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by agf 13y ago
Did anyone else think this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error from statistics? I just think of the computing term as 'stderr'.
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by agf 13y ago
If you take a look at the comments on the article, most of that speedup is because the LANG=C command was run second and the files were cached. His estimate accounting for that was 7x, but this is clearly not a benchmark that was carefully
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by agf 13y ago
This is a great, thorough overview. To me, the main omission is next / __next__. It was misnamed in Python 2 (corrected to be a "magic method" in Python 3) but belongs on the list nonetheless. It is the method of an iterator
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Choosing your salary under a SEP, SIMPLE, and a Solo 401k(rhodesmill.org)
1 points by agf 13y ago|0 comments
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by agf 13y ago
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-denial-of-servic...
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by agf 13y ago
I think it would benefit from simple arithmetic compression / huffman coding if the number of colors used is small so the table can be small.
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by agf 13y ago
A recent, related paper: https://cs.nyu.edu/~dodis/ps/rng.pdf It doesn't appear to be mentioned in "The Linux Pseudorandom Number Generator Revisited", which repeatedly refers to a 2006 paper as its
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by agf 13y ago
Yeah, zip is w*h. I meant to replace it once everything was working but forgot. It's simple to write a "TransposedMatrix" wrapper that only adds constant overhead: class TransposedMatrix(object): def __init__(self, m
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by agf 13y ago
I wrote a version in Python: https://gist.github.com/agfor/6225437 The original code can be used under CC BY-SA 3.0 since it was posted on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2468729/50
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by agf 13y ago
What you're describing sounds like a highly intelligent person with ADHD-PI, aka ADD. There are lots of techniques out there that can help, and medication can sometimes be effective. Do some research online and talk to your doctor. The
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by agf 13y ago
Are you saying the light would somehow allow you to easily reconstruct the lost state of the quantum computer? Or that it's easier to read out and store the quantum state as light than another way? I don't think either of those th
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by agf 13y ago
I have a friend who worked at a chain restaurant where they circled the total on the receipt with a black sharpie. It was the standard practice of all the servers there to make sure the circle went through the item showing the included grat
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by agf 13y ago
That is absolutely not the community consensus. Linus and the kernel community as a whole have taken the position that this is specifically allowed by the GPL as using a public interface isn't creating a derivative work.
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by agf 13y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7969552/why-does-4-3-retu...
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by agf 13y ago
I took both AP American History and AP Government at about the same time, at a very good school with a pretty liberal teaching staff. I never heard about COINTELPRO in either one. My only exposure to it before college was from my father who
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by agf 13y ago
Sure. I assume I'd be truly blind if the fluid in my eye eve went below zero C. I'm talking about the perception only.
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by agf 13y ago
Definitely mirrors my experience.
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by agf 13y ago
I've experienced this any number of times, mostly when backpacking in the Adirondacks in overcast conditions. I've woken up in the middle of the night with no feeling of vision at all -- no sense of light or dark. It can be extrem
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by agf 13y ago
I would bet not 1 in 100 high school students ever hear about COINTELPRO in school. If it was ever part of a standard civics curriculum it was briefly in the mid to late 70s.
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by agf 13y ago
Checkout and Wallet are not the same thing.
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by agf 13y ago
They've got the tables on github and I threw up a pull request to fix several color problems w/ the sorting table including this one, and also to add heapsort.
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by agf 13y ago
1. I made money high school doing web sites and tech support for individuals and small businesses around my neighborhood. Most of this work either came through friends & family or people I'd met while working in a student job helping pe
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by agf 13y ago
Four person game: A1 says to B1 and B2, "Hey, give me a bigger piece and I'll make the cut in your favor". This doesn't solve collusion.
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by agf 13y ago
If there were two players, and A was cutting, B would just wait until the "cut" was the whole pie, then take it. If there were three players, B and C would both call at half, cutting out player A. You can't solve this by letting the cutter
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by agf 13y ago
Commonly called fair division or cake-cutting. There are "fair" algorithms for the general n-person case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_cutting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brams-Taylor_procedure
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Design critiques are loaded with BS, and that's OK(michaelboeke.com)
2 points by agf 14y ago|0 comments
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by agf 14y ago
See also 'plumbum' https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum
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by agf 14y ago
Try adding Objective-C to to the chart and then see which looks the highest. http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+ruby%2C+objective... Edit: I'm sure there are tons of other examples of this, too, but Objective-C seemed like the gro
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by agf 14y ago
That link isn't really credible at all. There are two obvious and major omissions that render their chart meaningless. They don't say how they determine whether a technology is being used server side -- it could be only if they see ".php" U
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by agf 14y ago
A couple of notes on the home page: Many of the images look terrible. The worst are the ones in the (1) (2) (3) section when you mouse over them -- look at the text most of all -- but the Dwolla t-shirt, your logo, and the other logos at th

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