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by pfarrell 6y ago
The Stutz building is a former auto factory in downtown Indianapolis that is now an office complex. Stutz is another Indiana luxury car manufacturer from around the same time as Duesenbergs. Last I knew, Turner Woodard [0] is the owner. B
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Searching “record” located one of my favorites [0]. The drawing in the last panel just sells it. 0: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/06/05
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I must admit, the phrase “camping laptop” really caught my eyes. In my view, they are antithetical. But, to each his/her own!
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I had a job doing that involved form layout for printed forms that would get used by tens of thousands. My boss could likewise spot things off by a single pixel. At first I was annoyed, but the bigger the audience for your work, the more
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by pfarrell 6y ago
IANAL. The loophole purports to originate from the federal juries needing to be made of people from the federal district _and_ state. Presumably, all the sparsely populated places are restricted to a single state and contained in federal c
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Had a mentor who said one of the biggest problems in computer science is that all the good metaphors are already taken.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Encouraging immutable data objects is “the Kotlin way”, though. You have explicitly mark properties as mutable (“var” instead of “val”). I didn’t get the value of this at first, but when we started catching bugs at coding tiime that would h
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Great joke. Told it on a zoom meeting today. Got a big laugh from half the people... the programmers.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
It did with at least one thread. I was reading on [0] refreshed and found that all comments were replaced with a message that they’d been moved here. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25708142
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Like any community, it grows and changes. You should give it a chance. Political discussions are not the norm, and if you’re interested in tech, this place can expose and involve you in really thought provoking discussions on myriad topics.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Damn it. I just lost the game.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Chelsea Manning wasn’t pardoned by Obama. Her sentence was commuted by him.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Exactly. Those phones were very popular on construction job sites. Have a buddy who used to sell them. He talked me into getting one that supported J2ME. It really wasn’t much, but, in 2002/3, was the aha moment that showed where pro
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by pfarrell 6y ago
“Well done” us the only way to order In N Out fries. My family loves “Animal style”, but the onions give me heartburn. YMMV
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Interesting coincidence. ElasticSearch was inspired by Shay Banon trying to build a recipe site. https://www.elastic.co/about/history-of-elasticsearch
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Step 1: don’t burn bridges. Even in Silicon Valley, you are likely work with these people again. Step 2: make sure you have contact info for the best and brightest and they have yours Step 3: contact any recent people who left. They may be
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Ready for bonus trivia about that scene? The Salieri March is actually a Mozart piece “Non piu andrai”[0] from Marriage of Figaro that the film makers “dumbed down” to make it a simple little tune that Mozart could fix in front of the emper
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Can you provide an example of this? I’d like to understand this technique. Edit: is this an example? https://stackoverflow.com/a/1757915
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by pfarrell 6y ago
> How would you verify that for any centralized service, open source or not? I think, technically, some sort of honeypot verification could prove a compromise (i.e. if information that has very little chance of existing naturally in two
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I think you are referring to the 2018 election, when the Democratic Party regained majority in the House and there were not many Republican held Senate seats being elected.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
As an addendum, that professor I mentioned in the GP comment thought Asimov was obviously important, but not worthy of inclusion in the survey, given other great works (like Dune, Ender’s Game, Neuronancer, Left Hand of Darkness, ...). I th
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I took a sci-fi literature course in university, back in the ‘90’s. This stuck with me about Asimov. The prof said he didn’t include any Asimov in the course because, though he had great stories, he told you everything that was interesting
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Wow. No sarcasm here. Until you pointed it out, I was wondering why they named it that way. I suspect only a certain percentage of us are so affected.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Side note. Searching for a pronounceable password generator [0] is how I discovered the excellent, historical multicians.org site. 0: https://multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html
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by pfarrell 6y ago
It's a good thought experiment, for sure. Do you have ideas of different directions for something fundamental? Outside the design of the computer system, I'm thinking about the problems we currently face with identity and trust
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I'll delete this post if my home server can't handle it, but I created a personal software design version of this ages back. Click/touch to deal a new answer. https://patf.net/obst
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by pfarrell 6y ago
This is a good point. You have to have some assumptions of what your audience brings. I'm aware there are levels of information in an IP packet, but I don't know them offhand. If I have to google something on the first sentenc
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I would suggest expanding your terminology section. I know almost nothing about routers and I'm lost in the first sentence of the High Level Overview section. "A switch (or an L2 switch :-) ) is an L2-only thing." I d
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Thank you for that link. Even back to when this talk was hosted on google video, it’s always had the glitches. And because of the nature of this talk, they take away from Steele’s excellent timing.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
This is a great example of content that should get reposted every six months or so. Every budding programmer should digest it. Also, this line cracks me up every time. “I have to say the full phrase “Java programming language,” for there i

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