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by cdavid 16y ago
He mentioned python issues such as deployment and the GIL. While python is my language of choise, I agree those are significant pain points. Unfortunately, he did not mention how clojure solves deployment - is it solved through maven and ot
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by cdavid 16y ago
There is an evacuation zone of 20 km around the plant, and people between 20 and 30 km advised to not go out. The radiations around the plant are now definitely dangerous, but those are far far above the ones seen in Tokyo. Right now, from
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by cdavid 16y ago
asahi.com also reported a similar number (400 mili sievert near reactor number 4, believed to follow fire at that location): http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0315/TKY201103150154.ht...
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by cdavid 16y ago
Who are most intellectual engineers ? I agree that most news seem to be conflicting, and very hard to understand for the layman, but I cannot possibly see how anyone can claim the issue has been solved when even the people with incentive to
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by cdavid 16y ago
Hope everyone in Japan is doing ok - I guess I am lucky that I am out of the country precisely this day, but now starting to get worry about people I know. It is a bit scary to think that an earthquake felt in east of Japan (tokyo, sendai),
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by cdavid 16y ago
I agree that github's bug tracker is quite limited (for some reasons that I cannot pin point, bug tracking seems really hard to do: that's the only example I can think of of a fundamental part of any developer toolbox that has no great open
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by cdavid 16y ago
Especially with organizations being free (for open source projects at least), I think this usage will increase for github. As for Zed main argument, I am not sure it is the whole story. I think the launchpad vision is great, but the deliver
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by cdavid 16y ago
What kind of data do you record (number of documents, average size of document) ? We have to use couchdb at my current job, and I have encoutered all those issues for even moderate size (replication failing more often than @ ~30-40 Gb). I w
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by cdavid 16y ago
The actual difference depends on the journal, conference and field. In some fields (large parts of CS), the most prestigious conferences are more prestigious than most journals. OTOH, in biology, publishing in Cell or Nature may be career-c
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by cdavid 16y ago
You are mixing different things here. First, I did not take defense of the journal editors: the hoax was indeed a proof of lack of rigor of the journal's editors. That's the idea that it shows something about the whole field which is nonsen
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by cdavid 16y ago
First, it is Lacan, not Latan. Incorrectly spelling author names is not well seen in academia :) One thing that must be said is that not all authors attacked by Sokal are at the same level: some deserved it, and even for a given person, the
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by cdavid 16y ago
This indeed made a lot of noise, I still remember quite well the polemic at that time. It should be understood in the context of the "science war" (context which was sometimes missing during the polemic in France, since many French "intelli
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by cdavid 16y ago
I do like apple hardware (until mac os x became good enough for me, around 10.4/10.5 I used linux on a intel macbook), and it is well designed, but IBM thinkpad are much more solid. Actually, the Intel plastic macbook were pretty crappy qua
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by cdavid 16y ago
Because for many contributors, python 3 is not usable as there are so few packages available. And on the other hand, the improvements from python 2 -> 3 are really minor.
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by cdavid 16y ago
First, not everything from our body genetic as you say, there is still much to learn there. But more significantly, intelligence is a very fuzzy concept, much harder to describe and more so define than eye color or height. It is also as muc
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by cdavid 16y ago
By that argument, food, water cannot be a free market either. I am not saying that health care works best in a free market or not, but whether it is elastic/inelastic is not the only factor. Also, depending on which health care we are talki
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by cdavid 16y ago
I think the issue is just too complicated to draw conclusions from broad inter-countries comparisons. I find the Japanese system terrible - I have been living there for 7 years and I have yet encountered a foreigner coming from a rich count
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by cdavid 16y ago
Judging quality is difficult, and sadly does not scale well. It is much easier to measure time. A lot of (bad) management is about measuring things which are easy to measure instead of measuring things which matter. That's also one of the r
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by cdavid 16y ago
The context I was speaking is projects who still want to support 2.x, which is what most projects want. Obviously, if you don't care about supporting 2.x at all once the conversion is done, modifying the output and using the output as your
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by cdavid 16y ago
It is definitely not the recommended nor the common way of doing it. Many projects use 2to3 at release time (which hopefully include testing time) to support python 3.x. Numpy and scipy do exactly that for example, and we won't limit oursel
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by cdavid 16y ago
If that's a project for yourself, maybe you can use python 3.x if you don't depend on libraries which need python 2.x. If that's project you intend on distributing, then please support python 2.x. First, given that python 3.x has few killer
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by cdavid 16y ago
This is mostly a gimmick, though, because other people who uses arithmetic as he says manage to go to near opposite conclusions. His website is written such as his conclusions are claimed to logicallly follow the data, at least that's how I
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by cdavid 16y ago
The original part in couchdb design is using btree for views to hold temporary data for M/R jobs, as btree are indeed used by mongodb (and most db engines). The new stuff for M/R in mongodb looks interesting, thanks for the update.
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by cdavid 16y ago
I think he meant that couchdb keeps stuff on disk (through btrees to be more precise) for the views so that when the corresponding database is updated, the map reduce does not run over the whole dataset, only on the new document. As far as
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by cdavid 16y ago
I cannot find a link, but if samba team seems happy from their choice of waf, and samba is closer to chromium in terms of what it needs from a build tool (large multiplatform compiled codebase). Your link is not really informative - he does
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by cdavid 16y ago
His point about scons is unfortunately well known. You can find an explanation from Steven Knight (head of the scons project) about why scons failed for chromium on scons mailing list ( http://old.nabble.com/why-Chromium-stop-using-SCons-fo
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by cdavid 16y ago
Thanks for the correction (but I guess the correction still stand even if English were my first language).
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by cdavid 16y ago
Why bcrypt should be used instead of sha-1 ? (I am genuily asking, I don't know anything about security).
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by cdavid 16y ago
This is also why we have many more softwares available now. The improvement in hardware specs are so useful not only because it is faster, but also because we can do much more without having to care about the details. Writing tiny, efficie
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by cdavid 16y ago
First, for a foreigner, there is obviously the language factor, but that's a given wherever you go in a country where you don't master the language. Whenever I went to a doctor for relatively minor things, they wanted to give me some pills.

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