motters

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by motters 15y ago
Software as performance art?
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Inception of The Art of Computer Programming(webofstories.com)
1 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
The one thing which struck me is how expensive a year's worth of cloud hosting is. No wonder there has been such a kerfuffle about "the cloud". The other costs - including rewards - are pretty much to be expected. From my perspective dece
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by motters 15y ago
Unless they're doing anything significantly novel, there probably isn't any need for yet another programming language.
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by motters 15y ago
I thought that Github wasn't accessible from all countries due to US export regulations.
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by motters 15y ago
As far as I know, pledges are legally worthless.
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by motters 15y ago
Japan is also well positioned to make use of hydrothermal. All those vents along fault lines pushing out superheated steam is currently unused.
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by motters 15y ago
There is a big opportunity here, because higher education seems to be facing a crisis. Due to big increases in the costs of university education, combined with the reasonable reticence of students to take on large amounts of debt which may
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Emailgraph: Turn your email into social graphs(sluggish.homelinux.net)
20 points by motters 15y ago|2 comments
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by motters 15y ago
Bitcoin seems to be overwhelmingly the domain of currency speculators, who aren't really doing anything useful. More effort should be put into promoting it as a working currency to exchange actual goods and services of value.
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by motters 15y ago
I'm also considering deleting my Linkedin account and just moving the same biographical info to my own web site.
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by motters 15y ago
I was never in love with it to begin with. In fact having had an account there for years, with various biographical details, I've gotten very little value out of that site.
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by motters 15y ago
I've used this strategy for a long time, mainly because the target platforms were often low powered PCs or DSPs. At one one company which I worked for not so long ago I was asked on a few occasions whether I wanted a newer PC, and I repeat
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Graph Theory: Part III (Facebook)(20bits.com)
56 points by motters 15y ago|10 comments
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by motters 15y ago
This doesn't seem like much of an improvement over Bitcoin. The main problem with Bitcoin as I see it is its inflation curve and fixed maximum circulation. This has a pyramid scheme-like effect where early adopters are disproportionately
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by motters 15y ago
The nymwars demonstrate that dictatorships in "the cloud" are not always benign ones. Why is Google trying to control the identities of its users, and why doesn't it seem to care about the legitimate needs of certain groups of people?
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by motters 15y ago
Argument from authority. Nice try.
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Cyberunions(cyberunions.org)
1 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
Typically only a very small fraction of the time is spent typing (<10%). Often I have been described as looking as if I'm praying, but actually I'm just thinking.
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by motters 15y ago
In an ideal world commonsense would prevail and there would be no such thing as software patents, but in the real world perhaps a software patent meltdown of the kind you describe would focus minds.
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by motters 15y ago
Something similar did in fact occur.
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by motters 15y ago
I can sympathize with the algorithm pop quiz tests. I've done a few of them in various interviews over the last year, and I have to say that in every case they bear precisely zero relevance to any software engineering that I've done in the
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by motters 15y ago
As someone else remarked, if you think that your online identity has some value then you really need to own it yourself. Giving the keys to your identity to Google or anyone else potentially gives them a lot of leverage over you. If you're
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What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True(vimeo.com)
3 points by motters 15y ago|1 comments
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by motters 15y ago
I am a post-materialist in that sense, in that so long as I have enough money to fulfill basic needs (food, fuel, rent, etc), plus a little extra for hobbies which are not highly expensive, I have no interest in seeking any more monetary in
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by motters 15y ago
In the past I have been content with hardware which is several years old. One advantage with slower machines is that benchmarking becomes easier, such that any slow operations are really obvious at the development stage. The other advanta
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by motters 15y ago
In the current economic climate I would encourage people to think really carefully before quitting their jobs. No matter how dynamic or talented you may be, it's a pretty tough environment.
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EyeWriter(eyewriter.org)
3 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
In that case the thing you need to ask yourself is whether you're employing the person because they're the best from a range of possible candidates, or whether you're employing them merely because they're your friend.
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by motters 15y ago
The trouble with this strategy is that it's really just cronyism - employing your friends and relations - rather than trying to do a less heavily biased search for the best candidate. Resumes/CVs, imperfect though they are, at least repres

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