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tedjdziuba··on Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working
As a person who has been censored by Facebook for wrongthink, watching them stare down the barrel of Apple "being a private company, and doing what they want" is like watching a kid step on a lego brick that he refused to clean up.
tedjdziuba··on 2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
What relics of my existence will be news in the year 4421? The pocket knife I lost? My car keys? Code I've written?
tedjdziuba··on 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
Twitter is a haven for the "kill all white people" and "Republicans all deserve to die" supporters.
tedjdziuba··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
"This computer is my property, I should be able to run whatever programs I want on it."

This was the hacker ethos from the 90s. Where did that go?

tedjdziuba··on Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
It's only a matter of time before Substack gets enough pressure from its employees or its payments provider and starts censoring "inappropriate" content.

(The definition of "inappropriate" being "whatever people on Twitter dislike today".)

tedjdziuba··on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
The nuclear family is the reference implementation for this.
tedjdziuba··on Open EMR
Second original co-author of OpenEMR here. He's telling the truth.
tedjdziuba··on OpenEMR is Accepting Donations on OpenCollective
> Why does this project exist?

OpenEMR exists because during the summer of 2000, with the dot-com boom in full swing on the left side of the United States, four high school students in Cheshire, Connecticut spent the humid part of our year in a basement writing PHP code to manage documents for an internal medicine practice that belonged to one of the students' mothers.

It worked well enough. The four of us were all college-bound in different directions, so instead of trying to sell the software to medical practices, we released it under the GPL. Open source contributors took it from there.

tedjdziuba··on Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded
Also worthwhile is "Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons" http://www.amazon.com/Five-Myths-About-Nuclear-Weapons/dp/05...

A very well-researched book that challenges, adequately in my opinion, some of the fundamental assumptions about nuclear weapons. First and foremost, that "the atomic bombs ended the war with Japan".

tedjdziuba··on Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" http://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-25th-Anniversary/dp... is a fantastic book for anybody in a technical field. It describes in precise detail how a team of scientists, materials engineers, and government came together to make possible something that started as theoretical physics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were a fascinating team, Oppenheimer being a physicist and Groves an Army general.

A must for anyone in technical management.

tedjdziuba··on Show HN: my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.
This game sucks. I don't know why you want credit for it.
tedjdziuba··on Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server
I like you.
tedjdziuba··on Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server
I've just submitted a pull request that I think really enhances this app. https://github.com/glenjamin/node-fib/pull/5/files
tedjdziuba··on Node.js cures cancer
True, and in fact, this is how nginx works: the process that owns the event loop is separate from the process(es) that does the work.

This is a decent way of mixing an event loop and multi-core processing, but with Node, you're forced to marry the HTTP server to the application, which is a dangerously tight coupling of responsibilities.

If you really want to do something silly like write your application in server-side JS because you're familiar with it, then it should be through some interface like WSGI in Python (or even CGI in days of yore), which properly separates HTTP connection handling from application serving.

tedjdziuba··on Node.js cures cancer
> Most production serious Node-ers know not to do heavy lifting within the system.

So Node is reduced to the trivial work? Then why make it unnecessarily hard on yourself?

> I still don't know why people are so maximist with their tools.

Because moving parts = risk.

tedjdziuba··on Node.js cures cancer
That's cool and all but in the real world we gotta get it done.
tedjdziuba··on Node.js cures cancer
I like how every rebuttal turns into "how fast can you compute a fibonacci number". I was looking for a function that burned a nontrivial amount of CPU, the choice of fibonacci was arbitrary. Let's move on from that.

What I was showing was that if your request handler does a nontrivial amount of CPU work, it will hold up the event loop and kill any "scalability" you think you're getting from Node.

If you Node guys were really that irritated by this, you're going to be super pissed when you learn how computers work.

I ain't even mad.

tedjdziuba··on New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds
As long as xmonad is still in the repo, do whatever you guys want.
tedjdziuba··on “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl
Seriously. This whole thread smells of butthurt software developers who just found out that Linux is hard because it doesn't have a Mac GUI on top of it.
tedjdziuba··on Learning the hard way: Moving from NYC to Palo Alto and back in 1.5 months
For the record, I had nothing to do with this.
tedjdziuba··on How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (2009)
Probably to Goldman Sachs.
tedjdziuba··on Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
Good thing I have no desire to use either one.
tedjdziuba··on Facebook Timeline
I like how every picture on that page is of a white person.
tedjdziuba··on Wufoo Sold For $35 Mil. Here's The Story Behind Its Success.
I'm creepin', but I usually get downvoted to hell. Surprise surprise.
tedjdziuba··on Wufoo Sold For $35 Mil. Here's The Story Behind Its Success.
Awesome! I took a look at the source - it's unrecognizable from what we cooked up that summer. 4 high school hackers in a basement, making an EMR system for the "CEO"'s mother who was an internal medicine doctor.

There was some really horrific things in there - this was before I knew what a JOIN was, so I'm glad some of my shame is long gone.

Still, it's awesome to see that the project is still alive.

tedjdziuba··on Wufoo Sold For $35 Mil. Here's The Story Behind Its Success.
Wow, OpenEMR is still alive? I was one of the 4 original authors as a junior in high school. Open Source for the win.
tedjdziuba··on Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun?
You can buy AK-47 receiver "flats", and press them into the correct shape to build a receiver.

http://armsofamerica.com/ak47762flatwithrailstrunnionholes19...

You do not need a license or a permit, just access to machine tools. Oh, and $22 for the flat.

tedjdziuba··on Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing
> Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing

> Disaster: MySQL 5.5

> MySQL

I found your problem right here.

tedjdziuba··on The Google Puzzle
Something awesome about getting that message on Android.
tedjdziuba··on Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50%
Next time you go to the doctor, ask him to take all your blood instead of just a sample.
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