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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091426
Mick Stute
Programming for 35+ yearsFeatured on ForbesUpvoted by
Janko Jerinic , Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (2022-present) and
Hubert Taler , Software engineer and project leaderAuthor has 902 answers and 5.8M answer viewsUpdated 8y
This was mine:
I was hired by a psychologist to fix a program that seemed to have "strange output" written by one of his ex-grad students. It was a program that reads a data file, asks about 50 questions, does some calculations, and comes up with some score based on this PhD's research. It's on a research 3B2 at the university. He demonstrates the program and sure enough there seemed to be strange flashing words on the screen when it moves from question to question, and they don't seem nice. I agree to do it, should be pretty straightforward, so he'll pay me by the hour to determine how big the fix is and then we'll agree to a fee.
ScanTailor Advanced is the version that merges the features of the ScanTailor Featured and ScanTailor Enhanced versions, brings new ones and fixes. - 4lex4/scantailor-advanced
I program my home computer, beam myself into the future
Cybernetics may be making a comeback. Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model can help us diagnose organisational failures—and improve the conditions for success.
Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server. Contribute to AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome development by creating an account on GitHub.
Thirty years ago this past summer Herbert Marshall McLuhan published Understanding
Media: The Extensions of Man, and within a matter of months the book acquired the
standing of Holy Scripture and made of its author the foremost oracle of the age. Seldom
in living memory had so obscure a scholar descended so abruptly from so remote a garret
into the center ring of the celebrity circus, but McLuhan accepted the transformation as if
it were nothing out of the ordinary, nothing more than the inevitable and unsurprising
proof of the hypothesis that he had found in the library at the University of Toronto. He
was fifty-two years old at the time, Canadian by birth and a professor of English
literature. As enigmatic as he was self-preoccupied, he had about him the air of a man
who believed that it was the business of prophets to bring prophetic news, and if he had
peered into the mist of the future and foreseen the passing of the printed word, well, he
had done no more than notice what was both obvious and certain.
Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today - GitHub - dspinellis/unix-history-repo at master
A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago.
It was mostly pretty bad, but Happy 4th of July!
Guest Post: How to easily enable IPv6 support for apps without it.
Very simple monitoring system with a single configuration file - berthubert/simplomon
守破離
守=지킬 수 : observe (ex: 준수 observance (of the law) [conform ~])
破=깨뜨릴 파 : break (ex: 파격세일 exceptional sale)
離=떼 놓을 리 : leave (ex: 분리 separation; division)
It saved me enough time, I had some to share about it.
Software engineering, unlike other engineering discipline, has no ideas of the properties of what the software before it is built.