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by drej 9y ago
This looks really cool, just one quick question - I'm not really interested in all that Angular/React stuff, I just want my favourite VS Code in the browser (as a 'thin' client between my browser and my VPS, for example)
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by drej 9y ago
ShareLaTeX is such a joy to use. I used to write a lot of LaTeX, but don't anymore, so don't even have it installed on my laptop. Whenever I need to typeset anything, I just pop it into their web interface, do some light editing a
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by drej 9y ago
> They are amazing fun events where tech geeks come together to create something useful . No. (Emphasis mine)
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by drej 9y ago
I never deal with such low level issues, so I don't have to read this, but... reading these posts by antirez is such a joy. He makes this topic so clear and understandable, he doesn't assume much, he doesn't use overly comple
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by drej 9y ago
With `npm` and the current JavaScript culture, both a weekend project and the Linux kernel could have the same number of SLOC.
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by drej 9y ago
I see it's still a thing. Back in high school, some ten+ years ago, I coded up an 'ip2country' website. Not sure why, there were dozens of those. I guess I had a free domain and a lot of time on my hands. I put some Google Ad
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by drej 9y ago
Actually, that's just two screenshots from the same Google Play version. A side-by-side with O'Reilly's PDF is striking https://twitter.com/kondrej/status/881120506161876992
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by drej 9y ago
I thought it was a problem to navigate through all AWS services. Then I discovered (surely not) all the Apache projects. This is by no means a criticism, rather amusement when looking at all the projects within the epic Apache ecosystem.
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by drej 9y ago
Do you know how John Oliver's "cool" remark, when he's being sarcastic? That pretty much describes every single response I got when I told my superiors I automated (a part of) my job. I don't expect them to pop a ch
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by drej 9y ago
I've been wondering what the best way to implement SIMD in a JITless language was. While I'm a big proponent of static compilation (coding mostly in Go), this runtime inflexibility is a bit painful. Sure, you could compile multipl
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by drej 9y ago
Writing thin clients that serve data to browsers for charting/tabling purposes is one of my favourite pastimes. So I'm thrilled there's another tool for this job, especially one that abstracts many of the boring aspects of th
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by drej 9y ago
I went to this data engineering interview and it appeared they had the same list of questions for all their roles (ranging from senior C++ engineers to Python ETL guys). After really struggling with some questions on libc, low level network
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by drej 9y ago
My favourite thing about Jupyter notebooks is that you can render them locally to avoid the Jupyter hassle if you don't have it installed for some reason (or if you don't want to run it). Upon reading this, I decided to implement
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by drej 9y ago
Julia frustrates me. I was in a mathematical modelling sphere, so I learned the language basics years ago and immediately fell in love (multiple dispatch, optional types, broadcasting, ...). But I couldn't get approvals at work to push
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by drej 9y ago
Is the editor size an issue? For quick startup, sure, but when the tool is actually running? (Which at least on my machine, it's on most of the day anyway.) I used to prefer lean editors (vim, Sublime), but then intellisense and plugin
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by drej 9y ago
Chuffed about math.bits. You can always implement these yourself, these are short (albeit a bit cryptic) snippets, but having these in the standard library means that they will be regularly updated for various architectures and CPUs. Good s
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by drej 9y ago
Until last December, I would live in rooms well under 100 square feet, for about four years. I won't go into details how I got there, but surprisingly, money wasn't the issue. Anywho. I kind of got used to it and it wasn't ha
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by drej 9y ago
Whenever I look at drastic improvements in performance, I remember that a while ago I managed to speed up a custom parser at work, by about 30x. When I emailed my colleagues, I just said "You may consider this to be work of a genius. O
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by drej 9y ago
I really love Google's UI, it's miles ahead of AWS (though kudos on Lightsail, they nailed that one), but last time I tried porting my toy projects, I was stopped by Google's requirement to be a registered business. Is that s
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by drej 9y ago
I recently started working on a JavaScript thingy and I'm really glad for two things: 1. These package managers and build systems and all that are fairly replacable in terms of implementation. They all just give you some namespace mana
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by drej 9y ago
We built a bunch of stuff at this non-profit, which would host us every Monday evening and let us hack away using their data and code. I call this 'recurring hackathons' and it was the best thing ever, because we got to plan longe
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by drej 9y ago
Go is my go to language for a lot of tasks, but I don't understand why it makes it to the front page of HN. It's a minor release. Urgent security releases? Sure. A major release with perf improvements or interesting new APIs? Su
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by drej 9y ago
I've been waiting for this for a while (despite being a Mac user for years and years). And it doesn't quite compute (ba dum tss). Two reasons really. 1. No USB-C. 2. If I want 16 gigs of RAM, I need to opt for an i7 and half a ter
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by drej 9y ago
After getting maybe a dozen cables and a few battery packs from Anker, I bought a bluetooth speaker. It looks like the Soundlink Mini from Bose, but it was a fraction of the cost. However, when playing base heavy songs at very low volume (w
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by drej 9y ago
I ran cloc to get a better idea of the tech in this. Interesting. Edit: I noticed a lot of Go, but only one live script in the repo. So I excluded the 'ThirdParty' folder, where some vendored libraries reside. Edit2: That 90K SLOC
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by drej 9y ago
This might be a contrarian view, maybe I'm misunderstanding it. To me, much of message passing is not performance critical, so it would be well served by JSON/YAML/XML for easy implementation/testing/debugging. If o
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by drej 10y ago
A super inexperienced observer here, so just a very basic question - how does Caffe(2) differ from TF/Theano/Torch etc.? What are the obvious upsides and potential downsides? A tweet-sized answer will do, I'm just curious as
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by drej 10y ago
People mention that said rewrite needs to have some immediate benefits. I actually like rewrites where no obvious changes are visible. These are rewrites, where one anticipates future problems and does this work preventively. Three projects
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by drej 10y ago
Looks cool, but: "This installation is compatible with Linux/Mac OS X and Python 2.7." Sad face.
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by drej 10y ago
Just an irrelevant side note: When you do a requests.get(url), you can use the .json() method on it instead of all the json.loads([...].text). I remember doing the same for years and only discovering .json() recently, I love it.

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