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The book is so good it deserves to be listed twice. :)

One of the best pieces of advice I've received as a sysadmin was "Don't just do something, stand there!" :)

Do you mean the 3.6 GHz band? The auction commenced a week ago: https://acma.gov.au/Industry/Spectrum/Spectrum-projects/3-6-...

In a properly-operating democracy, politicians require votes to be elected; money helps, but isn't sufficient. The 1% may have 50% (or more) of the money, but they only have 1% of …

And just to prove I did study Latin, I actually remember the end of that poem: "atque in perpetuam, frater, ave atque vale"

Well, that's the result. The change is not to interview for "cultural fit" but for "values alignment".

I studied Latin in school, and we studied Catullus 85 and 5 (which is mentioned in 16). We discovered there was a book of English translations of Catullus in the library, which we …

"Trimester" is a word commonly used in English in relation to the stages of pregnancy.

The Mercury compiler is written in Mercury, which is syntactically derived from Prolog. The original compiler was bootsrapped by stripping the non-Prolog parts from the code and ex…

Alternatively, get ready to leave. But before you do, push back against the founder. The next time he pushes directly to master, immediately revert the commit, but cherry-pick it o…

Even further OT: I was good friends with Frank Calegari's older brother (also a mathematician) at school, and used to play bridge with Frank at university. I'm not a mathematician …

> How do I edit the code in my preferred syntax? Do I need an editor plugin? > When working on the project, each developer runs forest dev, which mounts a virtual filesystem in the…

"My hope is that python will serve as a "gateway drug" to other languages like ruby, ML, C/C++, SQL" Your inclusion of SQL in that list really shows you have no idea what you're ta…

Nice reference to Karel Čapek's "R.U.R." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. ).

> We can't predict the future. What tosh. Of course we can predict the future... and sometimes our prediction is correct. Data compression works by modelling the data stream and pr…

Is the Boeing team that worked on the schedule for the 787 Dreamliner involved in this schedule?

President Bush also proclaimed "Mission Accomplished".

Embarking on a complete rewrite just to make deployment easier seems odd -- deploying Python code might be trickier than code in some other language, but it's not that hard.

From a quick look at the Sagefy code, it seems you've written your own web framework, including your own database layer. Was there a particular reason you didn't use a framework li…

The generally accepted definition of autism spectrum disorder is that in DSM-V. This physiological test is compared against ASD diagnoses based on DSM-V, and based on that comparis…

> I think it’s more likely to never get off the ground It's a tunnel, duh.

The point of The Boring Company is to reduce the cost of tunnelling by digging narrower tunnels (designed for custom vehicles, not regular trains or cars) and using an electric tun…

"While RMS has undoubtedly contributed much to the FOSS community" RMS would vehemently disagree with you: he founded the Free Software community, and has nothing to do with Open S…

"Excess electrons bubbled off as hydrogen gas, thus storing that energy for future use." Just wow.