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Claude tested everything except the one thing that mattered(christophermeiklejohn.com)
2 points by mikebike 7mo ago|0 comments
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Why Are American Passenger Trains Slow?(americanaffairsjournal.org)
6 points by mikebike 7mo ago|1 comments
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Where are the proactive AI coding tools?(austinhenley.com)
2 points by mikebike 1y ago|0 comments
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Incident SEV scales are a waste of time(blog.danslimmon.com)
3 points by mikebike 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 2y ago
Does "Nicolas Bourbaki" count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
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The Resilience in Software Foundation(resilienceinsoftware.org)
4 points by mikebike 2y ago|0 comments
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Grappling with uncertainty in forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by mikebike 2y ago|0 comments
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Stopping at 90%(austinhenley.com)
6 points by mikebike 3y ago|0 comments
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Rewriting harmful analogies while they’re in use(medium.com)
1 points by mikebike 3y ago|2 comments
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What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’(github.com)
1 points by mikebike 5y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 5y ago
You might want to check the bio of Antonio García Martínez, who has a physics background, and subsequently worked in both finance and adtech.
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SemVer Considered Harmful(jolynch.github.io)
3 points by mikebike 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 9y ago
There's a bill (H.R. 4009) named "Flamethrowers? Really? Act" to regulate flamethrowers the same way machine guns are regulated: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4009...
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An empirical study of working speed differences between software engineers [pdf](page.mi.fu-berlin.de)
60 points by mikebike 10y ago|68 comments
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The Fed’s Policy Mechanics Retool for a Rise in Interest Rates(nytimes.com)
5 points by mikebike 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 11y ago
Several open source cloud projects (OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenNebula) implement the Amazon EC2 API. Eucalyptus is the only one that formally obtained a license from Amazon.
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This Automated Tool for Judging Programming Ability Is Kind of Ominous(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by mikebike 12y ago|1 comments
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by mikebike 12y ago
That's called a warrant canary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq
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by mikebike 12y ago
I've used k2pdfopt for reading two-column formatted academic papers on Kindle Paperwhite, it works great.
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Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?(ryandlane.com)
218 points by mikebike 12y ago|179 comments
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by mikebike 12y ago
Here's a talk he gave on this topic, from 2013: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...
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by mikebike 13y ago
There's "Making Software" by Oram and Wilson: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do
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by mikebike 13y ago
For a critique of Unz's data analysis, see Andrew Gelman's blog post here: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-a...
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This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
370 points by mikebike 14y ago|70 comments
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by mikebike 14y ago
Orca wasn't built by contractors, it was written in-house by Romney staffers and volunteers. See: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...
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by mikebike 14y ago
"In 2010, of all the farms in the United States with at least $1 million in revenues, 88 percent were family farms, and they accounted for 79 percent of production." -- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-triu...
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by mikebike 14y ago
Perl's a dynamic language, but return type can vary based on context. I once saw this really bite someone where the presence of parentheses on the left-hand side of the expression changed the behavior of the function being called on the rig
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The Triumph of the Family Farm(theatlantic.com)
1 points by mikebike 14y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 14y ago
Michael Crichton called this "the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect": http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/65213
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by mikebike 14y ago
RStudio is a pretty cool IDE for R.

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