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by acaloiar 6y ago
While I agree with you that it should be obvious that Groovy knowledge is necessary to operate Gradle, I think it's important to note that the intersect between people building things in Groovy and people building things in Java/K
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by acaloiar 6y ago
The optimizations here are uncannily similar to the ones I performed for an algorithm we developed for application in bioinformatics. It began with a statistics post-doc who knew some R. It was very brute-force. https://arxiv.org
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by acaloiar 6y ago
> What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn't result in an identical or worse situation? Microsoft can recognize that pay-to-play certificates are merely assets owned by developers; not developer identities. Microsoft nee
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by acaloiar 7y ago
I agree; software people tend to think about business in terms of software. But if you're a production company then you should focus on your core competency and outsource software development. You generally don't have the in house
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by acaloiar 8y ago
Greenhouse Software | New York, NY | Full Stack Engineer | $120k-$170k +equity | Full-time | Onsite | https://engineering.greenhouse.io Greenhouse is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering team! At Greenhouse, o
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by acaloiar 8y ago
Before getting heated about the meaning of these results, remember that benchmarks are good for one thing: measuring performance. Performance is important, but there is laundry list of other factors that programming languages optimize for.
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by acaloiar 9y ago
When I was implementing Renjin's PRNG based on GNR R's, I read a fair amount of GNU R code. I think it goes without saying that C and Fortran perform well. However, I do believe that R's flexibility as a language comes at a p
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by acaloiar 10y ago
I'm not sure that one can derive significant value from reading a research paper per day. Great research is not easily grokked or appreciated upon first read. I think one would derive far more value from reading a single paper for an e
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Ask HN: How will net neutrality fair under the Trump administration?
4 points by acaloiar 10y ago|1 comments
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by acaloiar 10y ago
Major communications mergers like this and AT&T/Time Warner read like a chapter from Tim Wu's "The Master Switch". The path forward for these new communication conglomerates is either profound failure a la AOL/T
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by acaloiar 10y ago
We would all be remiss not to mention Hanx Writer, Tom Hanks' typewriter emulator application for iOS. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hanx-writer/id868326899
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by acaloiar 10y ago
The work was done in a professional capacity, so I can't answer your question. Both academia and industry are fraught with pretense, so I wouldn't be surprised if what you ask is true. I can only recommend that you do your best wo
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by acaloiar 10y ago
I can't speak for the EU, but since my work last year was NIH-funded, we made it freely available via arXiv ( http://arxiv.org/ ). This seems to be common practice.
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by acaloiar 10y ago
I get why this is news to many people, but when you get down to it, a company removed its own arbitrary limitation. It's really difficult to give a shit about such things. EDIT: I'm aware of the original reasoning for the limitati
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by acaloiar 10y ago
Excuse me – Russia's new FindFace app? I'll have to research this on The United States of America's Google app.
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by acaloiar 10y ago
Needless to say, as others have pointed out, there is nuance.
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by acaloiar 10y ago
> In the "poverty" regime of approximately $0-$15k/year (I put "poverty" in scare quotes because in India this would be considered "rich") Cost of living is what makes $0-15k/year poverty in the US
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I suspect that latency can be reduced significantly by limiting tile sizes. They currently use 256x256 tiles, forcing a new tile transfer every time a mutating user action takes place (e.g. a new character typed). A one-size-fits-all tile i
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Your snark gave me a good laugh.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
> "Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like try[ing] to lose weight by weighing yourself more often." Giving the benefit of the doubt that this quote is in fact an accurate metaphor – to be
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by acaloiar 11y ago
> In 2007, Congress increased the period of daylight saving time (DST henceforth) by four weeks, adding three weeks in the spring and one in the fall. "This produced a useful natural experiment for our paper," My knee-jerk reac
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by acaloiar 11y ago
This headline is broken. And so is every headline that depends upon the "X is Broken" trope.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
One small note on HTTP/2: The TLS requirement never reached consensus in the working group. HTTP/2 implementations are free to add or remove the requirement.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I believe the point @jontro is making is that unsafe programming behavior is unsafe without regard to the language's constraints. Option simply makes it more difficult to behave unsafely. Of course a developer can still call .get() whe
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Agreed on the headline, but more to the point is that now the EU does not draw a distinction between virtual and traditional currencies. Or this is at least a step in that direction.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
> what's different about taxes in regards to bitcoin vs. government currency The difference is that Bitcoin is now recognized as a currency, and as such is not subject to VAT when one wishes to, for example, exchange Euros for Bitco
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I have found Renjin quite useful in the past, and I love the motivation behind the project. I know that the guys at Bedatadriven hope to improve upon its performance, however it does not always (or often, depending on how you use R) outperf
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Even as a cyclist these designs seem myopic to the demands of civic design such as pedestrian friendliness and affordability. Perhaps a Dubai could afford retrofitting, but as these designs stand, they are only practical (and I use that loo
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I have always considered R the best tool for both simple and complex analytics. But, it should not go unmentioned that the features responsible for R's usability often manifest as poor performance. As a result, I have some experience r
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Forthcoming as that may be – an understanding listener does not a pretty straight statement make.

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