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   On becoming an expert C programmer(isthe.com)

   105 points by atdt 12y ago|76 comments
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   by atdt 12y ago

   There exists a bidirectional parser that converts between wikitext and HTML/XML DOM with RDFa. It's called Parsoid[0], and it powers VisualEditor, as well as a number of other applications. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org
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   High-Throughput, Thread-Safe, LRU Caching (2011)(ebaytechblog.com)

   7 points by atdt 12y ago|0 comments
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   by atdt 12y ago

   Kudos for keeping up the commitment to publish regular updates. The newsletter gives the whole project a feeling of momentum and integrity.
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   by atdt 12y ago

   Is data really so heterogeneous? How many files in your home directory are generic, with bit-exact duplicates existing in the home directories of many other users? And the remaining files, which are uniquely yours -- what percent of each of
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   SSL implementations compared(tstarling.com)

   4 points by atdt 13y ago|0 comments
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   by atdt 13y ago

   Something doesn't add up. The user who wrote the report did not request that the destroyed droplet be recovered. The existence of lingering data was disclosed by traces which appeared in a brand new droplet. The only reason I can come
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   by atdt 13y ago

   "And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus neve
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   by atdt 13y ago

   I was surprised to see LevelDB ( https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/ ) was missing from the list of storage solutions you tried, because it seems optimal for your use-case. Were you aware of it?
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    by atdt 13y ago

    PragmataPro is a nice programming font. The regular width (which is all your really need, IMO) is $19; the full version is $170: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm
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    by atdt 13y ago

    How?
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    by atdt 13y ago

    Shaving a few hours won't open new markets or otherwise fundamentally alter our relationship with distance. It's telling that "convenience" is the selling point, which implies a difference of degrees rather than kind, and shows a lack of id
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    by atdt 14y ago

    It wouldn't have helped in this case.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    The scarcest resource in big data is analyst grey matter, not CPU cycles. Distributed computing can be a bad choice for data analysis because it transfers work from computers to humans: analysts have to spend time explicitly thinking about
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    by atdt 14y ago

    "The entire Wikipedia system, including the database" is slightly overblown: it's just MediaWiki and MySQL.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    Thanks; that was thoughtful. What about Wikipedia's sign-up process? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    I work at the Wikimedia Foundation (as an engineer, but on a different team). Because we're often putting out fires, we don't always do an amazing job of communicating well the kind of work we do. The Parsoid project is (in my opinion) prob
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    by atdt 14y ago

    Thank you for sharing. My condolences on the loss of your friend.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    The ninja is hiding behind the samurai, naturally.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    What is a "pre-fork worker model"? I hear that term get thrown around, but I'm not sure what it means.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    You're using Wikipedia's goodwill for personal gain, which doesn't seem very nice to me.
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    CityHash, a family of hash functions for strings.(code.google.com)

    23 points by atdt 14y ago|7 comments
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    by atdt 14y ago

    A lightweight micro-framework.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    > ...faster and often clearer than lambdas. $ python -m timeit 'import string;from operator import itemgetter;[itemgetter('slice') for x in string.letters]' 100000 loops, best of 3: 14.2 usec per loop $ python -m timeit 'i
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    by atdt 14y ago

    It'd be great if the help text contained some examples rather than simply a pointer to the website, and if you added a man page. When you're in the middle of a terminal session, switching to a browser can be really disruptive. Also, if you
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    by atdt 14y ago

    Christ, what an asshole.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    What's missing from the site that would make it open and inviting again?
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    by atdt 14y ago

    Having to creep around copy protections like a thief takes the joy and pride of ownership right out.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    Unless the library got renamed, in which case you'll get a 404 with no indication whatever that anything had ever existed at that URL.
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    by atdt 14y ago

    Please expose this as an RSS or Atom feed!