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by w10-1 3y ago
At work (and here on HN): deliver, and respect other peoples' time.
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by w10-1 3y ago
This is really a breathtaking legal situation. Bankruptcy law typically trumps virtually all other laws, with not much to guide the court's discretion. International bankruptcies are even weirder. In this case, US bankruptcy law has t
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by w10-1 3y ago
I can't imagine a more difficult test case for open source. The decision is entirely reasonable, to move forward in test mode, treat multiple interpreters as an interim experiment, but target being concurrent. The constraint of runnin
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> it may have triggered what’s called the Hirnantian glaciation stage Maybe. but per the Brittanica article cited: > No concentration of iridium has been identified near the extinction that would suggest a bolide (meteorite or comet)
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by w10-1 3y ago
It's hard to imagine that shipping alfalfa across the Pacific makes economic sense -- perhaps only to fill otherwise empty container ships? Subsidizing water for this is crazy, but it's also driven by the desire of China to avoid
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by w10-1 3y ago
Isn't it a success when you can build something that lasts 10+ years? Enterprise has been relying on Java's compatibility promises for decades. It means the business decides when to invest, not the technology. The cost of re-val
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by w10-1 3y ago
Off topic, but on the question of provenance... Chiba worked with folks at PARC, and this is a year after Gregor Kiczales wrote the book, The Art of the Metaobject Protocol. Kiczales designed AspectJ, still in use in Spring today. The thre
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by w10-1 3y ago
As a counterpoint to the engineering/product/culture comments providing context on the book, I would point out that Urs Hölzle has recently stepped back from uber-manager to individual contributor in the infrastructure space. This
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by w10-1 3y ago
The question for compatibility is not whether but how. And it's not really backwards: you want your code to just work, from now on. Go 1.21 offers two essential features not matched by any other language ecosystem: 1. A GODEBUG settin
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by w10-1 3y ago
Beyond the basics, the shell features with the biggest ROI beyond the basics are to quote properly and use namerefs and arrays (esp. to return values from functions), e.g., # find2ra arrayName {find arguments...} # Run find command an
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by w10-1 3y ago
This isn't about fixing a bug, but about working for the customer when the organization can't. For theoretical background on why companies grow in this manner, read the transaction cost economics literature on bureaucratic cost.
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by w10-1 3y ago
There would be a lot of value in whitelist and audit features for IT to manage their risk when letting developers install applications themselves (if not also a binary repository). One model (and possible partner) here is Sonatype, with a g
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You're conflating memorization with generalization, no?
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Sonatype (not an audit, but ongoing software supply-chain management) https://www.sonatype.com They got their start from Java Maven-based projects and progressed via the Nexus binary repository.
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by w10-1 3y ago
Brainstorming can help identify limiting assumptions. Mostly compute has piggy-backed off consumer-scale production (e.g., GPU's repurposed for crypto). The suggestion is that an AI model can justify few-shot chip production. His propo
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by w10-1 3y ago
Just entering phase I. > AOH1996 [...] is exclusively licensed by City of Hope to RLL, LLC, a biotechnology company that Malkas co-founded and holds financial interest in...
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by w10-1 3y ago
Not really tech, but tech business: ARM's US listing will be aborted in favor of private sale to unreliable new owners, setting off an IP conflagration that no one can sort out, putting CHIP investments at risk and situating tech as gr
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by w10-1 3y ago
A summary to motivate reading the paper: Invar, a nickle-iron alloy, was commercially highly relevant for accuracy of mechanical watch balance springs in the 19th century. Investigations of that presumably lead to the 1920 Nobel in physics.
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by w10-1 3y ago
I get a bit tired of this: > Xerox failed to turn most of the technologies that it developed at PARC into successful commercial products PARC didn't try -- and it did make a boatload of licensing fees. PARC from the start followed a
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by w10-1 3y ago
To be fair, for Plato mathematics is but one example of the processes of abstraction, differentiation, and integration, which demonstrate a constancy of principles at work in both tangible and intangible products. Reducing Plato to Pythagor
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by w10-1 3y ago
This doesn't capture the basics of capacity planning, which really started in the 1980's with roll-out of bank ATM networks. The first step is not to use technical measures like throughput or response time, but to use business uni
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This article and every other comment seems to miss the real issue: the lack of testing. Software differs from all other means of production in that we can in fact test any change we make before realizing it in the world. With good tests, I
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As context, the ASF summarized current legislative efforts in https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/save-open-source-th... - EU Cyber-Resilience Act (CRA) - EU product liability - US executive orders, legislati
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So: good (chess) players spend more time mentally countering their proposed moves before moving. For developers or managers on HN, one outcome would be that it's best to start one's career in testing, or to respect the resumes of
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by w10-1 3y ago
Too bad the article is not open-access, as I would expect from JetBrains. And too bad Eclipse's Mylyn doesn't make anyone any money. It's brilliant for this. Extra cognitive load slows everyone . It's just that the ef
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The friction between the benefits of detecting errors statically, handling them quickly, and the diversity of needs for error handling cannot be avoided with any fixed policy like "unchecked only". This tool does remind us that ch
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"Don't be evil" is a very weak statement of ethics; let's hope it's not the high-water mark! Corporate evilness is a function of market forces over time, as limited by culture. You'd have to look for a corpora
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You can also just run the VM's using Apple's own API's. Their sample code includes a resizable display, shared drive, network access, etc. You can run x86 Linux on Apple Silicon (including running pre-built x86 binaries with
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This is the kind of thing that belongs in Apple's official documentation. It's essential knowledge, but unreliable since Apple might change the behavior. Apple documents the happy path, while they work out details. They now have
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Forget tools and experience. Do all you can to get back into school. Unless you focus exclusively on making that happen, it won't. The future in tech is for highly-educated specialists who can also generalize: PhD's in statistics

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