nurblieh

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by nurblieh 4y ago
I see some comments comparing C++ to COBOL, given similar articles in the past. However, this is where I think COBOL is much better than C++! Most developers could jump into a 40 year old COBOL codebase and safely make changes. This is prob
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by nurblieh 4y ago
Ahh, I just reread _Soul_! One thing I noticed this time through was the politics and (mostly absent?) leadership from the executives. E.g., the input from the CEO was basically "no mode bit". I couldn't appreciate those thin
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by nurblieh 4y ago
Contango! Great word. For a fun explanation, check out Planet Money’s “Negative Oil”, https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/842095406/episode-993-negativ... .
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by nurblieh 4y ago
Coming from the Pixel 6 Pro, I feel the same. The camera is comparatively very slow with even daytime indoor lighting. Half the photos I take of a child at play end up in the trash due to blur. Hoping to find out that I'm just "ho
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by nurblieh 4y ago
Press release tried so hard to not say "ads" that it's conspicuous.
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by nurblieh 5y ago
Fredrik was an important contributor to YouTube over the years and truly one of a kind. In particular, he was critical to the internationalization efforts. Whenever I ran into him on email or in Zurich, it brightened my day.
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by nurblieh 7y ago
Anyone who has watched "Minority Report" or "Neon Genesis Evangelion" knows you need 3 computers.
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by nurblieh 8y ago
In my experience the author avoids animal/mouse based studies if at all possible. He mentions only those that are frequently cited so as to address their results.
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by nurblieh 8y ago
If you're looking to make dietary choices based on the results of high-quality dietary studies, my goto is "How Not to Die"[1] and the author's non-profit website at, http://nutritionfacts.org [1] https:&#x2
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by nurblieh 8y ago
I'm reminded of the long-form Wired article, "Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened" (Ratliff 2009). "Along the way they’d also proven my privacy to be a modern fiction. It turns out that people
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by nurblieh 9y ago
The Sedgewick text is quite good but even better are his classes on Coursera! Very accessible and built around practical exercises.
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by nurblieh 9y ago
Is this where Myhrvold did his research for the recently published "Modernist Bread"? https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982761058/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_dC-D...
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by nurblieh 9y ago
Yes! It includes a great track called "Palo Alto". As someone who lives in the area I've always been curious how it came about, especially circa 1996/97.
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by nurblieh 10y ago
Google's ErrorProne, https://github.com/google/error-prone/tree/master/core/src/m... Bill Pugh's FindBugs, http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html
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by nurblieh 10y ago
Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bit
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by nurblieh 10y ago
My favorite chess lecturer analyzes a Korchnoi win from each of the previous 6 decades. https://youtu.be/1n6yLPNj_Pk "The Legend: Victor Korchnoi - Ben Finegold" If you've never seen Ben Finegold lecture from
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by nurblieh 10y ago
Ironically, the secondary payload that launched with Hitomi was a micro-sat which monitors space debris. https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusa...
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by nurblieh 11y ago
"I’m looking at a new model, where the whole sort of vocabularity is different" Impressive! Creating a new word in the same sentence you declare you'll be using new words. Assuming I understand her cromulent new word.
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by nurblieh 16y ago
"There is a cost to installing security, particularly at the higher levels of FIPS certification. Let no one dispute that." Completely agree. Which is why I say at the end of my original comment that security is "always a compromise." Put a
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by nurblieh 16y ago
Hidden amongst the frothing rant are some good considerations. Unfortunately most of the article is FUD. A couple points I'll mention, "DISECONOMY of SCALE #1: CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT" The author states that distributing keys to a "farm" of