bcoughlan

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by bcoughlan 9y ago
I can't get over the triviality of that flowchart in the article. The system is well and truly broken. If anything this just allows Microsoft to extract money from any other company trying to prevent piracy on their cloud storage.
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by bcoughlan 9y ago
It bothers me to see three or four comments saying there's no point in trying to lose weight go unchallenged. Widespread obesity is a recent development in our society. And it's not caused by the abundance of our wealth, as the po
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by bcoughlan 10y ago
Not a book, but I loved this series about building a Pascal interpreter (currently 12 parts): https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/ It was always on my bucket list to learn to write programming languages, but it'
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by bcoughlan 10y ago
It's not that it's wrong really. It's just that it's not particularly useful for weight loss. If I eat mainly sugar and starches I can easily wolf down 4000 calories a day. If I eat a low carb diet it's a struggle t
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by bcoughlan 10y ago
> What if your email client gave you empowering choices of ways to respond, instead of “what message do you want to type back?” Communicating directly via writing or talking is the only thing here that is not driven by limited choices. I
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by bcoughlan 11y ago
If anything there has been a net emigration of young people here in the past few years due to the global economic crisis. We have had multi-national technology companies in Ireland for a long time, so it's not that. Ireland lived under
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by bcoughlan 11y ago
A lot of distributed systems literature seems to be too abstract for real world systems engineering. Where does one go to learn about architecting a distributed system on a that works in the real world?
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by bcoughlan 11y ago
Keto isn't suitable for everyone's lifestyle. You don't have to be hungry to restrict calories, just eat foods that are more satiating per calorie. The satiety index is a decent guide. And avoid large carby meals because in m
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by bcoughlan 11y ago
For me it got to breaking point at my job. I quit and moved to a cheap country for a few months. Ditched the laptop and smartphone and just relaxed, exeecised, read and cooked. Diet and exercise played a huge part, but I couldn't have
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
> But it both implores you to spend your time on that which is important and also dismisses having material ambition. The sentence you quoted struck me also, but I don't see it as dismissing ambition of any kind. I once had the ment
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
Are you talking about having a thin client that talks to a private cloud instead of each client's data residing on the vendor's server? One of the hurdles is that the server side of apps require more than reading and writing files
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
I use this one, nothing but good things to say about it: http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
> So now I spend a lot of time on very strict information diets. What helped me was signing up to newsletters. Once a week I get newsletters summarising the most interesting links for HN, and also ones about Python, Big Data and Data Sci
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Rogue Behaviour Detection [pdf](numenta.com)
6 points by bcoughlan 12y ago|1 comments
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
Surprised it's free. How are they going to make money?
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
Try not escaping around the triangles and branch symbols.
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
Speculation: - LLVM is an awesome project and quite mainstream now, making it a bit easier to write an optimized compiler. - Rust: C is a language built for single core use. The future is many-core machines. Mozilla realized that the archai
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by bcoughlan 12y ago
"In fact, even in RDBMS’s developers should be using a natural key as their primary key instead of an auto-incremented ID. This will lead to better performance when the natural key is the most commonly used identifier, but is often not
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by bcoughlan 13y ago
Good job for a pet project, excited to see how it progresses over time.
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by bcoughlan 13y ago
A lot of people in this thread are saying that most data is not big enough for MapReduce. I use Hadoop on a single node for ~20GB of data because it is an excellent utility for sorting and grouping data, not because of its size. What should
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by bcoughlan 13y ago
It doesn't eliminate them, but it minimises the effort of performing these steps. You are of course correct in saying that you need to do manual testing to discover issues that you never thought of, but this is a separate process (whic
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by bcoughlan 13y ago
I develop software in a research environment, turning PhD students code into production quality systems. I think there are a lot of developers out there who don't write tests, or only write tests because you're "supposed&quot
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by bcoughlan 13y ago
Perhaps the lesson is that getting sued is an occupational hazard.
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Why do something complex when you can do something simple?(github.com)
2 points by bcoughlan 13y ago|0 comments