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by herodotus 9d ago
Sorry - it was so long ago I really do not remember that particular feature.
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by herodotus 9d ago
Good. One of the things I loved about my years working at Apple is that everyone I had dealings with really cared about the user experience.
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by herodotus 9d ago
Yes. When I was working at Apple, I was developing some animation stuff for Keynote. I came in to work one day, and my build was broken completely. Turned out that Roger Rosner had demonstrated this animation feature to Steve Jobs. Steve Jo
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by herodotus 20d ago
I would love to see good animations of a differential gear and a detente escapement.
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by herodotus 1mo ago
My most interesting interview experience, but as interviewer not interviewee, was when we interviewed someone by phone and could hear a friend of the candidate whispering answers to him. He was not offered a job. We should have offered it t
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by herodotus 3mo ago
I am seeing way to many "Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot." from Cloudfare these days. It
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by herodotus 3mo ago
For those who need some context: In 1983 David Warren published a paper describing an abstract machine that could be used as the target of a Prolog compiler. This machine became the basis of most Prolog compilers - it is much faster than in
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by herodotus 5mo ago
Knuth's Optimization Principle: The computer scientist Rod Burstall had a pithy way of saying this: "Efficiency is the enemy of clarity"
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by herodotus 5mo ago
I don't know what country your ancestors came from, but I assume you are not held responsible for any horrible thing that government does.
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by herodotus 5mo ago
I am curious. If it is on the far side, where does the light come from for the photos? Other stars?
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by herodotus 6mo ago
And lying: "Please listen carefully as our menu items have changed". Only once did I get what everyone should use instead: "Please listen carefully to be sure you make the right selection". (Lying is also normalized by &
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We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online(nytimes.com)
21 points by herodotus 6mo ago|10 comments
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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor(billwadge.com)
138 points by herodotus 6mo ago|6 comments
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by herodotus 8mo ago
Sumerian and Akkadian are two different languages. This tablet is written in Akkadian and is dated in the Akkadian era. The authors claim is that the tablet is a [translated] copy of a much (much) older Sumerian tablet. Apparently the autho
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by herodotus 8mo ago
And here in Canada I worry that the same irrational forces that elected Trump twice and voted for Brexit will lead to new referendums on the break up of Canada in Quebec and in Alberta, leading to the end of this country.
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by herodotus 9mo ago
Thanks ....
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by herodotus 9mo ago
This is an ambitious project. Might I respectfully suggest that you use your favourite AI (or an English-speaking friend) to fix your many grammatical errors and typos? For example "Note: ALL the syntax highlighting of the Rust code is
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by herodotus 9mo ago
It is impossible to verify anything in this article. For example "In recent internal discussions and public remarks". Where are these public remarks? How did this author get access to internal discussions? I rate this article as c
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by herodotus 9mo ago
What bugs me is that it is impossible to buy a TV these days that is not "smart". (Of course I know I can just not connect it to the internet, and I don't, but I wish there was a company in the TV market which would make priv
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by herodotus 10mo ago
Thanks for doing this. I am well retired now (from Apple) - so too late for me, but after sampling a few chapters I think every fresh software engineer should read your book!
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by herodotus 10mo ago
Amazing - but iPhone screen is too small. Works on my iPad.
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by herodotus 10mo ago
In the early 1990's, during my days as a Comp. Sci. prof, I was so excited about the emergence of the internet. When I saw the Mosaic browser (a precursor to Netscape and later Firefox) I knew the world had changed for the better. Now
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by herodotus 11mo ago
When I was in second or third year of computer science in 1971 or '72, we (of course) learned IBM 360 assembler, but we also had to design a simple binary adder using AND OR and XOR gates. All on paper - no need for any soldering or el
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Al Nagler Obituary(televue.com)
3 points by herodotus 11mo ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 1y ago
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/downloadPdf/8166037?requestT...
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by herodotus 1y ago
Ahem. Actually what I am most proud of is that I made pinch to zoom keep characters focussed during zooming. At that time, Safari let things get blurry until the user stopped zooming and then it snapped to focus. That is what I was supposed
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by herodotus 1y ago
See (as one of several patents about this): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/patents/html/7899826?source=USPA...
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by herodotus 1y ago
I can confirm that tap to zoom and word higlight still works on many PDFs. PDF documents are so varied in structure that it is impossible to say that any technique always works.
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by herodotus 1y ago
One of those engineers came up with idea of using cluster analysis for word grouping. The other engineer realized that we had a k-cluster problem in the general case, but needed to figure out what k was. (In the simplest case it is 2 - lett
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by herodotus 1y ago
Could this be the worst startup idea ever? Light pollution is bad at least for human health, animal behaviour and insect survival.

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