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New comment by lispython in "Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award"

lispython — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:06:10 +0000

A veritable hero of our times boasts a mere 688 followers on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/RobertMMetcalfe (as of the dispatch of this message).

Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)

lispython — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:56:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/04/slow-electricity-the-return-of-low-voltage-dc-power.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216968

Points: 86

# Comments: 230

Notation for Machine Learning

lispython — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:20:08 +0000

Article URL: https://notation.baai.ac.cn/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923279

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by lispython in "Ask HN: What primarily drives you upvote something on HN?"

lispython — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:38:49 +0000

You should use "favorite" (a new feature) instead of upvote.

New comment by lispython in "Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users"

lispython — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:31:17 +0000

Nice metaphor.

New comment by lispython in "Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today"

lispython — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:31:35 +0000

Hi Alan, I'm an editor at Programmer Magazine in China[1], could you allow me to translate your answers into Chinese, and share with readers in China?

[1] http://programmer.com.cn/

New comment by lispython in "Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today"

lispython — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:26:21 +0000

Recalling those past days, is there any idea that not yet really played an important role, but to be forgotten?

Especially we are losing the initial generation of programmers.

New comment by lispython in "Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today"

lispython — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:24:39 +0000

Hi Alan,

Have you ever made serious mistake? That if given an opportunity, you would start over with a different approach.

New comment by lispython in "Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today"

lispython — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:22:26 +0000

Hi Alan,

Comparing how you think about doing research now with how you thought when you were starting out, what is the biggest change in your thinking?

New comment by lispython in "Infinit announces Project Dropboxe"

lispython — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:54:27 +0000

Both of them remind me Plan 9's "single most important feature"[1]:

> all mounted file servers export the same file-system-like interface, regardless of the implementation behind them. Some might correspond to local file systems, some to remote file systems accessed over a network, some to instances of system servers running in user space (like the window system or an alternate network stack), and some to kernel interfaces. To users and client programs, all these cases look alike.

And Rob Pike once said[2]:

> When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn't connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn't the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html

[2] https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/

On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe

lispython — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:04:39 +0000

Article URL: http://norvig.com/atoms.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588918

Points: 298

# Comments: 164

New comment by lispython in "Who Was Ramanujan?"

lispython — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:01:29 +0000

Last year, I had a talk with Stephen Wolfram, he said that, for him, the most important secret helping him solve problems is "some version of confidence or arrogant". That make him never fear any difficulty, but this arrogant inevitably behave in some other aspects of his life, and affect people's impression of him.

Then, his writing style never bother me again.

New comment by lispython in "Dropbox Project Infinite"

lispython — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:28:56 +0000

This remind me Plan 9's "single most important feature"[1]:

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html

Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)

lispython — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:09:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/04/slow-electricity-the-return-of-low-voltage-dc-power.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580545

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The First Roman Fonts

lispython — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:36:20 +0000

Article URL: http://ilovetypography.com/2016/04/18/the-first-roman-fonts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519753

Points: 122

# Comments: 5

New comment by lispython in "Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale"

lispython — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:45:12 +0000

About two years ago, I had a chance to ask Eben Upton if there would be a new platform like Arduino and Raspberry PI, what characteristics the new platform should have? And he said:

> There's scope for something very powerful (almost PC-like) in the $70 price range. If I was starting a new venture today, this is where I'd aim.

There is very powerful project like Bunnie Huang's Novena [1], but just the board will cost $550.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena