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by aschampion 8y ago
The list is analytically tilted, but you're talking about early 20th century philosophers for a list of books 1950-2000.
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by aschampion 9y ago
I briefly had a Razer Blade for development and returned it for several reasons, the top two being: 1. Enormous screen bezel, which made it silly to lug around a laptop with the screen real estate of one much smaller. 2. Without careful, te
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by aschampion 9y ago
For async, also worth considering Gotham: https://gotham.rs/ I only have minimal experience with it, since I've also eventually chosen actix-web for all my projects so far due to its simplicity.
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by aschampion 9y ago
Since November WASM is enabled by default in the major browsers now: https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm
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by aschampion 9y ago
Having micro-optimized and maintained JS code over years and dozens of browser versions, I cannot echo this enough. Tuning JS both the in face of fickleness of VM quirks and data/context is a losing proposition for all but the most spe
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by aschampion 9y ago
Postgres is configured extremely conservatively by default. While it isn't reasonable to spend time tweaking each database, at least running pgtune would be reasonable for Postgres.
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by aschampion 9y ago
HHMI Janelia | Software Engineer (computer vision) | Ashburn, Virginia | Fulltime | Onsite We are looking to hire a software engineer for at least one year to work on the implementation of automatic neuronal arbor reconstruction from volume
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by aschampion 9y ago
I and most other developers I know use zsh, because it's focused on features interactive use and not scripting. Who cares about bash compatibility? Bash scripts are run by, well, /usr/bin/env bash. For DevOps/IT I c
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by aschampion 9y ago
What more infuriating is it using synonyms of "verbatim" that actually don't mean the same thing as verbatim in a particular technical context but match an avalanche of noise. I've yet to find a way to turn on synonym ma
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by aschampion 9y ago
1. resolution 2. fatigue 3. (for VR) limited input options Beyond these, the main reason is that gaming is a much better exploration and experimentation field than productivity because each app can have far less capital investment, lifecycl
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by aschampion 9y ago
> I think anyone who uses the CLI is either trying too hard or hasn't realized the beauty of a git GUI. Or, you know, understands and thinks in the semantics of the underlying tool and is already working in other text-based tools.
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by aschampion 9y ago
> I've never understood the pseudo-ephemerality of instagram. Even if you save stuff, or like it, the interface makes it very difficult to recall stuff from more than a few days ago. Hypothesis: these businesses all monetize # of in
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by aschampion 9y ago
The 60 percentile income is < $46k. That people have little emergency funds on incomes less than this is largely explained away by necessary expenses. 20% have no savings -- the 20 percentile income is $17k. Show me a net savings budget
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by aschampion 9y ago
> It is very expensive to build and maintain products across native desktop Yet (modulo mobile) somehow companies managed to do this in the 90s with far less productive development tools. The difference is the diluted power of the consum
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by aschampion 9y ago
> but for some reason it uses a lot less resources than the actual native apps. Because most "actual native apps" now are not native apps but electron or some other HTML + JS + CSS wrapper running an entire separate browser to
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by aschampion 9y ago
You may want to look at a previous recent discussion here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263
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by aschampion 9y ago
It's been a historically valuable heuristic -- algorithms/theories that provide cognitive scaffolding allow us not only to solve related problems but reason about the limits of applicability of that theory, successively guiding di
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by aschampion 9y ago
It means the proof is explanatory, i.e., that it provides a framework of thought that extends our capability to reason about related problems within our very limited cognitive envelope. Pure proofs, like purely predictive models in science,
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by aschampion 9y ago
> It's been a few years, but I recall there being research into 100% mapping out crab or ant behavior and it was getting to a point of being quite accurate. We are nowhere near this point. There are specific, intentionally constrain
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by aschampion 9y ago
Neat! A dealbreaker for me is the lack of markdown or similar for the editor. I understand WYSIWYG is more important for most users, but it would be nice to have a plaintext entry alternative. Also makes it easier for external clients (CLI,
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by aschampion 9y ago
Hess and Markram didn't invent topological analysis of neuronal networks. They are not mapping the brain. This is a fluff piece that didn't bother to check with anyone else in the field if this paper is as groundbreaking as it&#x2
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by aschampion 9y ago
If you're intrigued by this SEP article I would recommend going through [1] and [2] together, since they are both grouped in similar order by schools of thought on sorites paradox. The former is a well edited collection of papers on ea
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by aschampion 9y ago
Lua is great and generally the right tool for this sort of thing. As an alternative, though, there are several Rust-based scripting languages that attempt to expose some of the power of the type system, etc., while being more amenable to dy
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by aschampion 9y ago
A salient difference from astronomy is that computational neuroscience is typically concerned with describing neural systems in terms of information processing. Our principle technological example of an information processing system is the
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by aschampion 9y ago
Just read it in a kiwi accent and all is fine.
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by aschampion 10y ago
Modal function cues: paintbucket, eyedropper, etc. Common interaction cues that span functions but aren't in the CSS set: multiaxis, rotation, etc. Not to mention the innumerable domain-specific possibilities. It's another example
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by aschampion 10y ago
> What are examples of legitimate use-cases for supporting custom cursors? We build web applications serving expert users for which this is essential. For precise selection the default cursor often occludes important information. Think o
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by aschampion 10y ago
Policy is technology. Technology is not just engineered artifacts but the cognitive models and social practices surrounding them. Policy is a vastly powerful technology that mediates the social and economic resources necessary for technolog
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by aschampion 10y ago
> Because until now making a beautiful, powerful and modern app with a portable GUI was something only a few people would be able to do. Except it's none of these things: electron apps suffer the same presentation-before-content pro
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by aschampion 10y ago
For comparison, my 10 year old Dell 3007WFP (30" 16:10 1600p monitor for similar market segment) is 147W typical 177W max. So 8x the pixels for ~60% of the power consumption after a decade of improvement sounds good. Shame it's 16

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