tjalfi

34 ms·

1. 331.▲
   Abraham Wald's Work on Airplane Survivability (1984) [pdf](people.ucsc.edu)

   23 points by tjalfi 6y ago|14 comments
2. 332.▲
   The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (2011)(slate.com)

   65 points by tjalfi 6y ago|70 comments
3. 333.▲
   The cpio trailer problem (2018)(entropymine.wordpress.com)

   52 points by tjalfi 6y ago|41 comments
4. 334.▲
   by tjalfi 6y ago

   Here are two books that explain a lot about politics. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About
5. 335.▲
   by tjalfi 6y ago

   They laid off thousands of testers in 2014[0]. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that quality plummeted afterwards. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...
6. 336.▲
   by tjalfi 6y ago

   Bram Cohen made a similar observation[0] years ago. Bram's Law - The easier a piece of software is to write, the worse it's implemented in practice. I'm not sure whether I agree with him but it's not obviously wrong. [0]
7. 337.▲
   by tjalfi 6y ago

   Fiction: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein The Carpet Makers - Andreas Eschbach Nine Hundred Grandmothers - R.A. Lafferty Weaveworld - Clive Barker A Small Death in Lisbon - Robert
8. 338.▲
   by tjalfi 6y ago

   They are still out there. Last year we recruited an attorney from a firm that still uses WordPerfect for all their documents.
9. 339.▲
   by tjalfi 6y ago

   This. There are no easy purchases in an enterprise. Working with any third party requires an NDA, contract review, and negotiations by our Purchasing department.
10. 340.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    This is a neat project, thanks for writing it up. Does the Retroputer instruction set have an equivalent to the x86 ja instruction? If so, here is a trick[0] that can be used for optimizing character class checks. low <= x <= high is
11. 341.▲
    Trace Scheduling: A Technique for Global Microcode Compaction (1981) [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

    13 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
12. 342.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    (submitter) The material in the slides is based on the book Object-Oriented Design Heuristics[0] by Arthur Riel. [1] has a list of the heuristics. It may be incomplete. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17920
13. 343.▲
    Object-Oriented Design Heuristics (2017) [slides](slideshare.net)

    40 points by tjalfi 6y ago|17 comments
14. 344.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Pirahna, Uber's code cleanup tool, was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516823 . The paper Pirahna: Reducing Feature Flag Debt at Uber is at https://github.com/uber/pir
15. 345.▲
    Engines of Democracy - 170 employees, 1 manager (1999)(fastcompany.com)

    2 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
16. 346.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Here is a Thread Reader view of this content. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html
17. 347.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Most people haven't heard of Betty White's Miracle at Carville. It's the autobiography of a Southern debutante in Louisiana who contracted Hansen's disease. She is sent to a leper colony and spends the next 20 years ther
18. 348.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    (submitter) This post was previously submitted in 2013[0][1] and 2017[2]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6184984 - 102 comments [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690913 - 11 comments [2]
19. 349.▲
    Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs (2013)(bbc.co.uk)

    198 points by tjalfi 6y ago|90 comments
20. 350.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Stay-behind[0] operations such as Operation Gladio[1] were common in western Europe during the Cold War. I wouldn’t be surprised if Taiwan has a similar setup in place. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay-behind [
21. 351.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    (submitter) Henry Warren, the author of Hacker’s Delight[0], is one of the authors of this book. Chapters 3, 5, and Appendix D have some neat examples of bit twiddling code in Power assembly language. The content overlaps with that of Hacke
22. 352.▲
    The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (1996) [pdf](cr.yp.to)

    95 points by tjalfi 6y ago|31 comments
23. 353.▲
    The Case of the Undying Debt (2009) [pdf](chicagofed.org)

    2 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
24. 354.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    My dad used to receive a lot of misdirected faxes. His solution was to send a return fax with disorderly handwriting begging and pleading for them to fax someone else. The other person stopped faxing him.
25. 355.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    My employer instituted a form of the Rooney Rule[0] several years ago. Our compliance with this rule is audited biannually by a third-party and diversity is important to our clients. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro
26. 356.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    I was thinking of platforms or programming languages, e.g. the JVM, the .NET Core runtime, Go, Python, etc. I consider MongoDB a platform. I don't change applications that often. I'll try a new application when I have a new proble
27. 357.▲
    Hard-Coding Bottom-Up Code Generation Tables to Save Time and Space (1991) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

    56 points by tjalfi 6y ago|14 comments
28. 358.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    People use what they know to solve the problems they have. You can complain about their solution or see it as an opportunity. I posted elsewhere[0] in this thread about my employer's practice of replacing shared spreadsheets with web a
29. 359.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    I posted elsewhere[0] in this thread about my employer's successful practice of replacing shared spreadsheets with web applications. Here is another option that we use instead of CSV import. Our applications support custom reports and
30. 360.▲
    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Excel can be an excellent source of new line-of-business applications. Many of my employer's applications started out as a shared spreadsheet or Access database. Our development team worked with the users and built a web application to