Periodic

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by Periodic 13y ago
I made the Palo Alto <-> Mountain View ride 4/week for four years. My ride was bout 9 miles, which is longer than I'd expect most people to ride, but I couldn't afford to be closer. Biking on the same roads as cars is
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by Periodic 13y ago
I can't comment much on this problem. It seems very interesting and I'd love to dive into the implementation. One place I think you might want to look for a similar problem is Netflix recommendations. Netflix specifically takes
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by Periodic 13y ago
One thing that can often help with this is to have a good REPL. With it you can dive into and explore the code as it is at runtime. For example, a common way that I figured out Rails was to open the console and use obj.methods to see what
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by Periodic 13y ago
Macros still can cause a lot of problems. See some of the crazy C++ macros or Template Haskell.
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by Periodic 13y ago
It's agonizing to me that some of these government bids (my experience is in the US state of California) are required to take the lowest bid that meets the requirements unless they can clearly justify using a more expensive one. Of co
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by Periodic 13y ago
I left a start up despite dumping countless hours into it. I just didn't see it really going anywhere because our business side just wasn't well fleshed out and I knew I'd never really have the control I wanted based on the personality of
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by Periodic 13y ago
I think what you're really saying here is that these current YouTube stars will not make the jump from their current content to TV-ready content. But they do play an important role in creating the ecosystem, bringing the viewers, and showi
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by Periodic 13y ago
When I did my undergraduate degree in physics I think one of the best things I learned early on was estimation skills. I was used to doing things precisely and finding the tricks. Our professors made jokes about things just needing to be
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by Periodic 13y ago
First off, I love the work you're doing, keep it up. Benchmarks like this are designed to be the starting-point of a discussion an investigation, and not as anything meaningful in their own right. Boiling it down a framework to one perform
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by Periodic 13y ago
I've found that in my grad-school years that most professors released a set of sample exams, usually with answers. For some this would be a made-up exam. For most it was a previous year's exam. For others it was all the exams presented t
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by Periodic 13y ago
I learned from Foundations of Programming Languages by John C. Mitchell. However, it is a very dense book and I wouldn't want to work through it without a partner or a class. http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Programming-Languages-Comp...
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by Periodic 13y ago
If you take a class in compilers you should see these sorts of inference rules when talking about operational semantics. Though maybe it isn't as popular to use operational semantics anymore. It's very useful to define rules in this synta
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by Periodic 13y ago
This is particularly easy to do in CSS because it is built up out of a set of rules that have no particular ordering or context. In a way, that's the beautiful part about the CSS. You can concatenate the files however you like and you can
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by Periodic 13y ago
I noticed a decent number of sites ditching RSS because it was too hard to monetize. RSS feeds were fairly low interaction. You read the article, you go to the next, you're done with them. This means you're not going to their site and ge
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by Periodic 13y ago
The RSS system was partially so painful because it was so fragmented. Some pages had links to feeds, some used the proper meta tags, some just didn't have them because they lost control of the presentation of the content. Some were headli
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by Periodic 14y ago
When I'm a contractor and I go out to lunch with my clients I get to write that off as a business expense and it is effectively untaxed. Same for travel. However, the company paying for my meals or travel to and from work should be taxed?
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by Periodic 14y ago
I think this is a great point about the usefulness of video games. A lot of school work is boring and presented poorly: memorize your history dates, solve these equations, write an essay critiquing an essay about something you don't care a
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by Periodic 14y ago
I've been able to witness some of this in the State of California. This system is designed to try to prevent the government from overspending on software. They can always point to a public RFP and open bids if anyone objects. However, it
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by Periodic 14y ago
This is a great example of responsible stimulant usage. A similar drug that is consumed every day by millions of people is alcohol. It has a much higher death rate than caffeine and seems to be over-used quite often. However, the vast, v
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by Periodic 14y ago
I think the reasoning is that if you aren't already connected and it isn't worth spending $1 to make sure the other person sees the message, then how much utility does it really have? I suppose there could be a case where the utility to you
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by Periodic 14y ago
If you use Chromium then you'll be using an open-source browser. Chrome gets the bulk of its source code from Chromium, but there are some parts they can't include in the open-source distribution due to licensing restrictions. However, tha
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by Periodic 14y ago
I was a TA for some computer classes at Stanford a little while ago. Part of that meant that we would spend many hours grading exams at the end of the term. Every time I wondered to myself how much student handwriting affected their grade
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by Periodic 14y ago
Their results are basically within 15-20%. The major achievement is just having acceptable performance. After that there tends to be so many other factors that you can tweak that only two metrics make sense: FPS and image quality without
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by Periodic 14y ago
Maybe it's because I'm always setting up with a home router, but I haven't had to install anything for my last three internet setups. I wasn't even asked to for this last one I believe. The tech just made sure the modem was working proper
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by Periodic 14y ago
It's a little more than a key-value store. The keys are impure. One of the first issues is that the disk likes to work in terms of blocks, which tend to lend themselves to arrays, preferably of fixed size so that related data is contiguous
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by Periodic 14y ago
A simple example is an image-cropping system. The user has to click and drag. If you don't disable the selection and the user clicks in just a slightly wrong way they can end up selecting or dragging the image, which looks totally wrong f
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by Periodic 14y ago
Reminds me of Failure-Oblivious Computing [1]. It takes advantage of the fact that in many programs errors have a short error propagation distance as they are often written as a main event loop and as long as you can get to the next iterat
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by Periodic 14y ago
I can confirm. I had my wife check my account, and she has the most liberal viewing privileges of my profile out of anyone I know. She now only sees a @facebook.com email address. My primary address, @gmail.com, is no longer visible unde
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by Periodic 14y ago
There are problems with mandating standards. Mostly because they change a lot and will cause undue overhead to many companies. The government (NIST) already publishes standards, there is just no mandate that you use them. example: http:/
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by Periodic 14y ago
You might want to look at a browser extension like PwdHash [1]. It uses a client-side script to generate a cryptographic hash from your common password and the domain name. I've been using it for about four years now and have been generall

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