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by hugofirth 11y ago
I know you probably have more important things on your roadmap about now :), but any plans to support media keys (Pause, Skip etc...)? Perhaps using something like http://www.sway.fm/api
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by hugofirth 11y ago
Every time these kind of submissions come around, I feel it necessary to give a shoutout to Jamis Buck's great series of blog posts and examples on the topic: http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/ Part of my undergradua
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by hugofirth 11y ago
The original article by Frank McSherry, for info: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015... HN Comments on the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10
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Sorting vs. Scanning: X-Stream Authors Respond to Frank McSherry(github.com)
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by hugofirth 11y ago
This obviously comes down to personal preference but I personally prefer the explicit conversions for the added clarity.
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by hugofirth 11y ago
This is true - I love Scala for its hybrid nature. I'm just saying that I wish prominent members of its community would too. For example if you go on to the #scala IRC channel half the regulars on their will be complaining about how te
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by hugofirth 11y ago
I agree that when, in the process of learning Scala, you get beyond the "better Java" stage the interop can feel frustrating. On the other hand Scala gains so much from it. Its a huge net-positive IMHO. As long as you are only b
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by hugofirth 11y ago
Out of interest - are you talking about the use of symbolic operators? Or something else (like the prevalence of the Typeclass pattern)?
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by hugofirth 11y ago
One reason I would love to see this succeed which has almost nothing to do with the particulars of the Frege project itself is the effect it would have on the Scala community. There is a significant portion of the Scala community which desp
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by hugofirth 11y ago
This guy doesn't really understand what "All else being equal" implies. The phrase has a very specific meaning in statistics. Any one of us can think of counter-examples where a company which was late to a market ended up dom
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by hugofirth 11y ago
Any country can do it. It comes down to an issue of investor trust, which you only earn through a good track record.
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by hugofirth 11y ago
Haha - I hadn't even considered this. So yeah - the cost of childcare is largely not going to overlap with the cost of private education (where that private education includes accomodation of course).
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by hugofirth 11y ago
Absolutely! For a start 17 students each year are fully funded. Then there are 25 additional fully funded scholariship students are taken on at the beginning of the penultimate year (called 6th form year in the UK). Added to these are are l
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by hugofirth 11y ago
I should also chime in and say that even for people living in London and sending their children to private schools these estimates are very high. I was luck enough to go to Eton and honestly, for most parents it was a question of affording
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C Gibberish ↔ English(cdecl.ridiculousfish.com)
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The Morning paper: discussing interesting CompSci papers daily(blog.acolyer.org)
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by hugofirth 12y ago
It's been a while since I've done work in this area but you might want to lookup Lanzcos Algorithm [1]. [1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos_algorithm
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by hugofirth 12y ago
I think your question suggests an unfair representation of the request. A desire to hear both sides of the story is just that. The question would be just as valid in a opposite scenario.
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by hugofirth 12y ago
I'm genuinely shocked by this. I'm all for free market mechanisms but come on ... a system without strong employee protection must be naturally prone to abuse.
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by hugofirth 12y ago
There is lots of interesting information in this thread, with several references to a "Fire fast" culture becoming more common amongst tech companies. As a UK citizen, I have to ask: Are the employment laws a lot weaker in the US?
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by hugofirth 12y ago
Are you suggesting that parsing capability should be part of a languages standard library, or just that it is useful to have good open source libraries available for the purpose? Anecdotally, my experience with Scala's parser combinato
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by hugofirth 12y ago
I have to say - for parsers I really like the scala library parboiled2 ( http://git.io/xpg3 ). Its DSL for defining PEGs is very intuitive and should be easy to pick up for anyone. Its also supposed to be pretty performan
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by hugofirth 12y ago
Agreed - when I play with a language I normally like to building something like a simple Trie implementation to get a feel for the collections library. I guess a shell is a pretty good learning project though, as you can just expand its sco
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by hugofirth 12y ago
Huh - I was vaguely aware of the uproar about iPlayer in the early days, but I had no idea the BBC did peering agreements. This was fascinating, thank you :)
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by hugofirth 12y ago
Anecdotally, referring to things that are not typically viewed in a sexual light, as "sexy" (or not), is fairly common parlance. Like so many things, the meaning of the word has evolved with its common usage to become more context
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by hugofirth 12y ago
True - but in defence of OP's point, the UK has a competitive market for broadband service providers and there (for the most part) net neutrality is not an issue. So, anecdotally, solving problem 2 could minimize the effect of problem
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by hugofirth 12y ago
I would have thought game engines would require a strong grounding in maths across a lot of their "moving parts"? Not being dismissive, just curious how you found working in that environment without strong maths skills.
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by hugofirth 12y ago
Its not necessarily just about the quantity of data. What you want to do with the data (the queries you want to run) should play an important role in deciding your database. For example: a query workload with lots of deep traversals would
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by hugofirth 12y ago
tldrlegal.com is a really good resource
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by hugofirth 12y ago
Is there any word as to whether the functionality we see here will be coming to IDEA as a plugin (as is the case with other language specific IDEs Jetbrains produce)? If so and the word is positive, is there any indication of the kind of de

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