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The title is about R&D, but because of Section 174 changes, this applies to all software development, whether "research" or not. If you're making a dumb app, you can't deduct the e…

mostly for fun!

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... "Here's the industry's dirty secret: Programmers who don't touch-type fit a profile. ... Here's the deal: everyone i…

The fair market value was $3 per share. I calculated my AMT to be $0 and exercised. The company then retroactively quadrupled their fair market value price and I suddenly had a $10…

WOW! Thank you!

Has anyone experimented with making a custom version of Deno that has its TS files built-in? I want to give my user exactly one binary that they can run to use the tool I'm writing…

There are a bunch of Model III emulators: http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/ Including my latest online one: https://www.my-trs-80.com/

Heh, the URL is "plan" because this was a .plan, a file in your home directory that others could see using the "finger" utility. I remember having flame wars entirely over .plans. …

Oh no! I _just_ finished reading James Gleick's _Genius_ this weekend, and I'm halfway through _No Ordinary Genius_ (both about Richard Feynman). The latter has many long quotes fr…

"Unless you’re using an OLED or AMOLED screen and your dark mode is truly black – not dark grey, not dark blue, BLACK. There is no difference in power consumption." I thought this …

I feel like .com should be much more expensive than it is. Too many people squatting. I have friends who have dozens of .com, and not even "just in case", they're just collecting t…

Exactly. In some interfaces you'll be eventually switched back to "Home" automatically. You can tell this has happened because Twitter becomes less awesome. When I find myself thin…

You're right that in principle it's possible. But say you were a great teacher, and knew that clear teaching was worse than imperfect teaching. Could you actually make your lecture…

Came here to say this. The professors I've learned the most from were the ones who weren't awesome at explaining things. I didn't understand them and had to struggle through the ma…

The key to having things named after you is to give them generic names. Name your thing "array", literally, everywhere in the readme and the code. Then people using it won't have a…

See the last paragraph of this page: https://lkesteloot.github.io/alice/alice4/

I've used this a bunch! I found it invaluable to helping me think through the timing of FPGA components. The best part is you can embed it in your own web page: https://lkesteloot.…

Right. Also more notes and links here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/12/book-review-willpower/

> against human nature to upvote things we don't agree with In this case you don't have to agree with the statement, only agree that it's unpopular. Maybe they're disagreeing with …

Yeah, the items on her list aren't that unpopular. Your item isn't on her list, or anything like it. Even an article listing unpopular opinions isn't going to dare list actually un…

I would love to see a survey where people are asked both "how much do you agree" and "how likely are you to say so publicly". Given enough questions, it'd also be interesting to fi…

I use a Google Doc. I insert each entry at the top, with the date and a bulleted list of things I did (each check-in, each meeting with notes, and anything else I discovered or dec…

In 1992 a friend and I ported BSD/Net2 to the Mac II, and found (weeks into the project!) that kernel functions like fork() and exec() and all of TTY were missing. We thought we we…

I interviewed for the Intentional Programming group at Microsoft back in 1993! Their demo back then was amazing. I thought they'd have something out within a few years, and 24 year…

Here's one I wrote in Go, though I just noticed I never bothered putting on a license. Let me know if you want me to. https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80