JohnL4

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by JohnL4 2y ago
Possibly. It was basically the native language of Unisys A-series mainframes and I guess those are still around in some form or other.
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by JohnL4 3y ago
Ocean currents + cost-effectiveness, according to Ian Morris. By his telling, Chinese bureaucrats buried the knowledge of large fleets because it was a more expensive way to project power than simply going over land.
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by JohnL4 3y ago
Huh, self-aware HN. Don't see that very often.
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by JohnL4 3y ago
7-day-old comment, but the company I work for (not a startup) flat-out bans creating a dependency on AGPL code.
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by JohnL4 3y ago
The existence of Gnu COBOL:
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by JohnL4 4y ago
4. I'm an old. I will almost certainly try scaling my display by 125% or 150%.
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by JohnL4 4y ago
Threw me down this rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog Looks like Flix is in a galaxy of languages implementing Datalog, a variant of (or somehow related to) Prolog. I guess Flix is Turing-complete whil
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by JohnL4 4y ago
https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/heartrate-var... I used the swagger interface a few months ago to download my resting heart rate over a three-year period, and it was interesting.
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by JohnL4 4y ago
Waddya mean, your kids? I learned that as a teenager myself in the 1930s, after an article in Scientific American.
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by JohnL4 4y ago
Maang? Mmang? Define, please?
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by JohnL4 4y ago
Might want to guess again on "master bedroom". https://www.homelight.com/blog/buyer-master-bedroom/
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by JohnL4 4y ago
Honestly, "left Google for 40-person startup for work-life balance reasons" brought me up short.
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by JohnL4 4y ago
My technique so far has been to join interesting-looking instances and read the local stream. People who say smart things I follow. At some point I'll coalesce my follows into one account, I guess. I think continuing to do that, along
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by JohnL4 4y ago
And VSAM?
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by JohnL4 4y ago
$100 > $80. Meta: (1) Oh, that's cool, using Wolfram to look up inflation data! I'll try to remember that. (2) "Trying to gently... I'd suggest..." strikes me the same as "With the greatest respect..."
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by JohnL4 4y ago
Why?
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by JohnL4 5y ago
I have long thought writing law is a LOT like writing code. When you actually look at modern laws, they're basically legal patch files.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Disqus not good enough? Or Kismet (WordPress)?
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by JohnL4 5y ago
And finally: https://startcaving.com/info/caves-are-cold-find-out-how-col...
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by JohnL4 5y ago
"Looked the temp gradients up, after 50ft, temp of the earth is 50F, and raises one degree F every 60ft." (So, at 300 feet, 54 degrees; at 500, 57.5 degrees.) ( http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/forum/read.php?1
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by JohnL4 5y ago
I'm guessing not. Earth's heat is way lower down. Think of a cave: always cold. I think what's going on is they're taking the heat out and storing it more efficiently than just dumping it down the ground, where (1) it wo
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Communicators. (Writers, marketers, teachers, ...)
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by JohnL4 5y ago
A corollary-ish observation of my own: * If coders could write useful documentation (starting w/inline comments) they probably wouldn't be coders.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Reminds me of the "No Labels" crew in the US. Sounded good for a while, but....
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by JohnL4 5y ago
AZ DevOps just threw this up in my face: https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/265268533 Related? Geography is US.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Been using it for years and years, and I started same as you, with some basic outlining. Now it's my primary work organizer/brainstorming/documenting tool (I generate html from it for other folks to read, although I'll o
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Content-free comment, but WOW this is really slick!
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by JohnL4 5y ago
.plan: None of your business. Go away. You have mail.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
I have a blog, which is (a) Basically just a bunch of glorified retweets, but (b) Free of the moronic 280-character limit, and (c) Immune to Twitter's moronic "jail" algorithm (all I have to do is delete the IFTTT tweet, not
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by JohnL4 5y ago
But Google is the problem.

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