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by asfarley 6y ago
Maybe the lesson here is that setting arbitrary, nice-sounding performance targets is a bad idea in general. Maybe it’s time for ruby to just stop worrying about performance. As a developer on small and medium-sized projects, I’d rather see
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by asfarley 6y ago
Jello 1-2-3 sounds pretty good, after Googling it.
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by asfarley 6y ago
People use 'as' in the same way. "I'm taking away your property, as I need it more".
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by asfarley 6y ago
I made a recursive version of Google Alerts. It was cool and it worked as intended, but it was difficult to explain to non-technical users and the payoff for using it is very slow, so it didn’t get any user traction.
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by asfarley 6y ago
This reminds me of a story an industrial designer told me: he worked on a dildo with a scripting system, so the ladies could set the number of milliseconds for each waveform profile on the haptic motor. The product was not a success.
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by asfarley 6y ago
Delight the customer, eh Bezos?
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by asfarley 6y ago
Ham radio seems to be infested with rule-lovers. Why should it require certification? Usage of public sidewalks involves the same principle of shared resources, but we don’t have sidewalk-walking licenses.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I was thinking about doing a medium-complexity UI for tagging bounding boxes using D3, but I ended up learning Vue for this purpose and was quite pleased with the results.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I’m selling a product that I built as a spin-off from my work towards an MSc. I originally built a product for data collection in order to answer my research questions, and realized that other people probably had the same problem.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I started my business ( https://roadometry.com ) to solve this problem. In my opinion, the main issue is the lack of good measurement systems for traffic; most cities only monitor a small fraction of their traffic in real-time. To
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by asfarley 6y ago
PyTorch was a revelation after spending time with Tensorflow tutorials.
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by asfarley 6y ago
Congratulations, it’s a good feeling.
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by asfarley 6y ago
This kind of reminds me of a similar article I saw, saying that Ruby needed maintainers/contributors. I contacted the Ruby development team, and was told: "find something to improve, maybe do an optimization" with no further
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by asfarley 6y ago
I regret not taking pieces like this more seriously before attending grad school.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I wonder how credible the claims of carrying 45kg for 40km is. This seems nearly unbelievable; my understanding is that healthy, experienced hikers today might carry around 30% of their body weight at the upper limit, which would be 60lbs o
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by asfarley 6y ago
I’m a Canadian citizen in Alberta. I made a freedom of information request for some aggregate statistics, and got a response from the agency indicating that the information wouldn’t be available for several months, allegedly due to a “high
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by asfarley 6y ago
Hah, well I was focused on the benefits of functional programming rather than the dynamic aspect of the language. It’s easier to recognize that a feature (dynamic typing) is an issue in some applications after trying it for a while rather t
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by asfarley 6y ago
Eh, compared to PyTorch, I find tensorflow to be extremely painful.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I set up a Bugzilla instance and immediately received complaints that it “wasn’t working” due to the humorous one-liner: “zaro boogs found”. It seems that the general public, and possibly some technical people as well, have very little sens
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by asfarley 6y ago
And now we have come full-circle to discover that Bootstrap was right all along.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I tried implementing an algorithm for tracking multiple objects based on graph-cuts using Elixir. I was disappointed in the lack of strict typing in the language, since this is one of the things that made me want to try functional programmi
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by asfarley 6y ago
In practice, most visual tools aren’t compatible or easily usable with things like Git for diffing. This gets tough for large projects. Labview does have a visual-diff tool, but when I was using labview regularly on a complex project, no-on
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by asfarley 6y ago
I was going through the new-student induction at UTIAS and one researcher asked if we had any questions. Everyone else was silent, and I got the feeling the guy was feeling bad about it so I asked a question about his research. I fumbled th
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Do you use SQLite or Rails professionally?
2 points by asfarley 6y ago|1 comments
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by asfarley 6y ago
I read a reasonable-sounding hypothesis that this could have been adversaries testing the aircraft’s tracking and target-acquisition capabilities. If you’re testing someone’s active radar, you would want a prominent object to catch their at
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by asfarley 6y ago
In the same way that nature does not ask for human brain complexity.
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by asfarley 6y ago
Why are clouds flat on the bottom?
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by asfarley 6y ago
The sense that I’m being shielded from dangerous ideas.
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by asfarley 6y ago
I've been in businesses trying to sell me this view as a developer. I can almost guarantee that the developers are saying, in their head, "this is in no way helpful to our users, but I will comply because my PM told me to." D
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by asfarley 7y ago
I was under the impression that the core principles of noise cancellation were well-understood and in the public domain as part of signal processing. Basically you reverse the predictable component of the signal and add it to the incoming,

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