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Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence
The man who gave us the solution to the Entscheidungsproblem
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,433 posts.
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Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
A data scientist’s perspective
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Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
I have been tinkering with the vanilla source code of Wolfenstein 3D from 1992. Even though it is more than 20 years old and has rotten for modern systems, you can still compile it if you recreate the environment. All you need is :
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Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
A new paper from Google Research describing custom syntax for analytical SQL queries that has been rolling out inside Google since February, reaching 1,600 "seven-day-active users" by August 2024. A …
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Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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When did estimates turn into deadlines?
Tip: In complex software modernization projects treat estimates as guidelines, not deadlines.
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Preferring throwaway code over design docs
If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.
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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep , an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity…
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CSS Grid Areas
A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today.
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I run a software book club
How I run a software book club
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I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
A story about data and a very foolish hobby
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Experts vs. Imitators
Learn how to spot the difference between and expert and an imitator with 5 key tells.
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WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
Last week I wanted to replace my OpenVPN setup with WireGuard. The basics were well-documented, going beyond the basics was a bit trickier. Let me teach you want I learned. The basics But first, let’s summarize the basics. I have a server with a hosting provider that I want to use as a VPN server. I won’t delve into…
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Give people something to link to
If you have a project, an idea, a product feature, or anything else that you want other people to understand and have conversations about... give them something to link to! …
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If English was written like Chinese (1999)
The English spelling system is such a pain, we’d might as well switch to hanzi — Chinese characters. How should we go about it?
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OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
OpenAI is to this decade’s generative-AI revolution what Netscape was to the 1990s’ internet revolution.
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From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
This post shares the story of Pedro David Garcia Lopez, a Ruby and Rails developer based in UK, who used to be a Lorry driver.
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I have no constructor, and I must initialize
It has been three days. The room is cold and dark, but your screens are blinding. You feel disoriented as you come in and out of dissociative episodes. Now and again, you laugh, to no accompaniment. Why are you here? Was this your fault?
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Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system ...
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A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
This summer, I embarked on a side project to create a brand-new Palm OS game, and after less than two months of intermittent coding, I'm excited to announce that it's ready to be released to the public!
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Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before…
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I don't want to fill out your contact form
This is my personal blog, where I write solely in my personal capacity. It does not represent the positions of any organisations I'm associated with.
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A modest critique of Htmx
At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated.
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Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
Great success brings with it great expectations. And sometimes it brings an identity crisis as well.
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YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
LLMs don’t make chips better. Good engineers do.
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
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