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by ken 7y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but at the same time, most ideas are worthless. Even if you had knowledge of some successful system of today, went to an alternate universe that lacked it, and described it to them in detail, the team would st
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by ken 7y ago
> the blanking of 5 displays is probably not a bug If it’s not in the manual, it’s a bug.
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by ken 7y ago
This article seems to have tunnel vision on speed as the primary cause -- "Speed is what kills", it claims, and links to another page on their same blog that says: > Speeding — defined as traveling too fast for conditions or
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by ken 7y ago
It seems so bizarre to me that there is an r/cscareerquestions at all. And the only other r/__careerquestions are computer-related (IT, UX, DS). It's not like dentists and architects haven't discovered the internet yet
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by ken 7y ago
I didn't know anyone who actually used it on Windows back then. I remember it more like https://twitter.com/soothron/status/1163555232636383233
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by ken 7y ago
Yes -- that's what it means to be a flaw with the entire current generation of version control systems. "Need a centralized server" wasn't specific to one (pre-DVCS) system, either.
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by ken 7y ago
That's like saying DVCS has nothing to do with VCS -- it's just the server model. Every major advance has been accomplished by increasing the scope of version control. Arbitrary diff/merge in Git is a great example of the Tu
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by ken 7y ago
Dating is roughly symmetric, but employment is not. Jobs are not just an employer picking an employee, but also an employee picking an employer. The current process saves time for one side, but wastes it for the other. One of my dream sid
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by ken 7y ago
But did you think that RCS, CVS, or SVN were also good enough? Or is this new?
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by ken 7y ago
It sounds like the "pets / cattle" metaphor is finally returning to actual ranches. I don't think software is eating the whole world but it's eating that one. That tells me it's ripe for disruption.
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by ken 7y ago
Every version control system that's become dominant in my lifetime became popular because it fixed a major obvious flaw in the previous dominant system (RCS, CVS, SVN). From where I sit, Git has a couple obvious flaws, and I expect its
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by ken 7y ago
Google search suggests the title of that page began with "Quitting alcohol may improve mental well-being, health ...", which leads to pages like [1] with the same title from around the same date. [1]: https://www.eureka
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by ken 7y ago
I have many problems with email but I don't see how this solves any of them. How do I see who these were sent to, or what mailing lists they come from? What do the chevron and gear icons do? How does it scroll when I have more than
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by ken 7y ago
It starts with an example of a slow program -- slow_program.py, "the program I will be using for demonstration purposes" -- but then it immediately forgets about that. It goes on to describe "general ideas and strategies, wh
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by ken 7y ago
That's technically true but I think it misses the point. A CPU (at least an older one) is simple enough that it can be fully understood by one person. It was probably designed by a very small team. If you want to know if something w
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by ken 7y ago
> Spend $250 on dinner and go buy better tickets for tomorrow night’s show. Does he not understand how this works? Most touring musicians only play one night per city, e.g., [1]. It would cost me a lot more than $250 to follow Bruce fr
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by ken 7y ago
The first example I thought of was on the C=64, with assembly language. The second was on MS-DOS with C++ and assembly language. > Creating something useful using nothing but the raw materials of ideas, with essentially limitless possib
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by ken 7y ago
I looked seriously at the first Light Phone. The main problem I found was that it's explicitly designed to be a second phone. You still needed to have a primary smartphone, and it would pair with that (and use the same number, some
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by ken 7y ago
This reminds me of "programming ligatures": https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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by ken 7y ago
Pleasantness is in the ear of the beholder, but I've always enjoyed listening to On Ensemble, where Shoji uses this technique in pieces like After Rain [1] and Yamasong [2]. Or if you're feeling funky, the remix [3]. [1]: https:
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by ken 7y ago
Of course, every successful language could be roasted with this, too. It's a cute post but if there were a simple checklist for creating a successful language, every language designer would just do that.
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by ken 7y ago
It goes both ways. At least once a day (in the USA) I see a pedestrian walk or run into an intersection against their own red. A few are lost in their phones, but the vast majority simply take a glance to make sure you're going to sl
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by ken 7y ago
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol. Let’s build a system ... in this system we haven’t built yet! We’ll start with some DEFCLASS calls to define some classes for its internal data structures. In a couple hundred pages, we’ll have enough
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by ken 7y ago
Having tried both ways, I have the opposite view. Skip all the extra steps and just take a shortcut, and you'll fix one problem today -- and tomorrow you'll run into three consequences of this shortcut, and have to take yet more s
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by ken 7y ago
5MB went a lot further back then. Viaweb is older than Javascript or CSS -- not to mention custom fonts, video, or high-resolution bitmaps. In 1995, 5MB was hundreds of pageloads. Today, it's one.
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by ken 7y ago
> I want to take pride in my work. I want to deliver working, stable things. To do that, we need to understand what we are building, in and out, and that’s impossible to do in bloated, over-engineered systems. Somebody needs to write t
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by ken 7y ago
ML is certainly valuable for speech recognition, translation, and fraud detection, but those are somewhat niche applications. It's a long way from "every tech company, large and small". As for ad placement, social media, and
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by ken 7y ago
I assumed that was covered by #8 ("The biggest consumer technology successes of this decade will be in the area of privacy"), somewhat by #9 ("Millennials and Gen-Z will be running many institutions"), and mostly the sec
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by ken 7y ago
I keep hearing about this concept of "progressive disclosure", but I can't say I've seen it in Swift. Even the simplest functions I want to write, I tug on a little thread of an idea that I have, and pretty soon I'
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by ken 7y ago
"Last happened 65M years ago" is very different from "happens every 65M years", though. It only takes one impact to ruin your whole biosphere. It doesn't have to be a single cause, either. Some mass extinctions in

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