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crb002··on Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M
I would pay $$$ if Coursera partnered with LinkedIn to give you badges that HR would accept as a gatekeeper to avoid tech prescreens like HackerRank.
crb002··on Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg - should be almost the same as the GCC/LLVM thunk extractor. You have to pay for the borrow checker, but LLVM IR optimization passes should be the same complexity.
crb002··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
I see this boosting U.S. Treasury demand. The decision affirms that the U.S. keeps it's word.
crb002··on Ron Graham has died
Wow. Conway and now Graham.
crb002··on MSI CEO Charles Chiang Dies Suddenly at 56
Defenestration?
crb002··on Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
Why not inline WASM for deployment but host human readable Python source in a URI? Accept liberal input languages but be conservative in the browser output.
crb002··on Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year
The only barrier is making cafeterias safe with acrylic barriers and decentralizing them. Masking works.
crb002··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
JHipster style templating for SAAS onboarding design patterns.

UX description language for forms that respects high level constraints. Compiles to desktop browser, phone browser, and Alexa layouts.

Solving the complexity of matrix matrix multiplication by brute forcing the lower bound with semigroup combinatorics.

DSL for linear logic.

Ending Iowa’s criminalization of “annoying” speech. (Iowa Code 708.7)

Exposing Polk County Iowa Sheriff Kevin Schneider torturing inmates with denial of basic medical care.

Exposing pure nepotism corruption between Iowa Attorney General Chief of Staff Eric Tabor and his sister Iowa Court of Appeals Judge Mary Tabor (mom of @ollie).

Exposing that the prosecutor on Tracy Richter’s murder trial had relations and ended up marrying the daughter of his star witness Mary Higgins - and that the blood spatter expert Englert is a known fraud who wrongfully convicted David Camm and Julie Ray Harper.

crb002··on New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo
This on the heels of a stock sale. The board needs a new CEO and they should offer Lew a position leading sales and out of product.
crb002··on Photo Requests from Solitary
I was in solitary for 3 months this year. Not even criminal, a contempt charge by a retaliatory judge for reporting him to the Iowa Judicial Qualifications Commission. My ex wife had her assistant go to the jail and talk to a drug dealer ... hours later I was viciously attacked and asked for protective custody. Spent my days monastic reading a lot and working out. Happy to answer questions.
crb002··on Court Says Facebook Has Been Wiretapping for Years
For SPAM wiretapping they open sourced their framework: https://engineering.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haske...
crb002··on Who Needs an Architect? (2003) [pdf]
“Software is not limited by physics like buildings are.” is dead wrong. Information transfer is bound by the speed of light. We are light architects, and L1 cache vs a remote call to a server hundreds of miles away matters.

The architect’s role is to design for data flow and compose functionality so it can be swapped out. Great new book on that: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0136524036/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_u...

crb002··on There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore
Half Price Books FTW
crb002··on Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
Weed out courses, lack of real world requirements analysis/editing/testing skills. Think of Journalism where they don’t actually teach you to gather info, edit , and collaborate.
crb002··on Coronavirus death rate falling in hospitals
My guess is better management of cytokine explosion with steroids to prevent viral pneumonia.
crb002··on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture
Robotic weeding and tile lines with irrigation control are startup worthy. The former Bosch is heavily invested, the latter a VC will gobble up AgriDrain.
crb002··on Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
Ordering they have to hire a Latino or Asian would be just as bad.

Reddit thrived because it was a platform for all misfits - not just left wing misfits.

Aaron Swartz is rolling in his grave. He felt it was better that extremists be exposed in the light of day rather than be hidden on private chat boards. He also would have been against dark patterns to make people install a phone app so Reddit can spy on your telemetry for advertisers.

crb002··on S&P 500 CEO Pay by Pay Ratio
No surprise that Warren Buffet is paying himself a reasonable salary.
crb002··on A Fast, Cheap and Scary Way to Cool the Planet
Larry Niven in Ringworld had carbon nanotube dongled solar shields - that was the 70’s?
crb002··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
That’s the same as saying they want to aid foreign government corporate espionage.
crb002··on Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis
For me it was a Blue Gene/L.
crb002··on West Virginia Inmates Will Be Charged by the Minute to Read E-Books on Tablets
They do this at the Polk County Iowa jail.
crb002··on Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others
I bet several Google employees object to working on military/govt force projects. Enough jobs to go around.
crb002··on Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others
Seems like a bit of a National Labor Relations Act violation. Bizzare how the more defensive a company gets the more it is likely to violate labor laws.
crb002··on All-Electric Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV
WTF. Main feature of my mustang is all the analog controls and it not having a media system to hack into.
crb002··on Is there any data that says secondhand car seats aren’t safe?
Might be more safe as new models haven’t gotten recalled for defects yet.
crb002··on A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail
It was a clear breakin. The 99 County Courthouses are County owned and operated buildings. Iowa fully localized building control in the 1970s.
crb002··on A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail
Chief Justice Cady admitted he was in the wrong before his death Friday. It won’t be revisited.
crb002··on Trump releases rule forcing hospitals and insurers to disclose negotiated rates
At $300 a day it’s a small tax to pay for ignoring the rule.
crb002··on A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail
No, Chief Justice and State Court Administrator dupe them into conducting an illegal pen test. Prosecutor is an ass by not dropping charges on pen testers if they testify against state court admin. Chief Justice died last night of a heart attack so not an issue.
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