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by qohen 3y ago
Intel bought them in 2009. Then, in 2018 they were sold to TPG. And in 2020, to Aptiv. (From the "Our History" section of this page: https://www.windriver.com/company ) Aptiv PLC is the automotive tech company tha
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by qohen 3y ago
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer [0] by Kathryn Kleiman. It's about the women who programmed the ENIAC computer[1] in the 1940's. [0] https://www.
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by qohen 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley
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by qohen 3y ago
FYI, the article is written by science-fiction author Charles Stross, author of, among other things, Accelerando , which he made available for free as an ebook and online[0]. [0] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-s
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by qohen 3y ago
Hadn't come across NANOG before -- thanks for mentioning them. Here's a link to their videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO8DR5ZGla8iVN2v3UKkR... This is the ras' "Troubleshooting with Tracer
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by qohen 3y ago
YouTube has Heaney reading his Beowulf translation (in 2 parts[0][1]) -- given that Beowulf was an oral epic, you may want to check it out. If you want your own copy, Audible has it[2] -- it's about $15 (but they also have a free trial
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by qohen 3y ago
A video of Heaney reading this poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNRkPU1LSUg (FYI, there are many videos of him reading his work on YouTube. Given that poetry is meant to be recited, and given that he had a good voice f
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by qohen 3y ago
The book with the hexagrams is the I Ching , not the Tao Te Ching .
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by qohen 3y ago
There's a name for this anti-pattern, the Cobra Effect[0]: The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdotal occurrence in India during British rule. The British government, concerned about the number o
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by qohen 3y ago
From MJD's post: I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software? But they never do. FWIW, MIT's "The Missing Semester of Your CS Educa
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by qohen 3y ago
A minced oath. From the term's WP page[0]: A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original ter
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by qohen 3y ago
According to Paul Smith, who has an AMA about healthcare.gov at Lobster.rs[0], the database was MarkLogic, which started out as an XML database, according to its Wikipedia page[1] (Paul also mentions this briefly his 10th anniversary post).
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by qohen 3y ago
Cassava Sciences posted a response: https://www.cassavasciences.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
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by qohen 3y ago
For those unfamiliar with Dorothy Parker[0] and/or that punchline, here's the poem, Resumé, that it's from[1]: Resumé By Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t la
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by qohen 3y ago
Yes. Here[0] is a gist showing it done in Elixir -- as you'll see, it looks very similar to the Erlang code: [0] https://gist.github.com/mndvns/80b00cf67d418e8359fb5566b80ae...
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by qohen 3y ago
I sent an email last night. I don't know if quantity is important here, but it can't hurt to have multiple people dropping a line.
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by qohen 3y ago
FoxIT's free PDF reader[0] has a Fill & Sign feature. And, it also allows you to type text anywhere on a PDF, in case that's what you actually want. It's available for PC, Mac and Linux. (While the Linux version isn'
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by qohen 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, fsloth. For anyone interested in this, I found a couple of excerpts of Caroline Alexander's Iliad translation[0] that were published in The Guardian as well as an article by Emily Wilson (the Odyssey
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by qohen 3y ago
Jailer[0] might be worth a look. From the project's website[1]: Jailer is a tool for database subsetting, schema and data browsing. It creates small slices from your database and lets you navigate through your database following the r
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by qohen 3y ago
Steve Yegge discusses this in his "The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions" blog post[0] from 2004 and states that his team-member (at Amazon) produced the list of phone-numbers in an hour: Here are some facts for you to ponder
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by qohen 3y ago
What kind of writing is this? It's an opinion piece (and is labelled as such). it reads like a tantrum from someone not getting what they want. Or like a patriotic cri de coeur from someone gravely concerned about decisions the g
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by qohen 3y ago
Just FYI, among other things, he co-wrote a number of novels about Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock's brother), which he discusses in this interview[0] and was part of the writers room for the tv show, Veronica Mars -- he describes the experie
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by qohen 3y ago
every incoming new VP or Director would wipe the slate clean for their own multi-year plan, and then get promoted/demoted out of the position before it went anywhere. Rinse and repeat with the next senior leader. Ah, the "bungee
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by qohen 3y ago
[0] https://www.uber.com/blog/piranha/ ( https://github.com/uber/piranha ) ;-)
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by qohen 3y ago
Relevant: a short fantasy story called Hoard by Steven Piziks (probably a 5-10 minute read): https://web.archive.org/web/20100210092717/http://www.bookvi...
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by qohen 3y ago
MIT Press makes this classic text freely available as a PDF here: https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b... (Publishers are making many academic texts freely downloadable in what is call
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by qohen 3y ago
Young ones today won't know the joy of the ridiculous size of Computer Shopper 2kg (~4 pounds) of paper. True, though they will be able to experience it online -- for anyone who didn't see it, there was a very recent post on HN[
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by qohen 3y ago
The quote actually meant something rather different than people think and has been taken out of context. Here's a discussion about it[0]. First, here's the TL;DR: SIEGEL: So far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it
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by qohen 3y ago
no one on the Harvard or Yale rowing teams died in the Civil War Don't know know about the rowing team per se, but one of the most important buildings at Harvard is Memorial Hall, which was built to memorialize Harvard students who d
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by qohen 3y ago
there is no “basic thing” mentioned in the article The "basic thing" is that the doctor didn't listen to his patient (i.e. the author). It's right here: What’s more, why do too many of them not listen to their patient

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