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by t1m 6y ago
My “first” computer at home was a Burroughs B80. My Dad bought it for his accounting business in the late 70s. It was about the size of two dishwashers, had an 8in floppy, a built in printer and a small flatscreen display (orange on black c
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Firefox now isolates Facebook tracking(theverge.com)
2 points by t1m 8y ago|0 comments
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Git Flight Rules(github.com)
1 points by t1m 9y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 9y ago
Back when I was in University, we had an Amdahl mainframe with Unix running under VM. The directory structure included an awful lot of source code. I remember porting source for lex and yacc to my PC-XT running Borland's Turbo C. I
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by t1m 10y ago
I wrote a language called T for Bell Northern Research, not knowing there was already another T language based on Scheme. The language was used for black box testing testing of terminal interfaces, and so needed good string handling. One a
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How I write/publish libraries for node/browsers with npm(github.com)
2 points by t1m 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Gogland – A Brand New Go IDE from JetBrains(blog.jetbrains.com)
1 points by t1m 10y ago|0 comments
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HTML5 Is the Next $100B Game Platform(venturebeat.com)
3 points by t1m 10y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 10y ago
We used this incredibly fast/compact library for Hustle DB indexes. Anyone needing a good Python interface to it could pry it out of the dependencies: https://github.com/tspurway/hustle/tree/master/
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Querying Data in Amazon S3 Directly with User-Space Page Fault Handling(tech.adroll.com)
3 points by t1m 10y ago|1 comments
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by t1m 10y ago
I am a Canadian, so I neither have a say, or really can comment on American politics. This Saturday, my two daughters (ages 11 and 8) are driving a 1,700km journey to North Dakota to show our support for the #NoDAPL movement. I am doing it
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by t1m 10y ago
Tens of millions of people are going out to the street and are not going to let these little goons take over America.
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Ask HN: What is the difference between Libertarianism and Fascism
2 points by t1m 10y ago|3 comments
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by t1m 10y ago
Peter Thiel's "Mein Kampf" excludes women and minorities, who he feels have "damaged" democracy: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
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by t1m 10y ago
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... Thiel believes that women and minorities have damaged democracy and openly questions whether they should be allowed to vote.
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by t1m 10y ago
I am reeling. Leonard's music had an uncanny sense of timing, both musical and cultural. He referenced the external, political world, indirectly - not through selfishly inward bullshit, like many of his contemporaries, but by sifting
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by t1m 10y ago
Prefix notation (ie. + 1 1) instead of infix notation (ie. 1 + 1) is much easier parse, as there are no precedence rules and you don't require different conventions for expressions and function calls.
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by t1m 10y ago
The wise programmer is told about Tao and follows it. The average programmer is told about Tao and searches for it. The foolish programmer is told about Tao and laughs at it.
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by t1m 10y ago
My interests in C, compilers, small computers and Unix at the time wasn't driven by career aspirations. I was just genuinely interested those things. Maybe I was "unemployable".
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by t1m 10y ago
I remember showing my "systems analyst" brother-in-law my second year university schedule when I was planning which courses I would take that fall. "You don't have any Cobol, PL/1, OS360 Assembly Language or APL on
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by t1m 10y ago
I am an anglo who speaks french (like an anglo) and don't think I have amused my Quebecois friends more than when I used 'tabernouche' in a conversation. It's a bit of a pro-tip for anglos - you can sound a bit crass goi
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A Case for Remotely-Hosted UIs for Firefox(olivieryiptong.com)
2 points by t1m 11y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 11y ago
Mozilla | Senior Software Engineer - Content Services | REMOTE | @t1m Some things we are working on: * our new Firefox `about:newtab` page - (JS, Service Worker API) * data engineering at scale (Python, stream processing, various dbs, data
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Content Blocking is the Web at its Best(medium.com)
1 points by t1m 11y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 11y ago
It is true that one of the motivations is to diversify our revenue stream; almost all of our revenue comes from our Search (advertising) deal with Yahoo. The real reason we are doing it is because modern digital advertising sucks, and we ar
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by t1m 11y ago
We designed Suggested Tiles to respect user privacy. Instead of centrally collecting as much data about as many people as possible (the strategy of all other ad-tech companies), we distribute all possible ads to all users and let Firefox d
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Tin Foil Hat(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by t1m 11y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 11y ago
You may have failed, Wattage, but you certainly left the place in better shape than you found it! In a time where a good portion of the industry is helping us click on ads that we would rather not see, you attempted something difficult, dif
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by t1m 11y ago
Note that intersections using HLLs don't work in general. The error rates become gigantic for sets that have small intersections, or whose cardinality differs greatly. A general solution to cardinality estimations for intersections is
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by t1m 11y ago
Smalltalk-80 used the underscore '_' character for assignment. It was also rendered as a left pointing arrow.

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