Hacker News: countrymile

New comment by countrymile in "UK total wind generation record beaten today"

countrymile — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:18:41 +0000

Great website! Can you describe the potential output? There is a little i sign but I can't click it on Firefox mobile.

New comment by countrymile in "England: Time to Replace Computer Science with Computing – Guzdial"

countrymile — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:11:30 +0000

It's toward the bottom, the date is 24th Feb 2026. But yes, it could be from ten or twenty or thirty years ago....

England: Time to Replace Computer Science with Computing – Guzdial

countrymile — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:21:11 +0000

Article URL: https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/england-time-to-replace-computer-science-with-computing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165699

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by countrymile in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

countrymile — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:12:05 +0000

It's quite a bit of money, but a lot less than the equivalent Maya licenses. It would be great if more studios did this:

$240k "Press release, tech blogpost, dedicated product manager for your area" https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/

Meta are paying $30k per year, which is crazy really, when you think how much Blender has assisted in getting content onto their platform. Nvidia is better at $120k, but again, think how many graphics card buys Blender cycles has driven.

New comment by countrymile in "Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

countrymile — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:19:56 +0000

It's worth noting that R has a great duckdb API as well. Saved me a lot of time when dealing with a 29GB CSV file and splitting it into separate parquet files on a low RAM ONS server a few months back.

https://r.duckdb.org/

2025 UK Young Animator of the year winners

countrymile — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://younganimator.uk/winners/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182661

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by countrymile in "Itiner-e: the Google Maps of Roman Roads"

countrymile — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:34:09 +0000

Also worth looking at this very UK take:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622543

New comment by countrymile in "England rolls back 2014 computer science curriculum reform"

countrymile — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:05:24 +0000

I think that could be part of the plan

England rolls back 2014 computer science curriculum reform

countrymile — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:36:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/04/national-curriculum-review-in-england-10-key-recommendations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833666

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

England government drops CS schools qualification

countrymile — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://schoolsweek.co.uk/curriculum-review-the-subject-specific-policy-proposals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822581

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by countrymile in "Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf]"

countrymile — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:42:43 +0000

Not sure that equivalence works, cognitive science doesn't require that people believe that computers can think; and STEM doesn't require that people think of the world in a purely mechanistic way - e.g. historically, many scientists were looking for the rules of a lawgiver.

Apologies if I'm misreading you here.

New comment by countrymile in "Zoo of array languages"

countrymile — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:40:29 +0000

That's my understanding too. R never seems to make these lists.

New comment by countrymile in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

countrymile — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:23:39 +0000

The IBM school's computer. Developed by IBM Hursley in 1967, it was years ahead in its design, display out to a television and storage on normal audio tape. Would have kick started an educational revolution if it had been launched beyond the 10 prototype machines.

Died due to legal wranglings about patents, iirc.

More here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061680

Children's Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger

countrymile — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:22:58 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00959-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276959

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Supporting Highly Able Programmers in Secondary Schools in England

countrymile — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:54:16 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3754508.3754516

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249786

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by countrymile in "Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time"

countrymile — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:42:23 +0000

He was great, had always done his homework!

New comment by countrymile in "Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969"

countrymile — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:55:43 +0000

Nice, a few English schools were running the programma 101 at a similar time. The use of a CRT and tape drive was about 10 years ahead of its time. I do wonder what would have happened if they'd ever commercialised it. It seemed to have had an impact on Simon Peyton Jones: https://www.archivesit.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/AIT...

Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969

countrymile — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/rare-ibm-schools-computer-1969/5209

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061680

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

New comment by countrymile in "Bullfrog in the Dungeon"

countrymile — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:50:07 +0000

Absolutely essential if you want to play dk. It fixes the graphics issue and some glitches in the game. With this dk1 becomes a much better game than dk2

New comment by countrymile in "Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids"

countrymile — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:06:15 +0000

Firefox mobile quite happy here