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by dergachev 12y ago
Different techniques work well depending on your current level. Immersion always helps, and for me recently that meant diving into reading online news articles in French, which really helped with expressions, idioms, and jokes. I tried a fe
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by dergachev 12y ago
I would add they just came out with a drug to cure hepatitis C. That's amazing news for 3.2 million Americans with the disease, including my dad. http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/news/20140729/pill-hepatiti
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by dergachev 12y ago
Good stuff, but maybe it would be nice to do a mini tutorial in the blog post itself. I only like PDFs if I'm going to spend 20m+ reading something.
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by dergachev 12y ago
We've been using myfax.com for $10/month and it works the same way. Hasn't failed us once in many years, but kind of pricy. Maybe worth considering a cheaper alternative.
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by dergachev 12y ago
Is it easy to "Yo" back someone if they're not in your contacts? On the android app I don't see how to do that. Also, the security of this seems questionable. There are other, more interesting uses of the yo API: https:
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by dergachev 12y ago
I built a simple nodejs-based proxy that's meant to sit in front of a world exposed solr instance: https://github.com/dergachev/solr-security-proxy/ Perhaps it could be adapted to the elasticsearch scenario.
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by dergachev 12y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing this! Also, I'm exploring simpler alternatives to oauth2 for command-line acccess to the Google Drive SDK, and your password approach is interesting. My current use case is extracting the HTML from a Google Doc
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by dergachev 13y ago
Actual article by cperciva about accepting bitcoin via stripe, not sure why that wasn't linked directly: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-03-27-tarsnap-bitcoin.h...
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by dergachev 13y ago
The source code's here, in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048
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by dergachev 13y ago
Looks pretty slick. For a recent project, I ended up building a 100 line Makefile, and fig could have covered about 70% of that. That said, Makefile are good to have around
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by dergachev 13y ago
Hmm this replaces Vagrant (which I know and like) with a custom script ( https://raw.github.com/steeve/boot2docker/master/boot2docker ) which I have to learn. Also running docker on a non-ubuntu host means you&
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by dergachev 13y ago
Cool stuff, and it's written in go! I made a simple ruby version of this a while back: https://github.com/dergachev/csv2sqlite Subsequently also I discovered CSVKIT, a python implementation which is probably more
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by dergachev 13y ago
Seriously. If this company was surprised to discover the use of cron for the malware, imagine what kind of stuff they might have missed. Here's a particularly creative technique I recently came across: https://gist.github.c
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by dergachev 13y ago
Sweet! To take it to the next level: pbpaste |sed 's/FIND/REPLACE/g' | pbcopy Maybe make this into a script you can run from alfred. ;) Also if you want to have access to pbcopy remotely, try this: http:/&#x2F
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by dergachev 13y ago
What about things extensions Tampermonkey, are those at risk by this?
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by dergachev 13y ago
If it only cost $10m to bribe one of the biggest security companies around, how much does it cost to bribe a single open source developer who volunteers on tools like OpenSSL? What if you add blackmail to the mix? Makes me realize that we n
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by dergachev 13y ago
I've lived in downtown Montreal for the last ten years. For as long as I can remember, they've been doing exactly this with packages. Even if you're home, the mailman will just leave a slip saying that you can pick up your pa
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by dergachev 13y ago
That's a good idea. Perhaps when teaching people familiar with SVG, you can start by showing them the transform matrix syntax and explaining what it does. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG
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by dergachev 13y ago
For me what makes it really interesting is the realization that all of linear regression (think y = mx + b) is based on linear algebra, specifically the notion that figuring out a best-fit line (in the case of a single-dimensional input var
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by dergachev 13y ago
I really enjoyed the Gilbert Strang videos on linear algebra back when I was taking the course at McGill: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
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by dergachev 13y ago
Congrats to Ivan and team, this update reflects many months of work and a lot of improvements. Hope many students who are trying to learn a semester's worth of calculus in just the next few weeks can benefit from this update.
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by dergachev 13y ago
Yeah, way to go!!
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by dergachev 13y ago
This link throws a 502: https://pkghub.io/users/andytinycat/projects/puppet-omnibus/...
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by dergachev 13y ago
That's brilliant.
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by dergachev 13y ago
Would it make sense to try to get this to start on boot?
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by dergachev 13y ago
OVH actually supports running the Proxmox virtualization distro on their servers. That means you can easily get a 32GB dedicated server with raid1 SSDs (around $100/month here in Canada) and spin up VMs to your heart's content. Pr
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by dergachev 13y ago
I noticed that Google Flights ad box only pops up when your query is served by Google Flights (eg it starts in north america). So "flights to LON" will not bring up a schedule, while "flights from LON" will. And for most
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by dergachev 13y ago
csv2sqlite actually generates the table definitions for you, so I think that's a big improvement when you just downloaded a CSV file with 30 columns in it and need to quickly verify it or extract some data from it. Also supports parsin
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by dergachev 13y ago
These are great! I wrote a quick ruby script that converts one or more CSV files into an SQLITE db file, so you can easily query them. https://github.com/dergachev/csv2sqlite
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by dergachev 13y ago
Seems similar to mdpress, a ruby script which I've used successfully. https://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress

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