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When in doubt, choose the course that has the most experimental work Updated +Created
You can always learn pure theory later on for free or very cheap from books.
And above all, you can always learn software engineering later on for free, because the programming community is so much more open than any other so far, notably e.g. with Stack Overflow and GitHub, see also: Section "Ciro Santilli's Open Source Enlightenment". Ciro Santilli is trying to change that with OurBigBook.com, but don't hold your breath. But it is increasingly hard to understand why there isn't an university that forces teachers to publish all their notes and lecture videos (which should be mandatorily recorded) with a Creative Commons License, and then let anyone take whichever exams they want for a small fee or for free.
Actually, there is a good chance you will learn to program, like it or not, because chances are that you won't be able to find as decent a job doing anything else.
But there is one thing you cannot learn for free: laboratory work. Laboratory work is just too expensive to carry out outside of an institution.
Basically, if you don't do laboratory work in undergrad, you will very likely never be able to do so in your entire life.
Because laboratories are so rare and expensive, it is laboratories that put you in the best most unfair position at creating world changing deep tech startups, which is why when in doubt, choose the course that has the most experimental work. Yes, you won't be able to achieve those insanely concentrated equities of the early-Internet, as you will need more venture capital to run your company, but those days are over now, deal with it.
Arago spot Updated +Created
Wikipedia subpages Updated +Created
OMG they have that. Slightly slightly overlap with OurBigBook.com.
Zatoichi Updated +Created
Fraternities and sororities Updated +Created
Front-end web framework Updated +Created
You need those because it is hard to do the following:
This is hard to do notably because when the update happens, several things might need to change on the webpage at the same time.
Notably, new elements might need to be added to the webpage, which in turn means that new bindings such as button clicks have to be added to those, in a way that keeps the page working.
The only way to do this basically is to have a functional dependency graph that keeps everything in the page in working state as updates come.
IMDb Updated +Created
The organic Usenet origins are quite hardcore!
Video 1.
Discogs Founder Kevin Lewandowski interview by AnalogPlanet (2019)
Source.
Marxen-Buntrock machine Updated +Created
Best busy beaver machine known since 1989 as of 2023, before a full proof of all 5 state machines had been carried out.
Paper extracted to HTML by Heiner Marxen: turbotm.de/~heiner/BB/mabu90.html
Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford Updated +Created
No, they couldn't be like everyone else and be a "department", proud mathematicians had to be an "Institute"!
Open web crawling Updated +Created
Polarization Updated +Created
Stack Overflow should pay its top contributors Updated +Created
One may dream.
If they belive that their reputation is a representative meaningful metric, then it should be fine!
And if not, then they should fix it.
Notably, more people would try to "game" the system by quickly answering lots of small impact answers which could tilt things off a bit. Not to mention straight out fraud.
So basically less money into developers doing useless new features for the website, and more money back into meaningful contributors.
How about 2k USD / month for the number one contributor of the year, going linearly down to 0 for the 200th? This would be 100k USD / month, so about 12 developers.
The Godfather Part II (1974) Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's open source contributions / Closed source Updated +Created
Disclaimer: closed source vendors tend to be highly secretive, solving small issues without any reply, so I use my best judgement given the lack of feedback.
DateProjectTypeDescription
2019-07zenodo.org/Security bugCross-Site Scripting vulnerability. Also mentioned at: invenio-software.org/blog/security-advisor-20190715/
2015-09GitHubSupportAdd ability to fork and edit files from external URL
2015-05GitHubBug500 when listing GCC mirror branches
2015-04Free Software FoundationBugDuplicated paragraph at Octave at description of high priority projects
2015-03GitHubBug@about and @pricing generate at mentions even though they are reserved
2015-03Jenkov tutorialsTypotypo boolean -> long
2015-03GitHubBug502 on homepage on long streak
2015-02GitHubBugIf a CONTRIBUTING.md that is a symlink is present, the link to it should not show on new issue forms
2015-02GitHubFeatureAllow to reopen pull requests after a force push
2015-02GitHubBugIf a CONTRIBUTING.md that is a symlink is present, the link to it should not show on new issue forms
2014-12My Science WorkTypoTypos on settings page
2014-12GitHubBugMerge pull request window appears after rebase even if I don't have permission
2014-12GitHubFeatureRepository Traffic Analytics API
2014-12GitHubSupportPin issues or add header text to issues page
2014-12GitHubBugTree show links blobs to the last commit that contained the blob instead of commit that introduced the file
2014-12GitHubDuplicateDeal properly with uppercase .GIT file basenames on web editor like for lowercase .git
2014-12GitHubDuplicateAdd a "I have this issue too" button
2014-11GitBookBug500 on /edit without access
2014-11GitHubFeatureView non-rendered markdown source with line numbers on blob show
2014-11GitHubBug500 on branch index for long branch name pushed together with other branch
2014-11GitHubBugGFM ordered list with inner unordered paragraph list generates two ordered lists
2014-11GitHubBugGlitches for filenames that contain only spaces
2014-11GitHubBug500 on raw and 414 on blob show of long file name with 1024 characters
2014-11GitHubFeatureHighlight bytes / words in diffs on adjacent multi-line modifications
2014-11GitHubDuplicateAllow following of groups similar to following users
Ciro Santilli's open source contributions / Merged by Ciro Updated +Created
Patches which were merged by Ciro himself on repositories which eh feels have large public visibility, e.g. those to which he has been given push permission.
Repositories to which Ciro gained push permission because of his contributions:
Ciro Santilli's open source contributions / Not verified Updated +Created
The following contributions where not immediately verified by others, but they were not reverted either and I think they are good.
DateProjectTypeDescription
2014-12plasticboy/vim-markdownReview patchAdd tilde-fenced code blocks
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain / Largest ordinal inscription Updated +Created
We can get a list of the ordinals at: archive.org/details/bitcoin-ordinal-inscriptions.csv and then sort them by payload size with:
sort -k6 -n -t, ordinals.csv -o ordinals-sort-size.csv
This shows to us that as of block ~831k, there are 4 ordinals which are far far larger than any other between 3 MiB and 4 MiB, at about 10x larger than then 5th one d115a6e689086fd587e5032f24ba2a8c01f2f87cba758c9d5eb8cf7f6e9a816a
In those cases, a single inscription takes almost the entire block, and the inscribers must have had direct dealings with their mining pool:
As of 2024, all of the big ones were made in early 2023, so it seems that the trend has died down a bit.
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain / Taproot Wizards Updated +Created
www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/01/12/taproot-wizards-bitcoin-ordinals-project-that-raised-75m-to-sell-quantum-cats-collection/:
Taproot Wizards, Bitcoin Ordinals Project That Raised $7.5M, to Sell 'Quantum Cats' Collection"
OMG if only the worlds wouldn't invest in such useless crap... it would probably be a better and more boring world.
The Godfather Part III (1990) Updated +Created
This film is an abomination and disgrace to the bilogy.

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