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Very cool. (Pun unintended)
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From the time Intel released their 8008 microprocessor to the launch of the 80x86 series that ushered in the PC revolution, we have seen practical uses of computers. A natural progression of that chip revolution is what we are seeing as the
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by vivegi 4y ago
Love the new ToC links on the left. The new look seems to mess up some inline images. In the following links, the histogram chart under section Historic Population has an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar for the chart image. https:/
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Not at the moment. It resides on a document on my hard-drive. Just to share one idea that I almost took to completion and then dropped - It was a few years ago and Slack was the top collaboration suite. I had an idea for building a unified
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I have a document I started several years ago where I journal ideas that I come up with. There are at least two dozen ideas in it. Some of those ideas were implemented into products/services by other companies. Seeing this play out con
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For me, Penrose Tiling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling ) is an intersection of math, computation, architecture and design.
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It really depends on what the terms of your contract with $day_job is. For example, if it requires you be on call and get to a physical site for troubleshooting and if your $construction_job would get in the way of that in the normal course
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It is quite a common pragmatic architectural pattern in the HTML architecture. For example, data urls where a MIME type representation is encoded in the URL format is used for embedding images and other MIME types. So, if one is building an
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Cool idea. Congrats on identifying a pain point and providing a solution around it.
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Exactly. If you do want to encode control characters, the way to do that would be as character entities (which are simply text like &) and handle the translation of these entities at the application level. As an example, if we want
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No one is forcing you to create verbose tag/attribute names. If we are authoring content that we expect to last a few decades, markup is the proven engineering choice. It used to be sigil markup $1, $x, @@p etc., and other proprietary
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I use a Surface tablet as my writing device and have a Tamil Input Method Editor (IME) for Windows installed. It does the English-to-Tamil transliteration and that helps.
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Perhaps an introduction class during highschool (say 9th/10th grade) and a programming lab would work. But making it mandatory sounds regressive. I would make it completely optional like learning a second or third language.
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Aravind Eye Care System is a fantastic and inspiring model. Here's there latest Activity Report for 2020-21: https://aravind.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Activity-Repo... 327,786 surgeries in 2020
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I agree. What used to be called Build vs. Buy decision usually involved a calculation of costs. There are lifetime costs involved in both choices. If a dev team chose to use a FOSS library/product (pr even a commercial 3rd party libr
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You can certainly say, "I would rather not answer that question."
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HN is a good example of a different tradeoff. It uses usernames and usernames can be anonymous. Email is optional on the user profile. Not providing it means: 1. the feature of password recovery/reset is unavailable. 2. other users won
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by vivegi 4y ago
In my country (India), there are quite a few people who are illiterate and cannot affix signature using pen on paper. The law allows them to affix a thumbprint. A physical signature (or thumbprint) is a proof of intent. It can be witnesse
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Generally, the price premium of goods already reflects the resale value. One could see this with automobiles. Make/models with higher resale value get priced higher on the initial sale. Also, you would be amazed at the amount of book r
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Just replied in the comment above. This is more as an intellectual curiosity. I intend to publish it eventually as a bi-lingual ebook with para by para translations. Hopefully, it is useful for those who are learning one of the languages an
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English to Tamil. It is a huge endeavour. I am not using any automated translations except to find esoteric translations (using Google Translate). Many idioms and phrases also have to be localized, so it is an intellectual challenge. Alexan
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by vivegi 4y ago
I can relate. I am actually translating The Count of Monte Cristo . Completed 5 chapters so far. Still a loooooooong way to go.
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Agree completely with the author. Even in the situations where there is a supplier-buyer relationship there is the maxim of caveat emptor , subject to terms of an explicit commercial contract. It is 100% the responsibility of the user of a
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I was in college early '90s in CS&E (Comp Sci & Engg) and we were taught Pascal first, COBOL and then C. Pascal and COBOL in the second year and C in the third year. C++ was already there, and gaining traction and I taught myse
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Unit of Measure confusion across varied supply chains is a real problem. Here is an anecdote from past experience. This is from the healthcare sector. Our client builds and installs systems for supply chain management in hospitals in North
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The first time I heard this term was around the same time as the article (around 2018) from a couple of McKinsey folks who were consultants to our company. That was some of the top rate BS I had to encounter.
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Wouldn't a job applicant be on the "sell" side. Even in a large liquid market like equities only a small fraction of buyers and sellers are "interested" in a specific transaction at a given time. Doesnt the applican
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Where is the list of supported built-in functions? Perhaps adding a page documenting that would make it useful for your users.
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How is this different than an employer providing a payscale range for the position (as mandated for job postings by some jurisdictions)?
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It doesn't have to be a factory producing physical goods. Anytime we have a multi-stage process with different team members responsible for various stages with interdependencies, you will find constraints abound. ToC tells you that whi

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