alecdbrooks

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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
It's attributed to Getty Images, so it's actually a stock photo.
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
My impression is that ZFS makes the absence of ECC RAM more obvious. Discrepancies in RAM stand out when you're carefully hashing your file system.
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
If you're looking for a nice graphical way to play with data in Python, may I suggest IPython Notebook [0]? It's not always easy to configure, but it's maturing fast and lets you have Python code, Markdown, and graphs in one
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
In case some people skipped the bottom: >Edits and corrections made after this date are marked inline, except for spelling errors spotted on Dec 30, 2012 and March 15, 2014, and an extra 'is' removed on April 1, 2013 That study
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
>I'm guessing that this is wrong, though, and that the radioactivity from longer half-life radionuclides will eventually start to dominate and the "effective half-life" will be much longer. Exactly. From a report on Cherno
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Non-paywalled links (incidentally, Google Scholar is very good about digging up free PDFs, often uploaded by the authors themselves): >More than two decades ago, I conducted a study in which I presented women enrolled in a weight-reducti
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I suspect he gave his standard advice about raises without considering the circumstances or that it wouldn't work equally well for men and women. That's not an excuse, but a reminder that sexism doesn't have to be deliberate
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
>And when it comes to career advice on getting a raise when you think it’s deserved, Maria’s advice was the right advice. If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask. Sounds like an unambiguous repudiation of his previous answe
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Stuck's pessimistic, but my experiences lead me to agree. I find it difficult to take the initiative with new people, so many of the people I know I met through a mutual friend. I don't have a perfect solution, but I've found
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
It wasn't just the measure, it was that the experiment was randomized. Peer evaluations can be done for courses without follow ons and are more useful without randomization. I agree that he should be more critical of his own recommenda
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Former YouTube developer Chris Zacharias has an informative story of the effect of reducing the page size from 1200 KB to 98: >When we plotted the data geographically and compared it to our total numbers broken out by region, there was a
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
The last time this appeared on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700562 ), I tracked down some of the citations: >The social experience that most reliably predicted whether an HIV-positive gay man would die quickl
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I don't know what places the author's referring to, but according to one study, most fetuses diagnosed with Down Syndrome in Europe [0] and the United States [1] are aborted. The rate of live births has remained steady, but appare
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Do you mean 802.11ac? Many new radios use 802.11ac[0], although maybe the rush is smaller than that for 802.11n. 802.11ad is a 60 Ghz protocol, a different frequency than 802.11n or ac use. It looks like 802.11ad would mostly be used as a
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
As a short-term stopgap, maybe create a "appreciation" field for maintenance to go up by a certain percent each year? In any case, thanks for the calculator! I'll probably be using it alongside others to help me buy a car soo
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
It resembles programming koans — you fork a repository and run tests to see if you succeeded: >At the start of every chapter, you should go to Github and fork the chapters repository. There will be a link to the appropriate repository at
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
It looks like Jawbone has a reasonable-looking API [1]. Alternatively, you can set up Beeminder [2] to collect the data (or for Fitbit) for free and then use Beeminder's API [3]. [1]: https://jawbone.com/up/develop
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Releasing early and iterating works really well, but it's hardly the only way. Rich Hickey spent two and half years on Clojure before there was a public release[0]. Comment systems are much older today than social networks were in 2003
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Rob Pike, "Public Static Void" (2010)(youtube.com)
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
> The thinking is that of the 20 billion lines of code written each year, most of it repeats something that lots of programmers all over the globe have already done. MUSE will assemble a massive collection of chunks of code that can perf
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I saw that. It's just that taking this line at face value, it's not clear why they would port TrueCrypt to Linux and Mac OS X or suggest that people using later versions of Windows should use TrueCrypt: >The development of True
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Maybe EncFS [0]? Its Windows port is experimental, alas. I suppose it would be suitable if you were willing to make frequent backups. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I'm with you. This seems like an odd move, given that most likely only a minority of their users used XP for some time. Why haven't they been warning Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users to use Bitlocker for years (not to mention Mac OS X
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
He's uploaded talks in this format before. Thoreau 2.0 [0] is a particularly good one. [0]: https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eky5uKILXtM
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I think you're absolutely right on impact and self-promotion, but I don't think Wikipedia's brand is about quality. Or at least, not primarily about quality. >Wikipedia won the reference race because of its quality. Weren&
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
> People didn't build real applications in Hypercard. Remarkably, they did! Wikipedia: >A number of commercial software products were created in HyperCard, most notably the original version of the interactive game narrative Myst,
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I've seen the same "oh, this is only for beginners" reaction to some of Victor's ideas on making data visible and making libraries "discoverable" that seems needlessly dismissive. That's why I mentioned hi
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
I've been programming long enough that I know the magic incantations to get started in a few languages. But I am still in Anon's shoes any time I learn a new language or library. As the article says, "Even for experts, progra
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
The author of the article is aware of the article you linked to and wrote a response: http://lee-phillips.org/lispmath . The problem with the closed form is that once it exceeds the built-in data types, it no longer takes co
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by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Ankiapp appears to be something different. The web app Ankiapp links to below is not Anki's web app, and Ankiapp's site is copyright Admium Corp. instead of being attributed to Damien Elmes.

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