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December 9, 2014 (11y ago)
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40-Mumble. Retired. Spent most of my career in video games. Ran and owned various companies. Wrote several textbooks. My doctorate subject was evolutionary computing.
  1. Facebook faces record UK fine for data misuse: £500,000 (bbc.co.uk)
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  2. Data Science Meets Music at Spotify [video] (youtube.com)
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  3. Ask HN: How big a server hit is frontpaging HN?

    Every day a couple of sites I click are down after hitting the HN front page. Can anyone who's been there, done that, give a ballpark for the total hits / hits per second they saw? It would be interesting to know.

    5 points 1
  4. Ask HN: What novels feature realistic computing?

    We've all come across the hacker who is programming a worm in a time race with the three letter agency trying to trace their phone call. Or the descriptions of state of the art UIs that sound like a reject from a…

    1 points 2
  5. Show HN: Hide petulant messages in any source code (github.com)
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  6. Ask HN: The Most Useful Format for API Documentation

    I'm working on the documentation for a new open source system for interactive fiction. It consists of a DSL and an API in Javascript and C#. I have some thoughts about what documentation I've liked, both practically and…

    2 points 1
  7. Ask HN: Finding idiomatic code or mentoring

    Take a language like C++. How should an intermediate level programmer (someone who could code pretty much anything they wanted in the language) learn best practice? One could recommend finding github repos, but most of…

    1 points 0