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Why Are American Passenger Trains Slow?
Where are the proactive AI coding tools?
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time
Re:A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew
on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @01:00AM (#42631441)
Does "Nicolas Bourbaki" count?
The Resilience in Software Foundation
Grappling with uncertainty in forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election
Stopping at 90%
Rewriting harmful analogies while they’re in use
What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’
Re:U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:04PM (#27566420)
You might want to check the bio of Antonio García Martínez, who has a physics background, and subsequently worked in both finance and adtech.
SemVer Considered Harmful
Re:Boring Flamethrower
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @01:52AM (#16250179)
There's a bill (H.R. 4009) named "Flamethrowers? Really? Act" to regulate flamethrowers the same way machine guns are regulated: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4009...
An empirical study of working speed differences between software engineers [pdf]
The Fed’s Policy Mechanics Retool for a Rise in Interest Rates
Re:Ask HN: I wrote a Slack compatible server. Can I open source it?
on Friday May 22, 2015 @01:11PM (#9589653)
Several open source cloud projects (OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenNebula) implement the Amazon EC2 API. Eucalyptus is the only one that formally obtained a license from Amazon.
This Automated Tool for Judging Programming Ability Is Kind of Ominous
Re:Unsealed Filing Shows DOJ Misled Appeals Court About NSL Gag Orders
on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:46PM (#8605584)
That's called a warrant canary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq
Re:Announcing Calibre 2.0
on Friday August 22, 2014 @08:52PM (#8214607)
I've used k2pdfopt for reading two-column formatted academic papers on Kindle Paperwhite, it works great.
Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?
Re:Hints for computer system design (1983)
on Saturday June 21, 2014 @06:06PM (#7926194)
Here's a talk he gave on this topic, from 2013: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...
Re:What Makes Code Hard to Understand?
on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:55PM (#5609146)
There's "Making Software" by Oram and Wilson: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do
Re:Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?
on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @06:59PM (#5604534)
For a critique of Unz's data analysis, see Andrew Gelman's blog post here: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-a...
This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
Re:When the Nerds Go Marching In
on Friday November 16, 2012 @02:09PM (#4795336)
Orca wasn't built by contractors, it was written in-house by Romney staffers and volunteers.
See: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...
Re:How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry
on Friday August 03, 2012 @04:14PM (#4335936)
"In 2010, of all the farms in the United States with at least $1 million in revenues, 88 percent were family farms, and they accounted for 79 percent of production." -- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-triu...
Re:Go is boring
on Thursday July 26, 2012 @11:10PM (#4299834)
Perl's a dynamic language, but return type can vary based on context. I once saw this really bite someone where the presence of parentheses on the left-hand side of the expression changed the behavior of the function being called on the right-hand side. Not fun to debug that one.
The Triumph of the Family Farm
Re:The girl with the ANSI tattoo
on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:41PM (#4050240)
Michael Crichton called this "the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect":
Re:Bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter
on Monday May 21, 2012 @09:58AM (#4002846)
RStudio is a pretty cool IDE for R.