danohuiginn

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by danohuiginn 12y ago
They've chosen just about the worst imaginable name...
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and there's Democracy Now -- it's unashamedly politically biased, but brings up important stories that don't get covered much elsewhere. The best part is the news roundup at the start -- the rest is features and interviews, w
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
I'm a big fan of the BBC World Service, which tends to have more content and less human interest compared to Radio 4. In particular 'Newshour' is the best general world news coverage I've found, and available as podcast
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
For anybody who reads French, I recommend http://www.courrierinternational.com/ . They select and translate articles from the world press on whatever are the most important issues. So you'll get Greek discussions of Syr
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Turning them into generators would have broken a lot of existing code, though, so it's reasonable to leave them until a major version change. Rather, these are the kind of small, obviously-useful changes that should have come immediate
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(process(line) for line in open('giantfile.txt') if line.lstrip()[0] != '#') Is that line really using any new features in Python 3? The lazy evaluation there is in the file object and the generator express
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1235/
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probably because you missed a zero. 169 out of 100,000
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Large institutions can be surprisingly good about this. Government jobs in the UK, for instance, tend to be pretty open to job-shares. Look for companies supportive of working mothers -- if they have systems in place for parents to work par
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Superstitions about drafts are bizarrely common. Bosnians, for example, tend to be terrified of "propuh", or cross drafts. If you leave windows open on either side of a building, you risk any malady up to and including paralysis.
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I can't find a decent link ATM, but I've also seen smoking claimed as a major cause of death among the military. Soldiers and veterans tend to smoke much more than civilians, which doesn't do wonders for their life expectancy
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The most generous approach to audiophiles is to allow for a placebo effect. i.e. they get greater enjoyment from listening to what they believe is a perfect sound system, regardless of whether the gold-plated cables actually do anything.
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
SEEKING WORK -- Python, data, research. Berlin, Germany. Remote OK I like to combine code, data and real-world analysis to make sense of things. I've lately done a lot of work with investigative journalists...exposing weapons sales, tr
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
That's 3 of the 8-member Technical Committee, which is the group that's ultimately responsible for all technical decisions in Debian.
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Good for her, but the commuting process sounds hellish. And from the comments here, several others have been in the same situation. Does YC have any plans to better support founders in that situation?
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I don't think anybody is proposing to move away from emacs lisp as the usual scripting language. Rather, you'd initially move to Guile's implementation of emacs lisp, and potentially later allow use of other languages support
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Coincidentally, I've just been reading about Esperanto. It seems slightly nutty in today's climate of English dominance. But when you needed to learn several natural languages to communicate internationally, it made far more sense
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
What is the advantage of releasing a high-end phone? They've made a sensible strategic choice to target a low-end market -- probably the place where firefox-os has the best chance of competing with Android. Trying to have a high-end fl
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
I'm nitpicking, but it's bizarre to see Karl Popper being described as an "economist".
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In many areas, yes. But from Europe at least, the US healthcare system seems so obviously broken that it's relatively rarely used for comparisons. Sweden is more common, I'd say. Now if we're talking about innovation, technol
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
picking up on a tangent in that article: <i>Two other perfect examples of "obvious-in-retrospect" theories are evolution and special relativity. Admittedly, I don't know if the ancient Greeks, sitting around in their to
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
The idea is that postgres would be a storage engine for mongodb, like innodb is a storage engine for mysql
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yeah, mongodb has flipped from hype to hatred without much in between. The reason, I think, is that few people using it had a good sense of where the pain points would be. Many of us somehow imagined that because we didn't know where m
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Or you could just get their annual accounts from the business registry, and see what they've reported there. [won't be up-to-the-minute accurate, of course, and won't work for all jurisdictions. But it's a data source th
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careful, you might just be seeing a regression to the mean. i.e. the first time you buy something, you are comparison-shopping, and likely to choose an item that is particularly cheap at that moment. When you go back a year later, you aren&
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the phrase in German is "Der Islam gehört zu Deutschland" -- which means something like Islam has a place in Germany.
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fair enough. I'm mainly thinking of a European context -- tenants rights in the US being much weaker, the same pattern may not apply there.
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'"To my surprise," Freeman says, "it seemed to suggest that people in neighborhoods classified as gentrifying were moving less frequently."' Well, duh. With rents rising, your only chance to stay in the neighbo
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For Ubuntu 14.10, Debian imports will be frozen in a couple of weeks. So probably it won't make that release, but will be available in 15.04. That's being available in universe. Somebody might put it into 14.10 backports, as well,
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
The book he means is Mindhacker -- Hack 17 in there is Lion Kimbro's description of his simplified note-taking system. Available here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/personal-development/97...

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