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by finnh 14y ago
? Kickstarter functions in this case as a pre-ordering process. They do not "get nothing back in return" - they get a copy of the game when it's done. That's like saying that rich entrepeneurs should fully fund their next company, rather
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by finnh 14y ago
I don't understand the utility of your homegrown metric. Yes, a 7K disk can output 160MB/s ... if it's doing a continous read, with zero seeks per second. If it's actually doing 160 seeks/second, it's not going to have time to read 1MB (tak
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by finnh 14y ago
Figured as much. I would argue for/request forking that "git diff" command and only processing its output in the VIM process, but for the moment I'll stick with my trusty ",gd" command: map <leader>gd :!cd %:p:h && GIT_
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by finnh 14y ago
While I agree that it's good to exhort one another to learn as much math as possible, I feel compelled to offer myself as a counterexample in the "getting away with it" argument. My formal math education ended with calculus in high school (
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by finnh 14y ago
Seems to add noticeable latency (1+ seconds) to my save, each time. Vim is unresponsive during this time Is this expected? I save quite frequently, it's an unconscious reflex at this point.
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by finnh 14y ago
The main driver of my comment is that I purchased 3-year terms before Amazon introduced the various categories of utilization. My instances have to run 24/7, so I need "heavy" utilization instances with concommitant higher hourly savings.
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by finnh 14y ago
I'm given to understand that binaural recording works much better if played from actual speakers. Headphones end up placing the sound "in your head" too much. See this recent New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01
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by finnh 14y ago
The lesson I've learned from the various reserved instance reductions is to never buy 3-year terms.
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by finnh 14y ago
I would imagine that it's close to the inverse - a big pile of numbers that start with 9, and many many fewer that start with 1.
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by finnh 14y ago
By some estimates industrial espionage against technology companies by China is second only to domestic security in terms of funding and manpower. What estimates? That sounds frankly incredible. Given that China's total population is far
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by finnh 14y ago
Is that accurate? This looks like it only checks for sequential runs of two characters apiece. The challenge calls for sequences "such that no two immediately adjacent subsequences are equal". This, to me, implies subsequences of any lengt
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by finnh 14y ago
you might want to consider using git as your deployment model. Over the past year I switched to using git to deploy almost all of my apps & services and it is just so much better than what I was doing before (various cobbled together cr
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by finnh 14y ago
Suddenly granted an audience, another student voiced the immortal query, "Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses, or 1 horse sized duck?"
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by finnh 14y ago
I'm sure Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman would disagree. So would Lempel and Ziv.
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by finnh 14y ago
ah, great. in that case it looks really nice! ps - from what I could see, none of your videos/images/text state that you can do this. I, at least, didn't feel safe taking it for granted that such functionality exists.
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by finnh 14y ago
Does it support embedding images in tickets? For screenshots? If not, this is a kick-non-starter.
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by finnh 14y ago
Well said. I think that I would be shy of describing myself as an "ideas guy" simply because of the experience I've had with people who describe themselves that way. But I appreciate your more nuanced interpretation of both the phrase and
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by finnh 14y ago
This will come across as rude, but I don't think there's such a thing as an "ideas guy". Every person I know who says that is covering for a lack of attention to detail and a general inability to get shit done. Maybe there's a rarefied wor
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by finnh 14y ago
I put down my iphone and opened my laptop just to respond to this. I've been using AWS for a couple years and never really needed support, so never tried to contact them. Recently I was assigned an Account Exec who reached out to make sure
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by finnh 14y ago
Writing a boggle solver was the first assignment in CS106X at Stanford, which was still taught in C when I took it in the fall of 1994. The trie code as well as the display UI were provided - you only had to write the board-walking code. Be
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by finnh 14y ago
I believe that ZFS clocks in at fewer lines of code than competing filesystem + volume manager combos. That certainly was touted as a benefit of ZFS's "rampant layering violation" when first introduced. end point: ZFS packs a huge quantity
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by finnh 14y ago
At this point in my coding life (15 years in), I'm pretty strongly against if / else clauses. The readability of such code just plummets in my view. I try to limit my conditionals to inline statements: $x = $y if $b; Often joined wi
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by finnh 14y ago
This is a great notion for long distance road trips. It would be pretty nice when cruising cross-country to drift in behind an 18-wheeler and then read a book. I think we'll get fully autonomous vehicles before this type of thing becomes c
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by finnh 15y ago
Interesting. This is similar to an idea I've had for a privacy-sensitive version of Facebook ("Faceless"?) that uses public key encryption at the client to prevent the servers from being able to read anything posted. When you post new cont
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by finnh 15y ago
beautiful day in seattle right now. One of the rare perfect spring days here. Normally we just skip this season.
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by finnh 15y ago
I'll second this. The intro was so well written that by the time I got to the first numa_maps output ("2aaaaad3e000 default anon=13240527 dirty=13223315 swapcache=3440324 active=13202235 N0=7865429 N1=5375098") I immediately thought "well g
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by finnh 15y ago
Except that's not the TL;DR at all. From the article: "An aside on zone_reclaim_mode The zone_reclaim_mode tunable in /proc/sys/vm can be used to fine-tune memory reclamation policies in a NUMA system. Subject to some clarifications from th
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by finnh 15y ago
Sadly the link in the email isn't direct (it's a tracking link through "news.github.com"), so Thunderbird flags it as a possible phishing attempt =( Edit: github send out an email with a link to the ssh audit page; that's the email to which
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by finnh 15y ago
Can you elaborate on the "2K connections per IP" part? Do you mean that google only allows you 2,000 concurrent IMAP connections per client IP address, so you need to scale up your requesting IP pool along with your user count?
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by finnh 15y ago
The woot "we got acquired" letter[1] was hilarious. [1] http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13390 shortest footnote marker-to-footnote distance ever?

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