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cosinetau

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cosinetau··on Ask HN: Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?
There are a lot in Abromowitz and Stegun handbook, last section "Index of Notation". It's not quite what you're asking for, but it's fairly authoritative.
cosinetau··on The Crop Software Behind Your Daily Cup of Coffee
There are free software projects attempting to solve the same problem in another corner of the ag industry

https://openthc.org

cosinetau··on Books on Critical Thinking
A week or two ago, in a post about books on leadership, someone posted about the US Army's ADRP 6-22 Army Leadership handbook, which I started reading. https://www.benning.army.mil/mssp/PDF/adrp6_22_new.pdf

Apparently, they keep track of terminology they deprecate in former revisions of the handbook. "Critical Thinking" being one of them as it is "No longer a formally defined term." (Page vi)

So, what does "Critical Thinking" mean to you?

cosinetau··on Show HN: Search Engine on the Top of Twitter to Find Jobs
I think your most right about the feeling towards the posting. Many folks find some reason to disqualify themselves before they even apply.
cosinetau··on Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]
Normally, I've heard others reference books like A&S as a "handbook."

It's even in the formal title.

cosinetau··on Your Android Phone Is a Security Key
I think the difference is that the prompt you describe still travels over the wire to get to your device, while this new thing used Bluetooth based on FIDO standards.

So the access key the client logging in passes to the server is from the local device you trust.

cosinetau··on I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
I feel that I'm reading that tone in Linus's post, too. But after reading these comments, it also appears that some people simply have different use cases for these tools aside from stepping through logic.

And in other cases, the debugging statements have to be present in the code to even get to step through the program, and their concerns revolve around code management when tools that have code inserts like that.

But it would be nicer if they wrote their stuff like their use cases weren't the only ones, or the most important. What features have we lost because they couldn't think past themselves?

cosinetau··on California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project: governor
That's rough, but remember, democracy isn't always convenient.
cosinetau··on If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
They will definitely want to consider extraordinary projects, materials, and infrastructure as munitions.

But they also have existing, good relationships with academics in other engineering fields where those regulated materials can still be accessed.

Maybe Wide-Open Source isn't the right answer for all projects because of the understood risks, but because they already have a good set of SOP for a similar program, perhaps it's time to ask them if they could expand that program's scope and loosen their grip on those things a little.

cosinetau··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
Hi Cray, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

It is very hard to read your submission, which includes "strong written communication skills." Happy New Year!

cosinetau··on Guide to scaling engineering organizations
Not to mention how expensive that flow chart looks.
cosinetau··on Sales mistakes that software engineers make
Right, but, you'll tell a new customer you will have the product ready for them quickly, but because you didn't have a stakeholder that would, you're running the risk trying to sell them a product that wouldn't solve their particular problem (feature mismatch).

Maybe if you believe the limits of technology would be a blocker to solving your customer's vision of their problem, then a prototype before you have a stakeholder that would compensate you somehow is probably the right answer.

But I think you can easily confuse the business objectives with engineering objectives in making the assumption that the prototypical solution is representative of the customer's vision of the solution.

It's not that I think you or a business can't live with that dissonance, I think it may open you up to that problem.

cosinetau··on IBM acquires Red Hat
I'm sorry, I'm in the PNW. I think I just got caught in my own damn bubble.
cosinetau··on IBM acquires Red Hat
I feel you're right, which is why I'm surprised by the seemingly negative response to this news, and the overwhelmingly positive response from GitHub+Microsoft.

Some of the same conflicts of interest exist in both modern cases, notwithstanding, both have opposite contribution histories.

Am I missing something?

cosinetau··on Helm: Personal Email Server
I really need an open source composition of preexisting technologies that this product is trying to solve.
cosinetau··on Google's 20th Birthday
I did. Thank you! Can I have another?
cosinetau··on Google's 20th Birthday
Happy 20th, Google!

20 is an interesting time of life for any legal entity. I hope you renew your vision of "don't be evil" for your next 20!

With love, me

cosinetau··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
> guns blazing

Yeah, but what good would it have done? The privacy battle they're fighting with Facebook and social was lost a long time ago.

cosinetau··on Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?
Aren't there testing frameworks that were supposed to help solve this problem?

Maybe you could engage customers qualitatively, and translate that information into software requirements and acceptance tests? I'm not entirely clear how you want to engage these kinds of users.

cosinetau··on Microsoft will require suppliers to offer paid parental leave
They already support parental leave by supporting ICE.
cosinetau··on We need a new model for tech journalism
What is game journalism doing right [if anything] that tech journalism can borrow or learn from?
cosinetau··on Ask HN: How do you sell to governments and large organizations?
You could go to entrepreneur meetups nearby and try to feel out other people with experience in government sales and affairs.

There's a great one in Seattle called Seattle Startup Open Coffee.

cosinetau··on Find and list all your Twitter mutuals
That's the trouble with cultural axioms.
cosinetau··on The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
Standard etiquette might just be empathy. If you have ever felt annoyed by audio you could not control, then you should strongly consider a quiet keyboard for your office.
cosinetau··on Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
That tweet is taking a beating.
cosinetau··on Apple will reportedly launch a credit card with Goldman Sachs
Maybe its when they realize that in order to continue to grab deeper market share they need to optimize how their business is impacted by consumer's access to credit?

The problem seems to fit because younger companies' concerns are about how their business is impacted according to consumers access to their product. Apple is almost everywhere here in the states. What else could be preventing other consumers/holdouts from accessing Apple's premier products?

cosinetau··on Wikipedia: List of lists of lists
Thank you, O great Wikipedia hacker!
cosinetau··on United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]
It would be interesting to see how this mandate will work in the US with GDPR in Europe.
cosinetau··on Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
That would be a very aggressive response from ICANN, though it might work from an arms race perspective.

I don't think cold war era thinking alone is the solution to these issues; there are likely other, less destructive, paths.

cosinetau··on United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]
Oyez is a national treasure.
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