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by musicale 1y ago
> Who is the #1 Java programmer in the world? James Gosling, of course[1]. Next question... > The #1 topologist? I'm not a mathematician, but... maybe Akshay Venkatesh, who won the Fields Medal in 2018? [1] https://new
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> Everything we create or do is based on something we've experienced or seen. I would add a couple of things to that. First, humans (like other animals) have instincts and feelings; even newborns can exhibit varying personality trai
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> Writers made elves by adding pointy ears to a human. That's it. Humans have been interested in supernatural beings for thousands of years. Their appearance is usually less important than their powers and abilities. The word is pre
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The code was written by Chuck E. Cheese.
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BASIC variables are typed. BASIC was also originally designed for printing terminals, so there was no 24 line limit. Modern BASICs are suitable for writing larger programs. Also seen today on HN: "I Miss Visual Basic" https:&#x2
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The whole Smalltalk zoo is interesting: https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org
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Published in CACM no less. Also: > (3) that the typical 12-year-old youngster has the interest, skill and basic knowledge necessary to build and understand simple working models of practically anything Indeed.
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Not PP, but I'd remove year counts. They can do the math if they need to. The main question for the hiring manager should be: can you do the work? I would probably rephrase your professional summary to focus on you (e.g. Full Stack Eng
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> 20 hour workweek etc We have that already. It's called part-time jobs. Usually they don't pay as much as full-time jobs, provide no health insurance or other benefits, etc.
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> Local regulations are finally catching up to them Dodging regulation and taxes was Airbnb's biggest competitive advantage. Regulatory entrepreneurship only works long-term if you can continue to dodge, or change, the law (either s
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Apparently someone is in favor of cutting the Artemis budget.
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> While there are a number of great CARDIAC simulators out there (see Building a CPU simulator in Python for instance) and even an FPGA implementation (Al Williams - Paper to FPGA) there is nothing like holding and operating a physical d
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Student-as-datapath is a great idea.
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That instructables page is great because you can actually print out the cardboard components and build your own cardboard "computer" system! The instructional manual probably makes a lot more sense with the actual system that it d
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I appreciate the consistency. I rarely hear people advocate the elimination of Nintendo's business model. Of course there are alternate game stores on Android and yet Google Play still charges the same sort of platform fees. And in a b
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They seem more applied, with the possible exception of MSR. None of them seems like the "check in a few years later" sort of place.
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AI universe? Is that metaverse or something else?
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> And more fundamentally, there’s no good argument for humans to leave Earth in the first place Said all the joyless, unimaginative naysayers in 1969. There are lots of good arguments for going back to sleep, and forgetting about doing
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> “We lit a fire under the team here,” Rascoff said. Sounds like it.
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Recently? Apple's Advanced Technology Group seems like it was fairly successful (QuickTime, HyperCard, ColorSync, AppleScript/Apple Events, Squeak, etc.) but Steve Jobs shut it down in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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The passkey pop-ups which are indistinguishable from javascript pop-ups are a particularly egregious security mistake.
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ATC had more submissions than Eurosys, and a lower acceptance rate.
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17% in 2024. More submissions than other conferences. Attendance numbers probably skewed by cross-registration with OSDI.
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> If you give your employees this freedom, many will take advantage of it and do nothing This was addressed in the article > Most founders and executives I know balk at this idea. After all, "what's stopping someone from jus
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> I’m so excited about programs like 1517’s Flux that invests $100k in people, no questions asked and lets them explore for a few months without demanding KPIs or instantaneous progress. If Bell Labs let people xplore for multiple years,
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> The freedom to waste time. The freedom to waste resources. And the autonomy to decide how. As the article notes, several companies (Apple, Google, etc.) could (currently) afford to fund such a lab, but there is no way their management
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> TV experts warned us about the Internet If they warned that it could become a distillation of the worst aspects of television... maybe they weren't wrong.
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One might imagine that the layoff-based business model for AI could eventually backfire once people discover how bad the output is, but the incentives seem aligned for a society with heaps of low-quality, AI-generated garbage and a major un
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So Teams thinks they are Netflix now?
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> If their iOS store is only profitable through anti consumer (I can't install my own software on my own device) and anti competitive measures (you must give apple a 30% cut off all sales and they have veto power over your app at an

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