lkesteloot

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by lkesteloot 1y ago
The title is about R&D, but because of Section 174 changes, this applies to all software development, whether "research" or not. If you're making a dumb app, you can't deduct the expenses (including salaries), you ha
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by lkesteloot 2y ago
mostly for fun!
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by lkesteloot 4y ago
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... "Here's the industry's dirty secret: Programmers who don't touch-type fit a profile. ... Here's the deal: everyone is laughi
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by lkesteloot 5y ago
The fair market value was $3 per share. I calculated my AMT to be $0 and exercised. The company then retroactively quadrupled their fair market value price and I suddenly had a $10k AMT bill. The company was private, so I couldn't even
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by lkesteloot 5y ago
WOW! Thank you!
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by lkesteloot 5y ago
Has anyone experimented with making a custom version of Deno that has its TS files built-in? I want to give my user exactly one binary that they can run to use the tool I'm writing, as if I'd compiled it in C/go.
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by lkesteloot 6y ago
There are a bunch of Model III emulators: http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/ Including my latest online one: https://www.my-trs-80.com/
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by lkesteloot 6y ago
Heh, the URL is "plan" because this was a .plan, a file in your home directory that others could see using the "finger" utility. I remember having flame wars entirely over .plans. It was like a super primitive Twitter.
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by lkesteloot 6y ago
Oh no! I _just_ finished reading James Gleick's _Genius_ this weekend, and I'm halfway through _No Ordinary Genius_ (both about Richard Feynman). The latter has many long quotes from Joan, and I was wondering just yesterday if she
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by lkesteloot 6y ago
"Unless you’re using an OLED or AMOLED screen and your dark mode is truly black – not dark grey, not dark blue, BLACK. There is no difference in power consumption." I thought this was a myth. I looked into it last year and found t
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by lkesteloot 7y ago
I feel like .com should be much more expensive than it is. Too many people squatting. I have friends who have dozens of .com, and not even "just in case", they're just collecting them because they like the sound of them. Then
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by lkesteloot 7y ago
Exactly. In some interfaces you'll be eventually switched back to "Home" automatically. You can tell this has happened because Twitter becomes less awesome. When I find myself thinking, "Why does Twitter suck today?&quot
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by lkesteloot 7y ago
You're right that in principle it's possible. But say you were a great teacher, and knew that clear teaching was worse than imperfect teaching. Could you actually make your lectures less clear on purpose?
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by lkesteloot 7y ago
Came here to say this. The professors I've learned the most from were the ones who weren't awesome at explaining things. I didn't understand them and had to struggle through the material. That struggle made the material stick
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by lkesteloot 7y ago
The key to having things named after you is to give them generic names. Name your thing "array", literally, everywhere in the readme and the code. Then people using it won't have any choice but to say "igushev's arr
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by lkesteloot 8y ago
See the last paragraph of this page: https://lkesteloot.github.io/alice/alice4/
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by lkesteloot 8y ago
I've used this a bunch! I found it invaluable to helping me think through the timing of FPGA components. The best part is you can embed it in your own web page: https://lkesteloot.github.io/alice/alice4/fpga-r
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
Right. Also more notes and links here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/12/book-review-willpower/
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
> against human nature to upvote things we don't agree with In this case you don't have to agree with the statement, only agree that it's unpopular. Maybe they're disagreeing with the facts in the statement's pre
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
Yeah, the items on her list aren't that unpopular. Your item isn't on her list, or anything like it. Even an article listing unpopular opinions isn't going to dare list actually unpopular opinions.
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
I would love to see a survey where people are asked both "how much do you agree" and "how likely are you to say so publicly". Given enough questions, it'd also be interesting to find out if the Left or the Right g
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
I use a Google Doc. I insert each entry at the top, with the date and a bulleted list of things I did (each check-in, each meeting with notes, and anything else I discovered or decided). It's also a good place to jot down who I had lun
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
In 1992 a friend and I ported BSD/Net2 to the Mac II, and found (weeks into the project!) that kernel functions like fork() and exec() and all of TTY were missing. We thought we were screwed, but found 386BSD and grabbed its versions.
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by lkesteloot 9y ago
I interviewed for the Intentional Programming group at Microsoft back in 1993! Their demo back then was amazing. I thought they'd have something out within a few years, and 24 years later I don't think anything commercial has come
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
Here's one I wrote in Go, though I just noticed I never bothered putting on a license. Let me know if you want me to. https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
> Uber is the MOST likely to push it too fast Sure, I think that's a plausible scenario. It's also plausible that Uber will succeed (they've succeeded a lot!) and this will light a fire under everyone's butt and creat
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
But if those deaths were to occur tomorrow, absolutely the ends would justify the means. There's no judge in America who would kill 10k people tomorrow just to do justice to Uber. But because those are in the future (and as you say, ha
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
Okay, I'm all for protecting intellectual property and dissuading employees from taking IP with them. But if this injunction delays self-driving cars by even a little bit, it'll cost thousands of lives. If the deaths were going to
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
I had also read elsewhere that the worse health of non-drinkers (relative to moderate drinkers) could be explained by the fact that many non-drinkers are recovering alcoholics, and had already trashed their bodies pretty badly. A study (can
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
> I’ve accidentally closed panes a number of times by a poorly-timed keystroke. PSA: In iTerm you can hit CMD+Z within a few seconds to unclose a tab or window.

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