Hacker News: countrymile

New comment by countrymile in "Logo Programming Language"

countrymile — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:28:50 +0000

I'm currently writing a history of this. What year in the 70s? I've struggled to find widespread logo use before the end of the 1970s.

New comment by countrymile in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

countrymile — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:44 +0000

Polars is a world away from pandas, but I feel that dplyr still offers the most simple and understandable introduction to data analysis for the beginner. The above is a good example of this.

New comment by countrymile in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

countrymile — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:26:37 +0000

How far is blender off this nowadays?

What Happened to Google's James Damore?

countrymile — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:55:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thefp.com/p/google-memo-james-damore-vindication-trump-musk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269553

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by countrymile in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

countrymile — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:44:01 +0000

Funding wise I asked a year or so back about crowd funding, but hear nothing back. My means are limited but I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who could band together. The project seems content on the big doners right now?

New comment by countrymile in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

countrymile — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:21:43 +0000

did anything progress on trying to dig more out of the ground? i know that there was thinking that a lot of scrolls might still be down there

Only Ada?: dominance of entrepreneurial white men as computing famous figures

countrymile — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2024.2432639

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575531

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by countrymile in "Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire"

countrymile — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:29:51 +0000

There's a lot of new roads being mapped in England. Interesting how the inscriptions on the map are often between roads, suggesting an unmapped pathway:

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

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.