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by etal 18y ago
The emacs tutorial included with the editor is good enough to wean you off the mouse, for the most part. You can be productive after that, and you don't even need to open to another window. The startup page might show the hotkey combination
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by etal 18y ago
Isn't it always just a couple more nails, here and there, till the next feature's ready to go?
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by etal 18y ago
For research, right now I'm looking for better ways to visualize the results of Chain analysis on a set of sequences. (This probably doesn't actually need a cluster.) We're looking at evolutionary relationships between protein families. I j
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by etal 18y ago
Oh. Then, why the fuss about Occam, Fortress, Hadoop, et al? Is there another, hairier area of HPC these languages and technologies are meant for, where scientists rarely need to tread? Or are most scientists deliberately avoiding those are
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What languages and tools do you use for cluster computing?
4 points by etal 18y ago|7 comments
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by etal 18y ago
I once scribbled down some Scheme on a napkin during a conversion with my sister, a non-programmer. (God knows how it came up, but anyway, it did.) She looked at it, and said two things: 1. So many parentheses! 2. You made a mistake right h
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by etal 18y ago
This looks like it will be an interesting series. The grammar's not great, but hey, my Italian's much worse. I'm not sure Ikarus is the best choice for diving in, though. PLT's DrScheme is probably the nicest micro-IDE I've used, better tha
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by etal 18y ago
The catch is, once they do figure out one way of accomplishing a task -- even if it's complicated, unintuitive, and not really what you intended -- they'll cling to it and base future actions on that point of reference. So you can't "correc
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by etal 18y ago
Exactly. Any fool can see that all Obama did was set up some Gentoo instances, compile Apache and PHP with the appropriate CFLAGS, and let his people do their work .
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Google Chrome: A Masterstroke or a Blunder?(anand.typepad.com)
10 points by etal 18y ago|3 comments
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by etal 18y ago
True. It's unclear exactly how the federal government "implicitly" backed Fannie and Freddie, besides occasional congressional meddling and the companies' history as GSEs, but other financial agencies and investors treated them as if they k
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by etal 18y ago
The U.S. mortgage system works like this: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae make the housing market more liquid by buying up mortgage loans satisfying reasonable criteria. Other banks can issue mortgages and then immediately resell the loans back
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by etal 18y ago
Python is intentionally simple to parse. The whitespace thing (if that's what you're referring to) goes like this: if a line is indented one more level than the previous line, that span of indentation becomes an <indent> token, appl
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by etal 18y ago
The main thing that Python users complain about in CPython is the global interpreter lock, which restricts all the threads in a Python process to one CPU. (Ruby has this too.) So concurrency over multiple CPUs has steadily become more of a
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by etal 18y ago
Also, consider when the original codebases were written. There was nothing to borrow when Netscape/Mozilla first took a crack at it, in many of these cases.
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by etal 18y ago
That's why it's open-source, BSD license. They're speeding up the arms race for fast JavaScript implementations in other browsers; with the BSD license Microsoft could even conceivably just silently swap V8 for JScript in IE8/9 (hey, it's b
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by etal 18y ago
Is this the same strategy used in Ikarus Scheme? http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/#about I don't see any comparisons to existing interpreter/compiler implementations in the V8 docs. (edit: Oh. Strongtalk. So is that "incremental
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by etal 18y ago
Apparently there's a secret v2 test, did you use that? http://v2.dromaeo.com/ He also says he used Safari without Squirrelfish in these tests, due to compilation issues on Windows.
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by etal 18y ago
Not when the context of the mistake comes pretty close to the actual meaning of begging the question: IE 8 is fat. Period. All of which begs the question: What were these people thinking? Then it's just amusing. (Rephrased: Since web brow
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by etal 18y ago
I'm a sucker for charts, so I hope X-rite releases some bell-curves based on the cumulative data they're collecting here. The eye's lens tends to develop a yellow tint over time, so that suggests the older age ranges would have more points
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by etal 18y ago
Some of these articles were originally part of an internal Amazon blog. Apparently Amazon did indeed have tens of millions of lines of C++, and the point of Stevey's rants was to point out that they were doing it wrong. Those were also the
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by etal 18y ago
The ads for Jane Street Capital are pretty good. (They pop up in Gmail for me sometimes.) 0. They get the job title right. If you're a quant, you know it. Is a startup CTO a rockstar or a ninja? It's unclear. 1. They mention the domain know
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by etal 18y ago
For an overview, read the DoE's primer: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/... The U.S. Department of Energy does a surprising amount of research on genetics and bioinformatics. The reason: while the Manhattan pro
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by etal 18y ago
Which, in turn, relies on gcc (usually). Turtles all the way down...
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by etal 18y ago
With half of College Avenue getting rich off cocaine, yeah, they had this coming. The 17% four-year graduation rate is impressive, too. I also remember Chico getting epic on Halloween, until the police cracked down on it a few years ago.
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by etal 18y ago
Pretty good. C is unmagical, but that doesn't keep developers from adding their own special magic... Reading Guy Steele's late-1990s defenses of Java, and observing how C and C++ actually are used in industry -- yeah, I actually am happy th
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by etal 18y ago
Apparently because Jeff Atwood complains about it occasionally. Also, because it's the only popular language that doesn't consider "magic" a good thing.
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by etal 18y ago
Do you suppose there's a sort of reverse Conway's Law for version control? Compared to most DVCSs, SVN maked merging branches expensive and required more decisions about the code to be made ahead of time. Gridlock happens, and branches can
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by etal 18y ago
Maybe more like an intersection: web apps contain software, but the software isn't usually what's being sold; the user community, collected data and marketing/branding of the original site are a bigger deal than in shrink-wrap or contract s
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by etal 18y ago
The thing that I've idly wished would work in PyGTK and wxWidgets (the ones I've used and liked) has these features: - takes full advantage of data-type literals like dictionaries and lists - allows method chaining -- I think this implies m

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