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1021.
by w10-1 4y ago
Pricing looks excellent ($1200 to start); I was expecting a bigger bump. We'll see about the 16G price and availability.
1022.
by w10-1 4y ago
SRI did a boatload of work: USPS zip code automation, BART cards, ATM's, distributed enterprise computing in the 1980's, etc. Unlike its peers, it kept defense contracts below roughly 40% of its overall business. Even PARC was m
1023.
by w10-1 4y ago
Ideas are free; it's execution that matters. The politics in academia and research are horrid. It's mainly narcissism that drives people to publish rather than hide their stash. Every such group I've seen have the publisher
1024.
by w10-1 4y ago
For OO structure, https://structure101.com is fantastic at global views, especially for refactoring, where it can help you plan how to transition from hairball to e.g., directed graph. It has a 30-day trial to show you it'
1025.
by w10-1 4y ago
If you're really old, you'll remember MPW - Macintosh Programmer's workshop. Commands used the editing document for both input and output.
1026.
by w10-1 5y ago
Wow! Why suffer the slings and arrows of such garbage? Thinkpads were last good in 2000. MacOS - mini or macbook - is just a life-changer. It's like having your own Tesla instead of walking or taking the bus. Don't be so put o
1027.
by w10-1 5y ago
I can understand seeking to improve your lot over the next couple years. But I encourage you to think instead about the next 20+ years. What would make you a valuable contributor in that time frame? Much, much more education. Self-taught&#x
1028.
by w10-1 5y ago
As others have said, "productivity multipliers" can be "waste generators", so meet the (business?/user?) need, etc. What the question might be after is how to develop insight. As others have mentioned, transferring
1029.
by w10-1 5y ago
Anything that gets people to really see beyond their limited scope. 7B people now, another 20B in our children's lifetime. We're attuned to what bothers us (software introspection, social network garbage). 10 days of just sitti
1030.
by w10-1 5y ago
I would recommend he take operations roles at a tech startup. Growing companies really need people who can keep things running as they grow. Experienced people want more senior and sexy roles, and inexperienced people can make fatal mistak
1031.
by w10-1 5y ago
Perhaps eBay? For a decade or so they had their own home-grown stack and ran auctions with transactional semantics worldwide on their own farms, long before netflix or AWS even existed.
1032.
by w10-1 5y ago
In health care, your ability to really contribute requires credentials, and credentials require clinical experience, which (like PhD's) requires a long slog of free labor -- making people understandably defensive about their positions.
1033.
by w10-1 5y ago
I appreciate wanting to support Ukraine. But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia. Currently the ordinary Russian can't read anything
1034.
by w10-1 5y ago
Remember: Zymergen has the bulk of patents here, a ridiculous amount of know-how, and actual factory-level scaling beyond 1.5 liter bioreactors -- but they're now worth less than pennies on the dollar of their initial investment. Busin
1035.
by w10-1 5y ago
The tabula algorithm clusters text or looks for lines bordering cells. The text-clustering is hit or miss. For lines, with the standard alternating-row shading (and no lines), tabula only picks up the shaded text. It's great if it wo
1036.
by w10-1 5y ago
Sadly now on hiatus, the morning paper by Adrian Colyer reviews research in modern systems, if you're interested in the boundaries of what's possible. Adrian climbed the ladder - big projects at IBM, lead AspectJ, CTO for Spring
1037.
by w10-1 5y ago
Sorry: meaning this one copied from that earlier one, without attribution? yuck.