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Re:Programming quotes on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:58AM (#26581875)
"Hey, we’re engineering too" - Margaret Hamilton, coining the term "Software Engineering"
Re:Programming quotes on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:48AM (#26581741)
"They told me computers could only do arithmetic" is attributed to Grace Hopper.
Re:Programming quotes on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:40AM (#26581618)
It would be an improvement to curate more diversity in this pantheon.
Try checking "Print headers and footers" in the print dialog.
Here is Google’s take on bug prediction from a while back: https://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-...
Re:How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:31PM (#19149203)
No actual photos yet exist of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole. But here is a time lapse video of stars orbiting Sag A: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo. The Event Horizon Telescope project is trying to image some black hole surroundings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:54PM (#18840203)
z works a bit like a web browser does when autocompleting URLs from history rather than a file system search tool like find. z “learns” the file system paths as you traverse them in a terminal.
Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:20PM (#18741453)
The IAS program is underway since 2017 http://www.math.ias.edu/theoretical_machine_learning
Re:You don't need ML/AI, you need SQL on Saturday June 30, 2018 @11:45PM (#17433956)
Also, more of the same: "Choose Boring Technology (2015)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215
https://indieweb.org/ lays out techniques for getting the word out when you publish a blog.
Re:Bob Dylan's Archive on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:39PM (#11943125)
Oh, it's more of a personal thing. I am not so entranced by particular artists, even one so singular as Dylan, any more.
Re:Bob Dylan's Archive on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:42PM (#11940777)
I remember reading about this a few months ago. There was a time in my life when I would have been over the moon about a Dylan treasure trove. But now, there other pressing matters...