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by baldfat 9y ago
Double speed 200% = 2.00 2000 mhz * 2 is 4000 mhz Tripple would be 300%
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by baldfat 9y ago
I was walking down the Danbury Square Mall in 1985. Now I pride myself on not looking at women just because they look nice because I didn't want to grow up looking like a dirty old man or make women feel creeped out. BUT THIS ONE TIME,
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by baldfat 9y ago
They are 200% faster. Says so in the article. Think when Apple finally moved to Intel and th speed increase. EVEN though Apple claimed they were the as fast if no faster before the switch. AMD had horrible performance on laptops and they ar
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by baldfat 9y ago
Scientific Computing doesn't really happen in low level language spaces today. FORTRAN, C and C++ are what powers the Higher Level languages. Most is done in R, Matlab, Python, and Julia and for good reason. Most people doing scientifi
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by baldfat 9y ago
this isn't inspired by the movie "Up." July 2, 1982 Larry Walters tied his lawn chair to balloons and carried an air pistol to shoot balloons to control the amount of lift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by baldfat 9y ago
I would say that Racket is by far the best Lisp to learn. It has the basically been founded to teach programming and it has been fleshed out into a very strong general purpose language. Watch these videos on a quick overview of Racket http
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by baldfat 9y ago
Kotlin due to Google's backing and being Android's first class citizen?
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Gates Foundation Releases Open Source Software for Banking(geekwire.com)
5 points by baldfat 9y ago|0 comments
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by baldfat 9y ago
I am thinking of doing a munging and data cleaning dsl and using OpenRefine as a way to implement the code. I really think that would be super handy for doing data cleaning. A few people have done some R calls within Racket that is intresti
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by baldfat 9y ago
0 based was only for programming for iterations. This makes it a weird math for people. When the first column is 0 and 1 is the second column it is indeed weird and is why statistical languages are 1 based.
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by baldfat 9y ago
R as a Domain Specific Language has great output for Reports, Word Documents or Power Point slides and a million of reports. There is also the shinny package and shinny server for web publishing. This is why I went to R from Pandas. My comp
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by baldfat 9y ago
DEPLOYMENT My ONE HUGE Gripe with Python. This and that Pandas (I understand why BUT it drove me away) Zero based for statistical work. Your math is 1 based and the language is 0 based.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I know Firebug was great but it didn't usher in Web 2.0 > Jan 2007, Firebug 1.0 The start of Web 2.0! O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference was in 2004 We than had the infamous Time Person of the Year "YOU" "TIME s
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by baldfat 9y ago
It was interesting that the FBI was taking the last 10 years of Telsa's life as possibly serious. Man people figured he went mad in his early 70s and didn't really do anything for the last 10 years of his life scientifically signi
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by baldfat 9y ago
I don't think people comprehend how dense Manhattan is until they have experienced it. I find West Coast Cities to be more like a big suburb outside of Seattle and San Francisco. LA is just one smallish center city with hundreds of mil
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iPhone X Launch Return of the iPhone Lines(macrumors.com)
1 points by baldfat 9y ago|0 comments
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by baldfat 9y ago
> but making money on esoteric App Store software is hard! You mean "but making money on App Store software is hard!"
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by baldfat 9y ago
Politics and Religion. I have my degree in Theology and I ran for Political Office so I guess no one to talk to :)
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by baldfat 9y ago
Sad that RSS has been dropped by so many news sources. It was awesome during the heydays of Google Reader.
800.
by baldfat 9y ago
Superfoods is a marketing term. I love saying you know what is a superfood? Beans and mushrooms and they say no thank you and walk away with their seaweed and chia smoothie. "'The term "superfoods" is at best meaningless
801.
by baldfat 9y ago
Buried because it is off topic for Hacker News and causes drama.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Today's Non-affiliation is history's Deist. Affiliation has very little impact on America's general religious behavior or culture. People that just affiliated but only went to church maybe once a year moved to more comfortabl
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by baldfat 9y ago
Do they? I have a feeling that Apple knows that much of their software is sub-par. If it wasn't for their hardware....
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by baldfat 9y ago
I LOVED my Cowon D2 it was the best sounding player I ever listened to and it supported ogg and flac. I jumped on EBay to look and they actually cost about twice as much on EBay than when I bought mine new 9 years ago. My LG V20 blows it aw
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by baldfat 9y ago
> I loathe iTunes with the passion of every sun in the known universe They seem spot on
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by baldfat 9y ago
You make Zenaudio ALK! That is a really interesting sequencer and looper. Congrats on a great concept.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Well using a terminal splicer is different than a Tiled Window Manager. I love my ursvt with Tmux but that is a different beast then i3.
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by baldfat 9y ago
You have a job for me? In the North East or West Virginia?
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by baldfat 9y ago
When work hands you a Macbook and you go ewww gross I get looks :) I HATE Mac OS user interface. It is so convoluted and decisions based on things that were wierd 15 years ago. I doubt I'll get permission to install it on the mac. The
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by baldfat 9y ago
I just wish there was a way to use it on Windows and Mac OS! i3 and Window Tiling is such a better user interface for my work flow. I have having to use the mouse or track pad.

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