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by piercebot 2y ago
I actually think Linus has had some of his rough edges smoothed out over the years. This was not nearly as combative as it could have been or may have been in the past!
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by piercebot 2y ago
Finite Automata and the Theory of Computation. Lots of Turing Machines and constructing proofs. I'm not sure I would have passed if it wasn't for my friend who worked with me on the homework.
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by piercebot 3y ago
My private hypothesis here is that we're doing a better job as a society of encouraging "disconnection" from being "always online," which is documented to aggravate mental health issues[0]. It stands to reason there
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Return to the moon: The race we have to win (again)(space.com)
2 points by piercebot 3y ago|0 comments
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by piercebot 3y ago
I made a safe-to-wake light for my son out of a Raspberry Pi. It serves up a responsive website on the local network so you can manually change the lights or update the schedule. Been running like a champ for over 3 years now, which has bee
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by piercebot 4y ago
Sure! For the first job, I bill hourly for the time I spend working. Here, I develop web applications to validate machine learning models for a company; I help organize results in a way that allows ML engineers to easily "spot check&qu
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by piercebot 4y ago
I transitioned from full-time employment to contracting in April 2022. I am currently over-employed and working two gigs simultaneously. All leads have come from my personal network or my reputation as a known entity in a relatively niche f
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by piercebot 4y ago
It took learning another language (Japanese) for me to finally make sense of my native language (English)'s grammar. I still remember the day I learned the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs in Japanese and had that &
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by piercebot 5y ago
What a luxury to work at a place where tickets are defined and work is scoped out for you :) If you're chafing there due to the lack of autonomy, I promise there are places hiring people whose strong suit is tackling ambiguity in addit
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by piercebot 5y ago
Are there any copyright concerns around doing this kind of thing? Surely SEGA will come after him for providing this as a free download?
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by piercebot 5y ago
This is like saying "you can't really leverage Java well without knowing JVM bytecode." Which is to say: I also disagree with you :)
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by piercebot 5y ago
I think the real advantage is scripting with a REPL in your IDE. Whipping up a script becomes trivial because you can test every data transformation (heck, every expression!) with a keystroke. There's no great way to do this in a lang
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by piercebot 5y ago
I wonder how much of this changed due to public sentiment driven by pop culture? Movies like Fern Gully[0] and TV shows like Captain Planet[1] definitely had a hand in shaping my generation growing up. [0] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by piercebot 5y ago
What is it about America (or other countries) that makes you think this couldn't happen anywhere else?
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by piercebot 5y ago
Maybe not once you consider the R&D costs of figuring out how not to melt a solid gold Merlin engine ;)
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by piercebot 5y ago
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by piercebot 5y ago
Typically, there's a "cliff" after the first year, at which point it switches to quarterly. So you get nothing the first three quarters, but after quarter 4 (your first year at the company), 25% of your 4-year grant is immedi
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by piercebot 5y ago
I'm not sure I would classify that as "talking plainly." Words like that would put anybody on the defensive, and being on the defensive does not make people receptive to positive change.
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by piercebot 5y ago
Blastomere links to Nick Szabo blog posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blastomere ...links to: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html
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by piercebot 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out -- I've updated the title :)
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by piercebot 5y ago
Do you think it's worth editing the title? Will I step on any metaphorical landmines because the HN community (for example) prefers immutability?
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Artificial spider silk provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics(phys.org)
83 points by piercebot 5y ago|19 comments
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by piercebot 5y ago
This idea is explored in Walkaway: A Novel, by Corey Doctorow. If you enjoy reading fiction, I highly recommend it!
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by piercebot 5y ago
They linked a study from a medical journal. Are you asking for additional qualifications? Should there be restrictions on who is allowed to share scholarly articles?
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by piercebot 5y ago
How are things in PR these days? I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with a pandemic while simultaneously trying to rebuild basic infrastructure. Have you been able to get back to some semblance of normalcy yet?
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Ask HN: How much credit do you take for your accomplishments?
1 points by piercebot 5y ago|0 comments
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by piercebot 5y ago
I believe this is less about hearing opinions and more about celebrating the next generation of hackers. This is a fine example of a kid who has a strong opinion and, rather than shout it into their echo chamber on social media, they'v
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by piercebot 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to share, this feels like a good approach!
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by piercebot 5y ago
The author of this post appears to do an excellent job of projecting negative emotions onto the tweet that broke the camel's back, so to speak. He makes it appear as though the entire software development industry, and especially how d
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by piercebot 5y ago
> It is hard for me to read a text that is set only in hiragana (as in the Japanese version of Animal crossing on Switch for example, the characters only speaks in kana, with no spacing separating words... I'm very curious as to why

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