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by catwell 10y ago
Voldemort was pretty influential too, even though it has been eclipsed by Cassandra.
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by catwell 10y ago
It's slightly different, because as long as what goes through them is encrypted you don't really care about the pipes. Well, you should still care about the metadata, but it's not exactly the same issue. With Cloud computing,
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by catwell 10y ago
This is not specific to Android, it is basically the antivirus industry in general. "Let's ask every possible permission and inject code everywhere in the OS so we can prevent other applications from doing so." I am usually f
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by catwell 10y ago
Off the top of my head, large-ish French tech software companies (I would not call them startups at this point) include: Criteo, Dailymotion, Leboncoin, Withings, Parrot, BlaBlaCar, Sigfox... You could also include older companies like Mur
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by catwell 10y ago
The truth is it is a lot more complicated than you make it sound. There are some schools which are relatively young and focus on coding. Historically they were expensive (for French schools), even though one of them is now free thanks to th
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by catwell 10y ago
Also, they are part of the few edible maritime species whose populations are increasing ( http://www.humanosphere.org/environment/2016/05/rapidly-chan... ).
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by catwell 10y ago
One of those Unix tools that would deserve to be better known is dcfldd ( http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/ ). It is basically dd with extra powers including on-the-fly hashing, progression, multiple outputs...
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by catwell 10y ago
Yes. This is why https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13111516 was on the front page last month.
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by catwell 10y ago
In addition to that, I think those should be mentioned: - Software Defined Networking. We are starting to see LuaJIT in particular being used to write very high performance network code in userspace (e.g. Snabb). - IoT. Lua has always had a
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by catwell 10y ago
Yes, I added a source (the first one) which confirms that. 32.5 % of the time the relatives said no, but polls showed that it should only have been 21 %.
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by catwell 10y ago
You had to consult relatives and ask them: "do you know if the deceased was opposed to this"? This meant the way to opt out was to tell your relatives. It has been the case for 40 years. [1] There were posters in most hospital wai
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by catwell 10y ago
Economics. I have started to get interested in them in 2016. Like most topics I get into, I started by looking at the history of the field. I also read Basic Economics. Now I would like to start taking actual lessons, either Coursera or may
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by catwell 10y ago
I finished Keynes, Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics (Nicholas Wapshott), started in 2015. I read: * Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (David Marquet) * Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach
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by catwell 10y ago
Yes, that is correct. The code checks the encoding at runtime ( https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/8444b46d20ef9c8de3f7e2... ) and converts between the structures as needed (see calls to `zsetConvert`). Th
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by catwell 10y ago
Data structures in Redis have evolved a bit in the last 7 years. One of the main workhorses is indeed something called a "ziplist". The implementation (especially the format description at the top) is worth a read: https:/&#
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by catwell 10y ago
I didn't know that one, I did use http://twister.net.co/ some time ago (and gave up because of the chicken/egg effect).
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by catwell 10y ago
With 16k RAM, you won't get much. But the ESP8266 has 64k + 96k RAM and runs things like Lua and MicroPython. So now imagine what you can do with the ESP32, which has 416KB RAM.
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by catwell 10y ago
The backward compatibility issue Mike is ranting about in this post is not in the language, it is in the source code of Lua itself (actually a define in its configuration header file). There was a very good reason for this change, which is
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by catwell 10y ago
This kind of fraud happened to me three days ago. I filed a complaint with Uber and they resolved the issue. I certainly think something should be done in the product to help with this, but there may be better options, including letting the
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by catwell 10y ago
There is no reason why modules would be easier to test than scripts. It is probably the opposite. Modules are great when you want to use Redis as a server for something it does not support, but I would still use scripting for most things.
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by catwell 10y ago
I am not sure this can be called "adversarial examples" but we sure know how to make the human brain fail at vision tasks, with optical illusions and things like the famous Invisible Gorilla test. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by catwell 10y ago
This is the same kind of question as: "are computers better than humans at Math." They are obviously better at some things related to scale: they can compute things much faster and derive solutions to equations much more easily. B
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by catwell 10y ago
Networking. Seriously, ask your social network contacts in the countries that interest you. Demand for good developers is high everywhere, odds are there are openings at their companies. Don't just go and browse job offers on random we
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by catwell 10y ago
If you want Unix-like software, look at msys2 ( http://msys2.github.io/ ). Its package manager is Pacman (the same as Arch Linux). When I have to use a Windows machine I basically do everything in a msys2 terminal.
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by catwell 10y ago
This tweet was really spot on: https://twitter.com/jtolds/status/758716505320075266
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Call for Presentations to Lua Devroom at FOSDEM 2017(lua.space)
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by catwell 10y ago
But how much market share do they have among people likely to buy expensive digital photography equipment?
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by catwell 10y ago
I don't have much insider information, but mostly the founders gave up on it and moved on to other things as their monetization plans did not succeed. To monetize I know they had tried a model of sponsored predictions: http:/&#x2
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by catwell 10y ago
Pretty similar yes. I didn't know that one, thank you.
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by catwell 10y ago
The "guess the number of jelly beans in a jar" game gave its name to one of the startups whose failure disappointed me the most, Beansight. In 2010, it was asking people their opinion on various topics, attributing them experience

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