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by apathy 19y ago
What an incredible piece of shit. SCREWDRIVERS POORLY SUITED FOR DRIVING NAILS! FILM AT 11! Right tool for the job. The right tool for accessing half a petabyte of data on unreliable Xeon-based servers in bakery racks is NOT a distrib
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by apathy 19y ago
it's a good starting point for someone with no mathematical background. A lot of these were state of the art in eg compbio a few short years ago... Very few applied texts out there use examples from interesting sources for a lay reader.
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by apathy 19y ago
is there a Ruby version of NumPy?
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by apathy 19y ago
you'll understand most of them if you read the book. Swig is just a wrapper generator, LAPACK is a fast linear algebra library. If you read the book you will start to see how these can come in handy. Plus python is trivial to understand.
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by apathy 19y ago
Why is there so much interest in reinventing the wheel around here? Many if not most of the examples would be best served by writing a flexible C/C++ library implementation and SWIGging or otherwise hooking them into (Ruby,Lisp,Perl,...) F
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by apathy 19y ago
If Google wants to dominate one or more vertical markets, they have the wherewithal to purchase a promising company that already services said vertical. That is what I believe is the Achilles' heel of this analysis.
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by apathy 19y ago
Another way to look at it -- "the best is the enemy of the good". Which side of that battle you take will depend upon your desired outcome and time frame.
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by apathy 19y ago
I was going to rant about this, but their company actually has something resembling an original premise, and principals from MIT, as opposed to the usual social-network-rails-2.0 crap. And it is a very engaging ad which appears to have hom
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by apathy 19y ago
Is it sad or proud that I recognized 5 of the 10 keyboards from having written programs on them in elementary school? The TI-1000 was particularly atrocious, although the PCjr wireless keyboard was pretty godawful. The old-school HP, IBM,
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by apathy 19y ago
Terrible. All you need is a plot of the amount of money in your account at time t color-coded by the method of interest calculation. The $$$ at a given time (let's use something like a 5-year CD for our ''fixed'' example and a yearly co
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by apathy 19y ago
Maybe I'm confusing beggars with choosers.
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by apathy 19y ago
Heh. Looks like Zed was reading what people posted. I can hardly describe how much more focused this revision comes across. Idiosyncratic but generally straightforward and (more interesting to me) much better examples on round 2. I can't
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by apathy 19y ago
I posted this on reddit and was surprised that no one had observed the same thing here (like, say, pg calling him out). The arrogance contained in this rant is sad. He "almost" got his MS, he "nearly" completed a formal education, and he
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by apathy 19y ago
This looks an awful lot like Vim to me. Only it's not clear whether the zillions of plugins and syntax rules from Vim will work with this thing, or whether I can run it in a screen session for 6 months unmolested, or... well, you get the i
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by apathy 19y ago
About time...
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by apathy 19y ago
Do you need a 'community site' with drop-in modules for stuff like 'post this to Reddit/del.icio.us/YCnews' and 'upload a photo'? Drupal is good. Is it a custom application with tightly scoped, somewhat unique functionality? Then use som
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by apathy 19y ago
Nagios is excellent once you get comfortable with it. People have written check scripts for all sorts of bizarre hardware, interfaces (RS-232 polling, X10, etc.), and so forth. You can turn the babysitting proactive by writing event scrip
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by apathy 19y ago
My goodness, that couldn't possibly have been the plan all along! Nobody would want to work for an evil corporation like Google. Also, acquisition is not a viable exit plan. Last but not least, they don't seem Googley enough. Oh, wait --
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by apathy 19y ago
I was expecting something more interesting than what this article covered. It's for corporate drones, I'm afraid. If you're starting a company, you'll eventually (inshallah) get to the point where you can't spend the time to interview ever
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by apathy 19y ago
Crux: > They want a hero -- somebody more than a mentor. This is the problem. Grow up and understand that nobody -- not Paul Graham, not DHH, not your guru-like boss that rebuilt an AIX filesystem with 'ed' -- nobody is perfect. And r
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by apathy 19y ago
Is there a database for which the defaults don't stink (across all workloads and types)? Oracle and MySQL have defaults that are unsuitable for most busy instances; I don't remember offhand whether DB2 needs tuning, but my intuition suggest
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by apathy 19y ago
If this is news to anyone at all, they haven't been paying attention. Why else would Microsoft have been destroyed in the search race? The one thing they lack more than anything else is the expertise to build a scalable infrastructure. A
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by apathy 19y ago
The goal is to conceptualize the problem in such simple terms that even a machine could solve it. Then do so.
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by apathy 19y ago
Virility != virulence. Virility is manliness. Virulence is the quality of being viral. I was wondering what the hell made an app 'manly' for a bit there.
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by apathy 19y ago
> I thought the comparison was between paper books vs ebooks, not ebooks vs the web. That's the thing, though -- it's as if we're pretending that the Web and eBooks are as different as radio and TV, when in reality, they're about as dif
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by apathy 19y ago
> You can search it, annotate it (as a group!), and cross reference it. See, this sounds a lot like the Interweb I keep hearing about. Funny thing is, writers can write for the interwebs and get paid by the word, by ads, or per-download
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by apathy 19y ago
> They are counting on you... More often than not, they're counting on a risk-taker to try and bring financial stability to the household, as well. If you are spending so much time away from your family that it's wrecking your family,
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by apathy 19y ago
> Which is better That depends an awful lot on how you define 'better'. The guy who practices mercilessly and with focus on a single task is likely to excel at that task. Will they be a strong athlete, a fountain of conversation, a han
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by apathy 19y ago
Good analysis. I've been thinking this for a while, but the write-up crystallized the reasons. If you want my services, you'll know it, and you won't be hesitant to pay for them. (I've had the strange experience of a client whom I billed
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by apathy 19y ago
> in the early days, did people think they were a moral force for good in the world Yes. I thought it was ridiculous at first, but after a while I decided it was nice to be part of a group that had a moral compass -- and actually used

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