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by Stratoscope 15d ago
Location: Menlo Park, CA Remote: Yes, or hybrid if nearby Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/m
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How an MIT research project became a global programming language(news.mit.edu)
3 points by Stratoscope 15d ago|1 comments
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
16KB and no floppy drive. That was my first PC! I could get the extra 48KB memory for less than IBM charged. More importantly, double sided floppy drives were already on the market but you couldn't get them from IBM at any price. So I
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Japan Aims for the Moons of Mars(yahoo.com)
5 points by Stratoscope 1mo ago|0 comments
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Engineer used 360-degree cam hidden in bag of snacks to steal DRAM process tech(tomshardware.com)
3 points by Stratoscope 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
Full title: Engineer used 360-degree cam hidden in bag of snacks in attempt to steal DRAM process tech for China — IT security team pinpointed perp due to camera's leaky wireless signals
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Hoover Dam is losing power. Inside the 'slowest-moving train wreck in history'(msn.com)
18 points by Stratoscope 1mo ago|0 comments
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NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger(tomshardware.com)
3 points by Stratoscope 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
Thanks for the correction! It was a long time ago that I used TypeScript, and making things worse (for my memory) it was an Angular project. So today, most people and teams avoid the parts of TS that require compilation into different JS, a
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
The other one I read about was parameter properties in constructors. And thank you for the correction! It was quite a few years ago that I used TypeScript, and I think the landscape was different then. Making things even fuzzier in my mind,
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
That is true only if you confine your TS code to be pure JS plus type annotations. There are TS constructs that require compilation into equivalent JS, such as enums and namespaces.
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The Mysterious Case of the JetBlue Flight That Went into Free Fall(nymag.com)
4 points by Stratoscope 1mo ago|2 comments
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/AWMz8
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
Location: Menlo Park, CA Remote: Yes, or hybrid if nearby Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/m
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by Stratoscope 1mo ago
For anyone unfamiliar with the meat reference, here is Terry Bisson's delightful 1991 short-short story, "They're Made out of Meat": https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.s.
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
Here's my cold email story. In the Netflix series The Good Place, there is an AI character named Janet, who helps assist people who have gone to that place where you go after you die. One quirk when you're in the Good Place: you c
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
What if I'm 74? ;-)
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
Excellent point! In fact I do have an automatic monthly donation to The Internet Archive. Of course the URLs all change in archived pages, but at least the content is there for anyone motivated enough to find it. A funny coincidence... I re
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
> I think that one should at least have one's own domain instead of example.substack.com. I thought about this question when I recently started writing a few articles on Substack. I chose not to use my own domain, even though I ha
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
The classic version... There are two hard problems in Computer Science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
NYT gift link (no paywall, valid for 30 days): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/magazine/electric-cars-am...
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The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes(sfgate.com)
228 points by Stratoscope 2mo ago|439 comments
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
"does some heavy lifting"
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
Title should be corrected to the original: --- How doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us, but it should be --- Note to submitters: Check the title after submitting. If the HN algorithm mangled it as badly as this one, edit it!
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The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications–and Rejects 99.9%(wsj.com)
2 points by Stratoscope 2mo ago|1 comments
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/kY6Th > Getting an offer from Bending Spoons, which owns AOL [and Evernote and Vimeo], has become harder than getting into Harvard
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
The Bell System did this when dial telephone service was first introduced. They held town meetings with a giant rotary dial onstage where someone explained it and demonstrated how to dial your calls. And they made an instructional film abou
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Into big air: paragliding's extreme frontier(msn.com)
1 points by Stratoscope 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Stratoscope 2mo ago
Here's a clickable link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gm9oSxKFKhNoDrahETs00At2...
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It's officially the end of an era for Adobe(makeuseof.com)
5 points by Stratoscope 2mo ago|2 comments

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