Tesla reportedly doesn’t have enough desks for on-site workforce
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@jdblair
From 8/18/2015, 5:51:49 PM till now, @jdblair has achieved 2249 Karma Points with the contribution count of 420.
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One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
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Cover identity of Russian intelligence officer trying to gain access to the ICC
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Why Alto? (1972 Xerox Internal Memo)
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If I had to guess, Spotify is optimizing for engagement and listening hours, not searchability.
Everyone who grew up with 8-bit micros understands what it feels like to know the whole machine.
All houses need maintenance and upkeep to survive.
My wood frame house in Oakland was built in 1896. Clearly it lasted longer than 70 years. Brick is a terrible building material in California, due to earthquakes.
My brick house in Amsterdam was built in 1886. However, the piles it sat on were wood, which decayed, and the house sank 8 cm.
Both needed new foundations, both were gutted and remodeled on the inside to update them to modern standards.
Is Crypto Re-Creating the 2008 Financial Crisis? (Interview of Hilary J. Allen)
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It's not very clear, but this is a reprint likely from 1985.
The same place they are now. Squeezing out an existence doing professional services.
Intel Corporation Makes Deep Investment in RISC-V Community
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New July 17th Satellite Imagery Confirms Russia Produced Fake MH17 Evidence
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git outta here!
In the early 90s I had a minimum wage summer job loading boxes of just manufactured aerosol cans onto pallets. The boxes were uniform and there was a prescribed stacking pattern, so that part was simple. The hard part for me was that I was not accustomed to the repetitive physical labor. I quickly learned the minimum movement required.
The challenge came when the forklift operator failed to show on time. I would have to use a pallet jack to move the full pallet so I could start stacking the next (it wasn't worth the extra movement to carry the boxes to a farther pallet). There was a conveyor that could buffer about half a pallet worth of boxes. I then worked double-time to catch up.
This would be a perfect application for this robot if the cost aligns. I assume as these robots come down in price these kinds of jobs will disappear.
It's going to be called WebV (like RISC-V). Then we go back to Arabic numerals for web6.
I don't ask candidates to code on a phone screen. For coding proficiency, I show them code with flaws and ask them you do a code review. To break the ice I just ask them to describe the program behavior line-by-line.
For a good candidate, it's a jumping off point for a deeper discussion.
IEEE Oral History: Frederico Faggin, Designer of the Z80 (2004)
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Apple’s $13k operating system (2013)
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The macros are always the deal-breaker. I tried sublime text, set up emacs keybindings, then tried to ctrl-x-( to start a macro and... switched right back to emacs. (and then proceeded to modify me emacs config so it approximated many sublime text features)
I've been using emacs for approximately 30 years. Every once in a while, someone ask me what editor or IDE I suggest they learn, and I never suggest emacs. It's incredibly powerful, but it's a fossil.
I keep using emacs mostly because of muscle memory.
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