nvader

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Excel spreadsheet dropped contact tracing rows leading to 1500 additional deaths(medrxiv.org)
14 points by nvader 6y ago|3 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
Well, well, well. It's a Sonic Screwdriver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_screwdriver
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by nvader 6y ago
I appreciate this comment, and feel like I learned something about parenting from it.
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Free downloads of the 80s Usborne Programming Books(usborne.com)
2 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
Sounds like a case of Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by nvader 6y ago
It's not clear how this could be enforced. Most sharply in the case of a hard-fork, and less sharply, but more commonly in the case of competing alt-coins striving to be the NFT of record. I remember hearing that it's common pract
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by nvader 6y ago
There's nothing special about gold, every other heavy element is also a by-product of supernovae. So, the analogy only works on a dully contrived poetic level, unless you also want to compare Bitcoin meaningfully with lead.
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by nvader 6y ago
In the 90s there was a very campy TV Show called Superhuman Samurai. It was an Americanized Super Sentai show--think off-brand Power Rangers. The very scenario was the plot of one of the episodes. Here's a link, if anyone remembers the
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by nvader 6y ago
Three is not an anime.
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Estimates, Design and the Payoff Line(danverbraganza.com)
2 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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Richard Hoptroff's Atomic Wristwatch(hodinkee.com)
1 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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Names to Avoid in Software Engineering(danverbraganza.com)
5 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
From the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866357
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by nvader 6y ago
Every problem in computer science: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866352
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by nvader 6y ago
Can be solved by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866337
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by nvader 6y ago
Adding another layer of indirection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866318
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by nvader 6y ago
Except for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866309
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by nvader 6y ago
Too many levels of indirection.
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by nvader 6y ago
The next time she says to him, "while you're at the store, pick up some bananas." Legend says he's at the store still.
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by nvader 6y ago
Yes
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VaccinateCA: Volunteers build database of CA Covid vaccine locations(twitter.com)
1 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
At some point I would like to write up a story about this team in my University Object-Oriented Programming class who decided to use 1-based 1ndexes in Java while making a 2-D array for a board game. I don't want to spoil it, but the f
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by nvader 6y ago
https://danverbraganza.com/writings/zero-based-ordinals ;)
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Zero-Based Ordinals(danverbraganza.com)
2 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
1ndex and 0ffset. I like it.
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by nvader 6y ago
This reminds me of the Ken Thompson hack: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
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The Ken Thompson Hack: Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)(win.tue.nl)
1 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
Okay, I think this idea has legs. There's a proven market for Serverless offerings, so how would people react to a SaaS product that: a) Did database management for you, a la Amazon RDS (perhaps later supporting BYO Cloud Database) b)
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by nvader 6y ago
When the only tool you have is a hammer, you end up living in a house made out of hammers.
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by nvader 6y ago
The GP derives comfort from exactly that point--at some point, the behemoths calcify, and the incentives that come with size lead to a slower growth, if not outright decline. This gives the rest of us a chance to one day have our day in the

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