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by batbomb 11y ago
It's more fun doing this, since jQuery is already on the page: import js jq = js.eval("$") first_line = jq(jq(".container p")[0]) first_line.text("jQuery was here")
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by batbomb 11y ago
Reminds me of a tube amp.
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by batbomb 11y ago
The point of a return from fsync is that you are guaranteed the file has been written to disk[1]. If you don't block on fsync, you can't guarantee the file was written to disk, because the server may have died in any number of way
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by batbomb 11y ago
Write acknowledgement in this case means committed to memory, i.e. the transaction was recorded to a translog buffer (which is fsync'ed to disk every 5 seconds), and changes were applied to the database in memory. The translog (aka wri
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by batbomb 11y ago
Those figures are based off of grain fed, mass produced cattle. Assuming that all such grains originate in California, or even that it applies to all meat, is silly. They are not accurate for grass fed beef. Around Petaluma, for example, t
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by batbomb 11y ago
I grew up in New Mexico, moved to Utah in high school, and have a Dutch grandfather. Fry sauce exists outside of Utah, but mostly in places with either high Dutch populations (western Michigan) or high Mormon populations. I encountered it f
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by batbomb 11y ago
Martin Perl, the author mentioned in the paper, was a Nobel prize winner and one of the first people I met when I got to SLAC. His office was across the hall from mine. Unfortunately, Martin passed away this year. He was a very nice, smart,
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by batbomb 11y ago
So did you end up buying a Crossland CC1 in the end?
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by batbomb 11y ago
> I'd like to see the author back this claim up, rather than ask us to trust him. Homeschooling is a feasible choice for families where one parent does not have to work full time, which rules out many poorer families. In the Bay Are
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by batbomb 12y ago
That's a clever name. Somebody at spark has apparently used a TIG welder before.
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by batbomb 12y ago
Was just about to post this. Jacques is the man; If you learn this, everyone you know will be infinitely inpressed.
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by batbomb 12y ago
I've still got my x61s. I don't use it a whole lot, but I'm continually impressed how well it still works (running ubuntu 14.04 now). It's nice to keep around when traveling on vacation when I don't want to lug arou
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by batbomb 12y ago
> If you are a VC I would focus on the earlier stages where there is much less competition for deals and as a result valuations have not gotten unruly. If the premise was true, I'm not even sure how this could be good advice. It sou
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by batbomb 12y ago
Millbrae is often colder than SF, especially compared to select neighborhoods in SF. You need to hit at least Burlingame or San Mateo to get away from the seeping fog of Pacifica/San Bruno/Colma.
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by batbomb 12y ago
> such as effective team communication, will not go away any time soon. Communication itself won't go away, but that doesn't imply that a platform/application which facilitates communication won't fade away. Just ask
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by batbomb 12y ago
Why the dependencies instead of just depending on an anaconda distribution?
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by batbomb 12y ago
> And there are the illegal ones like amphetamines that have a significant effect, but will also cause a great deal of harm the more you use them. So, there seems to be a clear correlation between the size of the effect and the harm do
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by batbomb 12y ago
There's Apache BookKeeper to fill some of those needs.
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by batbomb 12y ago
Related (Referenced in the article): http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1952 Chris Ré covers this in his CS345 course at Stanford.
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by batbomb 12y ago
Considering many people on this HN are, well, hackers, and can spend a ton of time coding, optimizing, etc... often even evangelizing coding for everyday people, I feel like this is the lazy answer. Which is fine; there's nothing inher
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by batbomb 12y ago
You can use WITH statements/Common table expressions.
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by batbomb 12y ago
NERSC just put Hopper, a cray xe6, online for general use last year. It clocks in at only 1.3 petaflops.
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by batbomb 12y ago
1) You are assuming they used a normal distribution. Statistics isn't all gaussians. 2) There's probably an appropriate statistical model that wasn't used to come up with the 1 in a billion number, be it some likelihood funct
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by batbomb 12y ago
You make be actually be talking about plasma Wakefield acceleration
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by batbomb 12y ago
Technically, there is an OpenStack installation at Stanford (at SLAC). It's mind boggling that SLAC and Stanford hasn't banded together on this yet, especially considering the new-ish "Farm" at SLAC.
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by batbomb 12y ago
That's unfortunate. I just saw you at SLAC a few weeks ago. I was literally logging into the nebula about 10 minutes before I read this, helping out my boss with something. I told him, but we weren't sure if this was April Fools o
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by batbomb 12y ago
béchamel (which would include flour, butter, and some sort of cream) and cheese is the classic sauce for Mac and cheese.
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by batbomb 12y ago
and scidb.
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by batbomb 12y ago
of course, it could be rounding up if the server is more than 50 miles away. 1ms is about 100 miles at 68% the speed of light. Physics is a bitch.
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by batbomb 12y ago
> When Docker first rocketed I thought this was an interesting way to start off the post.

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