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by alec 15y ago
ITA's Matrix beta site ( http://matrix.itasoftware.com ) does both flexible day and flexible airport for multi-leg trips. To do multiple airports, type in the airport codes separated by commas: "lax,sfo".
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by alec 15y ago
When I read "I would seriously consider using Go for writing server side of web applications as it provides a right balance between speed and memory efficiency of the running code", I was expecting at least some number to back it up.
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by alec 15y ago
The older version of matrix - currently available at http://matrix1.itasoftware.com - had a not-so-inviting page asking you for a login if you had one, but never required it. There's a "Log in as a guest" link that gets you to the same p
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by alec 16y ago
I tried Play last year and it completely changed the way I thought about Java - hey, it's actually a nice language if you don't make the libraries so stuffy.
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by alec 16y ago
The link-time optimizations seem useful - not only can the output code run faster, but the compilation is in parallel. Has anyone tried it? g++ is a fast compiler and it's easy to parallelize on files, but making the linker faster/paralle
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by alec 16y ago
Try viper and/or vimpulse. It doesn't get you all the way to vim, but it gets most of the important stuff.
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by alec 16y ago
The "reading mail in emacs" option he didn't mention is notmuch ( http://notmuchmail.org/ ). It's a mail indexer with full-text search and a few front-ends, the most-widely used being for emacs. It's search is really fast, and it was fast
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by alec 16y ago
From a link in the bug report, it's a WebKit rendering bug that was fixed over half a year ago. Either Chrome's release schedule doesn't include updating WebKit frequently or the fix was incomplete.
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by alec 16y ago
I hear that some carriers will penalize your frequent flier account if you skip the last portion of a journey.
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by alec 16y ago
Use gensym to make a unique sentinel.
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by alec 16y ago
"after all, how much can you actually save by [skipping a flight]"? Many airlines have complicated pricing models that attempt to capture market demand. For example, I just looked up flights from Portland, ME to Los Angeles, departing on
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by alec 16y ago
This infographic suggests taking 2,000 IUs/day. Both the Mayo Clinic and WebMD say that more than 2,000 IUs/day can be toxic: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-d/NS_patient-vitami... http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-lifestyle-guide/
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by alec 16y ago
It really isn't. Replace "Lisp" with "Perl" and "theoreticians" with something evocative of the stereotypical Perl programmer and you have the exact same nonsubstantive rant that adds little to the discussion of what a good programming lan
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by alec 16y ago
There's a large volume that contains all of Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction short stories. They're great because they are indeed short, and while not all of them are good, a number of them fill me with the same sort of wonder I get from
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by alec 16y ago
The ThinkPad X series. The X201 is similar in size, weight, and price, but can hold a modern CPU and gets an extra several hours of battery life. You can also get mobile internet access, although I'm not sure of what type. ThinkPad constr
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by alec 16y ago
The author of the article was disappointed that the service was being discontinued, but his main reason for writing seemed to be calling attention to how quietly Google announced that it was destroying data. People won't download the data
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by alec 16y ago
I ran into this the other day, too. According to a gtk2hs developer, it's a limitation in cabal: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46AA...
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by alec 16y ago
flag it!
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by alec 16y ago
I tried a svn build of clang++ two months ago on our in-house code base of hundreds of thousands of lines of C++. I didn't see much advantage to using it. - I felt misled by all the advertising on the website. They are comparing to Apple'
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by alec 16y ago
I have a Kinesis keyboard and used a Microsoft Natural before that. If I were looking for a replacement keyboard, I would base most of my evaluation on three things: - Does it separate out the hands? This one does to some extent, but it l
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by alec 16y ago
I used to maintain Debian packages. As far as I know (or could find looking through the Policy manual and a few language-specific packaging guidelines), there is no policy against running tests after builds. I spent a few minutes looking
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by alec 16y ago
I work at ITA and review puzzle submissions. I can't say what practices were 10 years ago (before we had our first customer!), but I would be shocked if this happened today or even several years ago when I joined. All of us did a puzzle t
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Factor's Visual REPL(re-factor.blogspot.com)
46 points by alec 16y ago|8 comments
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by alec 16y ago
Quote of the article: "I fantasize about buying an industrial-grade stapler capable of punching through three journal papers and calling it The Dissertator."
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by alec 16y ago
From the video, it looks like they have a Bayesian-style mail filter, but instead of applying it to find spam, they apply it to find important mail. This is not too hard to set up; the tricky bit they've automated is analyzing which emails
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by alec 16y ago
Thanks for your feedback! That's a bug - we should have a fix out tomorrow. The issue is with spaces in completion, so if you just type "san", you should see San Diego in the list.
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by alec 16y ago
Thanks for your feedback! I've passed it on to our iPhone people. If you find anything else, there's a feedback button in the app, or you can email onthefly-comments@itasoftware.com. I wasn't able to get a hold of the development schedul
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by alec 16y ago
(I work at ITA on the QPX flight search engine). The new Matrix ( http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ ) has the color bar functionality, too, but looks a littler friendlier! When you search, click "time bars" on the right below the carrier matr
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Marriage Sort(re-factor.blogspot.com)
1 points by alec 16y ago|0 comments
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by alec 16y ago
My reaction was the opposite. They're not going after people who use their Java implementation or OpenJDK, they're going after the distributors of an alternate implementation of something like Java that is infringing on the patents related

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