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by simoneau 4mo ago
He called me into his office one day to play me a voicemail. It was Steve Jobs asking him what he could do to get MATLAB shipping on the Mac again. MathWorks had dropped the platform because of it's then-low market share. Steve was hav
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by simoneau 4mo ago
Penny Anderson was in his office one day. They were trying to figure out which LAPACK numerical algorithm to use under the covers to power some MATLAB function. The different algorithms performed better for different types of matrices and d
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by simoneau 4mo ago
I was lucky to have the office across the hall from him at MathWorks around 2000. He was always interested in chatting with whomever came by and learning about what they were working on. He was always a college professor at heart.
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by simoneau 1y ago
I think I recognize some of these as coming from a tiled background pack I used back in the 90s. Maybe associated with the Enlightenment Window Manager project?
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by simoneau 2y ago
Someone just needs to write “JSON5: The Good Parts” and an aggressive linter to enforce it.
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by simoneau 3y ago
Wonderful high-school-science-fair vibes from this title.
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by simoneau 3y ago
Direct link to source: https://twitter.com/dsnugentmalone/status/171535699852548549...
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by simoneau 3y ago
me: Facebook AI, please post a tender moment between me and my father when I was a boy. Include some photos. Facebook: I'd be happy to. Are there any more details you'd like to include? me: Please show how he didn't understan
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by simoneau 3y ago
Me: Facebook AI, please post an entry about my vacation on Cape Cod and create a bunch of photos to go with it. Facebook: Great. I'd be happy to. Any more detail you'd like to add? Me: Make us look attractive. Show that we're
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by simoneau 3y ago
These green squares helped John Resig for about 4 years: https://johnresig.com/blog/write-code-every-day/
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by simoneau 3y ago
The Daily has a good episode on how online sports betting moves into one state at a time: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/sports...
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by simoneau 3y ago
See also "Courtney Love does the math" (2000) for a similar analysis of the music industry: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
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by simoneau 3y ago
In email to customers: "Over the last 20 years, it’s been our privilege to protect our customers’ memories by hosting over 100 billion photos on our secure servers. We’re reaching out to remind you that we updated our Photo Storage Pol
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by simoneau 4y ago
Famously, upscaled Obama: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801 I picture someone 20 years from now trying to find out what their parent really looked like when they were young. The obviously s
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by simoneau 4y ago
Famously, upscaled Obama: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801 I'm with you, but I fear that horse is already out of the barn. I picture someone 20 years from now trying to find out what
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by simoneau 4y ago
Did I miss it or is there no photo of the new statue?
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by simoneau 4y ago
Dueling Carls (2010): https://youtu.be/t-7mQhSZRgM
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by simoneau 4y ago
jsMath, now MathJax, took all the wind out of MathML’s sails by rendering LaTeX equations in the client. I know that MathML is better in some ways, but the combination of downloading custom fonts and JavaScript-based layout solved the probl
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by simoneau 4y ago
I have a moment of morning when a podcast I love disappears behind a firewall, most recently Heavyweight. Then I remember there are tons of other great podcasts out there I’ve never even tried and move on with my life.
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by simoneau 4y ago
FYI: JWZ has long-since disavowed this attitude, and much else.
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by simoneau 4y ago
I recommend this podcast-miniseries "Hot Money: porn, power and profit" by the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3... It spends quite a bit of time explaining how the
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by simoneau 4y ago
How much of that $15M went into the sweet domain name, felt.com?
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by simoneau 4y ago
"So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies. Unfortunately, it’s never the same 20%." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23
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by simoneau 4y ago
It makes me sad if future generations of programmers never have the experience of working with a team in-person. I know it doesn't suit everyone's work style or life style. I'm not even arguing it's more productive. But
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by simoneau 4y ago
I want to pay for researched, impartial answers to my questions. Would someone build that, please?
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by simoneau 4y ago
Barry Sobel made hay of this aspect of LA culture back in 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLf3EaDEf68 I'm amazed this has been bouncing around in my head for 30 years, and equally amazed I could instantly pull th
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by simoneau 4y ago
I'm surprised at the level of scamming we tolerate as a society. As technologists, we have a good chance of not falling for it, but my parents are sitting ducks. Some combination of new consumer protection laws, infrastructure improvem
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by simoneau 5y ago
And I think that's why these are so viral. When you see a question and your friend's answer, it makes you feel like you're responding as well.
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by simoneau 5y ago
I though most of the point of vaxing children and other low-risk groups is to stop the spread, not for their own individual safety. Reducing the chance they'll infect grandma. And reducing the circulating pool of infections to prevent
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by simoneau 5y ago
This surprised me as well. In fact, this line is misleading. From the article. "Figure 1’s apparent post‐2010 rise in meeting through bars and restaurants for heterosexual couples is due entirely to couples who met online and subseque

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