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by tjalfi 5y ago
Jon Bentley's The Back of the Envelope [0] has a much better lesson about bridge building and software design. "Most of you," says Vyssotsky, "probably recall pictures of 'Galloping Gertie,' the Tacoma Narrow
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by tjalfi 5y ago
I have found that sometimes Abebooks and foreign Amazon sites have lower prices for books than Amazon.
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Your company may have removed the crapware; that’s what our image team did.
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Goodreads has the What's the Name of That Book? [0] group for identifying books based on a description. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/185-what-s-the-name-of-...
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by tjalfi 5y ago
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall
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This was previously discussed at [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108109
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by tjalfi 5y ago
Older versions of Windows used a similar technique to replace the PREFETCHW instruction with NOPs on processors that didn't support it.
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by tjalfi 5y ago
Have you considered adding business or enterprise subscriptions[0]? B2B users are a lot less price sensitive[1] than consumers especially when you're competing against a free product. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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The Poppy War trilogy is excellent albeit depressing.
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(submitter) Here's the abstract. We argue that objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space. These differences are req
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A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) [pdf](scholar.harvard.edu)
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Here's one more thread. Ask HN: Is this CCPA-related spam? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29539266 - Dec 2021 (4 comments)
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> Governments are a reflection of the people. They're not some nebulous, abstract entity; they're literally made and run by people of each country. They're chosen–or in some cases imposed–to represent the people to the wor
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by tjalfi 5y ago
> I can only speak for the GDPR here, but had the requests been real and valid, the worst outcome would have been a regulator telling you to comply with it. Data protection authorities are more interested in helping companies get into co
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> This is simply because it is an intellectual field that is not subject to professional norms of cognitive workers. You will likely find, if you read period pieces or biographies of similar situtations e.g. 19th century EM engineers, th
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by tjalfi 5y ago
Some platforms have reasonable markets for libraries; Advanced Messaging Systems[0], DevExpress[1] and Aspose[2] are three examples of companies that successfully sell software libraries for .NET, Java, and Office. [0] https://ww
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by tjalfi 5y ago
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King. It's a bit dated but has a lot of helpful advice - I wish I had read it when I started my career.
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> You'd think MS would be able to unify all this mess and consolidate Windows settings, but no. Removing or redesigning the Control Panel would break third-party apps that rely on the existing structure; Raymond Chen's blog[0]
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I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf](eli.sdsu.edu)
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The TCP checksum catches some issues but it won't detect everything. Other newer algorithms like CRC32C are much more effective at detecting corrupt data. The following is an excerpt from Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Dat
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IntelliJ, Resharper, and presumably Rider have structural search and replace[0]. It's available for at least C#, Java, and Kotlin. [0] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re...
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by tjalfi 5y ago
I'm not sure about Copilot but IntelliJ IDEA's structural search and replace[0] is well suited to this task. [0] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re...
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go-sumtype[0] has completeness checking for sealed interfaces. [0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype
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There's always Jim Waldo's proposed rule for the C++ standards committee. Every extension proposal should be required to be accompanied by a kidney. People would submit only serious proposals, and nobody would submit more than tw
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If you're looking for prior art, Ada has the Bit_Order and Scalar_Storage_Order attributes[0]; the latter is a GNAT extension. [0] https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-140-bridging-the-endianness...
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If you enjoy reading about mega projects then I would recommend Engineers' Dreams by Willy Ley. It’s an older book on large scale civil engineering proposals such as draining the Mediterranean sea, creating an inland sea in the Sahara,
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David Friedman's Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own has a chapter on the Icelandic legal system.
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The UK used to have private prosecution. If you're interested in this topic, there's a chapter on it in the book Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own .
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The Nack Pro utility knife[0][1] is a great tool; it's easy to operate one-handed and is virtually indestructible. The handle contains 30 blades in a rotating magazine; you change blades by rotating the base of the handle. I bought one
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by tjalfi 5y ago
> Someone's lawyers seem to understand it better than he did, company's seem eager to settle rather go to trial when they are found to be violating it. It's often substantially cheaper to settle lawsuits than go to trial.

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