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   by leoc 5y ago

   The Spectrum was a pioneering home for isometric-ish games: see eg. Ant Attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Attack and Knight Lore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Lore as well as He
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   by leoc 5y ago

   I'd suspect it's more a matter of people enjoying the sense of validation they get from an article which tells them that the low standards they're accustomed to from work are good, actually.
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   by leoc 5y ago

   Here's a half-baked idea. The big problem with many next-generation electric cells like lithium-airs is that they have a short lifespan, right? But aircraft, unlike domestic cars, already have a fairly intensive maintenance schedule. M
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   by leoc 5y ago

   It is a bit odd that the video really talks up the idea that complex numbers sever algebra from geometry, then without pause goes straight into a geometric interpretation of complex numbers https://youtu.be/cUzklzVXJwo?t=115
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   by leoc 5y ago

   If you think there's some virtue in writing verbose and inexpressive imperative code, what does Go provide in that department that you couldn't have got from Java 1.44?
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   by leoc 5y ago

   There were many quite similar stories from the mid-century US (never mind the rest of the world) so you wouldn't necessarily need this specific one as inspiration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_e
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   by leoc 5y ago

   Here I repost a composite of my old comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14546682 from a previous occasion when this was discussed https://n
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   by leoc 5y ago

   There's obviously some limit to how finely you could expect them to separate accents, but putting rhotic Scottish and Ulster accents in the same category with mostly-non-rhotic English accents is just crassly wrong. It's about as
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   by leoc 5y ago

   Short blog post from 2015 about CAVE VR visualising a similar LIDAR city find in Honduras https://web.archive.org/web/20210518004403/doc-ok.org/?p=120... (this one: https://www.newyorker.com/t
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    by leoc 5y ago

    https://darrellmann.com/dodo-lean/ seems relevant.
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    by leoc 5y ago

    Lean consultant Darrell Mann on "Dodo-Lean": https://darrellmann.com/dodo-lean/
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    by leoc 5y ago

    I first got 'rudimentally' which certainly does already exist although it's not the most popular of words.
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    by leoc 5y ago

    Children's TV nostalgia, eh? Back in the '80s the earliest UK TV in the morning was often a long countdown clock leading into a couple of hours of very slow-paced and somewhat haunted old schools programming https://www
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    by leoc 5y ago

    The tensions go all the way back to the post-Doom (1) era. Carmack wasn't blameless either. Here's a fun war story from Sandy Petersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo .
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    by leoc 5y ago

    And this possibly wasn't the beginning of tensions at ID/Zenimax about Carmack splitting his time with outside or non-core activities. Before VR there was Armadillo Aerospace and his pre-iPhone interest in mobile games. Carmack cl
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    by leoc 5y ago

    This is McCarthy's paper on Lisp for HOPL (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languag... in 1978. McCarthy praised Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcj
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    by leoc 5y ago

    Part 2: https://youtu.be/oGsajLIALJE
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    by leoc 5y ago

    I'd just assumed that a recursion joke had managed to get onto the front page for some reason. I suppose it's just an aliasing joke then.
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    by leoc 5y ago

    A similar technique is demonstrated in the old Video Arts So You Want To Be A Success at Selling? video series starring John Cleese, in the Part 2 video ("The Presentation") iirc, in a scene where a salesman uses the Five Whys (
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    by leoc 5y ago

    This MentalFloss article (via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heymijo ) is good: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-sc...
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    by leoc 5y ago

    This BBC article is also pretty good: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40593353 . In this discussion ewhanley also linked a podcast episode which exceprts an interview with Patterson: https://www.wnycstudio
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    by leoc 5y ago

    I recommend this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28502232 by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heymijo from the recent HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850
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    Dodo-Lean(darrellmann.com)

    1 points by leoc 5y ago|0 comments
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    by leoc 5y ago

    This is the YT channel https://youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis but I‘m not sure which video the GP was referring to.
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    by leoc 5y ago

    There's also a YT channel about concrete run by a concrete-engineering academic, Tyler Ley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvfiHNDS_QI-FgKQSmTITQ .
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    by leoc 5y ago

    It's not just the demographics: https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/78138 .
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    by leoc 5y ago

    How much commercial use do Prolog or other logic programming languages see these days? The impression I seem to get is that Prolog, while never exactly mainstream, had a much more significant commercial foothold 30 or even 20 years ago than
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    by leoc 5y ago

    https://arstechnica.com/staff/2008/04/rhapsody-and-blues/ is a fairly good article covering the attempty to woo Adobe and MS.
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    by leoc 5y ago

    He was also trying to get big ISVs including Adobe and (believe it or not) Microsoft to port their applications to Rhapsody, basically a cross-platform Windows NT/OS X version of Cocoa. https://arstechnica.com/staff&#x2
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    by leoc 5y ago

    Could it just be people pounding HN for any update on Facebook?