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If song lyrics count, Eleni Mandell's "Iowa City" is the poem that will always stick in my mind about that town. Girls, the boys don't cheat in Iowa City Iowa City nothing to do No…

If you like this movie, I recommend Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz's podcast "Unclear and Present Danger" (the name is a riff on Clancy as well) which covers the political and militar…

Seconded! This was my favorite talk at Strange Loop (including my own).

As someone who was against the Iraq war, it's hard to express how important Paul Krugman's columns were to me at the time. It felt like the world had gone mad, but he provided an i…

Zeke Faux's Number Go Up ( https://www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up-Cryptos-Staggering/dp/05... ) started as an investigation into Tether. He found some extremely suspect clues, but he …

It's quite fun, I played a lot of it during the pandemic. It's sort of like Advance Wars, but when you lose you can choose to send one of your leveled up characters back in time, w…

Yes, you can use CGO to call Rust functions using extern "C" FFI. I gave a talk about how we use it for GitHub code search at RustConf 2023 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdlqh…

There's some interesting companies in this space. https://gofourth.com/ - focusing on grid storage, uses graphite (carbon) and liquid tin for heat transfer https://antoraenergy.com…

I’m happy to see Standard Ebooks here! I’ve read their editions of Nostromo by Joseph Conrad and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray and the quality great. I recommend it if you’re in…

Yes. The concepts apply to all programming languages. The exercises use multiple programming languages. For example, one exercise has you explore the Git source code (which is in C…

Yeah, we need to do better on the visibility of this for owners. And we're trying to scale the system so it's not a problem at all. In the meanwhile, you can ask support to index a…

I hear you, but we didn't break this for no reason. We rewrote our entire code search stack to support features it didn't before, like exact match, regular expressions, indexing fo…

It refers to the geometric progression of bucket sizes used in the data structure.

It means that we have a result limit. If a term matches in a lot of files, not all the hits will be shown.

Tree-sitter is very cool! We use it to power semantic analysis for GitHub code search.

For the repositories not in the index, we do show a message to try again later. For documents that have been excluded, we agree we need better visibility.

(I gave this talk and work on code search.) Sorry you've had a frustrating experience with the product. When we look into complaints about missing results, it's almost always one o…

Thanks for sharing, that's good feedback.

We'll definitely blog about it ( https://github.blog/ ). His handle is https://github.com/aneubeck (it's on the thank you slide of my talk btw)

Please see my other comment about why this is difficult: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638214

I work on this, and I agree we should do more to improve ranking. Exact duplicates are supressed, but often forks have different versions of some files, so they come up in the resu…

Yes! My colleague who created it has started working on an open source version so we can publish it. I am not sure when it will be ready, but I'm excited because it is extremely in…

(I'm the speaker.) This is frequently requested, and we've tried to answer it in GitHub's feedback forums. The reason it's not implemented is it's quite complicated and there are o…

Nice! Seems like a useful tool for digesting videos.

Oh hey, that's my talk! Thanks for submitting it. It was a huge honor to present my team's work at Strange Loop.