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by mimixco 6y ago
TL;DR: Lots of math is used to show that a novel mechanical card shuffler using psuedorandom numbers needs to be run twice in a row to be effective at preventing players from guessing the resulting cards.
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by mimixco 6y ago
From Illitch's Wikipedia entry: "In his Medical Nemesis, first published in 1975, also known as Limits to Medicine, Illich subjected contemporary Western medicine to detailed attack. He argued that the medicalization in recent dec
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Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illitch [pdf](ratical.org)
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by mimixco 6y ago
As a small business who had to settle a trademark issue with a large international computer company, I found this interesting. TL;DR: The country band is suing just to show they own the trademark, not to stop the blues singer or extract mon
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Lady A (Formery Lady Antebellum) Sues the Other Lady A Over Trademark(pitchfork.com)
1 points by mimixco 6y ago|1 comments
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by mimixco 6y ago
There's no shortage of high quality baked goods available in the States, I assure you! :-) Tate's is a good brand that you can buy in stores w/ no weird ingredients. The Famous Amos retail stores that used to be here also had
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by mimixco 6y ago
LOGO is a Lisp, which is what makes it great. I owe my entire programming career to learning LOGO as a kid.
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by mimixco 6y ago
I saw the founder on Shark Tank a few years; his story is an interesting and sad one about inventing something great then taking on so much money that other people owned the entire company. BTW, someone needs to have a conversation with the
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by mimixco 6y ago
Every radio commercial, TV announcement, advertising video, movie, and animated program uses voice actors. Text to speech isn't good at emotion or character and those things will always be needed in the creative arts and the businesses
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More food companies agree to retire racist icons, brand names(preview.houstonchronicle.com)
1 points by mimixco 6y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 6y ago
I'm in exactly the same boat. I finally switched from HBO on Amazon Prime on the day South Park left Hulu and HBO Max became a Hulu channel that you can't watch with the Hulu app. (If that isn't confusing enough by itself.) T
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Lego sets let you make Warhol, DC, Star Wars art(io9.gizmodo.com)
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by mimixco 6y ago
It's used for every airline reservation you've ever made. Also, it's used here on HN. And in Grammarly.
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by mimixco 6y ago
This article is good reminder that "no code" doesn't mean "no programming." If a person can figure out the logic to wire something like this together, they are programming. The tough part about coding isn't s
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by mimixco 6y ago
IMHO, not worth it. Too big of an attack surface and you spend all your time on security. That's probably why Outlook de-listed you, too.
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by mimixco 6y ago
I didn't read that types were causing problems. My understanding was TS, itself, was causing problems. Specifically waiting around for it to compile. Strong typing is from OOPS, itself an optional programming methodology. There are m
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by mimixco 6y ago
I've been programming for 40 years and I agree. Strong typing has a religious quality. You have to believe that most errors are caused by type mismatch, and I simply don't believe that. Most errors, in my experience, are caused by
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by mimixco 6y ago
Lisp is large, important, and also not statically typed. It's worked out ok for Lisp programmers. JS itself isn't strongly typed and is the most successful and important language in the world (probably in the history of programmin
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by mimixco 6y ago
I don't think so, since TS by definition compiles to JS. Too many embedded systems rely on JS. And many programmers, like me, prefer non-strongly-typed systems and/or runtime typing rather than compile-time.
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by mimixco 6y ago
How did JS not make it? It's the most ubiquitous programming language on earth and runs on more devices and environments than any other. JS will always be here.
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PepsiCo Announces They Will Discontinue Aunt Jemima Brand Name and Logo(chicagobusiness.com)
2 points by mimixco 6y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 6y ago
I had a couple big companies take a chance on me when I didn't know much and it worked out for them. Think of it as their investment in you which you repay with your enthusiasm and terrific contributions.
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by mimixco 6y ago
When I started my company, we used to host our own stuff but I found the security aspect to be a nightmare. Unless you want to be in the business of supervising a bleeding hole to the outside world (which is what a server basically is), I&#
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by mimixco 6y ago
Isn't that just Chrome? I took the OP to mean a dev desktop environment, like Windows, for example. Those are still expensive on a hosted basis.
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by mimixco 6y ago
After looking at lots of font options for our project, we chose Inter and are very happy with it. My favorite feature is infinitely-variable widths from a single font, along with a huge variety of glyphs. And it looks great, too.
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Inter: FOSS Variable-Width Font for UIs(rsms.me)
1 points by mimixco 6y ago|1 comments
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by mimixco 6y ago
I love the idea of desktop-as-a-service but all the current implementations are way to expensive. It's hard to justify paying for a machine on a per-minute basis at the kind of rates that, MS for example, is charging.
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by mimixco 6y ago
Do you want it to become one of your competencies? Maybe they like you enough to let you learn it on the job. If you want to work there and want to learn that stack, why not? If you really don't want to work there, then just thank them
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by mimixco 6y ago
These are nearly all videos which are pretty self-explanatory (and horrifying).
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by mimixco 6y ago
I know politics isn't the usual HN topic, but I think this goes beyond politics at this point. Until I saw this list, I had no idea how out of control this situation has gotten here. I'm saddened for my country and hope that this

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