michael_dorfman

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Knuth: Announcing the first Art of Computer Programming eBook(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
6 points by michael_dorfman 13y ago|0 comments
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by michael_dorfman 13y ago
Or, channeling Ken Thompson: Unless the tentacles extend to the compiler you use to compile the compiler you use to compile the free software. (Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)
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by michael_dorfman 13y ago
> Please read about the alphabet system of Sanskrit and various modern languages that derives from Sanskrit The Sanskrit alphabet is very elegant indeed, but Sanskrit doesn't have a writing system. None of the various scripts use
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by michael_dorfman 13y ago
I worked in an IT department of about 20, of which two employees had each been hit twice .
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by michael_dorfman 13y ago
It's a reference to a famous quote by Sweden's trade minister in 1999, who said "Norway is the last Soviet State"
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
If a headline is phrased as a question, the answer is always "no." If the answer were "yes", they wouldn't have phrased it as a question.
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
But his paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (the one that gave the world the Turing Machine) has a bug in it. In fact, it has two. The first is obvious enough that I spotted it when i read the pap
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
See the FAQ ( http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html )
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
And, actually, last week was the 1144th anniversary of the printing of the oldest book for which we have a precise date: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/05/dayintech_0511/
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
Someone has to explain to me exactly what we should have done differently here. I'll give it a shot. What you should have done, in my opinion, is just provide a link alongside a one-line summary, along the lines of "Here's an article we
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
Yes, but Bill Evans did the arrangements on Kind of Blue ; he is also rumoured to have composed several of the songs (although they are credited to Miles.)
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
No; Bill Evans and Gil Evans are two different people (and both collaborated with Miles.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Evans
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
Wow, you sure did this wrong. A post like this is going to be aggressively ignored, I imagine. If, on the other hand, you had written a solid blog post about what you've done, and what you've learned doing it, you would have likely gone
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Alan Turing wartime research papers released by GCHQ(gchq.gov.uk)
3 points by michael_dorfman 14y ago|0 comments
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by michael_dorfman 14y ago
Just glancing over at my bookshelf, how about Tanenbaum's OSDI and Knuth's MMIXware?
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
> But if a person accepts the Church Turing Thesis, then the human brain is not doing any computation that can't be modeled by a Turing Machine. In fact, the brain is at least a Turing Machine. Gödel's limitations will apply to it. That
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
> Again and again, this topic keeps coming up and the surprising truth is: paper is the answer. Don't discount it. Paper is good, but clay tablets FTW.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I know of someone (here in Norway) trying to build up a business doing precisely this (filming things, such as snowboard and ski events) via a remote-controlled helicopter. It sounds like a cool project.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Have you spoken to a physical therapist? There's quite a bit of space on the spectrum between "trying things on your own" and "surgery".
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Actually, this article is about 5 Graph DBMS's. If you are (like me) more interested in looking for Graph Databases to consider, it looks like Knuth's "Stanford GraphBase" is still the go-to source.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The mythmaking around the early history of computing is fascinating (and maddening) to watch. In the rush to create compelling narratives around a few selected heroes, the complexities and the contributions of the many are too often shunte
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Higgs boson hints multiply in US Tevatron facility data(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by michael_dorfman 15y ago|0 comments
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Looks like you've been hellbanned. If I had to guess, I'd say it was because of too many submissions getting flagged.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
That's a wonderful offer, Patrick. Your generosity (with your time and knowledge) is, as always, inspiring.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I found the link here: http://www.cartesia.org/geodoc/icc2005/pdf/oral/TEMA3/Sessio... , and the map-folding concept described there is pretty sweet.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The decision about when to be notified or not, and what's important vs. unimportant, should be your decision, not your computer's. But isn't that the status quo? I can't think of any piece of software I use that doesn't give me a fairly e
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Not according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry (Note: I am not a lawyer.)
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Wow, what a terrible headline. Even by the usual linkbait standards, this is egregious.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The technical term is "barratry", and it is illegal in some jurisdictions, but not all.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
If the employer has a policy against discussing compensation, they are in violation of the law. Full stop. Companies not complying with labor laws should be avoided, for your own protection. It's that simple.

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