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Welcome to Pleistocene Park(theatlantic.com)
1 points by aleyan 9y ago|0 comments
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Lemonade Stand: A guide to financial support for open source(github.com)
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All the goodness gone from tea (1688)(books.google.com)
85 points by aleyan 9y ago|29 comments
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by aleyan 9y ago
> It is very tangible. You can effect the image with your hands. You can almost touch it. You can't touch any of this digital stuff, it is in the computer somewhere. My first camera was digital and my first exposure to photo editing
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On Tolerance(250bpm.com)
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by aleyan 9y ago
> Dude is 64 years old, and was never seen using a computer. Putin became acting president of Russian Federation on New Years Eve 1999. In months since, the only thing he brought into Yeltsin's former office was a computer[1]. He ma
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by aleyan 9y ago
> Even now, engineers are not held in anywhere near the same regard in China as they are in the West. I have to respectfully disagree with the author on the esteem of engineers in China versus the West. I am not Chinese, nor an expert on
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by aleyan 9y ago
Coming to Django, if you want to do auth via email instead of username, you are out of batteries. I say this criticism as a fan of both Django and Rails.
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by aleyan 9y ago
I don't think "hustler" is interpreted as a compliment in the medical industry. Too long a history of snake oil salesmen peddling to the afflicted.
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by aleyan 9y ago
Readers may find the Master and Margarita website[1] to be very thorough in providing the background information, plot and character summaries, and other supplementary materials. It is the best resource I know on the subject There is also a
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by aleyan 9y ago
This is not this essay's first time[1] making it to this front of hacker news. And I am glad for it, because Petrified Forrest essay is great, and Lapham's whole issue[2] on fear is fantastic. Unfortunately two pieces I found most
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All the goodness gone from tea (1688)(books.google.com)
2 points by aleyan 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Share your top 10 cli commands
10 points by aleyan 9y ago|25 comments
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by aleyan 9y ago
There are a couple of things wrong with this article. The first problem, as pointed out by apl and em500, is the non-idiomatic pandas code. Pandas is fast not when you rewrite your algorithms using one for one with pandas functions, but whe
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by aleyan 9y ago
Perhaps we should take NYTimes advice a step further and stop letting them make us miserable either. There is nothing actionable in the news; next to no utility. News is simply a time sink that depress your spirit. Whenever I think of readi
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by aleyan 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. You have me convinced with amortizing the cost of js over multiple visits rather than a single thread. Regarding the 4mb thing, I pulled it out of 1wd's comment. It would be best if 1wd came back and explained. Th
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by aleyan 9y ago
Are you really arguing that Discourse's superior linear complexity outweighs the huge constant cost in any meaningfull scenario? At 4mb/840kb * 970 comments, disregarding any additional JSON data that Discourse loads, a Discourse
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How Thou Canst Maketh a Fine Program in Fortran(digitalocean.com)
4 points by aleyan 10y ago|1 comments
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by aleyan 10y ago
For a brief history of all the other colors, I recommend looking at this veritable hokum post[0]. Make sure to look at the expanded timeline with explanations below infographic. [0] http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/m
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RAM Doubler 2 (1996)(tidbits.com)
3 points by aleyan 10y ago|1 comments
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by aleyan 10y ago
They did. [1][2] According to Brett Cannon who made the decision it came down to three things: GitHub has a built in social network, GitLab has no killer feature over GitHub, and Guido the beloved BDFL prefers GitHub. [1] https:/&#x2F
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The history behind the decision to move Python to GitHub(snarky.ca)
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CPython GitHub migration scheduled for Friday(mail.python.org)
3 points by aleyan 10y ago|2 comments
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Causal inference in Python(github.com)
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TERM is terminally broken(facebook.com)
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by aleyan 10y ago
Neat. I use the following incantation when authorizing folks to ssh into my servers via github public keys: curl https://github.com/[github name].keys >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys [github name] here shou
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What are the greatest inefficiencies data scientists face today?(quora.com)
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by aleyan 10y ago
This is is not a knock against SeaHash, but I was looking at buffer.rs [0] and noticed pretty much all the code is wrapped in unsafe {} blocks. How much advantage is there to rust implementation vs c++ if unsafe is used so liberally? I ask
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Netscape [present day, present time](isp.netscape.com)
3 points by aleyan 10y ago|3 comments
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Richard Stallman: How I do my computing (2015)(stallman.org)
82 points by aleyan 10y ago|117 comments

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