danielparks

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by danielparks 13y ago
avc.com is the blog of a well-known venture capitalist, Fred Wilson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(financier)
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by danielparks 13y ago
This is a horrible title; neither the study referenced nor the body of the article itself makes the claim of a physical cause for being a morning or night person. The study just says that there were white matter “differences in the frontal
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by danielparks 13y ago
I didn't realize that Find My Mac works with the guest user under FileVault 2 (full disk encryption built into OS X — the guest user boots into a unencrypted partition that only runs Safari). Source: Glenn Fleishman http://w
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by danielparks 13y ago
Sure, there's a lot more pain than just the cost of replacing the laptop itself. That said, the laptop cost is a big expense for many people (especially students), so it's helpful. Also it's a nice gesture. (“Look, the commun
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by danielparks 13y ago
I've been happy with unmanaged servers from Incero. Their severs use ECC RAM, their support seems competent, and they offer buy-down prices for things like RAM. Back to pgrove's point, though — there are trade offs with using a de
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by danielparks 13y ago
What is it that you don’t like about this. Is it that the var is hoisted? http://www.adequatelygood.com/JavaScript-Scoping-and-Hoistin... Hoisting generally seems ugly to me. Edit: I think there is some confusion here abo
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by danielparks 13y ago
I learned Lisp after I learned Javascript, so I had the opposite experience of discovering that a bunch of Lisp-y things worked just as I expected them to. I would never claim that Javascript is scheme (and it doesn’t sound like that’s what
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by danielparks 13y ago
Ah, right, cobbal mentioned this, too. I hadn’t thought of that — I’m used to languages without that feature. (To be strict, that seems to be more a matter of what a scope is, rather than if the scoping is lexical or dynamic.)
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by danielparks 13y ago
That’s roughly what I was thinking, but it seemed a little ridiculous to me — Javascript has lexical scoping, it’s just not required. It seems like this argument conflates lexical scoping with the requirement that variables be lexically sco
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by danielparks 13y ago
I asked on the author’s site as well, but I don’t understand the argument that JavaScript doesn’t have lexical scoping. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LexicalScoping
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by danielparks 13y ago
For posterity: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html
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by danielparks 13y ago
Sure, I was considering cheap optimizations — APC is helpful, but not that helpful. Most queries in most projects are cheap. On the other hand, frameworks that have ORMs and other DB abstraction layers often make trade a little bit of DB
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by danielparks 13y ago
Disclaimer: I’m not a C++ guy; I generally write in Ruby and PHP. I agree with your overall point — C++ may not be a good fit for web development, and there’s a lot to be said for being able to scale across multiple servers (and choice of p
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by danielparks 14y ago
It's not just supply — you have to account for demand, too. Demand is likely to change based on media coverage. Even if it were just supply, the supply effectively changes all the time because not all bitcoins are on the market all the time
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by danielparks 14y ago
There is more detailed information available under a few of the links in the article. Information about what an infection looks like, the attack method, etc: http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-bac... From skimming th
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by danielparks 14y ago
FWIW, my Schwab account has no overdraft fees, though of course I have to pay interest on any money I use from the overdraft account. I'm having trouble accessing the GoBank site at the moment (might be my computer), but I can't see why I w
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by danielparks 14y ago
Seems like the gyroscopes would help with a bunch of those — traction issues become less about keeping the bike upright and more about controlling where the bike goes. I don't see anything about ABS in the FAQ, but that would avoid the prob
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by danielparks 14y ago
I mentioned this in another comment, but "C-1" is a code name. See the FAQ: http://litmotors.com/faq/ (there's no anchor; search for "BMW").
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by danielparks 14y ago
The FAQ is here: http://litmotors.com/faq/ Notably, C-1 is a code name, not the final product name. I'm curious how the gyros interact with turning. Presumably they have a limited ability to change orientation (necessary for say hills at
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by danielparks 15y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking about. Here in San Francisco, the police were recently cracking down in North Beach (mostly around the strip clubs on Broadway). It seemed to be a pretty clear causal relationship in that case — more peopl
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by danielparks 15y ago
I think his goal was to see if one could use an activity proxy to predict where most rides would occur. Crime data is a fairly natural proxy because it's readily available in an easy-to-use format. It doesn't seem all that useful — it's flu
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by danielparks 15y ago
Very nice. I just went through the process of picking a health insurance plan using ehealthinsurance.com, and it was a bit of a pain. The one thing that would have made things a lot easier for me is being able to sort by out-of-pocket maxim
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by danielparks 15y ago
In the linked article, a 200 MW solar updraft installation is projected (by to the company that wants to build it) to cost $700 million. That works out of $3500/kW, which seems to be on par with construction costs for recent nuclear power p
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by danielparks 15y ago
I wanted the EPUB version, so I bought an Ars Subscription for $5 (it auto-renews, though). You can also get MOBI and PDF versions with the subscription. Interestingly, I was offered a 1 year subscription to Wired, or a $10 refund (which re
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by danielparks 15y ago
It's aimed at an issue with ActiveRecord. Like I said, it doesn't mean that Rails 3 on MRI 1.9.2 is faster than Rails 3 on REE. Also, just to be clear, I'm not the author of the linked post or the benchmark.
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by danielparks 15y ago
In my experience, Rails and frameworks in PHP are quite slow, and typical uses of databases are quite fast. I think it boils down to generality. A database is a very specific thing, and the typical usage of the database (e.g. SELECT * FROM
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by danielparks 15y ago
The benchmark was done using REE. Out of curiousity, I tried it with MRI 1.8.7, MRI 1.9.2, and REE 1.8.7. Results are best out of three: user system total real rails3-1.9.2 2.240000 0.200000 2.44
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by danielparks 16y ago
Ah, I knew somebody else would RTFB ;) That seems to imply that if unpatented prior art by author A is discovered after author B applies for a patent, and the patent is invalidated, then author A cannot apply for patent. Interesting. Or, pe
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by danielparks 16y ago
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but the implication seems to be that the EFF supports first-to-file. I understand that first-to-file clarifies things once an applicant receives a patent — they don't have to worry about pior art at that poin
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by danielparks 16y ago
I believe this is what you're talking about: http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/datamodel.html#object....

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