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I learned more from YouTube videos on database normal forms and useful problems they solve than I did in grad school.

If I recall correctly, log structured file systems and in general, making file systems more robust was a real breakthrough. Before that, fsck after a crash seemed a little too exci…

Because deep down, it's not what they do. They are optics and camera hardware companies. In the race between physics and software, they are on the physics side. This is evident in …

Because the Intel 8080 instruction set was octal, right? This is cool: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/8080-opcode-map.html

There are probably several definitions of "giant" in play here.

Why should it matter that much whether people search for "app" or "software"? There are different types of programs. There are big desktop programs. There are useful mobile device …

Yes, in my experience this can get to considerable scale (hundreds of thousands and beyond) but at a price. You need to do all your own management for things DOM/SVG were doing (e.…

The RCloud project covered some of this ground https://cscheid.net/2015/08/17/collaborative-visual-analysis... It takes the view that everything should be saved and versioned. In h…

It would help if gitlab's web interface could make it possible to renew letsencrypt security certificates more easily than running local commands and cutting and pasting the certbo…

About 12 years ago, some colleagues (Yehuda Koren and Chris Volinsky) and I proposed a technique for measuring proximity in quasi-random (social) networks, that can handle out-of-m…

Some important tools were written after 1993 (stress majorization around 2004 https://graphviz.gitlab.io/_pages/Documentation/GKN04.pdf ; sfdp around 2007-08 when Yifan Hu joined A…

Thank you all for the comments and suggestions. Most of the criticisms are quite fair: graph language improvements, modernization including default styles that aren't from 1980, br…

uucp?

People usually respond to how they are measured and rewarded. This applies to software written by graduate students. (Most professors code in English using students.)

"Before the Internet existed?" You make that sound like such a long time ago!! Meanwhile I see there's another Ycombinator news item in which someone discovered the "HERE IS" key o…

Graphistry is impressive, but not free, and needs their server and an API key. You probably already know about graphviz sfdp (not interactive). There's been interesting recent work…

What task is made easier by this visualization?

This is a very good point. In the early days of Graphviz we put a lot of effort into making very readable diagrams of fairly small graphs, mainly in drawing directed graphs (dot). …

Exactly. Where's Photoshop or Excel for Linux?

No, but I have respect for their work. I'm in the graphviz project. You might take a look at Tim Dwyer's WebCola, http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/webcola/ which is not quite what …

You are asking for too much, but you could join our project and help. The inference of "intuitive" geometric constraints from operations in a graphical interface is an interesting …

It is totally totally impressive that a hardware version of a software simulation of the actual 6502 was built. What about an 8080 or 6800? Or Z-80. Zapple V1.1 >g200 HIGHEST MEMOR…

Javascript clock? You can get an entire animated 6502 CPU. Maybe it could be used to run a browser, to render the clock :-) http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/ Stephen North