For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time than I did, but I'm juggling and riding…
Cleve was chairman of the C.S. department at the University of New Mexico from 1980 to 1984. I got my MSCS there in 1985, in a large part thanks to Cleve. I never took any of his courses, but I did speak to him off and…
D'oh! I didn't think to mention that I do serious rucking, because I tend to think of that as running, because I actually run when I ruck. Most ruckers don't. As for injuries, I have some trouble in my right foot that…
Funny you should ask. I do my core exercises on Tuesdays and Thursdays and read Hacker News while I'm doing my unweighted squats. "Normally", I run Monday through Saturday and ride my bike on Sundays, with the…
Assuming no lying or cheating, the plural of anecdote is existence proofs.
I started programming professionally at 16. I ran my first mile at 46. I'm 62 now and have run quite a bit. There's a very good (IMO) podcast that is mostly interviews of runners over 60[0]. At least one of his early…
In compatibility, it's MUCH worse than all the others, but there's also Executor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software) which you can use to run a Macintosh version of solitaire in your browser by having the…
Ultramarathoning is, IMO, often misunderstood. However, volunteering at an ultramarathon aid station is a great way to get exposed to the sport, since you'll get to see a wide variety of people participating, whereas if…
I haven't read "The Comfort Crisis", but but for the last dozen years, I've spent three and a half months training hard to compete in the Bataan Memorial Death March male civilian heavy division[0], meaning I race a…
FWIW, although it's closed source and pre-alpha, I've written a poker server (and proof-of-concept client) in Rust. A few people gather together at 5:05pm Pacific and play a tournament a day at https://craftpoker.com…
I do not think that when it's explicitly stated it becomes intuitive for everyone and that adds a further wrinkle. Many people will still get it wrong, even when the problem is stated correctly. However, if the rule is…
I'm that old. I toggled the PDP-8 our high school had. I did it often enought that for over a decade after I stopped I had the RIM bootloader memorized. It's only a handful of instructions. You can see it on page 35 of…
As a high school student, I stopped our PDP-8 while it was running BASIC, then toggled in a little machine loop that changed all the occurrences of the 12-bit value that represented "Clear the Accumulator" with the…
I too am a runner (~100 mi/week when not tapering or recovering) and "normally" I limit my caffeine to a double espresso at 5:15am. I take that one to synchronize my sleeping and bowels. However, it's a little more…
Ostensibly an African proverb is “If you want to run fast, run alone. If you want to run far, run together.” I'll add "If you want to run really far, call walking running." The Cocodona 250[1] starts in less than two…
Perhaps building a start-up is more like finishing the Hardrock 100[1]. Unless you get extremely lucky, it takes years of work just to qualify to get into the lottery. It then takes a lot of persistence and failures in…
I wrote the first 10,000 lines of ROMlib on a Mac+ with no hard drive or even a second floppy drive. I had Think C on multiple (IIRC, five) floppies and enough room to have a few portions of ROMlib and tests on the rest…
I get the runner's high most days when I run (and I typically run 6 or 7 days a week), starting about a half hour in. I feel very comfortable physically and mildly euphoric mentally. I hear more in the music I'm…
I don't normally spend much time there, except at 1pm Pacific on Sundays, but at that time I can be found on #poker of my own (poorly administered) devctm.com IRC server. FWIW, twenty-one years ago I wrote the first…
SEEKING WORK Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes I've posted my desire for full-time Rust work on the "Who wants to be hired?" page[0]. However, while I look for the perfect Rust gig, I'll happily do Ruby work,…
I've been a Ruby developer since 2005. Prior to that I did a lot with ancient C, Objective-C and assembly. I'm looking for a Junior position programming Rust. I know enough Rust to be useful, but not (yet) enough to…
Short article that includes a bunch of information from this new paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341 I read that paper shortly after it came back and sent this info to a friend: I've read the…
As someone who runs a lot with a pack that typically weighs forty pounds, I highly recommend that you not do this. FWIW, I don't believe I'm damaging my joints by what I do, but I spent many years hiking with a pack and…
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes, please, preferably as a contractor Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: Ruby / Rails since 2006, Really enjoying--but am new to--Rust!, prior to Ruby, did…
I typically "train" every day, meaning I run six days a week and ride my bike on the seventh. I do, however, have rest days; it's just that my rest days are shorter distances at a lower heart rate. My Tuesdays and…
For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time than I did, but I'm juggling and riding…
Cleve was chairman of the C.S. department at the University of New Mexico from 1980 to 1984. I got my MSCS there in 1985, in a large part thanks to Cleve. I never took any of his courses, but I did speak to him off and…
D'oh! I didn't think to mention that I do serious rucking, because I tend to think of that as running, because I actually run when I ruck. Most ruckers don't. As for injuries, I have some trouble in my right foot that…
Funny you should ask. I do my core exercises on Tuesdays and Thursdays and read Hacker News while I'm doing my unweighted squats. "Normally", I run Monday through Saturday and ride my bike on Sundays, with the…
Assuming no lying or cheating, the plural of anecdote is existence proofs.
I started programming professionally at 16. I ran my first mile at 46. I'm 62 now and have run quite a bit. There's a very good (IMO) podcast that is mostly interviews of runners over 60[0]. At least one of his early…
In compatibility, it's MUCH worse than all the others, but there's also Executor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software) which you can use to run a Macintosh version of solitaire in your browser by having the…
Ultramarathoning is, IMO, often misunderstood. However, volunteering at an ultramarathon aid station is a great way to get exposed to the sport, since you'll get to see a wide variety of people participating, whereas if…
I haven't read "The Comfort Crisis", but but for the last dozen years, I've spent three and a half months training hard to compete in the Bataan Memorial Death March male civilian heavy division[0], meaning I race a…
FWIW, although it's closed source and pre-alpha, I've written a poker server (and proof-of-concept client) in Rust. A few people gather together at 5:05pm Pacific and play a tournament a day at https://craftpoker.com…
I do not think that when it's explicitly stated it becomes intuitive for everyone and that adds a further wrinkle. Many people will still get it wrong, even when the problem is stated correctly. However, if the rule is…
I'm that old. I toggled the PDP-8 our high school had. I did it often enought that for over a decade after I stopped I had the RIM bootloader memorized. It's only a handful of instructions. You can see it on page 35 of…
As a high school student, I stopped our PDP-8 while it was running BASIC, then toggled in a little machine loop that changed all the occurrences of the 12-bit value that represented "Clear the Accumulator" with the…
I too am a runner (~100 mi/week when not tapering or recovering) and "normally" I limit my caffeine to a double espresso at 5:15am. I take that one to synchronize my sleeping and bowels. However, it's a little more…
Ostensibly an African proverb is “If you want to run fast, run alone. If you want to run far, run together.” I'll add "If you want to run really far, call walking running." The Cocodona 250[1] starts in less than two…
Perhaps building a start-up is more like finishing the Hardrock 100[1]. Unless you get extremely lucky, it takes years of work just to qualify to get into the lottery. It then takes a lot of persistence and failures in…
I wrote the first 10,000 lines of ROMlib on a Mac+ with no hard drive or even a second floppy drive. I had Think C on multiple (IIRC, five) floppies and enough room to have a few portions of ROMlib and tests on the rest…
I get the runner's high most days when I run (and I typically run 6 or 7 days a week), starting about a half hour in. I feel very comfortable physically and mildly euphoric mentally. I hear more in the music I'm…
I don't normally spend much time there, except at 1pm Pacific on Sundays, but at that time I can be found on #poker of my own (poorly administered) devctm.com IRC server. FWIW, twenty-one years ago I wrote the first…
SEEKING WORK Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes I've posted my desire for full-time Rust work on the "Who wants to be hired?" page[0]. However, while I look for the perfect Rust gig, I'll happily do Ruby work,…
I've been a Ruby developer since 2005. Prior to that I did a lot with ancient C, Objective-C and assembly. I'm looking for a Junior position programming Rust. I know enough Rust to be useful, but not (yet) enough to…
Short article that includes a bunch of information from this new paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341 I read that paper shortly after it came back and sent this info to a friend: I've read the…
As someone who runs a lot with a pack that typically weighs forty pounds, I highly recommend that you not do this. FWIW, I don't believe I'm damaging my joints by what I do, but I spent many years hiking with a pack and…
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes, please, preferably as a contractor Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: Ruby / Rails since 2006, Really enjoying--but am new to--Rust!, prior to Ruby, did…
I typically "train" every day, meaning I run six days a week and ride my bike on the seventh. I do, however, have rest days; it's just that my rest days are shorter distances at a lower heart rate. My Tuesdays and…