
In the past, Posterous was a blogging service that was powered by email, and I loved it. (You could blog using the email body and attached photos were also posted, so Daft Social without the "minimalist" part.) Sadly, it was acqui
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by jll29 3y ago
The EU is "leading in regulation", which means often, regulation (especially in the area of customer protection) is first introduced in Europe, then other jurisdiction follow that are at least "inspired" (think: lazy cop
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by jll29 3y ago
Whilet he parent's point is correct, note that Nick Clegg is not and never was a EU civil servant (although he was a member of the European Parliament when the UK was still in the EU).
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by jll29 3y ago
Yes, indeed. Not very likely but still... I would like to have an annoying warning sound that prevents me from getting speeding tickets, but I would not like to have technology limit me artificially without the possibility of a "human
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In 20 years, no-one watching an action film will understand or believe a car race anymore...
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by jll29 3y ago
...beautiful science: people spending a career on things like "how to surprise a [spider-eating, jumping] spider"
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by jll29 3y ago
Wow, it's not even an ASCII art movie! Thanks for uploading a Youtube video since a certain legacy operating system is generally not available (by design) in my household.
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How can we create machine learning models that classify well yet are transparent with respect to the use of evidence that leads to their decisions? (Explainable Artificial Intelligence, "XAI") How can we improve information access
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by jll29 3y ago
Fair queuing in multi-tenant scenarios is also what describes what is going on in some financial trading systems: these queuing mechanisms are often opened up to regulators to demonstrate the fairness.
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by jll29 3y ago
Brilliant, thanks!
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by jll29 3y ago
I worked at a large U.S. information company that gave $500 per author for filing a patent application. Once a year, you could submit your patent application for the "Inventor of the Year" award. Given the 60k employees worldwide,
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by jll29 3y ago
That can invalidate the patent.
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by jll29 3y ago
White space in variable names is a bad idea. And not everything that is possible is worth doing; e.g. I once designed a language ("Leazy") where keywords don't have to be declared, and can be used as variable names, just to s
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by jll29 3y ago
There was a language called Pizza that Odersky wrote while in Karlsruhe (before moving to EPFL Lausanne), and that became part of "standard" (not as in ISO, but as it SUN-approved) Java as "generics". https://
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by jll29 3y ago
> It's supposed to be both 100% functional and 100% object-oriented (aka having powerful module system) _at the same time_. That is well said, and I agree. And it certainly is an acomplishment, it's even in some way elegant, bu
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by jll29 3y ago
Beautiful semi-obituary + personal impact report. Odersky has done very impressive work (I only recently learned about his work on TurboModula-2 - cool!), but his work is not focused on simplicity as Wirth's was - I wonder if he tried
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by jll29 3y ago
What if that muffin recipe, if read backwards, was a report in Russian about foreign policy plans? (And would a _lawyer_ be the right person to review/decide?)
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by jll29 3y ago
Thanks for sharing a behind-the-curtain view on the history of your publications. Thank you even more for publishing WebGazer and for following a "systems" approach in your research, when most people produce only papers. It'
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by jll29 3y ago
Even more so in Modula-2 (as the name suggests), where you can compile module definitions separately from their implementations and already have the compiler perform syntax checks against APIs defined therein before they are even implemente
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by jll29 3y ago
Here is the pointer to the original Eliza paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365153.365168 Note that Weizenbaum was an AI critic: Weizenbaum's intention was not for Eliza to pass the Turing test, but to sh
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by jll29 3y ago
Agreed, C++ is a language riddled with accidental complexity, which hinders the learning process. The fact that its convoluted and ever-changing syntax leads to error messages that are indecipherable even for computer science experts alone
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by jll29 3y ago
Since D is already taken, maybe a language called "E"? The first thing I'd borrow from Rust are Option and Result for better error handling.
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by jll29 3y ago
After programming already for many years, the book "C: Interfaces and Implementations" by Hanson still showed me some new tricks for writing libraries in a more bullet-proof way, and I have mentioned or used it in every C course I
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by jll29 3y ago
p. 59-75 covers the fast implementation of piece lists (recently covered on HN). (Just saying because there were many threads on how to represent text buffers for fast editing on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538
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by jll29 3y ago
Clarification: The Apollo computer series by Apollo Domain is meant here, not the Apollo space mission, just to be sure. The Pascal-based operating system is Aegis (later DomainOS), which - with UNIX - is a joint precursor of HP-UX: https:

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