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Ask HN: Do we need to rethink the conference model in computing?
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by raister 6y ago
what was true?
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by raister 6y ago
LaTeX is a perfect software, zero defects for YEARS now. Which tool could claim that?
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Should we mount it backwards or oddly and then provide disassemble instructions?
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This book is a gem for all writers, fiction, papers, etc. So many advice. I like the one: write from start to finish then let it rest for 6 weeks and edit out 10% of everything you wrote. Classic book. Read it twice already.
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Start doing the projects by Rex Krueger (YT), then some of foundations by Paul Sellers (blogs, YT), I'll leave here some manual woodworkers for your delight: - James Wright, Wood by Wright - Mike Siemsen - Rob Cosman - Frank Klausz - S
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by raister 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I guess a committee (don't ask me who or how many) should evaluate the 'justifiability' of a crime: Let's suppose: - random kill, no reason at all, psycopathy: 20 years in jail - justified kill
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by raister 6y ago
There is also a considerable body of work on so called Software Rejuvenation, to mitigate software aging phenomena, lead by Prof Kishor Trivedi, from Duke U
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Interesting report on Computer Science history and (now) famous researchers such as Dijkstra, Hoare, and so on. Compiled by the distinguished professor Brian Randell.
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Reports of the Newcastle International Seminars – from 1968 to 2001(homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk)
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> My boss did his PhD at Stanford. The story goes that one day he walked straight into Knuth's office, while he had the door open. Knuth says "Oh dear, I seem to have made a mistake. Could you close the door please?". Boss
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Which client does he use?
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by raister 6y ago
My kid would just turn off the extension and keep his business going... :'(
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by raister 6y ago
Couldn't you create a microcommunity in WhatsApp?
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by raister 6y ago
It's called "infrastructure" in Brazil. I read 30y deforestation effort. (I'm Brazilian, and quite ashamed right now)
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by raister 6y ago
Why? There's a lot of synchronising apps saving your bookmarks already - this wagon has passed...
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> with only about 10% gaining faculty positions themselves after many years of postdoctoral training There are no (steady) places for everyone, sadly. That's the way things are, where they demand postdocs to be extra productive, pro
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by raister 6y ago
Unfortunately, the actual answer is "there is not enough information on the question to provide a response". It's an exercise as to the limits of problem formulation, from what I understood.
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"If a ship has 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?" oh boy
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Pull/Push is a nightmare for Portuguese (Portugal,Brazil) because 'puxar' (read push-ah-r) means pull................
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by raister 6y ago
That's interesting. I saw once Timothy Feriss interviewing Neil Gaiman, and it was about focus and whatnot, and Gaiman said: "whenever I'm blocked, I stop, and start doing nothing . I can't watch a movie, read a book, I
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by raister 6y ago
Paul Sellers dimensioned his filming studio to mimic a small garage for a common UK woodworker.
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I saw someone commenting on YouTube that there is a lot of people from software looking into woodworking. I guess it calms you down after a stressful day. Nothing relax you more than hand planning a crooked board and making a simple dovetai
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by raister 6y ago
Several resources for manual woodworking, now, if you're thinking about power tool woodworking, then, I agree, you'll have to spend money... there's no way around it, at least not with nice and quality tools. Now, if you want
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by raister 6y ago
I know! That's exactly my point! I didn't like it when it landed somewhere in my drive. I'm not saying proprietary is good, I'm saying it's better (these days), despite this little things that they do for high-level
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by raister 6y ago
Proprietary sw: easy to use/maintain, fun, works most of the time, professional developers behind it, profit. Open source sw these days: several versions, constant tweaking, works so-so (depends on the software), semi-professional deve
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by raister 6y ago
It's kinda relevant: I imagine sending kids an assignment 3 years old and make them run with current software versions... A lot of them would be disgusted by this back-and-forth installing, tweaking, re-installing, virtual envs, all of
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by raister 6y ago
I will probably get downvoted a lot, and this is more or less pertinent to this, so here's a rant: I am quite sick to make software work these days: someone coded something using Python3.6 and numpy1.18.5 then three years pass. Now, it
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by raister 6y ago
So far, goodbye: pinterest.com forbes.com amazon.co.uk amazon.com pinterest.co.uk ebay.com.au ebay.ca pinterest.at ebay.fr pickclick.co.uk pickclick.fr etsy.com
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Steps: 1. remove your Picasa pictures at picasa.google.com 2. since the GDrive search will not help you searching for file sizes, you'll need to install a third-party tool, I suggest WinDirStat ( https://windirstat.net/

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