dmunoz

23 ms·

151.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Do those glasses have no benefit? They're marketed to gamers as reducing eye strain [0]. I step away from the monitor often enough that I don't get overly bothered by it, even if I'm programming for an extended period of time
152.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. I think I covered some of those points in my post, but thanks for clarifying. I get the justification for removing the tabs. I admitted in my post that the justification for the removal was fair enough. I, along with t
153.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! This emulates exactly what I wanted. I admit to just throwing my hands up and, as a result, visiting the various stackexchange sites less often. Certainly my loss, and not theirs. I should have looked into what the advan
154.
by dmunoz 13y ago
One benefit they bring up is the site switcher, which is much nicer than the old drop down they had. I have a question for people who participate on multiple sites: do you need a separate account on each site? All I can recall is that it wa
155.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I don't use Vagrant, but it is on my radar. I have a manual virtualbox setup and a few shell aliases that enable me to quickly boot/shutdown virtual environments I need. To anyone who wants to do the same, read a bit about VBoxMan
156.
by dmunoz 13y ago
There is an argument to be made that "the limitations of traditional UNIX systems [have been addressed by] hypervisors and containers." This is a point Glauber Costa made about a year ago, and was discussed in the LWN article abou
157.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Fun to browse, and I could certainly see this enabling me to notice some interesting things I had missed on HN. Two minor things I noticed: Currently, 7 is listed as tending now with seven mentions. Not that numbers trending could never be
158.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Indeed, if I had done anything important I would certainly commit the changes to the container. It's great to have some version control for my playful discovery. The changes you mention sound nice. It's no surprise I don't ha
159.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Yes, my goal here is ease of playing around with something new. I would setup a dockerfile after I knew exactly what setup I wanted. You're right, I misunderstood what docker was doing when shutting down the container. Seems like I ca
160.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Nice to see Docker 0.7 hit with some very useful changes. I see lots of people are getting some generic Docker questions answered in here, and want to ask one I have been wondering about. What is the easiest way to use dockers like I would
161.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I was going to ask what happened with the bit of news bot on reddit [0], but I see it just resumed posting! I don't check it all that often, but I like getting a summary of recent news by browsing the bots user page every so often. Was
162.
by dmunoz 13y ago
The linked page is okay for general information about the conference, but really poor for finding videos you might care about. You're forced to click through every speaker to see an embedded video and description of the talk. Much bett
163.
by dmunoz 13y ago
If your goal is to work with an interpreted language, I would leave reading about compilation until later. This is often how it is taught in university courses, the first being learning language theory and implementing interpreted languages
164.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Looks like coursebuffet.com is going for something different with accounts and learning path planning, but class central [0] has a very functional listing of MOOCs. Filter by initiative or subject, and sort rows by start date or course leng
165.
by dmunoz 13y ago
> It depends on what you consider an operation, doesn't it? Exactly. I see far too many people lately who want to point out the technically correct (a.k.a. best kind of correct) version of algorithmic complexity where e.g. multiplic
166.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Only tangentially related to your comment, but last year there was a series of postings "Damn Cool Algorithms" in which the last post covered HyperLogLog in the post on cardinality estimation [0]. Some discussion in the HackerNews
167.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Numberphile did an episode about Sloane's Gap [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YysNM2JoFo
168.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I don't know how well it works on a OS X, but I have been using the firefox-ux nightly build on Windows for awhile now. You can find them at [0]. It's been as stable for me as the other nightly builds tend to be, which is very sta
169.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I'm not sure what Bret Victor had in mind, but the second part of Skiena's text The Algorithm Design Manual already does a good job at this. Similar write ups are available online [0], in less detail than the text, e.g. [1]. They
170.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Jeremy Edberg mentioned in his talk on scaling reddit [0] that they used a bloom filter to provide fast (negative) lookup of whether or not a story or comment had been up voted by the user. The negative case was important since it's of
171.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Not in the style of the submitted article, but HyperLogLog was mentioned [0] last year on Nick's Blogs Damn Cool Algortihms series [1]. Discussion on HN [2]. [0] http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorit
172.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Discourse has run into a pretty nasty performance issue on Android lately [0]. It would be too strong of a critique to say they are already having the problem you mentioned, but surely if they shipped this as a finished problem and had this
173.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Let me provide a bit more information, including recent developments, on Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears (GWT), instead of having the entire comment thread about Gödel, Escher, Bach (a book for which Hofstadter had to write a second book, I
174.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I personally use [0] since it adds on top of collapsible comments threads the highlighting of new comments. To reply to a few of the posts below AndrewDucker > I don't want it often, but when the top comment is a tangent that then l
175.
by dmunoz 13y ago
This exact question was recently asked. Many comments from seven days ago [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6153368
176.
by dmunoz 13y ago
There have been some articles on LWN about this. 2012, Preparing for nonvolatile RAM [0] 2013, LFCS: Preparing Linux for nonvolatile memory devices [1] [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/498283/ [1] https://l
177.
by dmunoz 13y ago
> If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot. There is hckrnews [0]. You can filter by top 10, top 20, top 50%, homepage and all. I usually st
178.
by dmunoz 13y ago
Regarding the grouping behaviour of Windows, I have long been using 7+ Taskbar Tweaker [0]. I believe it works with Windows 8 as well, but I have never used it on 8. You can configure it in many ways. I have it always show small icons, but
179.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I have no idea if this book being offered in this posting is good or not. Echoing some of the comments in this thread, here are some alternative resources. The following book [0] popped up on reddit [1] the other day. I'm not sure how
180.
by dmunoz 13y ago
I don't feel like adding to the "what is a monad" literature. However, there was a lively discussion on LtU recently regarding this after a posting about Joe Armstrong's Three Laws of Programming Language Design [1]. The

More ›