madkangas

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by madkangas 1y ago
Thank you for writing this. Your point about "quicker deterioration of local environments" is thought-provoking. My key technical complaint about LLMs to date is the general inability to add substantial local context. How can I ma
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by madkangas 1y ago
Re xslt based web applications - a team at my employer did the same circa 2004. It worked beautifully except for one issue: inefficiency. The qps that the app could serve was laughable because each page request went through the xslt engine
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by madkangas 2y ago
Agreed. That is the only message I've seen on Brave mobile (Android), which I'm using to post this. I use Brave for privacy. I have all crypto BS disabled. I previously assumed that a TLS cert change on lobster.rs was at fault. Wa
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by madkangas 2y ago
I recognize the name John Levine at iecc.com, "Invincible Electric Calculator Company," from web 1.0 era. He was the moderator of the Usenet comp.compilers newsgroup and wrote the first C compiler for the IBM PC RT https:/&#
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by madkangas 5y ago
I can sympathize. I worked in AdTech, once, and exited that role as quickly as possible. I now work for a book publisher (one of the "big five" in USA) that's part of an organization that includes major scientific publishers.
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by madkangas 7y ago
(Macmillan employee) To my knowledge, no and probably no. I'll inquire. I'm aware that it's available at Kobo in EPUB format but that includes Adobe DRM. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/permane
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by madkangas 7y ago
(Macmillan employee) Confirming, it is a Macmillan title. Metropolitan Books is a Macmillan imprint. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250237231
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by madkangas 9y ago
Actually, NeXT did just that. OPENSTEP ran on Mach, Solaris, HPUX, and (amazingly) Windows NT. It didn't make a difference for NeXT's market share. NeXT was acquired by Apple. 6 months later... Jobs was in charge, and history unfo
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by madkangas 11y ago
This is awesome. Imagine you have a mobile app for viewing news articles, an API to drive it, and an aggregator to collect the content. Now it's 2016 and you'd like your app to show today's "top" news about Bernie S
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by madkangas 11y ago
My first thought was, "How does this compare to Swift?" But this is totally different: you want to create useful programs _on_ the touchscreen device. It's purely functional and stack-based. This is a clever approach to the U
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ShrimpDB: a powerful embedded database in 227 lines of Python(github.com)
3 points by madkangas 14y ago|0 comments
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by madkangas 14y ago
Yes, it's still connected to the outside world, and has been continuously thus far. Example of a site still being served from machines at Peer1: http://blog.squarespace.com/ (I am a Squarespace employee)
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by madkangas 17y ago
+1 to group chat over IM for company use. Skype has excellent group-chat, that's what we use. Much easier to adopt than IRC for non-tech types, and it's free which is a bonus. (I didn't even know Skype had a chat feature, let alone group-ch
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by madkangas 17y ago
This question is 11 hrs old, and nobody has mentioned Postgres' need for periodic "VACUUM" operations? Seriously? If you are running a system with significant data churn (think: a Reuters news feed expiring at N days), Postgres is at a mass
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by madkangas 18y ago
+1 for Aquamacs. I've used Emacs on/off for 15 years and I've grown to detest the need to "feather my nest" every time I move to a new seat. I want a usable default configuration, and Aquamacs works reasonably well for me in this regard.