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If you look at some of the other Christmas lectures, you'll see he's often (always?) wearing the same outfit. So, tradition!

Doing a good job of constant prop means doing a thorough job of implementing the best algorithm in the best paper. And to do that, you need to build a form of SSA. And to do that y…

Yes, memorizing everything (all the music) helped hugely in practicing. I used to believe it was because I didn't have to read the music, and could focus on fingers, etc. But maybe…

Has anyone used this approach to memorize music? E.g., for playing an instrument. I used to be able to remember plenty when I was young and practicing a lot. And certainly professi…

Indeed. But consider the 2nd sentence, the conclusion, and the twitter post. On the other hand, I certain agree with your idea about teach/using handwritten recursive-descent parse…

Compilers have parsers, not languages. Many languages have more than one compiler (e.g., C), and the various compilers may use different techniques for parsing.

I argued for years in favor of keeping the minimum runtime of a number of samples; never found much support.

Golly would crush them all.

Happens in other fields too. When I worked at Tera, I (and plenty of others) would talk to Burton Smith in the halls. Whatever the topic, he always made us feel included and smart.…

Eh? IBM 704

One of my favorite moments in literature: "... and nothing more was said - may God forgive me - of duodecimal functions."

Cynically, I think the publishers have a deal that Apple won't publish manuals.

Then again, crows collect shiny things too.

Thinking about it a bit more, I realize I've over simplified. Things were more diverse. At the time, there were significant academic compiler projects in the US written in PL/1, SE…

When I started grad school, in 1986, I'd written a lot of Pascal and used Turbo Pascal on my PC. But the school used Sun workstations with unix, so I had to learn C pretty quickly.…

Cool, a Zenith Trans-Oceanic!

Of course lots of musical instruments require chorded inputs. Pianos, guitars, trumpets, most woodwinds, even trombones.

I remember the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766301 Is this what growing up in those tenements leads to?

Peter Matthiessen's book "Killing Mr. Watson" centers on a similar story in south Florida.

I'm 63. When I was a kid (pick an age), there weren't anywhere near as many programmers as there are now. So while I believe lots of older programmers have gotten out of the field,…

It's interesting to read about the 10,000-year clock while thinking about Canticle.

The kids look fine, but the older folks look pretty bad, I think. So many of the captions are of the form: So-and-so waiting. For what? Nothing much, I'd guess.

At the bottom of the page are links to other pages of Hedges' work. There are a number (e.g., in London) showing single men living alone. Often pensioners (OAPs). Perhaps your gues…

Reminds me of the Bronx, from a train window, in about 2005.