draven

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South-East Asian cities are waging war on street food(medium.economist.com)
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The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework(work.qz.com)
659 points by draven 9y ago|997 comments
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by draven 9y ago
And a bit further in the article: "By the time DEC finished their dynamic translation efforts, x86 in translation was barely faster than native x86 in floating point code, and substantially slower in integer code." So perhaps they
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by draven 9y ago
You can load shared libraries in Emacs and Rust can expose a C ABI so it should already be possible to write plugins in Rust. In the same vein, this is cool: https://github.com/janestreet/ecaml
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by draven 9y ago
At work I use wee-slack ( https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack ) a plugin for weechat that uses the slack API ( not the IRC gateway.) Images / code snippets / etc. were rendered as an HTTP link. It works p
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by draven 9y ago
A few years ago, as I was working as a programmer in another synchrotron, I remember seeing an open position for a software engineer at SESAME. I considered applying to travel a bit. They have a jobs page but no position for a software engi
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by draven 9y ago
I use tree style tabs to group tabs by "context" (scala stuff, Haskell stuff, news, stuff to read later) and I get to 100+ tabs quite fast. Then I close the whole parent tab and sub-tabs when I'm done with a particular contex
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by draven 9y ago
Scala does. It's annoying in pattern matching clauses.
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by draven 9y ago
Light grey on white is readable on my work macbook pro, but unreadable on my old x201. It really depends on the display.
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by draven 9y ago
IIRC (that was a long time ago) I could use only 8 tracks on my A600 because I only had a meg of memory. A friend had extended his A600 memory to 2MB and I think he could get 6 tracks.
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by draven 10y ago
I just tested your blog with OverbiteFF (I guess that's the client you're using), and I had to manually switch the encoding to Unicode (View->Text Encoding.) I see there's an "item type" field in the protocol, it
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by draven 10y ago
I just spent a few hours to migrate our keepassx database to pass and make the team switch to pass. Gopass seems great, especially the multistore support (which you can do w/ pass by setting an env variable), thank you for your work!
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by draven 10y ago
We're migrating to Rancher from a mix of Jenkins tasks and manual deploys on AWS machines (ie: a mess) and the product is great. I've evaluated both DCOS and k8s about 7-8 months ago and found a k8s a bit complex and moving really
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by draven 10y ago
I'm privacy-conscious, but know of a lot of people outside the tech industry who aren't. I'd welcome products which respect my privacy but I don't think this would be enough a difference to make people or companies choos
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by draven 10y ago
About le dessous des cartes, they're available with english subtitles. "Le dessous des cartes" has been translated as "Mapping the world." Example: http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/067846-003-A&
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by draven 10y ago
You could do with much less than 90% by targeting the worst offenders.
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by draven 10y ago
> check out Hemlock. or Edwin. Or Climacs https://www.common-lisp.net/project/climacs/ It seems there's a rewrite as well: https://github.com/robert-strandh/Second-Climacs
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by draven 10y ago
I had to check and according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs , font-lock was added in version 19.28 released November 1, 1994. The movie certainly looks like it was recorded in the 80s. Some people also stil
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by draven 10y ago
In addition to everything that's been recommended in this thread, Functional Programming in Scala is very nice. I read it after taking the Coursera course and working a bit on a Play project. Familiarity with Haskell and Ocaml will cer
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by draven 10y ago
I find Arch with AUR offers much more than Homebrew for my needs. There are even specialized repositories for specific uses like ArchStrike for "security professionals and enthusiasts". Using a tool like pacaur makes AUR even easi
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by draven 10y ago
My setup is similar to this except I use XMonad on Arch instead of i3wm. Each desktop is a "context". I have rxvt on the first one, firefox on the second, emacs on the third, the other desktops are for transient stuff. 95% of the
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by draven 10y ago
And some species of frogs can survive freezing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_frog#Cold_tolerance
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by draven 10y ago
> It's harder for me to "get stuff done" when then "stuff" is bullshit Same here, I guess tolerance to bullshit diminishes with age. Perhaps it has to do with experience. I cringe when asked to do something that
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by draven 10y ago
uMatrix is more granular (and allows images and css by default) but still block the whole domain. They're in the business of tracking people so it makes sense. Whitelisting eng.localytics.com while still blacklisting all other *.localy
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by draven 10y ago
Not OP, but I stopped thanks to this book (the French translation) as well. It does not try to make smokers feel guilty or use the usual rethoric of addict = weak. What really make it click for me was its deconstruction of the addiction mec
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by draven 10y ago
I didn't find any architectural details on QPX after they've been acquired by Google. For Haskell I remember reading about Cloud Haskell ( https://haskell-distributed.github.io/ ) which allows you to write Erlang-
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by draven 10y ago
I don't know how distributed ITA software's QPX is, but there are some information about how they work around the GC in some cases here (from 2001): http://paulgraham.com/carl.html
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by draven 10y ago
Try uMatrix instead of NoScript, it allows first-party js by default if the domain is not black-listed. I've found that to be a great compromise.
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by draven 10y ago
In France, the price per unit is indicated as well. The unit is the most relevant one (kilogram, liter, meter, ...) It makes it really easy to compare the price of similar products.
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by draven 10y ago
I remember playing with logo on MO5. The teacher used a TO7. IIRC we managed to get some geometrical figures using loops, like eg a "square-y spiral."

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