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by pacaro 10y ago
While not just about this, The Computational Beauty of Nature [1] is worth checking out. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explorati...
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by pacaro 10y ago
I don't see why the article needs to be flagged. I found it to be thought provoking.
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The homework that inspires horror in families(bbc.com)
1 points by pacaro 10y ago|0 comments
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by pacaro 10y ago
I'm not sure. So I'm going to ramble on about myself a bit... I have a mediocre degree in an unrelated subject (History and Philosophy of Science) from a good school (Cambridge). I learned to program as a child by messing with 8-b
935.
by pacaro 10y ago
Mattel appears to have listened to some of the criticism from their crass "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" book a couple of years ago. (i.e. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634393 )
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Game Developer Barbie Is Awesome(slate.com)
2 points by pacaro 10y ago|1 comments
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Chunchmode – The NT Story(cs.stanford.edu)
2 points by pacaro 10y ago|1 comments
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A Guide to Naming Variables(a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com)
179 points by pacaro 10y ago|171 comments
939.
by pacaro 10y ago
For "______ doesn't look like (Hollywood) ______" See also choking, childbirth, and many others
940.
by pacaro 10y ago
I assume you are referring to Searle's "Chinese Room" [1] thought experiment [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
941.
by pacaro 11y ago
Standard advice to engineers: Don't read patents, you are exposing yourself to triple damages for knowing infringement. If you need a patent search done, get someone else to do it
942.
by pacaro 11y ago
My recollection is that almost all the code I wrote at Microsoft used Allman style, the only exception that I remember was Midori which used K&R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style
943.
by pacaro 11y ago
I don't remember much hungarian in CNF, I do remember a lot of whitespace... // // Comments are always surrounded both by empty comment lines // And by whitespace // // &
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by pacaro 11y ago
I worked on a project (while a Microsoft employee) where we were told that the coding standard was CNF (Cutler Normal Form). Naively I asked what this was, whether there was a document etc. The answer was to read Dave's code and write
945.
by pacaro 11y ago
An extremely selective and directional EMP cannon springs to mind as being sufficiently Hollywood
946.
by pacaro 11y ago
I have a windows phone, and have regularly encountered this with my wife (who has an iPhone). In particular :eggplant: doesn't have the same obvious meaning
947.
by pacaro 11y ago
I'm hoping that the drone ship name is an Iain Banks tribute - if so, it's hard to think of anything more fitting
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Obstacles to “Coding While Black”(bbc.com)
5 points by pacaro 11y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter(bbc.com)
263 points by pacaro 11y ago|221 comments
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by pacaro 11y ago
Indeed. I lived in Reading from 79-82 and remember that school essentially paused everytime that Concorde passed overhead because you couldn't hear anything that was being said in the classroom for a couple of minutes
951.
Why did the half-plane half-helicopter not take off(bbc.com)
3 points by pacaro 11y ago|2 comments
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Website asking for Amazon employees horror stories(thestranger.com)
11 points by pacaro 11y ago|1 comments
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by pacaro 11y ago
The moral of this story is that "let's create a DSL so that users can encode their business logic" is jumping the shark. I was mildly disappointed that the hero of this tale (the PM) didn't fire the "DSL guy" o
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Can changing your mealtimes make you healthier?(bbc.com)
1 points by pacaro 11y ago|0 comments
955.
by pacaro 11y ago
I'm curious as to has this plays out at scale. If you can reduce the number of machines needed by a factor of 10, then apart from the hardware/power savings, there are staffing savings too. Managing 1000 machines is different from
956.
by pacaro 11y ago
Maintaining a quad-tree of your triangles will give you O(LogN)lookup
957.
by pacaro 11y ago
I'm startled at your triangulation time. I last did serious work with Delauney triangulation in 1998 or so, and was triangulating ~1000000 points in a few of hours (on a machine with only 4MiB of RAM)
958.
by pacaro 11y ago
This can also work the other way, you can be the person doing the unique difficult stuff that nobody else on the team can do and be not recognized. Being recognized by management as contributing is more a social issue than anything else. I
959.
by pacaro 11y ago
I've played with this kind of stuff in the past, it's a lot of fun. Have you tried shading the triangles so each is colored as the interpolation of the color at the vertices? I've wondered what a video codec for this would lo
960.
by pacaro 11y ago
This may be a reference to a SciFi trope where a space faring society has use of hyperdrive technology that it bought/stole/inherited from an older civilization, but doesn't have any ability to create and/repair

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