emef

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by emef 9y ago
I hate dual booting so in your situation I would probably stick with windows and just run other OSes in docker/virtualbox.
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by emef 9y ago
Anybody tried a fidget spinner? My wife has adhd and likes the idea but we haven't ordered one. Are these interesting for 5 minutes and then shelved? or do they have some lasting appeal?
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by emef 9y ago
They added many disclaimers saying that LOC alone is a bad metric and it's more interesting to look at characteristics of the code for anecdotes. The article is full of of advice to take the findings with a grain of salt. They don&#x27
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by emef 9y ago
> I get that the case syntax is kinda nice, but this particular example just doesn't seem to get there for me. Roughly half the lines, which is good. None of them hard to reason about. Which makes it a wash. I suppose it's a ma
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by emef 10y ago
A potential solution for facebook (if they were inclined) might be to not charge for likes from accounts less than N days old or from accounts with > M total page likes. At least this would make it harder for click farms to get around...
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by emef 11y ago
http://gethelium.com
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by emef 11y ago
That's rather presumptuous, do you happen to know more than what's in the post?
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Line-based fractal images in go(github.com)
3 points by emef 12y ago|0 comments
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by emef 12y ago
Incentive is not the problem with more housing... there is presently a huge demand for housing.
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by emef 13y ago
Playing in groups initially increased the difficulty to the point of near impossibility in the end-game, with little to no extra reward.
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by emef 13y ago
This would require either a whole new field on the checkout form (gender) or some incomplete database lookup for gender-name mappings; neither is a good option. Using 'they' is pretty common practice to refer to someone gender neu
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by emef 13y ago
I'm surprised using mutable value for a default in a keyword argument wasn't mentioned. This certainly tripped me up early in learning python: def fn(x, my_dict={}): my_dict[x] = x * 2 return my_dict &gt
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by emef 14y ago
I don't think he meant for secrecy's sake, he probably wants to avoid publicly negative reviews that would show up when someone googles the site.
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by emef 14y ago
I'd argue that it's a bad practice to leave out the last else if condition even when it seems redundant. What happens if NaN is passed to your function? It will return 'big' when you probably want to throw an exception or something more m
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by emef 14y ago
$4 drinks are usually the sugary/milk filled drinks like a mocha. I think drip coffee is like 2 bucks or so at SB.
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by emef 14y ago
You can go one step further and make use of automatic function currying (such as in haskell) and just write: adder(x,y) -> x + y If you call adder with one argument, you get the same behaviour as your makeAdder (returned closure), but i
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by emef 14y ago
Great! That one is much more reasonable =)
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by emef 14y ago
I couldn't tell if it was serious or not, I got the feeling that it was a joke. It was far too dramatic.
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by emef 14y ago
That's what he wrote, the | meaning "given that". P[enjoys game | is a programmer] filters gamers from a population of programmers.
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by emef 15y ago
Interesting, so the idea is that your short-term/working memory is indicative of your fluid intelligence? Then increasing your working memory increases your intelligence. Seems reasonable enough.
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by emef 15y ago
"In the study performed by Susanne M. Jaeggi et. al., study subjects practiced the dual n-back test for about 20 minutes a day for up to 19 days. At the end of that time, the subjects were shown to have increased intelligences (as measured
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by emef 16y ago
I was really hoping for full-text search support, but I understand the team is busy :/
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by emef 16y ago
Shows how much I know about html5 :/ I've been hesitant to delve in to it, because it would drive me crazy that I can't actually use much of it when supporting all browsers.
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by emef 16y ago
At first I didn't realize I was editing the image real time, nice trick there with the base64 encoding. Very interesting.
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by emef 16y ago
> Such a redirect isn't slow? It's near instant if done right. Here's twitter doing it: http://twitter.com/bjorntipling On slower devices (such as mobile phones) redirecting can be more noticeable. You're right though, in general it's
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by emef 16y ago
> What Watson doesn't do is attempt to mimic the human ability to use common sense, make leaps of logic or imagine the future.... Pretty much sums up why I'm disillusioned about Watson and all the hype it's receiving. Don't get me wrong
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by emef 16y ago
Probably start with a good knowledge representation. Facts need to be categorized and linked to one another. I assume a solid ontology would be key. A way to process your training data to fit your knowledge graph needs to be unambiguous. No
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by emef 16y ago
Large/lots of javascript files can slow down the loading of the page, but that wasn't the real issue people were taking with JS-controlled sites (as I interpreted things). The real delay cost was from the inevitable redirect to the root of
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by emef 16y ago
You can if you run Chrome. They just released an extension to do just this. (someone posted this on HN recently) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...
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by emef 16y ago
> "You don’t want it to come after the header on small content pages like a kid comes after candy. It is simply wrong." Instantly stopped reading, what kind of freak writes about that.

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