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Repl.it classroom: a platform for teaching programming(repl.it)
4 points by amasad 10y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 10y ago
What does Elon base his ethics on? There seems to be an underlying philosophical framework for the types of projects that he thinks are important for humanity. He seems to put a lot of weight on future lives -- is he a utilitarian/cons
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by amasad 10y ago
>That seems a little hubristic... Not everyone uses Babel, and working with the Uglify devs to get it ES2015+ compliant (through whatever means, including adding a different AST parser) would make the entire community better, not just Ba
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by amasad 10y ago
One of our future plans is to use type annotations (Flow, but maybe typescript too) to do advanced optimozations.
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by amasad 10y ago
ES6 support is another reason why. And also, once we start doing advanced optimizations you might want to marinate that hat in some nice sauce.
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by amasad 10y ago
We're not losing focus. Babel is as focused as ever on being a general purpose parser, transformer, and code generator. Babili is a set of Babel transforms. Uglify has its own parser and transformer and generator, so arguably any work
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by amasad 10y ago
Bill Murray's adaptation of Fear and Loathing is terrible in all the magnificent ways Bill Murray movies can be terrible. Highly recommended. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081748/
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by amasad 10y ago
someone read too much Nietzsche
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by amasad 10y ago
Not to be confused with Burkina Faso which is incidentally a francoPHONE country (most puns intended)
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Babili: An ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain(github.com)
9 points by amasad 10y ago|1 comments
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by amasad 10y ago
I guess I meant it as an umbrella term for all the things that I think matters for weight loss. Insulin resistance and the propensity to store more fat than to keep it as glycogen in the blood ready for burning.
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by amasad 10y ago
>Weight loss is simple: calorie deficit Not that simple. People touting this are usually genetically endowed with great metabolism. I've tried this many times and reach a plateau pretty quickly and have to keep decreasing calories u
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by amasad 10y ago
I wonder if they fixed the routing algorithm for TCP connections. It's round-robin on ELB, which is performs terribly for long lasting connections.
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by amasad 10y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this in the context of software development tools. It is now just expected that IDEs, compilers, tooling etc are free and OSS. On the one hand this enables bottom-up innovation and shorter development cyc
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by amasad 10y ago
Yup, this is poor writing: "Y is true because had X been true then Y would follow"
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by amasad 10y ago
I know it's not an either or situation -- but in my opinion this is a step up from Twitter. Technical discussions on twitter is super frustrating to follow along. And almost impossible to have intelligent conversations in 140 chars.
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by amasad 10y ago
I'd be interested in learning how much saving this is in dollars -- anyone here knowledgeable enough in data centre cooling to estimate this?
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Evalbot: try any programming language in Slack or Messenger(repl.it)
4 points by amasad 10y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 10y ago
One way to think about Occam's razor is from a probabilistic perspective. Consider the Conjunction Fallacy -- for any two events the probability of both events occurring together is less than or equal to the probability of either one o
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by amasad 10y ago
In the paper coining the term 'Singularity'[1], Verner Vinge describes that one way superintelligence could emerge is that large computer networks may "wake up" as a "superhumanly intelligent entity". I persona
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by amasad 10y ago
I can only speak for moderate sunni islam -- a lot of it is meditation and not very different from how yoga is practiced in the west. People gathered together in a room doing repetitive movements and sounds. The only bit of talking to God i
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by amasad 10y ago
In my experience growing in a muslim country -- most moderates understand this and imply it without explicitly saying it. And most of the education and the scholarship happening in Islam focuses on the Madhab, fatwa, hadeeth, and interpreta
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by amasad 10y ago
Religion is more in the domain of cultural evolution than people speaking directly to god. Islam is a continuation of Christianity and Judaism and you can trace that back even further.
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by amasad 10y ago
It changes seasons every 10 years. In my mind Ramadan is forever tied to fasting in the winter because that's my earliest memory of it.
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by amasad 10y ago
yes the first 3-5 days are always tough. Especially if you're addicted to caffeine or nicotine. I would say it takes almost a week to start feeling more productive than in non-fasting state.
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by amasad 10y ago
I can answer some questions. >is there some sort of Ramadan exception for those involved in physically intensive work? In the Muslim world government jobs working hours is usually adjusted from 8 hours to 5. Although I'm not aware o
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by amasad 10y ago
I was just saying the other day that fasting in Ramadan could work as alternative to Soylent[1]. Eating one meal a day frees up a lot of mental cycles that goes into thinking about food (what will I eat for lunch, where from, etc). It also
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by amasad 10y ago
I'm curious as to why the HN story[1] about the sale was flagged yesterday? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11997773
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by amasad 10y ago
This is great. Thank you
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by amasad 10y ago
This seems like it could easily be confirmation bias. When you have an idea that comes as a fast-flowing "inspiration" and you manage to write it down, and it turns out to be relevant, it registers in your mind as a close-call. Ho

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