Human folly for 02019-01-21

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• A brief retrospective on transactional memory (joeduffyblog.com):

  how software #transactional memory (#STM) failed in C#

• STM dropped (infoq.com):

  a note on #STM being dropped in C# #transactional

• Trouble hiring (hiringengineersbook.com):

  “When #hiring senior engineers, the company doesn’t choose the candidate, the candidate chooses the company. When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling.” #business

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  “Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?” #business

• Cocaine inside jalapeno cans and a tunnel from Mexico to Arizona highlights from the El Chapo trial (wsj.com):

  #news “Cocaine in Jalapeño Cans and a Tunnel From Mexico to Arizona: Highlights From the El Chapo Trial” how the Sinaloa cartel operated #business

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  re-#decentralization

• Are we in the middle of a giant programming bubble (thinkfaster.co):

  #business #hiring

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  commentary on “programming bubble” article. #business #hiring

• The truth about Aaron swartzs crime (unhandled.com):

  Alex Stamos on @aaronsw

• Tec Peltier element design guide (meerstetter.ch):

  #Peltier #thermoelectric cooling design

• Dropgang (opaque.link):

  "dropgangs" (“or the future of darknet markets”) how people in Moscow are using dead drops and cryptocurrency for highly anonymous illegal #business

• FS (nodejs.org):

  #node fs API docs

• Greengood (apa.org):

  being around plants makes people happier, better able to handle Stroop tasks, better at delaying gratification and inhibiting impulses, according to pseudoscience #psychology

• Trouble hiring senior product managers it s probably complicated (productmanagerjobs.com):

  #hiring product managers

• NASA clean air study (en.wikipedia.org):

  many houseplants remove toxic VOCs from the air

• OCR (en.wikipedia.org):

  the OCR-A public-domain #font is the standard “computery” font (that isn’t MICR)

• Namedtensor2 (nlp.seas.harvard.edu):

  Alexander Rush talks about how “tensors” in the style of #APL are central to PyTorch (#Torch-7) and proposes what he thinks is a better API. #deep-learning

• 20010619182424P (inbox.ocaml.org):

  G’Caml added non-parametric, ad-hoc polymorphic functions to OCaml.

• (b612-font.com):

  An Eclipse-Public-Licensed #font designed for readability (for airport cockpits) despite being sans-serif

• Representing and editing JSON with spreadsheets (medium.com):

  Don Hopkins came up with a mapping between JSON data structures and spreadsheets, using indented structures (a lot like YAML, but in Google Sheets)

• Hint (ioccc.org):

  Best of show #IOCCC 2018 winner Mills is a #PDP-7 emulator in 3636 bytes of C, with a PDP-11 emulator written in PDP-7 machine code, so that you can run PDP-7 Unix and #PDP-11 Unix on it. #emulation