nydev

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by nydev 3y ago
Great idea, I would use something like this. Would be helpful to add tags/categories with grade level/difficulty if students want to use this for studying at their level.
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by nydev 3y ago
Very clever. I would love to re-create this, we have the same issue with our cat.
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by nydev 4y ago
I like the reviews at https://www.notebookcheck.net/ because they do measure fan noise.
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by nydev 4y ago
Could be elaborated but this is 1000x better than nothing. The reader can look up what's unusual with enough hints from this comment.
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by nydev 6y ago
Essentially, provide a way to build a digital "twin" version of my house, and get advice about improving heating/cooling efficiency.
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by nydev 6y ago
Fascinating. Would love to see a "digital energy twin" product for residential properties.
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by nydev 7y ago
This is my understanding too. Evolution didn't work of a master plan with clear divisions between systems..just whatever happened to work at the time.
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The GOP technology talent gap(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by nydev 14y ago|0 comments
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by nydev 14y ago
I will still enjoy programming at 50 and will still want to it for money. But will the ageism in this industry permit that to happen? It feels like the tech culture must change to accept that there are good programmers who aren't in their 2
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by nydev 14y ago
This might be the most insightful comment I've read on HN. I think this is the point people either miss or don't bother to address when claiming that they can just search for "arcane" facts instead of memorizing them.
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by nydev 14y ago
Maybe people who get around to publishing articles in the WSJ aren't really procrastinators.
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by nydev 14y ago
Interesting. Was it the pairing per se or the people you were paired up with that didn't work for you?
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by nydev 15y ago
I haven't been able to stop thinking about that XKCD comic since I read it. It's equal parts depressing and motivating.
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Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70(nytimes.com)
103 points by nydev 15y ago|8 comments
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by nydev 15y ago
How are you calculating fitness?
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by nydev 15y ago
Very interesting.."indecipherable spaghetti code that breaks when you remove those 400 NOOPs because it's adapted to the cache size of this particular CPU" - sounds a little like our "junk" DNA (though I suspect the analogy breaks down in t
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by nydev 15y ago
Sure..and put the rest of us out of business? : ) Although it is interesting to think about what the make-up of the genetic material would be. Just a string of 0s and 1s? CPU opcodes? Or maybe some higher level sub-units.
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by nydev 15y ago
This is something I would be interested in using. Right now we use either email or Google docs. I drive to the grocery store and my wife puts together a list and beams it to my phone. What would the process be for sharing a list created on
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by nydev 15y ago
Seems that most (all?) of the start-up developer job openings posted on HN are based in SV. I wonder if there is another site like HN for NYC start-ups to advertise positions.