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amboo7··on If Philip Glass was a Film (2019) [video]
https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Philip_Glass
amboo7··on Why Can't Little Chatty Do Math?
Math must be understood, cannot be learned just by heart, unlike most other facts.
amboo7··on An Extended Model of Software Configuration
Actually, there are four binding times involved, but perhaps they differentiate the two approaches?
amboo7··on An Extended Model of Software Configuration
Is it difficult to write that one is build-time and the other run-time?
amboo7··on Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?
DxO https://www.dxo.com/fr/ 50% off https://www.dxo.com/en/
amboo7··on Ask HN: What is example of good documentation in your opinion?
Common Lisp HyperSpec: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index...
amboo7··on Ask HN: Do you regret being a generalist?
Can fixing random companies' problems can be interesting? -- a specialist
amboo7··on The Peter Principle (1974) [video]
What's the job position of Fabrice Bellard?
amboo7··on Move fast or die: Key startup lessons
The forgotten Fibonacci law of hiring: only 1st class people hire 1st class people (but also some 2nd class people), 2nd class people only hire 3rd class people, etc.
amboo7··on Thinking as Computation (2011) [pdf]
Datalog is quite hot still.
amboo7··on Grothendieck's Approach to Equality [pdf]
Deligne was his student: https://youtu.be/WfDcrN5_1wA
amboo7··on Infrastructure From Code
You can add tons of structured logs, log runtime configuration... as opposed to trying to "observe" what is going by collecting unrelated pieces of informal logs (the state of the art). People code at high level, tools write instrumented low-level code.
amboo7··on Fructure: A structured interaction engine in Racket
Have you thought about an underlying (FP-style) persistent buffer (e.g. https://github.com/amb007/persistent-buffer) that would eventually allow for a better-than-text-based diff & conflict resolution of program versions developed in this editor?
amboo7··on Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life?wprov=...
amboo7··on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
If only such assumptions were ever written down.
amboo7··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Poweramp Equalizer app (much more bang per buck than any headphones)
amboo7··on It takes a PhD to develop that
According to the Amdahl's law: Let the smartest do the hardest. According to the Gustafson's law: Add more work if you want to keep the others busy.
amboo7··on Why Erlang?
> Amdahl's law can be stated as make the common case fast. Not really, the common part is the one parallelizable by dumb workers. The fastest worker does the sequential part. Here, let the smartest do the hardest.
amboo7··on Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp
Whenever I used Lisp for real projects over past two decades, the development was an order of magnitude faster and powerful. To stay on the positive.
amboo7··on New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s
As it was for my daughter, there was a 10% student discount but there were other discounts, too.
amboo7··on New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s
A few months ago, I bought a nicely packed and customized P14s Gen 1 in France (Qwerty !) with 16GB and 400 nits for under 1000 euro.
amboo7··on Ask HN: Would Spreadsheets with Lisps be much more powerful?
Try to put this into a spreadsheet: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility
amboo7··on Human Memory
Are you sure you remember when your memory is faillible? ;-) (Mine is perfect, I don't remember I ever forgot something.)
amboo7··on Kalyn: A self hosting Lisp compiler for x86-64
Amazing.
amboo7··on Online text to diagram tools (2020)
https://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/
amboo7··on Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
Brave is a web browser, and I found this in the code: federated_learning::kFederatedLearningOfCohorts, I suppose that's what FLoC stands for.
amboo7··on Bitemporal History
In simpler cases, you can see the problem as purely functional data structures.
amboo7··on Ask HN: What will be the future differentiator in electric vehicles?
Whether they can run on hydrogen.
amboo7··on Ask HN: Data-Oriented programming vs. Functional programming
How about trying to define both first? I am not sure what data-oriented means.
amboo7··on Exploring the nature of genius
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1351262#:~:text=like%20compou.... So the use of what you have is like the interest rate, more important long-term than the premium/starting amount.
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