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by doug1001 13y ago
I have always wondered if Ukraine is really two countries. For instance, in the West (west of Kyiv), Ukrainian is spoken, people there can certainly speak Russian but they don't like to and they proudly refer to themselves as Ukrainian
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by doug1001 13y ago
on the bright side: enduring the unimaginable suffering which this horrific indignity has obviously caused you, will strengthen your character.
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by doug1001 13y ago
i've been a moderate fan of ipython; it's the ipython notebook that changed everything for me. i can have everything inline: syntax-highlignted code, markdown, dynamic plots, and LaTeX equations. (some examples: http://
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by doug1001 13y ago
i lived in Norway for a little over one year; for anyone who has every lived there, you become aware of the outrageously high cost of just about everything. During my time there i felt like i everything i purchased was from a New York City
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by doug1001 13y ago
I had planned to castrate a hippo over the long holiday weekend, but now i'm taking it off my TODO list.
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by doug1001 13y ago
this is a really odd piece from the Washington Post, as someone points out in the comments a few hours after the Post, it's wrong--he is in fact on the list. Second, the Post's author points out that Snowdon is also not in the Top
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by doug1001 13y ago
really impressive work; i like how you guys (apparently) began with a blank page, and set aside at least a few stale assumptions that most consider inviolate principles in DW design--eg, denormalization, star/snowflake schema.
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by doug1001 13y ago
i've used this for a while now--really useful debugging tool in my workflow. Does exactly what it says on the tin. just wrap the offending module and get on with your life; and in those rare (for me) instances where you still get error
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by doug1001 13y ago
according to the OP, the Glass-wearing restaurant patron's name is Nick Starr; i recall a few years ago a guy w/ same name tweeted in detail his imminent wish to commit suicide--on two separate occasions. i wonder if it is the sam
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by doug1001 13y ago
about once a month, i see a HN post that, at first glance, seems to be from TheOnion. This is certainly one of those. (Indeed, it's a well-explored theme on TheOnion, see e.g., http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa
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by doug1001 13y ago
two additional reasons i am a big fan of prototyping. First, it's an excellent to store requirements; and second, it's a great way to provoke relentless iteration of the extant requirement list (e.g., some are thrown out, some are
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by doug1001 13y ago
"[n]ot materially different from breaking into secure offices and stealing copies of private documents" Jeremy Hammond caused the release of information collected by a private security firm, which Barron's referred to "T
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by doug1001 13y ago
nice one, EFF--you guys are bad ass. EFF has of course also for the past decade, been a relentless warrior against Patent Trolls. i don't know, but i would be willing to bet, that the new troll-killing bill is in part due to their effo
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by doug1001 13y ago
don't forget that Tor publishes their exit nodes--they make them freely available to anyone. So a simple membership test on a client IP against that list of exit node IPs identifies that client IP as either having come through Tor via
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by doug1001 13y ago
sort of thing a high school football coach, assigned to teach computer science over the summer, would write on the chalkboard for his students to memorize for the exam.
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by doug1001 13y ago
so i think this aphorism is borrowed from a quote by Alex Lowe (in the American Alpine Journal); For those not familiar with AL, he was a brilliant alpine climber of apparently super-human endurance who died while climbing Shishapangma (an
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by doug1001 13y ago
i know a guy who did the same thing a few years ago but when the tooth reached the tooth fairy (no such thing really, it's more like a consortium of fairies), he was told that he still had to wait in the queue because priority is based
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by doug1001 13y ago
not a single post has mentioned the brilliant taxonomy, Borges "claimed" to have discovered in a Chinese text entitled "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge", and mentioned in a 1942 essay by Borges on John Wilkins
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by doug1001 13y ago
i don't think Julia is viewed by the relevant communities as a replacement for Matlab, Octave, et al; likewise, i don't think that was the purpose underlying the Julia project. "Scientific Python"--ie, python + NumPy + S
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by doug1001 13y ago
so i work at One Kings Lane, which has an unlimited vacation policy. First, i should say that they the true to their word--i have actually seen people take four and five week holidays. Still, the usual seems to be two weeks, which it seems
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by doug1001 13y ago
That's inaccurate. I just read the Lewis article and there are plenty of facts recited there contradict your summary; none of those facts support it. He deleted his bash history, which many programmers do every day, indeed, that's
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by doug1001 13y ago
"Seven Bridges of Koningsberg" would nicely complete the trilogy.
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by doug1001 13y ago
if you are a DFW fan, this is gem. I recall reading IJ in 1997--absolutely like nothing i had ever read, and not just because it was a novel with footnotes and some of those footnotes had footnotes. Extraordinary work of art. Realizing that
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by doug1001 13y ago
the devs at thumbtack.com maintain a blog w/ 2-3 excellent posts on the subject. i liked these because the authors clearly have experience in all three aspects of split-path testing: (i) the engineering (how to implement? eg, via template-s
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by doug1001 14y ago
for me, it's Storm ( http://storm-project.net ), the distributed processing technology (often described as "real-time Hadoop) built on Thrift and the extraordinary ZeroMQ. I believe Storm source is ~ 80 % java and 20% clojure.
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by doug1001 14y ago
kudos to this shop. Neither my employer nor i are Twilio customers, but i do know then from two projects they have open soruced, which i regularly use--both of very high quality (Flask-RESTful & Localtunnel). w/r/t the subject of this P
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by doug1001 14y ago
because i'm a programmer rather than a graphic designer, i don't judge beauty by the rendered image; in other words, whether this qualifies as beautiful or not depends in large part on the code that created it--e.g., is the code a reliable
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by doug1001 14y ago
exactly the kind of guy we've been looking for! But alas, you're a dedicated Yahoo, so i hope you don't mind if we borrow this portion of your post for our Network Operations Director job description, "From my motorized chair/exoskeleton I
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by doug1001 14y ago
disclaimer: my understanding of the legislative process is based entirely on Schoolhouse Rock's "I'm Just a Bill" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0 ). so a citizen's access to a particular DC statute is impossible without that ci
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my employer hits my department budget with salary x 1.5 for every employee in my dept. I thought this was too high, so i went to see the controller, who showed me the numbers and indeed it is accurate--in other words, 1.5 x salary is a very

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