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by bcheung 8y ago
It's not the same. Starbucks is a strawman. People have to take action and opt in to watching something on YouTube. They have a choice. If people don't want to hear someone they never have to. Youtube doesn't provide the m
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by bcheung 8y ago
So you're against net neutrality?
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by bcheung 8y ago
That article has lots of flaws: 1) It ignores the aspect of time. It is under the assumption you will only be buying for a single year. It doesn't take into account that you lock in your price (vs rents going up). You need to compar
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by bcheung 8y ago
I like to think of monads as a supporting sidecar wrapper. It's almost like a plugin system; you can extend some base computation to have additional functionality for free. This becomes really obvious how much boilerplate can be &quot
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by bcheung 8y ago
I'm primarily a JavaScript developer nowadays. I used C back in the 80s and 90s but never really used C++. I decided to start teaching myself C++ a few weeks ago. I've been going through "The C++ Programming Language 4th E
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by bcheung 8y ago
I lived in Russia for 2 years as a foreigner. I never noticed and issue with smiling. I think it has more to do with how much of an accent you have when speaking Russian and what you wear. If you are in a tourist area you have to be doub
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by bcheung 8y ago
Nicotine has a similar addiction profile as caffeine. It's all the other stuff mixed with cigarettes that makes it much more addictive. People who consume only nicotine (drops, patches, gum) and then try to stop using it have a relat
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California Supreme Court blocks Prop 9 ballet measure(latimes.com)
2 points by bcheung 8y ago|1 comments
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by bcheung 8y ago
How are people running migrations in these distributed SQL environments? Especially with something like Kubernetes that has canary / rollback functionality. Do people run their migrations as a manual step, is integrated into the CI&#
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by bcheung 8y ago
So Copy on Write (essentially NOPs) are now being counted towards disk performance tests?
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by bcheung 8y ago
Little did Ötzi know, that thousands of years from now people would be so concerned with what he ate. In fact they even went so far as to invent social networks so people could see what others recently ate.
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by bcheung 8y ago
I love how it matches so much more. It would take me some time wrap my head around the new possibilities. I doubt I have time to learn this or use it but it would be cool to see a list of examples of things that are much more concise and e
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by bcheung 8y ago
And yet they recently changed it so that if you name a text field username or password it will get filled in with the current user's info, even when it is an admin page where you create new users. There is no way to instruct Chrome to
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by bcheung 8y ago
For now.. Look at the trend. First it was just a small SEO bump.
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by bcheung 8y ago
HTTPS is definitely good but this is a bit strong handed. Many small devs don't want to deal with the complexity of HTTPS and the extra fees. It's a lot better with Let's Encrypt but I've talked to non technical people
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by bcheung 8y ago
Along related lines, I noticed just removing notifications from the lock screen greatly reduces phone usage. I also set my phone on do not disturb the majority of the time unless I'm expecting a call. I estimate I cut my time 10x. Th
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by bcheung 8y ago
I just skimmed the article but doesn't seem like there is any talk of more modern approaches. Newer approaches have the agent learn "primitives" through curiosity. It's sub-goal is to predict future states given the cur
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by bcheung 8y ago
Rule #9. Optimize webpage colors so it doesn't hurt people's eyes.
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by bcheung 8y ago
People don't wake up with nightmares and covered in sweat if they don't have a cheeseburger in the last 24 hours.
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by bcheung 8y ago
ML/DL is certainly doing better than most but it still has the academic culture. It is increasingly more common to release code on github so the result can be reproduced and people can adapt their research.
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by bcheung 8y ago
Yes, I think Apple has been slow to implement web API's into Safari for that very reason. It took them forever to get Service Workers. Also, if the browser can do it, why would people pay them 30% of the app? I don't know about
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by bcheung 8y ago
KaiOS is a fork of Firefox OS according to their site.
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by bcheung 8y ago
It's bad logic and bad journalism. People have a 50% chance of dying each year over 105 translates to there is no limit to longevity? Also, the critic in me makes me want to see the actual distribution because I would think there is a
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by bcheung 8y ago
Why are they developing so many different mobile OS platforms at the same company? Android, Fuchsia, and now KaiOS? They mention it is a web based OS. That might lead to less fragmentation though if it takes off. The browser API's a
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by bcheung 8y ago
Agreed. There's too much of an academic paper culture around ML. It makes the field very unapproachable. It's as if people don't actually use it for anything practical and they only care about the science and math. It is g
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by bcheung 8y ago
Interesting. I did the same exercise with the pretrained Xception and 2 dense layers at the end and only got 83% accuracy. Thanks for sharing the tweaks you made, that's good to know. I wasn't aware of those techniques.
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by bcheung 8y ago
In the React / Node world I haven't seen this to be true. I can imagine it being more so if the languages and tooling are different like in the case if someone was doing Java backend Angular frontend.
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by bcheung 8y ago
How was your day at work? > writing brute-forcer to crack P12 private key because someone forgot password LOL
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by bcheung 8y ago
"Fullstack is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules."
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by bcheung 8y ago
I tried to switch from Mac back to PC and got the original Surface Book a few years ago. I really liked the detachable screen but otherwise I didn't find it very useable. The trackpad didn't register clicks a lot of the time and

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