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by sedachv 10y ago
> My point is that academic jobs are generally well-paying and secure That is a completely wrong assumption for the United States. 66% of faculty positions today are non-tenure track, also known as adjunct or contingent faculty (source:
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by sedachv 10y ago
> College debt is annoying, but I'd be surprised to hear it's a top 5 concern for any of them. Yes, all those people having to live incognito to avoid collection agencies or even fleeing abroad ( http://money.cnn.com&
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by sedachv 10y ago
> But payday loan companies and credit cards that charge 29% interest plus hundreds of dollars in feeds to "help people with poor credit" are fine. Nope, you do not even need to commit crimes to be targeted by the DOJ: https:&
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In 2009 (ish) computer vision was a joke that could recognize very few objects a small percent of the time. Based on only simple color and texture, and sometimes basic shapes. This is completely inaccurate and totally ignores the histo
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by sedachv 10y ago
The Connection Machine was a SIMD design and the languages available for it (StarLisp: https://omohundro.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/omohundro86_th... and C*: http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley&#x
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In fifteen years from now such cars will look as quaint as the cars from the 1980s with full LED dashes: Those are vacuum fluorescent displays and not LEDs, and were used in new vehicles (at least by Ford) until the early 2000s. They a
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by sedachv 10y ago
Hash consing is a 1970s Lisp technique for supporting this that was recently rediscovered as "string interning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_consing In general copy-on-write schemes would be useful for
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by sedachv 10y ago
Take for example Oakland, which used to have a large African-American population. Now that a lot of white people have moved in and started calling the police on blacks, some parents are afraid to let their African-American children walk aro
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by sedachv 10y ago
Read macros are great because you can use them to turn the Common Lisp parser into a parser for any language you want (no restrictions on the grammar), so you essentially get compilers for free. I wrote a one-pass C preprocessor and parser
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by sedachv 10y ago
> It's nothing against you but is this a common opinion in the US? People in neighborhoods "own" the streets? Yes. In many suburban neighborhoods (especially predominantly white ones) people will give you dirty looks if yo
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by sedachv 10y ago
JonL White actually wrote a serious paper about just this idea in 1980: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802797
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Personally, I think there's a massive economic explosion waiting to happen in making programming tools more accessible to average people (Wordpress/Squarespace/Salesforce/etc are beating on that door, but no one kno
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by sedachv 10y ago
> So, it's a sweatshop because people are encouraged to work, and not browse Facebook behind a closed door? It is a sweatshop because management is trying to impose a rigid pace of work and a surveillance scheme on employees. The wo
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The open plan office itseld is slightly prolonged and has long "corridor" areas cutting through it. I can only guess why they want to maximize the number of developers whose backs and monitors are turned towards everyone who
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by sedachv 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you like to see updated on cliki.net? I wrote cliki2 with Andrey Moskvitin so a lot of the changes from the first cliki ended up being our opinions.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I don't think I want this reset. It may mean you become entirely different person, or your memories get lost. Let's say you and your wife resets, and forget most memories you have of each other, pretty much why you're to
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I'd start by legalizing every form of 'marginal' housing, e.g. boarding houses, micro-apartments. This. Outlawing "flophouses" throughout the United States exacerbated homelessness, made it much harder for peop
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by sedachv 10y ago
> This was a swing of +$1m to -$70k. The crazy thing is that at a 3% withdrawal rate $1m would have been $30k a year for personal expenses for the rest of your brother's life.
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by sedachv 10y ago
It also misses the obvious cause of the move from groups to Anonymous: snitching. Adrian Lamo, Sabu, 5hm00p, etc.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Which makes it fixed in real terms. So where is the problem? Inflation adjusted income has barely increased at all for anyone but the top 20% of earners since the mid-1960s: http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort&#x2
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Unlike almost everyone else currently in the workforce, there is absolutely no expectation of any future change in income. Social Security is adjusted for inflation: https://www.ssa.gov/news/cola/ Likewise bo
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by sedachv 10y ago
Think of rump kernels as a portable library of drivers with a well-specified API. What is unique about NetBSD is that they have been structuring their driver code on top of well-specified portable APIs inside the kernel (AFAIK beginning wit
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by sedachv 10y ago
The application of mathematical type theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_F ) to popular programming languages goes back to 1998 when Philip Wadler designed generics for Java. Local type inference is now used in
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by sedachv 10y ago
> It sounds to me like the field of software engineering has simply evolved since the 80s. What is ridiculous in the face of this "programming by experimentation" fantasy is that programming has evolved since the 1980s... to be
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by sedachv 11y ago
How is "There are all these gotchas when you have stuff running in the same OS and it just takes one little mistake and your adversary has root" not saying that the Unix security model is too hard to use?
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by sedachv 11y ago
tl;dr Unix security model is too hard to use. Let's put another layer of crap around it!
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by sedachv 11y ago
> 1. Simpler formats for file representation and data interchange. When someone tries to add an extra bitfield option, say no. When they keep trying, get a wooden stick with "no" written on it. Part of the disease of modern com
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by sedachv 11y ago
> Least of all did I imagine that this story would throw me headlong into a study of Soviet bureaucracies. That is kind of like trying to understand the history of the Internet without understanding how the US Congress, DoD, (D)ARPA, and
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by sedachv 11y ago
Also see the author's other articles: http://www.6502.org/users/andre/icapos/mp.html http://www.6502.org/users/andre/icapos/osa65.html And this discussion on the 6502 foru
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GeckOS/A65 – preemptive multitasking OS for the 6502(6502.org)
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