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by dm3 7y ago
There's PackageCompiler[0] which allows to precompile the packages you need for work into a system image. This means avoiding precompilation in the REPL every time you start up Julia. That's if you start with the custom system ima
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by dm3 7y ago
I stumbled upon another example of seemingly non-sensical potato-printing-and-mailing businesses in a Twitter post[0] yesterday. Mailaspud is actually going strong since at least 2014 so it's definitely not a joke. At this point I will
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by dm3 7y ago
The co2.myclimate.org website shows 1.6t CO2 emitted with an offset cost of 38€ for a flight from Finland to Japan[0]. For example, according to the Carbon Footprint Factsheet published on the UoM website[1], beef is only 6.61 pounds (~= 3k
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by dm3 7y ago
Do you mind giving an example or two of how you push or pushed your kids in a positive way?
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by dm3 7y ago
If this means running millions of already written programs more efficiently - yes!
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by dm3 8y ago
This has nothing to do with event sourcing. What you're describing is event-driven integration. Rarely the events used to source the domain model should be the same as the ones used for the messaging integration. Unfortunately, due to
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by dm3 8y ago
Here's the best layman explanation by Bank of England of what is actually meant by "money" in the current economy[0]. Think it can be helpful for the discourse. [0]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/medi
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by dm3 8y ago
Exactly! Just separate the commits which fix formatting from the ones that change code.
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by dm3 8y ago
Great writeup - exactly what I've been thinking about for the past year. What's the impact of US Dollar losing its reserve currency status? There's a great podcast which sparked my interest in following macro developments, to
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by dm3 8y ago
Pushing the adoption of "serverless" - benefits Amazon ultimately as it's the largest provider.
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by dm3 8y ago
The big players used to corner small markets which then led to extreme blowouts. It doesn't happen as much now as there are tighter regulations on max position sizes and the volumes are higher. Significantly influencing the price of a
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by dm3 8y ago
Should be "buying puts" if you replicate a short. It's not a clear-cut situation - in times of turmoil, when many traders are considering a short, the price of options will rise. If the situation then calms down and the price
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by dm3 8y ago
For the data processing tasks my go-to tool is Manifold[1]. Depending on how the application is structured, you can keep state in atoms, the system map when using Component[2] or vars with Mount[3]. Manifold streams asynchronously join the
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by dm3 8y ago
Clojurescript is quite nice in avoiding the whole webpack/npm/grunt/gulp/... build and dependency tooling evolution nonsense. There are a few other compile-to-javascript environments that are as good by now I suspect if
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by dm3 8y ago
I think the reason for the decline is simple - the number of professional users is shrinking. Large banks have shrunk their trading desks and the number of independent shops is shrinking too [1]. Couple that with the increased weight of qua
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by dm3 8y ago
You might be interested in SIT[1] then. SIT has an issue-tracking[2] module which is comparable to git-bug in its scope. [1] https://sit.fyi/ [2] https://github.com/sit-fyi/issue-tracking
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by dm3 8y ago
I think this list of philanthropists[1] contains quite a few billionaires. That counts as "doing good" in my book. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philanthropists
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by dm3 8y ago
I think this post is mostly showing off the new iteration protocol in Julia 0.7/1.0, not advocating for converting all the for loops into decorators. However, the post doesn't make it clear, so it's just a guess.
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by dm3 8y ago
The one feature I miss most in Terminal.app is smart selection and automatic copy on double-click. For example, on double click the Terminal.app will select `path.txt` from `some/long/path.txt`. iTerm will select the whole thing a
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by dm3 8y ago
Do people really read ~300 different books a year? We've been going through the same 10 books for more than a year now with my currently 3.2 year old: Karlsson on the Roof, Beechwood Bunny Tales, Winnie the Pooh, Paddington Bear and a
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by dm3 8y ago
One would hope the new system would be improved over what was developed previously, not copied from memory verbatim. Snark aside, that's what non-compete agreements are for. I don't believe we've reached the stage where emplo
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by dm3 8y ago
You can get async/await on .NET 4.0 using Microsoft.Bcl.Async
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by dm3 9y ago
Would be interesting to hear how they arrived at the RethinkDB/Elasticsearch combination over Postgres at the start of the project. It doesn't seem they lost any features after the transition. Was something lacking in Postgres at
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by dm3 9y ago
Here's a pretty good, even if a bit too verbose, explanation of various issues and solutions related to event versioning: https://leanpub.com/esversioning/read . The text is written by Greg Young - the lead on the
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by dm3 9y ago
"Amazing Embedded User Operations Engineer Offer Letter" - really? This has been talked to death on HN, however I still can't help but get reminded of Dan Lyons' experience at HubSpot[1] every time I see language like th
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by dm3 9y ago
TLA is one of the systems that are actually very practical. You can go up or down as many abstraction layers as you need . There's a great introduction written by @pron on his blog [1]. However, it's worth pointing out that you do
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by dm3 9y ago
This presentation struck me as I haven't heard of the legislative changes adopted by the US congress in 1970-ies before. In 1970-ies the congress suddenly became "transparent and accountable", a huge change from the status qu
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How transparency and accountability favor special interest(youtube.com)
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by dm3 9y ago
Something like a minimum holding time is a more reasonable approach. However, there's not a clear cut answer in any case.
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by dm3 9y ago
Hey, thanks for the comment. To clarify - I wasn't trying to address the issues you've stumbled into, but rather list all the points I like about it.

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