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Tell HN: Parts of YouTube are down
21 points by not_knuth 6y ago|2 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Can someone explain to me how the title is related to the content? At first I thought it was an allusion to the mythical rational markets, but the content is so staccato, cryptic and Buddhist Koan-like that I was not able to make the connec
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Don't know where you got the logo from, but it isn't a PNG on the W3C's SVG working group page (there it's an inline svg): https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
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by not_knuth 6y ago
On a side note: Does anyone know a good, detailed writeup with dates of events etc. of how the word "hacker" was transferred from "hacker culture" (as described in The Jargon File [0]) to the rest of the world and turned
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Is a "populist fiction" not precisely what any currency, that is traded in place of tangible things, is?
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Every time I see an article like this about how the UK government (all large orginzations of people in general though) is obssessed with measuring meaningless things, I am reminded that it is the birthplace of Goodhart's Law [0]. http
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Programming Language Explorer(language.donghwi.dev)
1 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Thank you for your reply :). Supposing most people think like that, it would indeed explain why there are so little of these types of visualizations out there. The effort, as you say, is probably not worth the objective value it would creat
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Ask HN: Visualizations of an Overview of Programming Languages
2 points by not_knuth 6y ago|6 comments
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Taxonomy and genealogy of programming languages (2004)(hopl.info)
1 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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Programming Languages Genealogical Tree(github.com)
2 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Tangent: Why are there not more part time teachers? From personal experience most teachers simply ended up in the job as a fallback plan or a day job to get by. There was the occasional passionate teacher that put in a lot of effort and I
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Shortcomings of Type Inference in SQL (2015)(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
2 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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Understanding the World Economy in Terms of Networks (2018)(frontiersin.org)
3 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
If anybody is looking for a deeper dive into the subject matter, I can recommend any kind of talks given by John Hawks [0], since they usually lie at the intersection of containing decent information and being pleasant to listen to. In a ta
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Is there some interesting backstory to sharing this? Is there an interesting item on the long list somewhere?
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by not_knuth 6y ago
From all the noise about WebAssembly out there I found this repo from a fantastic talk [0] gets straight to the point. That is, if you're just trying to get an overview of WASM by getting your hands dirty. [0] https://www.yo
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An Introduction to WebAssembly(github.com)
4 points by not_knuth 6y ago|1 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I also think using any quote as a thought terminating cliché is flawed. In that case I wouldn't blame the quote though, but the person using it. (I assume your boss probably had an interest in terminating thought. Perhaps the project w
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by not_knuth 6y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1606 :)
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Obligatory Bjarne Stroustrup quote: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." I think it's an interesting point you make, because Python is actually one of the few lan
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I have no idea what the company is like, nor do I know what working for Wolfram is like (person and company), but Wolfram the person streams a lot of his meetings. https://www.stephenwolfram.com/livestreams/
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Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
165 points by not_knuth 6y ago|63 comments
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Parody of a typical comp.theory newsgroup discussion on a P≠NP proof (2004)(blog.geomblog.org)
3 points by not_knuth 6y ago|1 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I found this through the list of P vs NP "proofs" that Gerhard Woeginger maintains [0] and could not help but give it a chuckle. [0] https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Coincidentally, I saw this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671097 Giving it the benefit of the doubt, I could not help but wonder if this was the Usenet post you saw back in the day that made you apply for
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Also https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by not_knuth 6y ago
In case you were not aware, you can figure out the stack of a site pretty well using something like: https://builtwith.com/
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by not_knuth 6y ago
<< laughs with tears and a devilish look in eyes >> Regardless of the fact that most of the banking sector is still stuck on IBM mainframes from the 60s-80s running COBOL: I have seen accountants who's only job it was to co
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Pretty neat, but is there a definition of the endpoint schema somewhere?

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