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How Uptake Beat Slack, Uber to Become 2015's Hottest Startup(forbes.com)
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by hcrisp 11y ago
“I don’t care about money,” he says. “I want power. Not power over people, but power over nature and the destiny of technology." This has echoes of J.R.R. Tolkien: Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and
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by hcrisp 11y ago
I've never thought about the fact that 'serialize' as a verb is opposite and antitetical to 'parallelize'.
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High-detail system-generated graphics using Fragmentarium(flickr.com)
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Oreilly tarsier blinks at you on home page(archive.oreilly.com)
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Volkswagen Blames ‘Chain of Mistakes’ for Emissions Scandal(wsj.com)
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Good article. Couldn't find who wrote it since it doesn't have a byline. I'm guessing it was Leland McInnes?
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Another example which I have heard is: Throw the cow over the fence some hay. It also reminds me of the sentence that wins the award for ending in the most prepositions: What did you bring that book that I didn't want to be r
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More VW Vehicles Have Emissions-Software Issues(wsj.com)
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Xkcd explains relativity in top 1000 common words(newyorker.com)
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by hcrisp 11y ago
I agree, time series should be more like 1000 measurements taken 100 times a second. Industrial acquisition data is not the same thing as timestamped web log data.
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by hcrisp 11y ago
No mention of Jupyter notebooks? By re-playing previously-typed code in notebooks, shouldn't that give the audience a REPL-type experience without waiting for the person to type? Like having your cake and eating it too.
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by hcrisp 11y ago
If you really want to hear about it, this isn't the first time a unique voice was used to convey authenticity. It might have involved his informal rambling and all, and how his crazy life was falling apart, and all that kind of stuff,
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Relevant quote: "All this only as background to the stories, though languages and names are for me inextricable from the stories. They are and were so to speak an attempt to give a background or a world in which my expressions of ling
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by hcrisp 11y ago
No, sorry, I should have mentioned the parking deck closed early, and was signed (though not in an prominent way) as such. So we could not get out. We made no witty reply, but did have a good laugh about it later.
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Somewhat related: As an (northern, not southern) American tourist, I was visiting Scotland when I left my car in a parking deck after hours. I buzzed the gate-keeper to unlock the gate, and upon hearing my accent he said, "What? Do yo
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by hcrisp 11y ago
I meant he would be dismayed more because of his love of language and ancient translation, and contrasted to the distaste of his fans' excesses. But I looked it up, and I was surprised to find that he did read the KJV. "The exac
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Amazing! Although the draft is actually of 1 Esdras and Wisdom of Solomon, part of the intertestamental Apochrypha and not found in many editions that have only the New and Old Testaments. What happened to the translation drafts of the ot
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Perhaps not related, but doesn't water shrink when it transitions from ice to liquid water? I know it increases in density (thus ice floats).
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Light’s Slim Camera Takes Aim at DSLRs by Snapping Many Pics at Once(wsj.com)
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by hcrisp 11y ago
There is no better book than Rick Lyons' that is linked above on Amazon (and I have browsed many others). I believe his book has several other frequency-specific methods for envelope estimation.
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by hcrisp 11y ago
They own PV-WAVE, a sister language to IDL.
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Why didn't this same link I posted earlier get picked up when peterthomas submitted it? I think they are the same? Seems like HN had a glitch? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10330573
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VW Emissions Probe Zeroes in on Two Engineers(wsj.com)
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by hcrisp 11y ago
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." -Linus Torvalds
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Will Groupon founder Brad Keywell's newer venture, Uptake, face a similar outcome? A recent Forbes article suggests he's better at starting a company than running it.
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Network speeds I don't know about, but the book "High Performance Python" comes pretty close to the description of "CSCI 4020: Writing Fast Code in Slow Languages". Check it out!
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Actually J.R.R. Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien, is the executor of his estate and was editor who released both of those works [1]. But, yes, he wants to preserve his legacy, and unlike the recent films, he thinks the published boo
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by hcrisp 11y ago
Perhaps the stability of the Midwest and a culture unlike Silicon Valley where folks move jobs every two to three years. There does seem to be more loyalty in IL, and the calmer pace may encourage more long-term planning?
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Yahoo moved their Hadoop analytics group from CA to IL at least partially due to huge turnover. Since moving they have not lost "quite" as many people. UIUC is also where the transistor was invented, and it the home of NCSA and

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