hoprocker

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by hoprocker 5y ago
The Real Book, often considered the Real Inaccurate Book.
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by hoprocker 5y ago
I love it. Some of these solutions are things I looked into during the early days of Android, before Google had cemented hegemony on so many things. Namely, Subsonic and K-9 Mail were some early contenders that I remember, although both qu
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by hoprocker 6y ago
This is generally a good flow, but something that absolutely baffles me is that GitHub changes the commit SHAs when branches are rebase-merged from PRs[0]. This totally breaks a fundamental notion in Git that the same work, based on the sam
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by hoprocker 9y ago
Discussions like this are always helpful for people with more experience in dynamic languages. My first experiences with Monads, like the one in LYAHFGG[0], left me with the sense that Monads were a tool primarily used in statically-typed l
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by hoprocker 9y ago
Agreed -- a motivating example in the Readme would really help people totally new to this concept grasp the how/why of the project.
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by hoprocker 9y ago
Agreed -- I found Haskell most confusing at first because of the lack of syntax. My brain kept wondering where the rest of the syntax was. Not to be too dramatic, but I think Haskell is kind of like programming "poetry" in this
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by hoprocker 9y ago
Love it. Every few years, a site like this gets posted, detailing somebody's transition from rooted to nomadic. If you work remotely, this can be an exciting idea.
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by hoprocker 9y ago
Upvote -- the sarcasm comes through when this is put into context.
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by hoprocker 9y ago
The analogy is a little twisty, but yeah, seeing the files in the directory is probably like looking in through the door, and actually opening them is probably more like trespassing.
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by hoprocker 9y ago
The 2D->3D analogy made sense to me -- only being able to see the cross-section that is visible in a current dimensionality -- but I got to wondering if you couldn't use some of techniques from information visualization techniques t
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by hoprocker 9y ago
This is the thing. Why on earth would you build this insane network to ferry one person in their car, the displacement of which could probably move 8 people using the same footprint. I think they throw that idea a laurel at the end, where
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by hoprocker 10y ago
Thomas Frank's book _What's the Matter with Kansas_[0] explores this pretty well. Some of what he proposes is a bit over-simplified (ie that all conservatives prefer to vote for morals over pragmatism[1]), but his main thesis -- t
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by hoprocker 10y ago
"Ronald Reagan started to have a decline in the number of unique words with repetitions of statements over time,” said Sherman. “[He] started using more fillers, more empty phrases, like ‘thing’ or ‘something’ or things like ‘basically
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by hoprocker 10y ago
Additionally, started out life working-class and was working as a longshoreman while attending CUNY; Ta-Nehisi Coates spent some time describing Moynihan's remarkable gifts in an interesting article for The Atlantic a few years ago[0].
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by hoprocker 10y ago
The docs provide a pretty good comparison against the other major players, Storm and Spark (and MUPD8, which I'm not familiar with): http://samza.apache.org/learn/documentation/0.11/comparisons... The tl
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by hoprocker 10y ago
Dammit, I need a crib sheet that puts the tying steps all on one page -- it's a real pain stopping in between steps to scroll down, then trying to get my fingers back into the correct position.
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by hoprocker 10y ago
This isn't for ads, but if you want to obfuscate Google's profile of you in the background, you can check out NYU's TrackMeNot: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
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by hoprocker 10y ago
I just came across skip lists as part of a sliding-window aggregator in Apache Samza's metrics system[0]. So cool! Being able to work with a range of values in somewhere between O(1)and O(log n) time, while still providing ordered key&
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by hoprocker 10y ago
That's how I learned it in grade school, yup.
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by hoprocker 10y ago
There's got to be a more useful metric than average city density; the 2010 US Census [0] places the 5 densest cities in the US as having a population under 70,000 (yes, I'm quoting Wikipedia). City planners must have a unit more l
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by hoprocker 10y ago
Looks quite similar to the site one of my coworkers at Meetup had going for a while (hi Greg!): http://mybikelane.com/
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by hoprocker 10y ago
Lovely idea, fascinating way to visualize demographics. One comment, and not at all a criticism of the art: I'm not sure if relative property values between neighborhoods really describes how SF is being ripped apart over time; for tha
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by hoprocker 11y ago
Agreed. I'm sure there are also some examples out there of people who, despite insurmountable privilege, managed to make all of the wrong decisions and end up on the streets.
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by hoprocker 11y ago
I see that too. Seems chronological other than this, probably an indexing error.
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by hoprocker 11y ago
I love the correlation between modern in-browser development and programming early personal computers. It's akin to how digital logic abstracts away the tyranny of E&M physics, but several layers higher, and this time just between
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by hoprocker 11y ago
Side question: who is in that animated gif about a quarter of the way down the page (fingers to temples, starbursts in background)? I see that around on dev blogs quite a bit.
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by hoprocker 11y ago
> About 33,000 of these were vacant, generally as a side effect of rent control laws. (I don’t honestly know if rent control is a net good or bad thing—I assume more good than bad—but it certainly keeps units off the market.) If I unders
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by hoprocker 11y ago
It's weird -- the only reason I really care is because of Facebook's SSO capabilities. FB's a single point of failure for anybody that uses it for authentication. (Which I imagine is a few people.)
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by hoprocker 11y ago
This will probably get me hellbanned here, but here's a bit of gold: "The companies that come out of [venture capital funding] are no longer pursuing profit, or even revenue. Instead, the measure of their success is valuation—how
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by hoprocker 11y ago
Some of the golden comments on this one: > You're trying to solve bugs or problems. >> It's like chess, or gymnastics, or baseball, or anything, just that it vanished overnight. > I've also seen discussions of how

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