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901.
by le-mark 8y ago
If we're making recommendations then mine would be Marooned in Real Time by Vernor Vinge.
902.
by le-mark 8y ago
I've always maintained that sci fi really shines in short stories and novella's. It's rare imo opinion for novel length sci fi to be as provoking and pleasurable.
903.
by le-mark 8y ago
I've been on multi year projects to modernize old IE applications, and one of the things that IE11 misses is "standard" xpath evaluation. A lot of old "dhtml" apps were all in on soap/xml. There's some wie
904.
by le-mark 8y ago
I often wonder why, in this age of reboots and cinematic universes, no one has mined this series, and the Hardy Boys for material. Iirc, there was a tv series for each in the '70s. Related; there was some really great writing for telev
905.
by le-mark 8y ago
Being an order of magnitude cheaper would be compelling to these same companies though.
906.
by le-mark 8y ago
I knew someone who's father developed one in their 50's. It is bizarre.
907.
by le-mark 8y ago
Careful with that line of thinking. My son was 6 months old when I gave him a small bit of the peanut butter cookie I was eating. He could have died. I would not wish that experience on anyone.
908.
by le-mark 8y ago
People always over look this, but it's critical to getting to a truly fair-use shared platform. You can do it with PUC lua using debug hooks. Not other runtime I know of has this feature.
909.
by le-mark 8y ago
So enriched uranium or plutonium on hand? Because it would take time to build all that infrastructure; my understanding at least.
910.
by le-mark 8y ago
Until you realize it's code you wrote. Happened to me when our children were little. There were large parts of a system I'd written, sleep deprived, that I had no recollection of writing. Version control said I did, but I didn&#x2
911.
by le-mark 8y ago
The domain is mutual fund accounting. The system in question had grown organically over decades to encompass everything related to mutual funds; account record keeping, shareholder statements, broker dealer recording keeping, commission pay
912.
by le-mark 8y ago
What are your thoughts on "maximizing the revenue stream"? We commonly hear that job hopping is one way to maximize income. Contracting and consulting? Others?
913.
by le-mark 8y ago
Bad is not a good measure. But taking 'bad' to mean large, convoluted, zero documentation; I was once at a financial services company that had a 25 million+ LOC mainframe cobol application that had been under active development si
914.
by le-mark 8y ago
Does V8 allow sandboxing on: cpu cycles, heap, stack and system resources? Are requests to these workers http requests? Is there any backend storage or file access (or blob) from workers?
915.
by le-mark 8y ago
Which went up because.... it's now seen as an acquisition target as well? Edit; ah sorry I didn't know...
916.
by le-mark 8y ago
Ha brilliant post, I always wondered about those lattice structures, I figured they were for mass saving, thanks!
917.
by le-mark 8y ago
Interesting to note that legacy mainframe sorting isn't just moving values around in memory like all the algorithms we mostly study today. Mainframes back then had vanishingly small amounts of RAM (compared to what we have today) and h
918.
by le-mark 8y ago
and to detect and throttle or cut off spam senders Isn't throttling outbound email count/day from the start the only real solution?
919.
by le-mark 8y ago
* heard the narrative that technological progress is getting faster and faster* What direction though? Some would claim upward, others would claim circular. Given the prevalence of "x implemented in y" I tend toward circular mysel
920.
by le-mark 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to break that down.
921.
by le-mark 8y ago
Isn't this essentially the same problem as securing container (ie docker) access to the host file system? Also similar if you just want to give every user their own process. Are docker's tools sufficient for this, for example? If
922.
by le-mark 8y ago
I would also like to see this comparison. Another thing is; HN is really the wrong audience for this. Technologists here will spin up a vm/container with their stack of choice. Indeed; ruby and rails, django, node, all fill the void 4G
923.
by le-mark 8y ago
Do businesses even use windows 10? Every company I've been at has been windows 7, only one was windows 8.1 a couple of years ago.
924.
by le-mark 8y ago
How are the deployment, library ecosystem, build, and tooling stories for Elixir? Note I don't really care about the answer to the above, I just wish as a profession we could get past the tribalism and boosterism and have rational tech
925.
by le-mark 8y ago
The features we kept under our enterprise license were scaling related features. If you wanted to use Wallaroo on more than 24 CPUs, you needed to pay us money. Upon reflection, that was a mistake. Wallaroo is about making scaling easy. We
926.
by le-mark 8y ago
All true, yet for PS1 there was the net yaroze dev system that was distributed for some time. I actually had a copy at one point. Seems inconcievable it wouldn't just been easier to use a software emulator and the original data from th
927.
by le-mark 8y ago
This is the path I took, as well as asking myself the question "Why am I here?" I choose to believe I am a created being rather than a product of random chance, which leads to "there is a God" to be a true statement an
928.
by le-mark 8y ago
Looks like fennel compiles to lua; does that mean this is a blazing fast lisp when using luajit? And you can call any lua library? A blazing fast lisp with a large library ecosystem (luarocks)? That's very interesting indeed! Edit; not
929.
by le-mark 8y ago
Great read, long form writing we don't see enough of nowadays, and not pay walled!
930.
by le-mark 8y ago
Sure until they change the api and/or api terms of service. See twitter.

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