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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In fact, Dwarf Fortress is what sparked Markus Persson to create Minecraft, which was originally intended to be a voxel version of Dwarf Fortress itself. No, Zach (Zachary) Barth's (of Zachtronics) Infiniminer was what sparked Mar
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by wolfgke 8y ago
This "rabbit" movie is probably liked more by the HN audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ
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Chess Coach Could Be Banned for Life from US Chess Federation(chess.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
This would not lure me into their tech company for the simple reason that I know that these women are out of my league.
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Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful(businessinsider.com)
161 points by wolfgke 8y ago|176 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
For those who do not understand: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_Cube&oldid=8... > https://ti.mecu.be/
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The Prisoner Says ‘No’ to Big Brother(consortiumnews.com)
10 points by wolfgke 8y ago|3 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Raspberry Pi _could_ have offered 4GB+ of it, and they could also have quadrupled the price. Raspberry Pi's SoC does not support more RAM than the 1 GiB that it now has. This is as far as I am aware considered a serious problem by
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> How often do you look at some code and think "an idiot wrote this", and then realise you're looking at your own code? Actually never. The reverse actually happened: I looked at some code and thought "a wizard must h
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Google's Fuchsia OS for phones, tablets, computers: Everything we know(businessinsider.de)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The first thing you learn is that three genders are indicated in the nominative case using der (masculine) / die (feminine) / das (neuter). I personally would never teach it that way. To me the four cases are like different
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> There was an interesting/amusing post here the other day about learning German and how it relates to programming concepts. They suggested that gendered words work as a kind of parity bit for error correction. Slightly off topic (n
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The Perils of Chinese Ambiguity(scmp.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Smart, Hardworking People Don’t Become Successful [2017](medium.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Kind of sad Apple doesn't think that's worth the extra ~$10 or so on a $1000 phone. I believe cost is only one part of the reason. The much more important part is, I think, control.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's pure speculation on my part, but I wouldn't be hugely surprised if the first ARM-based MacBook could match the performance of the previous Intel-based machines when running emulated x86 code and substantially outperform
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In addition, x86 has relatively strong memory ordering compared to ARM. There may be code that get away with stuff on x86, that will cause subtle bugs on ARM. Again, it is likely professional programs that do this. I asked on HN in the
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Why would the assumption be that most people would want to move away from their homes because their current employer wants to save money? If the company were willing to give their share of the saved money to the employee, the situation
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I think it could happen if the incentives are set up differently, otherwise right now you spend time and effort training people only to have them change jobs in 2 years at a better company. - Can't you simply make a contract that
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Cursors(cursors.io)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
OK, the warning could perhaps be better designed. But I still don't see the huge problem: "Trusted" has a very strong meaning when used for any computing device. So this is already a really, really strong warning sign (safegu
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Where is the problem? If users install enterprise certificates despite the shown warnings, they want to take the risk.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> As I understood it, and as far as I can remember, the Mill AOT compiler has an easier job than that. The generic image already contains the parallelized instructions, the AOT just has to split those who are too wide for the given CPU.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
This sounds like the claims that Intel made for the Itanium and its EPIC instruction set when Itanium did not yet exist. The rest is history. All of the following quotes taken from > Their idea is to handle this by basically doing ahead
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I always have been excited about Bitcoin because allows me as a developer to do things with money in the internet. I could create a service like PayPal without the need of having deals with hundreds of banks all over the world. A homel
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If work is everything, shouldn't we set aside some time to raise the next generation of workers? I don't think work per se is everything. But working on world-changing things is. At least concerning the situation in Germany,
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> These same employers (famously) had a cartel that prohibited job hopping before - the Jobs/Schmidt email - so it’s not surprising that the system would trend toward the same equilibrium again. This explains this phenomenon plausib
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> but once a child is born their parents have an ethical obligation to their children. Indeed - and that is why you should be very cautious to give birth to children; in particular if you have career plans.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Rather: I work for you to finance the really important things in my life. > You work to live, not the other way around. At least if you work in (academic) research, working to live simply does not work [pun intended]. The things tha
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I wonder if the added friction of changing your place of work caused by this practice is meant to somewhat counterbalance the heavy incentives engineers have to job-hop in the current climate. Kind of makes sense from the point of view

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