ajdecon

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by ajdecon 15y ago
People downvote for various reasons, and there really isn't a lot of agreement on a good criterion. Some downvote only "harmful" comments, some downvote for disagreement. I'm guessing you're in the first camp, but given that pg has ok'd the
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Very little on SO (10), but much more on ServerFault (430ish).
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Lessons I had to learn about health care(radar.oreilly.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Out of curiosity, can you suggest some of those unified tools?
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Well... they're both popular, dynamic, object-oriented programming languages with a clean syntax. But that doesn't make them interchangeable. ;-) In general I find that Python is the easiest language for me to "think in", syntax-wise. It is
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Python for when I'm "thinking in code", or doing data analysis that's not too performance sensitive (NumPy). I probably enjoy Python the most. Ruby for when I'm doing configuration management or occasional webdev. Fortran for when I'm doing
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New version of Google Authenticator is a new app, old one won't update(androidpolice.com)
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The unreasonable necessity of subject experts(radar.oreilly.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Having lived in the Midwest most of my life, a lot of the talk about the culture does ring true. At least enough to make me smile. But I'm not sure the problem of a startup ecosystem that won't take off is because of that culture, because
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Apple's plans for its $100 billion cash pile: dividends and share buyback(arstechnica.com)
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Privacy economics: evidence from the field(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Recent studies show that it's lower than in Canada and Western Europe, certainly. New York Times link included below less for its mediocre writing than because it actually links to PDFs of several of these studies. http://www.nytimes.com/2
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Finally got around to reading Anathem by Neil Stephenson. Amazing book. The thing I love about Stephenson's writing is that not only am I entertained, not only do I learn something... but that the process of understanding the story actual
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The privacy arc(radar.oreilly.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I doubt it was intended as an insult. Julia (and other scientific languages) are often used in clustered environments, and Linux is much, much more common than Windows in HPC.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Typically cluster compute for production, yeah. I also did a couple tutorials where we used m1.small in "student clusters ".
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by ajdecon 15y ago
At one time, extremely spiky usage: my primary use-case was short-term compute cluster deployments for specific projects, so it would fluctuate wildly. Typical sizes at any given time were 0 (no project), 16 (small cluster), 64 (moderate) a
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I follow a similar strategy; but for me, 98% of Facebook usage is keeping in touch with people I've known for years, but are geographically distant. They know my nickname, they know how to find me, and FB does in fact help us keep abreast
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Confiscating your ice cream cones (jwz.org)
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Order of the Stick D&D webcomic breaking Kickstarter records(boingboing.net)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
We've been playing with a Kove xpd ( http://kove.com/xpress ) with 2 TB RAM lately. 2 TB RAM and four Infiniband cards make for a very fast DB server... :-D
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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data(arstechnica.com)
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Intel Acquires Fabric Technology InfiniBand From Qlogic For $125M(techcrunch.com)
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The World of Holy Warcraft(foreignpolicy.com)
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How to Read a Scientific Paper(scienceblogs.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Probably not too much to ask, but more difficult than you'd expect. LaTeX is one of the best, most expressive ways to type mathematical expressions... and once you've spent several years in grad school doing so, it becomes second nature.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Anything that I've heard at least a few times before, and has a strong drum beat. I'm pretty good at tuning lyrics, etc. out, but I need that strong rhythm.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I don't know if I really learned a "new" language this year (i.e. one I had never touched before), but I did spend a lot of time on improving my understanding of some languages which were more important to me, and learning some new framewor
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Introducing the for-if anti-pattern - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs(blogs.msdn.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Not necessarily. All a url/search bar needs to do is check if what you enter is a valid URL, then search if that fails. (And maybe also if DNS resolution fails?) If it's a valid URL, it never needs to hit the search engine... if it is,

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