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See also this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5830571/why-did-father-o... Which leads to this link: https://groups.google.com/g/clojure/c/OnagUrQZ1NE/m/Uwm8fvak... Wh…

Good info, thanks! For better or worse, it had already shipped.

I just ordered a Framework yesterday. I'm not interested in the 12th gen chip, but is there any other reason I might want to cancel & re-order today? i.e. would I be getting an old…

Umm, Firefox? Or am I misunderstanding?

If you want to play with this data, it's available in various formats [1] I happened to use this last week because we needed test data for a community tree in an app we're building…

> make it good Are you arguing that Firefox is not even "good," or just not perfect? (I use Firefox on a Mac all day and the only kind of "resource hunger" I've observed can be pin…

An inspiring team doing interesting work. But see previous https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Capstone,+a+Tablet+for+Thinkin...

Ha, that is always my go-to story for that idea. So far I've never met anyone who's heard it. Great autobiography.

Thanks, I did search a bit and at any rate couldn't find an actual source for the quote itself.

"There are dark corners in the Bourne shell, and people use all of them." https://books.google.com/books?id=KJQRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=P...

I started to write this up then remembered answering a similar question a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398098 I'm still on that "detour," but still a believer…

Have you tried Tup? http://gittup.org/tup/ I used it on a project with many thousands of files and hundreds of (mostly dynamic) build rules. This was a literate program, and most b…

This kind of as-you-type evaluator is extremely valuable to me. I've written a few tools to support this in emacs, and I use the JS one all the time.[0] I also wrote one for Graphv…

At least "Bomb" would be short. "Full Metal Jacket" is a dreadful name in every sense, worsened only by the author's cringeworthy backstory. To paraphrase the parent, it reeks of i…

> In 2018 it is fully possible to use authentication libraries So — getting back to the OP — which libraries?

Yes, that was my fault, I overlooked "result," and I also appreciate the clarification. I think the point remains that, while this is not a breaking change from a contractual viewp…

> When have you ever had to unnecessarily break API compatibility because something you thought was an Option[T] result turned out to be really a T, always? That would be a breakin…

It is kind of heartbreaking. But, although my current manager is excellent at supporting his team and would never think such a thing, let alone say it, the truth is that, unless yo…

It takes one to know one. (Or so I would like to think.) Rich's writing, presentations, and example of overall conceptual discipline and maturity have helped me focus on the essent…

Same (from my uncle, who then worked at Martin Marietta on the shuttle tankers). While I enjoyed reading through them and learned a number of concepts, his books helped demonstrate…

I ported a FoxPro app to VFP in 2012. I had worked on the original one in DOS and ported it to FP for Windows around '96-97, so I knew the IDE's pretty well. But by that point I co…

You know, I also got my (official) start in an xBASE language (FoxPro), and while I am obsessed with the history of inventors like Englebart and his successors, those xBASE environ…

A fine article, but since the author singles out NPR and Wikipedia, I would just like to say a word in their defense. And then some other words. Thank God for Wikipedia, it is a mi…

Or be from MIT? Not sure which debate you saw, but I recently watched an Intelligence Squared about "the promise of AI" in which he made a similar argument, along with many others.…

Your point is clear... but as to the example, unless I'm misunderstanding your notation, the premise is that 2 = (p/q)^2 which is not the same as 2 = p^2/q^2 as you have in (2).