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by mjgs 6y ago
I’ve read several reports, they all speak about ‘amendments’ but so far I haven’t found an article that lists what they actually are. It’s weird. They make this huge media circus for several days, then things change and nobody bothers to ex
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by mjgs 6y ago
Each time I watch one of these big space mission videos I forget about all the joy, happiness, jumping, clapping, screaming, hugging, high fives, and the rest of it after the main event. And every single time it’s awesome :)
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by mjgs 6y ago
Great bit to of trivia! Mechanical machines that perform several actions per second are a real marvel. Did you ever write programs that ran on the 1401? I’m curious to know what the scene was like. Were people as excited about programming f
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by mjgs 6y ago
Yeah I thought that bit was cool too. A bit of (probably) useless trivia that I noticed, because I used to work in feature film visual effects, is that the card reader read 13 punch cards per second, which is about the same speed as an arri
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by mjgs 6y ago
I mentioned you in my latest javascript, technology and web development newsletter. https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-20... I’d be honoured to have you as a reader, no pressure though, I bet you
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by mjgs 6y ago
What a marvellous short form essay.
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by mjgs 6y ago
This just landed: #162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness https://lexfridman.com/jim-keller-2 I haven’t listened to it yet, the topics covered in the show notes look pretty cool.
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by mjgs 6y ago
I listened to it yesterday. I actually liked the episode. There were a few bits where it got a tad uncomfortable, maybe even cringey (though I think that’s a stretch), sometimes because Lex was being a bit argumentative, or because some of
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by mjgs 6y ago
Philosophy and theology on a comp sci course is pretty wild, and I guess a good place to meet folks from other departments?
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by mjgs 6y ago
About the only non-computery course we had was a business / management / entrepreneur type course. I don’t remember if it was something we chose to do, but it wasn’t part of the core set of courses that made up the degree.
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by mjgs 6y ago
You’re right I might totally have misread that. It got me thinking though, about the value of having some philosophy in comp sci courses. Back when I was doing my masters (2002-2003) it was a different era for the web, there wasn’t much tho
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by mjgs 6y ago
That’s an interesting book to have on a computer science undergrad course. I guess many of the themes are very relevant, repairing, problem solving, the knowledge that different people approach technology in different ways, etc. Plus I can
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by mjgs 6y ago
Yeah I think there might be. One which I really enjoyed was: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycl... I don’t know of many others like it. I’d really lik
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by mjgs 6y ago
There were no signs of your cold on the audio podcast version of the interview :) One issue I’ve had with Greek philosophy is that although I know there’s interesting content within the stories, it all feels very distant, I can’t pronounce
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by mjgs 6y ago
I didn’t watch that one. So far I’ve only listened to a few. I mostly listen via the podcast feed. I posted the ones I liked to my linkblog ( https://links.markjgsmith.com ): [2020-12-26] Lex Friedman Podcast #80 - Vitalik Buterin
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by mjgs 6y ago
All the people you listed would be great guests for sure. My initial reaction was that, of the people you listed, Steve Wosniak would be the best fit. I attended a lecture he gave a number of years ago, it was very inspiring. He’s not very
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by mjgs 6y ago
I really liked this episode. I think Brendan Eich has got to be one of my favourite people to hear anecdotes about early web history. He was around at some pivotal moments, was in with the business side of things but also super technical. H
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by mjgs 6y ago
I wish there was a website that lists which big tech companies have support departments that are known to exist AND are contactable via email. You might even be able to offer a service that notifies people when a support department disappea
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by mjgs 6y ago
Given how central LinkedIn is to many people’s professional careers, I find it shocking that their support department is not contactable via email. Do they even have a support department? Everything is fine until you have an issue. If your
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by mjgs 6y ago
I currently think that the best option for a personal website / blog is a statically generated site. It’s just the most robust way to build things for the long haul. Minimal maintenance, and easy to move all your files to a new hosting
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by mjgs 6y ago
Thanks for the details. The sort of thing I was thinking about was something similar to how post production workflows are setup in film vfx. You have teams of artists working on 2d and 3d software packages locally. They then save their pro
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by mjgs 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this, awesome project. The feature set looks pretty comprehensive from the screenshots. Is there a way to export the created canvas from the editor? I’m imagining a workflow where people/teams create the RSS processi
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by mjgs 6y ago
Location: Currently South East Asia (UTC+7), very flexible with working hours, can accommodate most timezones, experienced remote worker. Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer
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by mjgs 6y ago
SEEKING WORK, South East Asia (UTC+7), remote work OK, I am very flexible with working hours and can accommodate most time zones, experienced remote worker. Willing to relocate: Yes Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation En
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Cloud Native web application development: what's it all about?(blog.markjgsmith.com)
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by mjgs 6y ago
That’s exactly what I was thinking. My first reaction was ‘this sounds like it might be useful’ but I’ve read the copy and I still don’t fully grok where I would use it effectively. Having the curl example is good, but I feel like a few exa
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by mjgs 6y ago
Great bit of history/context around cloud computing, even if there is a bit of dispute as to how big the impact was, it’s still super interesting.
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by mjgs 6y ago
What’s the point in trying to even have a discussion about this if there is nowhere to read the actual tweets he posted?
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by mjgs 6y ago
This looks nice, I like it. One thing that worries me about CV social networks is the possibility of that site going away or loosing it’s relevance. Once you have lots of comments/recommendations etc, loosing that could really cause is
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by mjgs 6y ago
Location: Currently South East Asia (UTC+7), very flexible with working hours, can accommodate most timezones, experienced remote worker. Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer

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