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by bootload 10y ago
"Once you try to go general, and add "zooming in" and "zooming out" mappings, the number of ways that people would prefer to visualise each becomes exponentially more complex to display/interact with; so much
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How Fastmail Connect Their Datacentres Together(blog.fastmail.com)
32 points by bootload 10y ago|3 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"The compiler is written in Crystal." If there is any stress test worth noticing it's this. 98.2% of the code is written in Crystal.
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The 9 Month Story of My Very First Startup(milesburke.com.au)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Produce Enough Food to Meet Growing Demand?(arstechnica.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"VPL" I missed/mis-understood this bit. I think of the visual side as another slice of how code is constructed/works/understood. I've limited experience of VCL (windstorms) and thought it was terribly clunky,
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by bootload 10y ago
"What does being in a savanna have anything to do with population densities and intelligence?" The savanna is a big place. You survive in smallish groups of people or die. You have to have your wits about you to survive. "
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by bootload 10y ago
"It's also mechanically incredibly simple" Holy cow, hats off to your Dad for this. Everything is simple in theory, putting it into practice on a critically ill person is something else.
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by bootload 10y ago
"That's not to say I think it's a lost cause: I think it works great for short, 5-10 line programs. Once programs grow larger it becomes very hard to reason with, like with most VPLs." Interesting comments. I'm no
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by bootload 10y ago
"it looks horrible and cluttered and wouldn't like to look at a complex version of this over flowcharts" You are right. It looks horrible and cluttered and could be made better. Though visuals and design aside, the idea is
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by bootload 10y ago
"My biggest contribution so far at Google has been Blockly." Nice - https://developers.google.com/blockly/ no real fan of google, but the tools and code churned out by individuals there is pretty interestin
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by bootload 10y ago
"I think people were getting overwhelmed." Good point.
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Mathpix: From Paper to Math then Graph with your cell phone(reddit.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
@Shane, is the course emailed in one hit, or in batches. If so that is an interesting way to do it (phased roll-out of course by email) in itself.
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by bootload 10y ago
"even today we're finding that--as in the Tonkin Gulf incident--very equivocal, limited evidence as to who did what and why and what happened is being used right now by hawks to encourage us to engage in hostilities again."
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by bootload 10y ago
""As a young surgeon, Dad was the first American to devise and perform a total organ replacement. Later, he came up with a device that saved thousands of soldiers' lives during the Vietnam War. The Heimlich Chest Drain Valve
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Elon Musk and Bill Thurston on the Power of Thinking for Yourself(medium.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"Everyone flocking to use GitHub" Infrastructure costs dollars. Everyone uses it puts more pressure on the uptime. Is GitHub as big (as much money to splash around) as google?
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by bootload 10y ago
History buffs will realise that situations like this can be done purposefully. For example the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident in August 2, '64. [0] A wary China inspects the device, hands it back and defuses the situation. [0]
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by bootload 10y ago
"This project has been deprecated and is no longer being actively developed. We strongly suggest migrating to llvmlite. " try http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/ explanation why http://llv
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by bootload 10y ago
"Github Open source Hosting should be supported by donation model like Wikipedia." That's why I asked the Q. Seems strange that large FOSS projects are hosted but no effort by github made to get some return.
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The Great Cyber Game: Commentary(medium.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
" Very quickly the compound that prevents the disease was identified as a small molecule present in cabbage, lemon juice, and many other foods, and in 1932 Szent-Györgyi definitively isolated ascorbic acid." Cook used cabbage on
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Scott and Scurvy (2010)(idlewords.com)
3 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
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Cape Adare(idlewords.com)
4 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Being An Anaesthetist Has Taught Me The Power Of Patients' Last Words(theguardian.com)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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A VC Explains Why It Takes So Long for Startups to Raise Money(fortune.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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She staged a viral story. You fell for her hoax. She thinks that’s beautiful(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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by bootload 10y ago
"GitHub quickly became essential to the code-writing process at technology companies of all sizes and gave birth to a new generation of programmers by hosting their open-source code for free." How much would you be willing to pa
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What they don’t teach you at STEM school(meaningness.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments

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