eric_bullington

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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   > Perhaps I need to dedicate more time to understanding how things work? Yes, if you don't already, learn basic command line very well, with stderr/stdin/stdout, pipes, sed, grep, find, cat, make, etc. etc. You'll th
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   > IIRC those words were not yet French; it always gets a bit confused with languages when we're referring back like this IMO. They were Norman French, or just "Norman" is you insist, which was one of the Oïl languages (a
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   My kids used Sugar as their primary OS until they were about 4/6 respectively. It was great, and they really got a lot of enjoyment out of the games. When they reached elementary age, I then moved them to Ubuntu, which they happily us
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   Well done, Pieter. Thank you for your excellent writings and ground-breaking open source work, and for sharing your humanity. Farewell.
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   This is the first I've heard of Google's Project Shield. Very cool project, is it relatively new? Does anyone know if this was the result of someone's 20% time or a top-down Google initiative?
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   Nunjucks is an excellent JS template engine for this kind of work, since it permits template inheritance. It's quite similar to Jinja in Python, if you're familiar with it. Other options would be Middleman or Metalsmith. I'
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   Yes, this is an excellent point. And if you run into problems, work directly with Accounts Payable, not through your company contact, if at all possible. Better yet, do as the parent comment recommends and try to make a contact with Accoun
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   So it's a metametasploit?
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   by eric_bullington 10y ago

   > What are the most common ways to collect big, yearly contracts? Yep, at least in the US, paper checks for some (still!) and wire transfer for others. You send them an invoice, and they send you an (actual, paper) check or make a wire
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Solfege/solfège is still used prominently in France, or at least it was ~25 years ago. I took music lessons when I lived in France as a teenager. My piano instructor was very confused by the fact that I spoke good French, was at a so
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Just to be clear, p4 isn't actually a network protocol. It's a programming language, a DSL for programming network protocols. Small but significant difference between the two. But you're correct that it will require native
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Well, I switched to Lua because Snabb apps are built in Lua, and because the Snabb toolkit will ideally provide a lot of functionality for the runtime that I won't have to build myself. And Snabb is really quite impressive in itself.
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    It's pretty cool. I built a lexer/parser for the p4 language in Lua, with the intention of then building a "runtime" for it out of the Snabb networking toolkit (amusingly, I also finished most of a p4 lexer/parser
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > We'll be publishing the React.js binding on HN in a few days. Sounds great. Will this be announced on any email list I could subscribe to? Thanks!
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > I get that this is a for fun project it seems, just seems a little low on the practical scale for an artist. It's a very new project, I believe. Seeing what this group has accomplished with the Victory React dataviz library, I wo
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    While you check out this very cool repo on Formidable's Github, if you're interested in React and/or data visualization, be sure to also check out their Victory React dataviz project, and accompanying charts library. Victory
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Invites: https://keybase.io/inv/4c100c57c9 https://keybase.io/inv/89cb21a5a6
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Did you look in statsmodels? I appreciate the suggestions, and for a moment I was hopeful about the need for survival analysis models, but it looks like both that and GLM are well-covered in the latest version of statsmodels (don't be
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it. Alas, at the least, there are Python implementations of all those between scikit-learn and this project: https://github.com/selective-inference/Python-software . statsmodel
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > R in some cases still has the best machine learning librari Would you mind naming some specific machine learning techniques that are still better in R? I've been studying machine learning and linear algebra the past few months, an
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    This is a must-read for any web developer, frontend, or backend, or full-stack. It's short enough to be a fun read, but detailed enough to convey the most important browser networking facts. If you can, buy a hard copy to keep as a re
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > In case there is interest for this I might actually get around doing that for once. Yes, I'm very interested in your thoughts on this, particularly wrt interpreter design.
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > functional programming (from the mathematical side it corresponds to various lambda calculi) And category theory, in the case of Haskell. (and yes, to work with Haskell at a basic level, category theory isn't required. But as s
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Ada. I personally lean more and more toward functional languages these days, but despite that, I'm incredibly impressed with modern Ada. Particularly the Spark subset of Ada, which is perhaps the best-thought out, more coherent, most
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    Check out RAML: https://github.com/raml-org/raml-spec Maybe it will fit the bill? It can even encode sum types. But I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for. I'll ping you when I put my min
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > I would like to see -- hint, I'm probably going to have to get my hands dirty! -- an implementation in either a dynamically typed language like Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP/Javascript/… or a non-functional languag
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > Would you be interested in something along those lines? Yes! That would be very cool to read. I've been working on an implementation of Mini-ML in Python using Robert Small's Hindley-Milner in Python [0] (and also eagerly aw
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    by eric_bullington 10y ago

    > My best lesson I learned on programming from Pieter was to use code generators effectively. Likely among other places, Pieter discusses code generators here: http://download.imatix.com/mop/introduction.html > T
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    by eric_bullington 11y ago

    > Give it a try some time! If you mean give TypeScript a try, I have! In production. And it was very solid. I haven't yet tried the JSX tooling, since that's a somewhat recent development and predates my last serious use of
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    by eric_bullington 11y ago

    TypeScript is fairly mature and conservative, whereas Flow has some reasonably innovative and bold (for JavaScript!) features. I'd say go with TypeScript if you're looking for a type system closer to C# or Java (including extensiv