Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Litecoin makes use of Colin Percival's (cperciva) excellent scrypt hashing library to make mining on commodity CPU/GPU's feasible and therefore non-competitive with BitCoin mining (you can mine both at the same time). That's its primary p
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the article, Steve Blank gave a somewhat more enlightening talk about this topic at SXSW (I can't remember what it was titled, but here's the slides from the talk - it's all I could find: http://www.slideshare
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I'm building this into the authentication scheme for my company's new application. It's remarkably easy to get started with. The team did a great job of making it solid and simple.
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I used to meditate for an hour to two hours a day - but I've recently began finding out that I can compress my meditations into 10-15 minute sessions. This might come from being able to slide into trance more easily than I used to. I've fou
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Meh, I'm not sure where I stand on this argument - I've recently been having an affair with Haskell and I prefer the Haskell Way. The way Haskell models I/O seems confusing at first but monads make the whole thing more manageable than any
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I used gevent at first for a project that needed Async I/O and it worked really well, but then I switched to Erlang and I realized how poor a choice Python is for such tasks. The language really needs to be designed from the start for it (l
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
(Note: I'm a big Erlang supporter and 90% of my startup's code is written in Erlang) Erlang is not memory efficient (compared to Go? I don't have benchmarks to back this up) AND the learning curve for developers not exposed to functional
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
lxml is superior to BS. Most of the elementtree API is implemented by lxml too so it's compatible with BS - not sure why he's using BS when everything is built into lxml though and things like PyQuery and/or XPath parsing are available.
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Artificial Intuition(artificial-intuition.com)
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
The author appears to warp his argument and land his primary criticism on machines and not the people that program them . Which is odd - you should not learn to code because machines are not creative ? Much like saying you shouldn't lea
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
What I find lost in the cracks by many "artists" is the fact that creativity is found in all areas of human activity - it's seductive for systems thinkers to painters to consider their "clan" or "way of thinking" is the sacred and the res
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I have plugins in my browser disabled and I'm unable to click the media "area" at all (it's hiding behind something??). Just FYI.
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Because "unprocessed" means - nothing that's been processed by humans. That means no salt. No ground pepper. Which is obviously silly BUT there are purists in the primal/paleo community that do follow the guidelines of eating unprocessed
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Why the need to jab at people who do CrossFit? Sure, there are people in the mix that coach in ways that damage the body but there are plenty of people/coaches/gyms who focus on building sustainable athleticism (read: not breaking people'
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
A colorie is a calorie (in the sense that a unit of energy is a unit of energy); however, there are some (I don't have science to cite, so I won't say it is factual) people that say fructose is worse for you than glucose (the two monosacc
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Google Charts is very usable and they look really good IMHO - and it's open source. I couldn't afford HighCharts license AND they never responded to me when we tried to email them about getting a "deal" as a startup. https://developers.goo
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Yeah, we're all doing it already. At this point it's more about managing what I do online then it is about avoiding using the services. Google Glass will be massively popular with the active crowd (kind of how the GoCam got its big break)
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I respectfully disagree. It wasn't until I read the typeclassopedia and the article on the Haskell category (that goes into the Monad laws, the Functor laws, &c...) extensively did I really start to understand Monads. At first, reading
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
It's actually not that hard. The harder part is keeping yourself out of the warehouse parties...
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Thing is, there have been viable and useful alternatives to old software (like PHPBB) for quite a few years now that still operates within the guidelines of forum software! Your comment is snarky and poorly formed - comparing new/old foru
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
I use Python + Pyramid daily; and I love it. However, I love Haskell more. Yesod/Snap/Happstack have quite a ways to go before they are on-par community and feature wise with Pyramid/Django/Rails/etc... but it's mature enough for production
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Great idea; if I find the time I'll think about putting something together. Good to know there is interest in this.
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Any Haskell web-application framework is awesome - Yesod in particular as it has the most active community and written material for it. I've lately been working on an (unpublished) project using Haskell+Yesod+Fay+Clay and it's remarkable ho
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
You're approaching this wrong; they do take the little and big people seriously. It's also a 20(?) year old language with a lot of features! You can't possibly add/remove everything everyone wants - I think the team behind Erlang is doing a
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
The community is anything but a ghetto. Everyone I've interacted with is both highly intelligent, helpful, and very opinionated about the future of the language. One of Erlang's strengths is its stability; they get their stability from bein
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Why is it so hard for people to set up GPG?! Installs even have contextual menus to encrypt text for a given person!! I use contextual GPG for pastebin all the time.
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
It has been slipping - to the point that I've been considering moving to a linux machine next instead of upgrading my Mac.
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
Grand Central probably? They might be enforcing its use and deprecating other API's.
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
These were my thoughts too - while I agree with the general sentiment of using Spaced Repetition; it also depends on the language you are using. If I find I'm beginning to recognize an abstraction I immediately begin to search for something
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by Ixiaus 14y ago
1. Authorize.net's ARB (integrated with it before really good solutions came into view) 2. A chaotic - but good - life (difficulty in regaining my daily routine due to startup + girlfriend + other commitments)

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