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by qohen 4y ago
FYI, this crunchydata.com blog-post was discussed 11 months ago on HN[0], in a thread awarded 601 points, with 137 comments. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27973497
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by qohen 4y ago
A few years ago, my neighbor's PC wouldn't boot. Unlike similar situations I'd had with my own hardware, the power-supply wasn't dead -- in fact, at the back, there was a green blinking light. I went online and found peo
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by qohen 4y ago
You're welcome. :-) Also, there are some (legitimately) free SQL books that might be worth a look: https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-books-learn-sql/ Then there's this freebie, which is interesting in
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by qohen 4y ago
There are many free resources online for learning SQL. Here are some of them: Khan Academy has a SQL course: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/s... The one in the first link below is inter
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by qohen 5y ago
Has there ever been a incident of civil asset forfeiture for a white collar crime? Also from reason.com (2/18/22): "The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This Family—and Never Charged Them With a Crime" [0] In April 2
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by qohen 5y ago
The Google SRE (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) book is available to read online here, along with 2 other Google books: https://sre.google/books/
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by qohen 5y ago
Christopher Alexander actually wrote the Foreward to this book and it's interesting because on the one hand he describes how Gabriel seems to understand his work better than his architect colleagues. But, not being a practioner, he won
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by qohen 5y ago
Some interesting tidbits about this song, if you're interested, from its Wikipedia page [0]: - The song was written by 2 people of Armenian heritage. One was the Pulitzer-winning author William Saroyan; the other, Ross Bagdasarian, is
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by qohen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_Pentateuch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_Hebrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_script
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by qohen 5y ago
Pointing out that the author drew comics for Playboy is also a really weird thing to say Seemed like an ad hominem attack to me -- here's the passage from the article: Allman went on to say that Spiegelman had once done artwork for
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by qohen 5y ago
One of the board members goes on a bizarre tangent about a poem which includes the line "The heavenly blisses of his kisses, fill me with ecstasy," The "poem" is actually the lyric to the 1921 song, "I'm Just
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by qohen 5y ago
Few countries explicitly allow slavery in their constitution...Most countries are capable of realising and admitted bad things, and working on making them impossible The 13th Amendment to the Constitution[0] abolished slavery back in 1789
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by qohen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
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by qohen 5y ago
From a Snopes.com debunking[0] of this parody (which apparently led to a real interview[1] in IEEE Computer, entitled "The Real Stroustrup Interview): The “leaked” Stroustrup interview was just a bit of inventive fiction that satiri
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by qohen 5y ago
The intro with Rita Moreno yelling “Hey you guys!” followed by the theme song brings back a flood of emotion. Here's a good-quality clip of that (6th season, 1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu7qn7c7Gpo
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by qohen 5y ago
For distributed systems, you might want to check out the "Murat Buffalo" blog[0] (whose actual title is "Metadata") by Murat Demirbas: From his profile[0]: I am a principal applied scientist at AWS S3 Automated Reasonin
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by qohen 5y ago
Here's a related article not behind a paywall: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/24/scientists-m...
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by qohen 5y ago
A bit more detail, from: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/08/05/t-mobile-3g-shutdow... (from the update towards the bottom): T-Mobile is no longer accepting CDMA-only devices and phones without VoLTE as o
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by qohen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_fighting_season
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by qohen 5y ago
I wonder if it's possible to make some sort of patent troll insurance company. There have been efforts along these lines, e.g.: RPX [0] and Allied Security Trust [1]. And the general idea is called Defensive Patent Aggregation [2]. [
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by qohen 5y ago
Nolo Press, which is known for putting out do-it-yourself legal books, has a book for writing one's own patents [0]. At the link, there's a sample chapter. They also have a number of pages on their website related to this topic, w
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by qohen 5y ago
FYI, you can play a nice implementation of this game online for free at BoardGameArena.com: https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=mapmaker (Note: as with most games on BGA there's no AI/solo mode -- you'd
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by qohen 5y ago
BTW, for those who weren't aware, you can have the old Reddit experience by using old.reddit.com in Reddit URLs -- there are browser extensions that will take care of this for you automatically.
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by qohen 5y ago
Relevant XKCD (from 2008): https://xkcd.com/488/
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by qohen 6y ago
Try using old.reddit.com: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/a... (And there are browser extensions that will turn all reddit links into old.reddit.com links).
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by qohen 6y ago
This WSB post[0]collects a large list of links to stories in mainstream media about silver...it's really something. Reminiscent of Paul Graham's old piece about how PR works, The Submarine[1], but this time it's not the suit
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by qohen 6y ago
There are a bunch of posts on the front page of WallStreetBets stating that it's all B.S. And, apparently, the hedge-fund Citadel owns a ton of silver options, meaning that people buying silver would be helping the GME (GameStop) short
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by qohen 6y ago
s/MIT/Harvard (MIT has its own EdX introductory CS course using Python: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-computer-science-... )
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by qohen 6y ago
Thank you for posting this -- I had the same reaction as you to the news of Flash retiring and an archive of Flash games that's out there -- I remembered this site. But...I couldn't remember the name of the site or its designer. T
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by qohen 6y ago
"There has to be a better of doing this than popping open my text editor and manually writing all these tags". This isn't a silver bullet, but perhaps the open-source tool, Emmet [0], can help remove some/much of the d

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