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by krmboya 8y ago
Thanks for this guide, I'll keep referring to it often. My current road to Common Lisp is working through Peter Norvig's book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming [0]. It's not a direct route to the kind of pr
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by krmboya 8y ago
> "Older publications are obsolete and unfortunately many of them have errors (including my own!). I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model but am no longer allowed to update it :-(" As someone who's been intereste
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by krmboya 8y ago
Given that it's someone's labour of love, they are allowed to do what seems like over-engineering to you, if they want to.
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by krmboya 9y ago
Perhaps it's the difference between the experimentation and commercialization phases of some technology. Having a culture of trust replaced by one of distrust.
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by krmboya 9y ago
I find that when working in a team, tests help save time by preventing people from stepping on each others' toes, breaking existing functionality
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by krmboya 9y ago
I don't know whether this qualifies as chatbots, but I simply like the command-response interface of chat based services for selecting options without an AI layer interpreting what I mean. I usually I prefer the chat interface rather t
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by krmboya 9y ago
I've been looking into the linked resources more and more of late and they reveal a perspective of computing research I find I'm really excited about. I wonder how one can start studying and taking part in this direction of comput
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by krmboya 9y ago
Reminds me of what got me to this site many years ago. I was reading a lisp programming book that had a footnote that somehow got me to HN. As a teenager I got enamoured by the idea of the future of the tech being driven by small fast-movin
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by krmboya 9y ago
Perhaps if the web had started off as dynamic instead of static we'd have several styling minilanguages to choose from, that worked the same on all browsers, rather than the mess introduced by letting the browser wars dictate web stand
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Social Network Portability (2007) [pdf](bradfitz.com)
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by krmboya 9y ago
> Adam Curtis's movies are more like long essays... Aha.. that's a good way of putting it.
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by krmboya 9y ago
> Probably the most interesting of his documentaries that I've seen is on the rise of propaganda and the public relations industry in his documentary "Century of the Self". Yeah, I liked that too, the fact that PR is war-t
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by krmboya 9y ago
Well, to me it seems that if you stretch the idea of separation of concerns, you should separate the process finding out what you should do, from the process of how you should do it right.
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by krmboya 9y ago
What about a kind of middle ground, doing a 'spike' when figuring out stuff, what kind of thing you should build, what the design should look like, etc then follow up with TDD to stabilize the identified interfaces and produce tes
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by krmboya 9y ago
Also experienced something like this. Had a discussion with a work colleague on a particular topic, and on getting home and going to youtube, the top recommended videos were all on that topic
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by krmboya 10y ago
Meh, any competent programmer can understand sets.. I got the meaning presented in the article because I've practiced the notation presented, but wouldn'nt have figured it out instantly otherwise. We have different programming la
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Unix and Beyond: An interview with Ken Thompson [pdf] (1999)(cse.unl.edu)
4 points by krmboya 10y ago|1 comments
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Amazon S3 Outage Is What Happens When One Site Hosts Too Much of the Internet(wired.com)
1 points by krmboya 10y ago|1 comments
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No DB (2012)(8thlight.com)
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by krmboya 10y ago
> and are all staring at glowing screens of varying sizes I don't know.. whenever I peek most of the times it happens to be facebook/whatsapp/instagram/email. To me it seems to be more of an addiction of some kind, pe
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How I converted my React app to VanillaJS(hackernoon.com)
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by krmboya 10y ago
Too naive an assumption. I know of certain online payment platforms that have to blacklist certain regions of the world because of fraud detection and the like..
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by krmboya 10y ago
This. Quality of life also matters. There's a term I encountered: compression of morbidity, where the onset of chronic illnesses is delayed until one is close to death.
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by krmboya 10y ago
Would these be cases where Robert Martin's 'The Clean Architecture' [1] would help, where the core enterprise logic is separated from third party dependencies, making the latter easy to swap out and replace? I'd imagine
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by krmboya 10y ago
I find myself doing this on Youtube when I watch certain videos, to avoid having similar videos as recommendations. I suppose the feature was supposed to help one discover videos they could be interested in, but I now actively avoid watchin
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A Call for a New Strenuous Age(artofmanliness.com)
3 points by krmboya 10y ago|0 comments
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by krmboya 10y ago
Isn't that the conclusion he gives at the end of the article? Ethical considerations
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Learning Exploitation with Offensive Computer Security 2.0(howto.hackallthethings.com)
139 points by krmboya 10y ago|4 comments
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by krmboya 10y ago
This makes me wonder of what one would say of the faceless individuals that worked behind certain governments to indirectly cause death and suffering of millions of people, say in a place like Africa. Like the well-known western government(
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by krmboya 10y ago
Something similar was proposed in Kenya a few months ago. Some kind of certification for "ICT Practitioners". There was a huge backlash against it.

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