mattknox

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by mattknox 4y ago
I've been a customer of theirs for at least 12 years, I think (I have an entry in my password manager from about that long ago, and I might have had an account before that). It's been fantastic, in general: I can get a phone cons
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by mattknox 4y ago
Native retweet on twitter, probably.
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by mattknox 5y ago
I've known at least a half-dozen superb bootcamp grads, but the quality is definitely uneven.
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by mattknox 5y ago
Yeah, a huge number of early twitter folks did exactly this.
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by mattknox 5y ago
I felt that way too, but I have mostly changed my mind. My wife, who has a FT job, a purse company, and 2 kids, plays a SHOCKING amount of Maple Story. She never pays money, but at a reasonable-for-her time value of money, I'm sure s
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by mattknox 5y ago
Have you looked at SICM? (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, the far less popular half-sibling of the SICP) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-... -it has you derive classical
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by mattknox 5y ago
He was rich enough not to need more money before starting YC-the acquisition price for viaweb was $49M, and it roughly ~10x'd between then and the peak in late 1999. (cites: https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-buys-via
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by mattknox 7y ago
Johnny come lately, eh? https://www.reddit.com/user/mattknox :)
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by mattknox 7y ago
If you tend to do this a lot and use Chrome, you might find the tweak this comment inspired for me useful: open chrome://settings/searchEngines add a new search engine, called anything you want, with a convenient shortcut. I
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by mattknox 7y ago
These questions aren't useful for evaluating pg's work (or frankly that of most PL implementors) because it concerns things, like syntax, libraries, user culture, etc., that is outside of the rather narrow domain Atanassow cares a
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by mattknox 7y ago
have you thought about publishing the full source from then? The HN source was dense but very educational, and it would be really interesting to see internal tools written in arc.
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by mattknox 7y ago
Wetherell was not involved with launching retweet, and didn't implement much (maybe any?) of the code in that Nov 2009 launch. He probably did write a version of the frontend for retweet at some point, and had done some backend code,
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by mattknox 8y ago
I've actually been treated exceptionally well by the half-dozen or so CEOs I've worked for. This is pretty common in tech, at least in SF and NYC, in my experience.
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by mattknox 8y ago
Here, you should have 2 orders issued events, one order_succeded, and one order_failed (hopefully not with an actual NPE, that would be pretty bad). So much like an SSTable-based system, there are race conditions at the level of deciding w
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by mattknox 9y ago
It's fascinating to me that people don't point out that you can get many of the benefits of microservices with all your code in a monolith, indeed, all in a single runtime. Of the 4 benefits he lists (1: independent development,
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by mattknox 11y ago
I ran twitter's new engineer training for a long time, and much of this rings pretty true to me. I would only add 3 things: -1 the skill of teaching is approximately orthogonal to domain knowledge, and the difference between a decent
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by mattknox 11y ago
Twitter never used Jruby in any significant capacity. Note that the article she cited ( http://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use ) said we were evaluating jruby, but chose not to use it because the tooling aroun
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by mattknox 12y ago
I talked with some of the opposition later in job interviews, and they would typically write/modify a program in C that would find and kill our client. Their process tended to be: get a machine with our client, write a program that wo
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by mattknox 12y ago
Having had my Milgram immunization, I would probably be able to resist the temptation. :) That said, I doubt anyone would be particularly interested: all of this is pretty out-of-date: I was pretty good with Wins ME, 98, and XP, but I don&
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by mattknox 12y ago
I think it's harder to safely do changes to development machines, because the coupling between components is greater. If you want to change, eg., libxml or something like that, lots of processes that you don't know about might be
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by mattknox 12y ago
It seems to me that very few organizations ( ) have effective countermeasures against bad behavior, but very little seems to happen anyway. ( ) google had that guy who stalked people ( http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-g
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by mattknox 12y ago
I think you're right. If people talk honestly about why they did things and weren't obviously trying to do ill from the start, it's pretty easy to empathize. I read that the participants in the Milgram experiments were _way_
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by mattknox 12y ago
Yeah, I learned tons about Windows internals. Three standouts: 1: We never hit a limit to what you could do to the stack. It was trivial to write a function F that would fake the stack such that you would then "return from" some
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by mattknox 12y ago
(Possibly) interesting aftermath to this article: I gave this interview a long time ago to a completely unknown security blogger. (I think her blog had like 10 subscribers at the time). Quite a while later, she published it, and she had g
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by mattknox 12y ago
Yeah, I can absolutely see what you mean, but I don't think there is as much incongruity as you think. Had I been working for the russian mob or whatever, that is, an organization that is comfortable with being explicitly criminal, I d
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by mattknox 12y ago
It seems like s7 is a descendant of tinyscheme, and probably wasn't available at the time. Very cool, though. :)
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by mattknox 12y ago
Guy Steele actually mentioned this in some talk or other. The money quote (loosely from memory) was "APL makes you a better Common Lisp programmer. I was doing a matrix-tensor multiplication routine, and I was thinking about the nest
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Interplanetary superhighway(medium.com)
8 points by mattknox 12y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia article on how Nazi propaganda altered the German language(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mattknox 12y ago|0 comments
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by mattknox 12y ago
This was a _lot_ of fun when we did it. Pull requests welcome! (someone should do arc, and clojure!)

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