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by davidgl 5y ago
What about the old vrml standard ? I remember playing with 3d in the browsers in the 90’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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OnlyFans: It handles illegal sex videos – BBC investigation(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by davidgl 5y ago|0 comments
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by davidgl 5y ago
What a brilliant comment, great insight
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by davidgl 5y ago
Do you have any links for efficient ways to handle time window constraints etc ?
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by davidgl 5y ago
It’s not just humans - https://youtu.be/n_9RjDqJ7Zs
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by davidgl 5y ago
I think Stewart Brand’s concept of Pace Layers fits well with the city metaphor of how software changes over time at different rates https://sketchplanations.com/pace-layers
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by davidgl 6y ago
Another good one is http://calca.io , very like Soulver but also has simple graphing, runs on mac, iOS and Windows
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by davidgl 6y ago
Fab summary, thank you !
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by davidgl 6y ago
This article linked above covers it well, highly recommended: https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
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by davidgl 6y ago
Azure support Timescale in their PasS - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-iot-and-time-se...
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by davidgl 6y ago
The cost, god the cost has got so much higher. I love SQL Server but am being forced off it, especially as you need enterprise to do queryable replicas etc.
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by davidgl 6y ago
Agreed. As ever, it depends a lot on the type of work and how big the system is. We use a lot of SQL (not sprocs), but are moving back to LINQ for reasons of composition and maintainability. I love writing SQL, but in our system which is
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by davidgl 6y ago
I think it very much depends on how hard your problem is. Small problems / search spaces will be fine in Prolog, but most realistic sized problems will quickly exhaust brute force search, and you will need to consider Local Search (li
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QUEL vs. SQL(holistics.io)
3 points by davidgl 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidgl 6y ago
This 1000%. I'm both an ex-ruby dev, and a current C# / F# guy. Ruby is great for throwing things together and installing a load of functionality through Gems. It's 3 years later when your trying to maintain and refactor tha
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by davidgl 6y ago
There is still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_JServ_Protocol which Apache, nginx and IIS support
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Redis Labs Raises $100M(redislabs.com)
156 points by davidgl 6y ago|107 comments
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by davidgl 6y ago
Healthcare
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by davidgl 6y ago
I've been working with F# for about 5 years now, love it. The .net ecosystem has a huge amount of libraries available, performance is excellent, and F# is a joy to develop it.
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Solar Orbiter: Sun probe's first images reveal small 'camp fires'(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by davidgl 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidgl 6y ago
Agreed, we sometimes play the truth seeking game, but on social media the game is much more often the tribal team virtue signalling game
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by davidgl 6y ago
I've reprogrammed myself to only get the dopamine hit when I delete old or unneeded code :-)
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by davidgl 6y ago
+1 for use of the term magpieism ;-)
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by davidgl 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
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by davidgl 6y ago
They posted a warning that the uptick in Teams usage and general cloud use has meant they have much less spare capacity - see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft...
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by davidgl 6y ago
See also Mercury, FP logic programming like the love child of Prolog and Haskell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(programming_language)
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Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus(ft.com)
4 points by davidgl 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidgl 7y ago
The book is brilliant, highly recommended
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by davidgl 7y ago
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-c...
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I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory(medium.com)
43 points by davidgl 7y ago|17 comments

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