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by boxy_brown 3y ago
Very cool. This project addresses some usability challenges that the Jupyter community has been debating and struggling with for years: https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/935178916490223616 My favorite take on th
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by boxy_brown 4y ago
> Why was this code even necessary > The answer is: an explicit IETF design choice, that made punycode decoding part of X.509 verification, without even a line of acknowledgement in the Security Considerations.
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A Personal Apology to Jeremy Howard and the Community(andy.terrel.us)
3 points by boxy_brown 6y ago|0 comments
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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard(numfocus.org)
256 points by boxy_brown 6y ago|272 comments
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by boxy_brown 8y ago
Can you share some examples?
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by boxy_brown 8y ago
It's been a rough few weeks for antirez, but I just want to say how much I appreciate his work on Redis and open source in general. We're lucky to have him.
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by boxy_brown 8y ago
Pipenv is mentioned in the PYPA Python Packaging User Guide tool recommendations: > Application dependency management > Use Pipenv to manage library dependencies when developing Python applications. See Managing Application Dependenci
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by boxy_brown 9y ago
This, Paul is someone I look to as a model open source contributor in so many ways. https://twitter.com/nedbat/status/861696880790704128 > How many people can say they have worked with [Sally] Yates, and have w
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by boxy_brown 9y ago
He has announced plans to run for state-wide political office in Massachusetts. We are probably going to hear plenty more about him.
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by boxy_brown 9y ago
Nothing is being injected. A section of the article deals with politics and Trump explicitly.
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by boxy_brown 10y ago
The writer is a non-native English speaker.
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by boxy_brown 13y ago
The article suggests he is not a full-time employee of Facebook.
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by boxy_brown 13y ago
You are missing an important point: different systems fail in very different ways. The reason why people will generally prefer software over other ways of building things is because the cost of failure is often very low. No one is going
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
The beautiful, cruel wisdom of Ptacek, in haiku: Arm amputated? Stop crying and use your brain You still have one left
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
This comment is pure misanthropy. Some of the people expressing their concern in this thread are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE YOU SCOLD US FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO. You're telling the victims of drug prohibition to not feel bad for other victi
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
Physician, heal thyself. You're objecting to the story because the subject is not maximally sympathetic, and because his life was only semi-obliterated. Drug prohibition exists purportedly to protect people from the harmful effects of dru
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
This comment demonstrates the absolute worst thing about Stack Exchange: on sites with content policies that are not crystal clear, even if you submit content that passes the policy test and is accepted on the site, that content might be c
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
Because you did not engage at all with the facts of this specific complaint. You still have not done so. It's not clear what a long career in broadcasting has to do with any of this. You're talking about credibility. Credibility has it's
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
The blog post makes a substantive charge of journalistic misconduct against 60 Minutes and includes evidence supporting the charge. What do Vietnam and Morely Safer's age have to do with it? Why are you siding with anyone if you haven't s
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
Regardless of motive, the allegations are true. Yahoo has admitted so.
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
What you describe isn't a problem, it's the greatest possible outcome. Think about it from the point of view of the employer and the remote coder.
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
Your comment is conjecture, not evidence. It's an invalid conjecture, because it makes sweeping assumptions about some of the most complicated, chaotic properties of securities markets. And it's incorrect. There are market centers that pr
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
> I'm not sure reg NMS allows this. This is correct. It would be extremely, unequivocally forbidden under Reg NMS to create a quote-disseminating market center with the proposed property.
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by boxy_brown 14y ago
BoxCryptor: http://www.boxcryptor.com/ Provides a pain-free encrypted layer on top of free cloud storage services like DropBox. BoxCryptor encrypts individual files, then stores the encrypted files in DropBox. If your DropBox account is