bkovitz

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by bkovitz 9mo ago
Thanks for explaining why you made Rust--! I figured it was just whimsical play, and I find it delightful. I'm especially delighted to hear that it wasn't even hard to disable the borrow checker. I hope you will answer the questio
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by bkovitz 1y ago
> Your editor can’t help you out as you write it. Must not be a vim user.
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Is there any term in software engineering more ambiguous than "software design"?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by bkovitz 2y ago|2 comments
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Port graphs: What would Rich Hickey do?(groups.google.com)
1 points by bkovitz 9y ago|0 comments
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by bkovitz 9y ago
Google Translate is not good for this sort of thing, since it has no clue what words mean or why they're used. Vide: https://latin.stackexchange.com/a/4352/118
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by bkovitz 16y ago
Funny that you mention this. The inspiration for submitting this question was my frustration with teaching while in grad school. Each of my four semesters so far, I've taught or assistant-taught a class. Each time, it consumed my mind, t
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by bkovitz 16y ago
It seems strange that there have (so far) been so few ideas that leverage the high productivity that ought to be possible with technology and the highly interconnected economy. (So far, day-trading is the only one like that.) How could one
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Unarmed security guard. Some friends of mine long ago have done this. I don't know what the money is like these days (does anyone here know?), but I expect it's bad. The advantage is: you actually get to work on your laptop or notebook or
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Interesting that you don't need a lot of winning bets to make a living. What about losing bets, though? Isn't this a pretty high-risk way to make a living? Also, doesn't it require a fair amount of capital to get started?
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What's the easiest way to make a living?
11 points by bkovitz 17y ago|16 comments
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by bkovitz 17y ago
I always thought management looked like a job I'd hate. Now I'm completely sure.
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Doing nothing seems so counterintuitive a solution that people almost never seem to consider it. Lately, I've been seeing this in college. "What, the students are making mistakes and asking questions? I'd better lecture more and write lo
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by bkovitz 17y ago
An excerpt, describing the fragmentation of managers' time: Folklore: The Manager is a reflective, systematic planner. The evidence on this issue is overwhelming, but not a shred of it supports this statement. Fact: Study after study has sh
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by bkovitz 17y ago
I wonder if we're having a Violent Agreement. I'm not saying that you have to consciously play status ("decide to play"). I'm saying that when you interact with someone else, you are playing a certain level of status in relation to them,
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What managers really do(uu.edu)
13 points by bkovitz 17y ago|5 comments
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Actually, status (as described on that page) is something you play , moment to moment. You are giving off a signal of "don't come near me, I bite" or "don't bite me, I'm not worth the trouble" or something somewhere in between, every seco
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Wow, so this is where this new influx of traffic to my wiki came from!
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by bkovitz 17y ago
I would say maybe 20% (for me). Now that I'm back in college, this time assistant-teaching as well as taking grad-level classes and sneaking in time for research, I am more amazed than ever by how wasteful the academic world is. They chop
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by bkovitz 17y ago
I also dropped out of high school. I just stopped showing up, and spent my days writing code. Way better education than classes. About truant officers: One day, walking along the sidewalk at 10:00 a.m. or so, I saw a truant officer walkin
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Thanks to all for the many informed and detailed replies! I am now assistant-teaching a college course in low-level computer programming. It's an excellent course: the students reprogram a children's toy robot that uses the ARM processor.
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Testify! 15 years ago, I did Intel-style assembly--and loved it even with all its clumsiness. But I just dove into ARM a few weeks ago, and am loving it even more. Such sweet pleasure to code so close to such a beautiful and simple machin
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Thanks! Especially for the numbers. I had not even heard of RTL simulation before. Wow, extremely cool.
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Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?
32 points by bkovitz 17y ago|58 comments
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by bkovitz 17y ago
The first rule of programming is indeed "don't program". But that's not because buying off-the-shelf code makes you more productive than writing code yourself. It's because software solutions are usually worse than manual solutions. Here'
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by bkovitz 17y ago
"tangible"?
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Thanks, Val. From http://www.petersons.com/collegeprofiles/Profile.aspx?inunid... , it looks like Gallatin only does master's degrees, but this shows that someone has been exploring in this direction.
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Well, obviously there are. I had that when I was an employee a few times. A friend of mine is studying organ in a master's program. She practices organ 2-4 hours a day, early every morning. She spends a month or two (or more) getting go
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Here's another idea: Instead of getting good at context-switching, are there ways to set up your life so you get to stay focused (and still pay the rent)?
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by bkovitz 17y ago
You know, I think you've pegged it. Keeping it in my head is probably the main factor. I write down lots of thoughts and tiny tasks in a notebook as I'm working, and check off the tasks as I go, but that's not really setting up for context
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by bkovitz 17y ago
More than subtly.

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