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by tjr 8y ago
I enjoyed long articles from the ye olde early days of the world wide web, when long articles were long because the author had a lot of interesting things to say. Now, too many articles are long just for the sake of being long. And often pe
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by tjr 8y ago
A public variant of the software comes bundled with the Arc programming language installation. The version that runs on HN has non-public modifications, but looking at this should give a decent idea of what's going on: https:/&#x
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by tjr 8y ago
So somewhere, perhaps, somebody who was expecting a box of customized shirts received a cheap antenna?
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by tjr 8y ago
I took this course in 2012: http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/ Probably the best course I've ever taken, on any subject -- though this one happens to be on relational databases! The model o
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by tjr 8y ago
The same people who write cryptography software.
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by tjr 9y ago
The best money I’ve ever spent has been spent on books. The stupidest thing I’ve ever spent money on? Books. Would be curious to hear that expounded upon.
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by tjr 9y ago
I still use my 2010 MBP from time to time. I recently bought a new iMac, not because I really wanted an iMac, but because I needed a newer and more capable computer for some things, was unhappy with the current MBP offerings, and did not wa
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by tjr 9y ago
Might be a good question for hn@ycombinator.com
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by tjr 9y ago
I did not mean "random" in a literal mathematical sense. If I have absolutely no idea (or purposefully ignore) what the chord progression of a tune is, I could just start playing notes. It might sound good, it might not. It might
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by tjr 9y ago
Setting goals for one person based on what another person chooses to do seems like a phenomenally stupid idea.
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by tjr 9y ago
Learning to improvise jazz seems different to Franklin's method, in that you don't listen to a jazz great's solo, put it aside and later try to reconstruct it; you have to play it exactly, writing it out if necessary, and pl
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by tjr 9y ago
I've produced music for others (as a job, if you will), and I've produced music for my own enjoyment and satisfaction. While I do get an amount of enjoyment out of producing music for others, it may or may not be music that I pers
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by tjr 9y ago
I often find starting a new book to be the most challenging part. Once I get into the second or third chapter, I feel oriented as to what the book is about and where it's going, and I want to continue reading to see how it turns out. B
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by tjr 9y ago
A lot of effort and resources go into reproducing the sound of music recordings from, say, the 1960s -- even though the music producers in the 1960s would probably have loved to have had today's technology instead!
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Undermine mass surveillance with free software and your phone calls(fsf.org)
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by tjr 9y ago
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html How do you pronounce your last name? Ka-NOOTH.
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UI's 'CS and X' degrees add up on many different levels(news-gazette.com)
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by tjr 9y ago
Looking forward a bit, there's an update to The Reasoned Schemer due out in February: https://www.amazon.com/Reasoned-Schemer-MIT-Press/dp/0262535...
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How to learn programming?(stallman.org)
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by tjr 9y ago
https://ileriseviye.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/are-we-engineer...
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by tjr 9y ago
New in 2015. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694538
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by tjr 9y ago
It’s easy to throw down the theory and some okay-ish pseudocode while in effect saying, “...and the rest is just a minor implementation detail, which I leave as an exercise to the reader...” I don’t feel that’s really the case with TAOCP.
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by tjr 9y ago
I personally think that music is a bad career choice. I started out majoring in music in college 20 years ago before switching to computer science, and while I still enjoy playing and writing and recording music, I enjoy whatever money I ma
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by tjr 9y ago
I don't think his problem was with the $149,000, but rather, with the trend toward $200 for tens of millions of streaming plays. I.e., it might not be long before a comparable song with comparable popularity earns him $1000 instead of
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by tjr 9y ago
I "deleted" my account in 2013. In 2015, I was working on something that required a Facebook account, and I figured I'd try logging in again to see if it was really gone or not. I got a response similar to yours -- seemed to
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by tjr 9y ago
My current MacBook Pro is at about seven years; feeling like about time to replace it, just to be able to stay current.
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by tjr 9y ago
If you want to learn a more established language because it's the workhorse under other things, I would suggest learning C.
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by tjr 9y ago
Apple does sell some proprietary software for a fee, and they give away a lot of proprietary software for no cost. But it seems to me that most of their business model is selling hardware. I wonder what impact moving to all Free Software wo
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by tjr 9y ago
I have multiple domain names with NameCheap, some with privacy guard and some without, and I have not experienced this.
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by tjr 9y ago
Also, at 17, you're likely to think you are way better at programming than you actually are. A high quality CS program will quickly disabuse you of that notion, thus allowing you to get better. At 17, I thought I was a brilliant prog

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