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by tjr 9y ago
It was scheduled for 10-5 three days in a row, with a break for lunch, and a short break in the morning and afternoon. One of the days included a ~1-hour guest lecture from Michael Stonebraker, which did not fit into the lecture/proble
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by tjr 9y ago
Most interesting, engaging class I have ever had was Philip Greenspun's short database class at MIT. All day for three days, a cycle of ~15 minute lecture, ~15 minute problem sets worked by each student on their own laptop, ~15 minutes
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Fifteen new devices from Technoethical now FSF-certified to respect your freedom(fsf.org)
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by tjr 9y ago
Some words from and about Bob at the end of this chapter: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html
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Goodbye to Bob Chassell(fsf.org)
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by tjr 9y ago
I did end up stumbling upon a recipe that worked out well: http://www.readthespirit.com/feed-the-spirit/tag/mrs-stahls/ Would definitely recommend, as suggested in the comment on the page, caramelizing the on
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by tjr 9y ago
Dogs are bred for food in some parts of the world. And elsewhere, dogs have been bred for their appearance at the expense of their health or functional traits, on the whims of people running competitions. See, for example: https:/&#
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Ask HN: Potato knish recipe?
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GNU GPLv3 turns 10(fsf.org)
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by tjr 9y ago
In my (naturally limited, anecdotal) experience, "principal" engineer suggests skill with building (or "architecting") large systems, and understanding every facet from estimating effort to design to code to test to docu
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by tjr 9y ago
My favorite approach is, at the office where I work, you can pile books up on top of the recycle bins, and people often do just that. They'll linger there for a few days, maybe a week, before they get collected to be recycled. Sometime
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by tjr 9y ago
My routine-following border collie whimpers until I get up and take her on a walk. Not much opportunity to snooze...
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by tjr 10y ago
Also of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
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by tjr 10y ago
If you call your collection of unread books your "anti-library", what do you call your collection of books still enclosed within postal delivery boxes that you haven't even opened yet?
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GNU Toolchain now accepting donations with the support of the FSF(fsf.org)
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by tjr 10y ago
In 150 years or so, just for kicks, somebody should write a book about that book.
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by tjr 10y ago
I very often read only the comments on HN, as they are routinely more interesting to me than the articles. In fact, it might be worth trying out not even needing articles. Just submit a topic. Discuss HN: Numerical analysis Discuss HN: R
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by tjr 10y ago
I wonder if Bill wouldn't have happily fielded the second call from that customer too, had he been asked.
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by tjr 10y ago
Folks might enjoy reading The Dog Wars : https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Wars-Border-Battled-American/dp/0... Border collies were extremely functional dogs, and a subset of border collie owners did not at all want the
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by tjr 10y ago
https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
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by tjr 10y ago
Good reason to not think of Flickr as any sort of photo backup mechanism? I always presumed when you accessed a photo in "original" dimensions, it was the original file uploaded (even if renamed). There's probably some fine p
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by tjr 10y ago
I sometimes take pictures of people speaking at events, and wow, I'm really glad to not be doing this on film. I might take 50 pictures to end up with one or two decent shots, that don't have the speaker's face in some grotes
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by tjr 10y ago
While I've used digital SLRs almost exclusively for about 12 years, there's still something I enjoy about using film. Maybe it is less accurate, but it's less accurate in what I find to be an aesthetically pleasing way. That
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by tjr 10y ago
During college I worked as a tape librarian. I thought the tape library scene in Rogue One was delightful, and I think that tape is still a great medium for storing huge amounts of data. I don't actively follow tape development, but as
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by tjr 10y ago
Having used C (on and off) for about twenty years, including writing aerospace software in C, I strongly agree that writing safe C is possible. Rust (which I have thus far only tinkered with) looks pretty appealing to me, though. Do you sug
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by tjr 10y ago
The product is more likely in Ada or C, but yes!
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by tjr 10y ago
I know some people who use it to write scripts for avionics software verification. I personally haven't used it.
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by tjr 10y ago
How are things different with non-OSS software? If you use a proprietary software application and there is a "showstopper", what happens?
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If you feel your organization needs a “presence” in Facebook(stallman.org)
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I was recently working with an older developer. I don't know, maybe of 65 or 70 years. He was working on aerospace network intrusion detection systems, and I was helping him set up a simulation system. He was slinging around low-level

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