milesf

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by milesf 2y ago
Watch the last part of this video where he describes his very last project, a card game to help teach coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ihzA8v89U&t=1560s Does anyone remember him? He had a huge impact on my life
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"why the lucky stiff" disappeared 15 years ago today. Here's the last talk [video](youtube.com)
2 points by milesf 2y ago|1 comments
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Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT Csail and the Free Software Foundation(techcrunch.com)
2 points by milesf 7y ago|0 comments
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Make School Summer Academy Cancelled After Seven Years(medium.com)
2 points by milesf 8y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 8y ago
This is happening too often.
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by milesf 8y ago
"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing." - Bernard B
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Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by milesf 8y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 8y ago
Iridium has finished launching their Low Earth Orbit satellite system using SpaceX's Falcon 9 http://www.spacex.com/news/2018/05/22/iridium-6grace-fo-miss...
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by milesf 8y ago
Yeah, the telemarketing people who clog up the phone lines and interrupt dinner times all over the planet won't see the benefit of this at all </sarcasm>
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DHH Releases Stimulus JavaScript Framework(i-programmer.info)
2 points by milesf 9y ago|0 comments
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Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have(stimulusjs.org)
163 points by milesf 9y ago|62 comments
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by milesf 9y ago
Welcome to the 90's Microsoft. Glad you could make it. No one has used telnet for over 20 years. The fact that it took Redmond over 20 years to incorporte an SSH client proves to me that they really aren't as security conscious as
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by milesf 9y ago
What's so surprising about that? All cryptocurrencies are still very experimental. Nothing shocking about that.
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by milesf 9y ago
What are the current crop of cryptocurrencies that are truly anonymous? The list I have so far is: Aeon, DASH, Komodo, Monero , NAV Coin, PIVX, Verge, Zcash, Zcoin, and ZenCash. Any others? Edit: Added Aeon
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by milesf 9y ago
I remember RISC's back in the late 80's/early 90's. CISC's bullied them away and we've been stuck in Intel's quagmire every since. Anytime there's an attack on the status quo, the established players
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by milesf 9y ago
What scares me is not the success or failure of BitCoin. What I find troubling is the spirit of BitCoin is paving the way for the exact opposite result. The idealism is to produce a system for faster, cheaper, and censorship-resistant way t
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by milesf 9y ago
Love this bit: "...we are happy that we chose Haskell, a wonderful language that enables large refactoring with ease, perhaps even turning what could be unthinkable architectural changes in other languages into pure tedium."
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Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited(tech-blog.capital-match.com)
5 points by milesf 9y ago|1 comments
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Reset, Rebase Workflow(medium.com)
1 points by milesf 9y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 9y ago
Where is the actual text of the law? Link or it didn't happen.
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Elon Musk says next spaceship could take you from N.Y. to London in 29 minutes(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by milesf 9y ago|0 comments
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The worst volume control UI in the world(uxdesign.cc)
2 points by milesf 9y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 9y ago
Exactly my point.
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by milesf 9y ago
The idea of any group of humans "saving the Earth" is neighbouring on hubris. It's fine for the plot line of a Hollywood movie, but pragmatically we can't even engage in civil discourse anymore. Tampering with systems li
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Google Crisis Map: Hurricane Irma(google.org)
3 points by milesf 9y ago|0 comments
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Steven Bristol of LessConf has died(lesseverything.com)
2 points by milesf 9y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 9y ago
Oh man. I feel dumb. Of COURSE that is why Elon started Boring, to build hyperloop. And to do it in stages: first to transport cars, then transition up to hyperloop.
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by milesf 9y ago
His story makes my complaints about how hard software can be and building a business seem like a pathetic joke. Thanks for the inspiration, Mr Miller. Good luck on your first PGA golf tournament.
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Kyle Miller overcomes cerebral palsy to play in a pro event(golfdigest.com)
1 points by milesf 9y ago|1 comments
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by milesf 9y ago
With so much bad information out there, I wonder how reliable the answers are from MIT whose reputation seems a lot more credible than Quora or Stack Exchange.

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