JohnL4
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Cranky middle-aged white male programmer in North Carolina. My proudest achievement from the ancient days is making an IBM 029 keypunch machine automatically punch sequence numbers into my cards as I punched them. I know more than you think I do and I know less than you think I do.
Ocean currents + cost-effectiveness, according to Ian Morris. By his telling, Chinese bureaucrats buried the knowledge of large fleets because it was a more expensive way to project power than simply going over land.
Huh, self-aware HN. Don't see that very often.
7-day-old comment, but the company I work for (not a startup) flat-out bans creating a dependency on AGPL code.
The existence of Gnu COBOL:
4. I'm an old. I will almost certainly try scaling my display by 125% or 150%.
Threw me down this rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog Looks like Flix is in a galaxy of languages implementing Datalog, a variant of (or somehow related to) Prolog. I guess Flix is Turing-complete while…
https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/heartrate-var... I used the swagger interface a few months ago to download my resting heart rate over a three-year period, and it was interesting.
Waddya mean, your kids? I learned that as a teenager myself in the 1930s, after an article in Scientific American.
Honestly, "left Google for 40-person startup for work-life balance reasons" brought me up short.
My technique so far has been to join interesting-looking instances and read the local stream. People who say smart things I follow. At some point I'll coalesce my follows into one account, I guess. I think continuing to…
And VSAM?
$100 > $80. Meta: (1) Oh, that's cool, using Wolfram to look up inflation data! I'll try to remember that. (2) "Trying to gently... I'd suggest..." strikes me the same as "With the greatest respect..." Maybe just post…
Why?
I have long thought writing law is a LOT like writing code. When you actually look at modern laws, they're basically legal patch files.
Disqus not good enough? Or Kismet (WordPress)?
And finally: https://startcaving.com/info/caves-are-cold-find-out-how-col...
"Looked the temp gradients up, after 50ft, temp of the earth is 50F, and raises one degree F every 60ft." (So, at 300 feet, 54 degrees; at 500, 57.5 degrees.)…
Communicators. (Writers, marketers, teachers, ...)
A corollary-ish observation of my own: * If coders could write useful documentation (starting w/inline comments) they probably wouldn't be coders.
Reminds me of the "No Labels" crew in the US. Sounded good for a while, but....
AZ DevOps just threw this up in my face: https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/265268533 Related? Geography is US.
Been using it for years and years, and I started same as you, with some basic outlining. Now it's my primary work organizer/brainstorming/documenting tool (I generate html from it for other folks to read, although I'll…
Content-free comment, but WOW this is really slick!
.plan: None of your business. Go away. You have mail.
I have a blog, which is (a) Basically just a bunch of glorified retweets, but (b) Free of the moronic 280-character limit, and (c) Immune to Twitter's moronic "jail" algorithm (all I have to do is delete the IFTTT…