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wesnerm2
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About wesnerm2
I worked at Microsoft for six years as a software developer in the Microsoft Excel group (XL97,2000,XP). I studied applied math and computer science at Harvard and did an MBA at the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. My IQ is in the 99.9%ile.
My websites: SoftPerson, http://softperson.com Personal Site, http://wesnermoise.com Technical Blog, http://netundocumented.com
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Nakamura was sued for $100 million by Hans Niemann. https://www.chess.com/news/view/hans-niemann-lawsuit-dismiss...
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Comment #45061579
Directly from the article: Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvan…
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Comment #44808714
MathML is machine-friendly not human-friendly.
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Comment #44405869
Upgrading to Windows 11 is possible from an unsupported Windows 10 machine by adjusting a registry setting and downloading an ISO from Microsoft.
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Comment #44211670
Atkinson's HyperCard was released in 1987, before the widespread adoption of the web. HyperCard introduced concepts like interactive stacks of cards, scripting, and linking, which …
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Comment #44016975
I think that you are referring to this, which was posted in the past month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739456 https://the-pocket.github.io/PocketFlow-Tutorial-Codebase-…
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Comment #41322118
> There is no performance benefit that immutable structures offer that cannot be had by mutable ones. It is asinine to assert otherwise, especially when literally every single meas…
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Comment #40357920
Linked lists were heavily used in application software before the appearance of standard libraries and Java, which is when dynamically sizable array-based lists become common. Ther…
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Comment #38108592
Location: Philadelphia, PA and Bellevue, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: NYC, California Technologies: AWS, GCP, Azure. My usual stack is C#/.NET Core, but I also professionall…
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Comment #36207515
If it is 23M pixels per lens, that is still more resolution than a smartphone's screen. Each lens is smaller than a smartphone's screen and the resolution is per eye. I wouldn't be…
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Comment #35442167
This post is not valid because most companies post jobs in Hackernews after several days. In addition, the is-hiring post opened on April 3, 2023--a little over 24 hours ago. As ot…
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Comment #35156807
> If you were starting a startup for example, you wouldn’t need to hire any humans - you would just spin up enough AGI instances and they would design your product, write your code…
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Comment #35065438
> > or the “lazy caterer’s sequence” (1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, 22, 29,...), the maximum number of pie pieces that can be achieved by n cuts. > My brain just did not want to accept "7" a…
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Comment #32441659
Former Excel 97-XP developer here. Excel 97 had English language formulas. It automatically detected names in tables; however, it was buggy. The feature was removed in a later vers…
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Comment #32283985
C# had value types and pointers from the very beginning. These are not a recent addition. The standard library does know about them. However, not until C# 2.0, which introduced gen…
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