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by dasmoth 7y ago
See https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/docs/VM.md
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Like the article says, it was renamed to Visa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc .
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by dasmoth 7y ago
The standup is still daily though, right?
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Also, the “great wheel” in his Helliconia books (which takes this idea to rather extreme levels).
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant that most people I know seem to shower for >>2 minutes, so I doubted the credibility of the comparison. Clearly, if you are fairly consistently sticking to 2-minutes showers, that's going to
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Shower flow rates are somewhere of the order of 10L/min -- potentially rather more if you're talking about power showers -- so the showers-are-more-efficient-than-baths thing is only really clear cut if you take relatively brief s
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Have you ever tried an APL-family programming language? If so, I’d be curious how you found it.
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Clojure has got pretty nice tools for web development (both backend and — with Clojurescript — frontend). It’s definitely out there in some places.
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623562
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by dasmoth 7y ago
One correction: it was only acquired by Cisco in 2011. Great that they open-sourced it though. There’s quite a lot of pre-Cisco history in this paper: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf
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by dasmoth 7y ago
It’s not quite the same thing as Recurse, but some of the previous instances of Iverson College look absolutely idyllic. http://iversoncollege.com/
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Flying the Blackbird(talospace.com)
1 points by dasmoth 7y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 7y ago
I hadn't realised he'd ended up at Intel! Will be interesting to see how much impact he has there.
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Also a guide to how to usr all that to interpret medical nonclemature of mutations, like c.345G>E would be handy Those mutation descriptions are called HGVS (Human Genome Variation Society) nomenclature. In the example you give, &quot
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Reminds me of: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear... (Slightly startled to learn that was published nearly a decade ago!)
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by dasmoth 7y ago
Do it! I've not actually tried gin myself, but vodka infused with rhubarb for a couple of weeks (and a bit of sugar to taste) definitely works well.
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Crew Dragon successfully conducts debut docking with the ISS(nasaspaceflight.com)
1 points by dasmoth 8y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 8y ago
What's the main driver for excluding exercise? Being outside on my own is pretty good in general. Walking or cycling are the defaults, but maybe count as exercise? I've recently started riding a motorbike and spin on some quiet-
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Those were pretty much the only reasons I continued to admire Google for as long as I did. They gave hope that the company might one day have a meaningful consumer revenue stream that isn’t advertising. They’ve gone for “cloud services” in
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It's not the 100k hours. It's the very large odds they will have been for nothing, and picking up whatever is left of your life after. That's an interesting take. But my experience is that there is a non-negligible set of
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I realise that your numbers are only meant to be illustrative, but it's worth realising that this is "only" 65 hours a week for 40 years. A lot? Yes. More then I'd be willing to work at a typical desk job[1]? Probabl
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Definitely try some different things and see what you like, but if you're looking for mission and impact I wouldn't completely dismiss web development. The web browser is a stupendously powerful tool for "getting things in
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Cyclomatic complexity might be a textbook example of Goodhart's law. Of course few-paths code is easier to read, but that's often because it's doing something that's fundamentally simpler. And refactoring just to hit s
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Ken Liu wrote an enjoyable short story ("Real Artists") about exactly that. Just looked it up and it was published in 2011. One of those unusual bits of SF that becomes, if anything, more credible over time.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Apple phones are relatively standard hardware with good software and a (unjustifiably?) high price tag. In some ways, I wish this were the case. But my reading is that Apple's custom processors are still far ahead of the competition
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I'm a long way away, but the entrepreneurship program looks great. Have you thought of videoing the lectures?
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IBM’s POWER9 retrospective is a little one-sided(talospace.com)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Paying Bay Area salaries for every employee just isn't feasible for most startups. How does that explain the large number of Bay Area, on-site-only startups?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Fixed link: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Where does your “should” come from? To my understanding, that’s very close to the current level[1]. So are you saying “here but no further” (and if so, why here rather that, say, 1980 levels?). What would be your preconditions for signif

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