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by zwieback 5y ago
Had to google that one - must be a British thing.
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You've seen punch cards COME? Holy crap! +1 on the dot matrix printers, I was proud owner of an Epson LQ400.
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I got excited that we were the first ones to have 3.5" in the HP 150 but Wikipedia says the first one to use them is the Sony MSC-70 and even some kind of word processor before that. I remember how happy we all were when we transitione
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Ask HN: What technologies have come and gone in your lifetime
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No, not suggesting that. I don't actually think there's that much wrong with corporate-driven development. I think what most users, myself included, don't like is that our personal data is monetized in increasingly complex wa
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This is just one Ajax battle, many others were fought in the Trojan wars. I think we need some kind of JS-http thing called "Hector" which would be about as good as Ajax.
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I like the idea of a more open phone a lot but dispute the "Smartphones are shit" premise. I think modern smart phones are an unbelievably awesome value. Battery, display, wireless and processing power have advanced at such an unb
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That sound fun, what kind of problems do you use it for? I can imagine inner-loop type math stuff but would be leery of larger chunks of code.
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Tangent - what kind of "control engineering" are you using Matlab for? I call myself a "controls engineer" sometimes because I PID tune the occasional servo motor or write some PLC-like code but for the most part we use
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If you're already a C++ programmer this kind of thing is great since a lot of us already prototype in Python or Matlab so a glidepath to C++ is helpful. Otherwise I agree, prob go with Python.
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When we had chickens I made a lot of flan and meringues, also stuff like lemon curd. Anything to keep up with the flood of eggs.
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My sister is 3 years older and she still learned slide rule in high school but I didn't. Being a nerd I had my dad teach me though. One of the key things is just the right amount of grease in the tracks.
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I've heard this many times now: psilocybin and related drugs anecdotally are breakthrough treatments for some patients. Does that mean the "brain gets rewired" or is the experience so profound that it changes the patient&#x27
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Question though: what about very stable codebases that are actively developed for a long time. My team maintains a couple SW projects (for internal manufacturing and equipment automation) with a core that has been stable for 10+ years. Once
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Not the worst use, for sure, but instead of incrementally improving the climate situation Norway is making it worse until suddenly much better, when everything is converted.
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Any article that uses Norway as a positive example needs to also mention that that country is a large exporter of oil. How much of the incentives of e-cars come from oil profit?
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Awesome, I was only familiar with the older Hank Snow version, prominently featured on my daughters' mix CDs when they were little. Learned today that the original version was Australian!
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If he has to make enough money to support himself then I'd say it's a bit tricky. If it's more for keeping busy and the mind sharp then yes, go for it. Especially if he has a lot of domain-specific knowledge from his time in
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Bike Friday are pretty popular in the Willamette Valley, I guess some local pride. My neighbors have a couple and taken them all over the world, I think they put something like 60K miles on them by now. They look pretty goofy but seem to do
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If you're going to complain about something you need to present some data that backs up your point, this is just a bunch or rambling opinions. A lot of software engineering is about managing modularization, I've lived through stru
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This seems cool, we bought a bunch of semi-cheap furniture for a vacation place so I could see how this is useful. One question I have: how can you be sure "exact same product" is really the same. One item from Wayfair had a defec
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Don't you just wish you could have hung out with K&R at the time it was written?
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+1 on To The Lighthouse - phenom!
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Agree up to a point. When I see "37 x about y" I keep scrolling. It has to be a reasonable number of items. I love lists for emails - whenever I write an email that mentions more than one point I put everything in numbered paragra
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As an Oregonian I approve. Make sure to keep em away from your drainage and flood control canals, though.
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Generally I agree, but: > I think companies have pretty clear life cycles I think it's not that clear. Where I work (hp) you could argue we're like Intel: large public company, shareholder oriented, buybacks, etc. However, we&
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The fab in Corvallis, OR, where a lot of the custom hp circuits were made later turned into a wafer fab for inkjet printheads. Still going on to this day although much smaller than before.
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Here are some of the baskets the guy mentioned in the article makes: https://www.abbemuseum.org/attending-artists-profiles/gabrie... Pretty cool looking. I've been trying to turn the shoots I get every winter from
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My wife and I are planning for retirement and one of the super helpful things we started is using a budgeting app and diligently planning and then tracking every penny. I suspect you'll find a few areas you can cut back and also start
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We had a team of 3 or 4 developers in a small company with a few shrink-wrapped SW products. We took turns being on call for a week at a time. At first it was scary but I learned so much, talking directly to end users and discussing their i

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