Periodic

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by Periodic 12y ago
It's hard to know what the system really does because the article really doesn't explain it. I think what you're describing is Cross Validation[1]. It would work if they are predicting performance, but it sounds like the VAM
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by Periodic 12y ago
My wife and I are both very secular. We were together for about four years before we decided to get married and then another year before we actually did. There were basically two reasons why we did it. 1. There are obvious legal and finan
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by Periodic 12y ago
It is possible to do these analyses and isolate a single variable regardless of the correlations with other variables. I'm hoping they did this but their methods section does not seem to indicate that they did. They have a very large
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by Periodic 12y ago
I'd like to step back from this from a moment and get a little more abstract and ask if this idea of shadowing applies to software products (or any other business, really). Has anyone really sat down and shadowed one of their users for
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by Periodic 12y ago
It's hard to establish identity without using one of these centralized services. As someone without a Facebook account I'm also a little sad. I don't know if other centralized accounts have as many good ways to prevent new
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by Periodic 12y ago
I think you're understating what an impact this would have. What has made the web so amazing is the low cost of reaching users allows entrepreneurs to try new things with lower risk. This has lead to high rates of innovation in the t
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by Periodic 12y ago
The article itself pointed out that their headline number doesn't really account for pre-college differences between the two groups. For example, someone who grows up in a stable high-income environment will likely go to college, but
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by Periodic 12y ago
There is apparently problems with the opposite that may be occurring now in our society. The bacterial ecosystem of our guts is very poorly understood. However, we are starting to discover that some forms of obesity, irritable bowl and rel
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by Periodic 12y ago
Immediately after trying it briefly I had the same thought. I wonder though if you could ever really describe what the "best" way to do something is in Vim. I believe we could be pretty clear that "xxxxx" is less effic
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by Periodic 12y ago
I feel that what most people actually mean when they say "compiled" vs. "interpreted" is whether or not the language specification has additional static checking beyond what is required by parsing. Essentially it is whe
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by Periodic 12y ago
I find if I'm using parentheses to group (non-numeric) expressions in Haskell then I should probably break up the expression and name the parts. One wonderful thing about Haskell is that there isn't a cost to using let expressions
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by Periodic 12y ago
I think this person gave themselves away by being extremely regular about their behavior. If he was causing disruption on the commute every day for two years then they had plenty of time to work through the bureaucracy of getting the equip
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by Periodic 12y ago
I think many experienced programmers forget how hard it was to write good code in the first place, whatever abstraction they started to use. I "learned" Java and C++ very quickly. I'm sure I was banging out code and stoppe
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by Periodic 12y ago
I worked at a company a ways back that had a very strict rule about always putting braces on conditionals. This was because at one point an engineer changed a one-line conditional to a two-line conditional and forgot his braces. It was a
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by Periodic 13y ago
This is why I think higher-level programming is easier. I love to build an abstraction around a complication so that I don't have to think about it anymore. It was only very recently that I began to embrace what kind of programmer I
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by Periodic 13y ago
I learned a lot about writing good Haskell code from working with Yesod. Since it's a framework it structures your code for you and exposes you to a lot of well-designed patterns. Yesod and Conduit are two of the best written package
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by Periodic 13y ago
Right, the article in question is just pointing out how C++ is implementing a specific monad. In this case the values of futures and then the futures library implements all the functions require for them to be a monad. The C++ spec certain
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by Periodic 13y ago
I think if you come out of a good school with the right degree and jump right into a good company you can expect market-rate pay or better. If you get a CS degree from Stanford and join Google you'll be doing fine. But maybe you didn&
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by Periodic 13y ago
This is where I am now. I have been lucky enough to get started on a Chromebook for free and have expanded from there. For me, the Chromebooks and tablets are ways for me to access webapps, particularly Google Apps. Additionally, Chromeb
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by Periodic 13y ago
The author somewhat addressed this when he mentioned that the number of people buying in at the lower price that wouldn't have bought at full price have to offset the people who wait. However, I think you're completely right that
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by Periodic 13y ago
A strong type system can give you a lot of "free" documentation and I love it! I long for a search engine like Hoogle in other languages ( http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ ). Most functions are very obvious fro
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by Periodic 13y ago
Except that there is implicit dependency management. It would be like saying that all SKUs need to be comprised of other SKUs and less than 2kg of screws, nuts, bolts and custom components. In your analogy the Spring might be an entire engi
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by Periodic 13y ago
I feel the majority of libraries you will use in Haskell won't resort to errors except in two cases: One is very low-level libraries doing things like interacting with C-code or raw memory. These are dangerous in all languages unless
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by Periodic 13y ago
I second this. I've been using it for a few years now. It gives me great peace of mind knowing that my password on a site like HN is something like "e5wLoMB1kZ". I only have to remember a few passwords and yet each site ha
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by Periodic 13y ago
I've been using PwdHash[0] for a few years now. It is basically a system for generating a password using your input hashed and salted with the domain name of the site. This takes the security of the password itself out of the hands of
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by Periodic 13y ago
You can use other HTML entities, such as &ensp; &emsp; which should have a wider width while wrapping as if it were a single space.
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by Periodic 13y ago
There are have actually been a few young people sailing around the world solo in the last few decades[1]. I'm sure for each of those there are many who perform more mundane tasks or have jobs doing things like ferrying or tours. It&#
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by Periodic 13y ago
I've had jobs at various tech companies. I'm fairly confident I could make a good living in most cities in the US, either through working remotely, contract work, or working for local companies if I can find a good one. However,
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by Periodic 13y ago
I've been surprised to see this as well. The advent of a first-child seems to drastically change a family's priorities and I'm seeing many of my friends move closer to their parents to get the additional support for raising
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by Periodic 13y ago
I'm in a similar place. I drink 1-2 cups of coffee a day, one in the morning and one in the early afternoon. I find it very valuable for increasing my attention and focus during those periods of the day when I'm generally unfocu

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