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by ishi 8y ago
That's exactly the point she's trying to make - they don't get wasted, only re-purposed.
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by ishi 8y ago
There is no doubt that smoking can cause lung cancer. "Smoking is by far the biggest preventable cause of cancer. Thanks to years of research, the links between smoking and cancer are now very clear. Smoking accounts for more than 1 in
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by ishi 8y ago
This could be a good question for interviews. A good candidate should be able to come up with several solutions for implementing strings, and explain the pros and cons of each solution.
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by ishi 8y ago
I agree, but using a front-end framework does not mean you must build your entire app as an SPA. You can still have separate pages, and UI components on each page get handled by your framework of choice. Also, there's a big difference
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by ishi 8y ago
That's pretty cool! I've never seen a programming language that accepts ASCII art as valid code.
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by ishi 8y ago
Levenshtein distance, a dynamic programming algorithm for determining the edit distance between two sequences - the number of insertions, deletions or substitutions required to convert one sequence to the other. https://en.wikipe
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by ishi 8y ago
What makes you say that innovation is slowing down across the globe?
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by ishi 8y ago
But the heat would boil them, returning the planet to sterility.
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by ishi 8y ago
I assume that in the real world you grow your own food, generate your own electricity, dig up your own wells for water, and knit your own clothes? Companies have to rely on other companies for critical services, just like we do in the real
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by ishi 8y ago
`extractall` does mitigate directory traversal. Looking at the source code, both `extract` and `extractall` call `_extract_member` which sanitizes the file paths. See https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.6
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by ishi 8y ago
A real life example - client discovers that users cannot actually get into the system. Contractor says: "Ah, you wanted a login screen? This wasn't in the specs! You need to pay me more to implement a login screen."
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by ishi 8y ago
There's no question that Krav Maga is effective, but whether or not it teaches you to solve conflicts non-violently depends very much on the teacher. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And if all you know is how
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by ishi 8y ago
Perhaps you should try a different teacher. I know guys who started training in their 50s and 60s, so it's entirely possible if you pace yourself, and not exceed the current limits of your body. Little by little, these limits get stret
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by ishi 8y ago
One of the ideas behind Aikido is to not get in a fight in the first place. In real-life scenarios, it is often very possible to de-escalate a situation and prevent it from deteriorating into violence. Over time, practicing Aikido lets you
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by ishi 8y ago
Can you elaborate a bit about the servers you used (hardware, cluster size, etc.)?
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by ishi 9y ago
Here's an very clear article talking about this problem in general as well as specifically in Israel, where housing prices have more than doubled in the past decade: https://www.timesofisrael.com/do-israels-ghost-apartm
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by ishi 9y ago
This reminds me of the semi-relevant story about the first translation of "The Hobbit" to Hebrew: four fighter pilots who were POWs in Egypt from 1970 to 1973 decided to translate the book so that their non-English-speaking friend
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by ishi 9y ago
A few years ago I was involved with a startup that built a document management system for consumers, and we actually got pretty good results with OCR + automatic tagging based on a very simple database that maps keywords to tags. Let's
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by ishi 9y ago
This is fantastic! I tried it in Thunderbird and it works great. Just keep in mind that math formulas are sent to be rendered via Google Charts - so don't use this to generate your super-secret cold fusion equations... (as if sending
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by ishi 9y ago
You left out the rest, which is even cringier: ...Andrew can literally always be found working or writing. By banging his head repeatedly against the walls that are un-transparent advertising and unsustainable food, he plans to topple them
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by ishi 9y ago
The article mentions "Harrat Haybar", which can be found on Google maps. After some looking around in that area, you can find some interesting ground markings: https://www.google.co.il/maps/place/Harrat+K
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by ishi 9y ago
Perhaps freedoms will be taken by force by the Saudi citizens... when the petrol money runs out, the economic situation will worsen while the ability of the ruling elite to use money to keep the regime's stability will be greatly reduc
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by ishi 9y ago
Cool, I knew that LFSRs were used in ciphers. I was not aware that they were also useful for implementing old-school graphical effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register...
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by ishi 9y ago
It's databases all the way down...
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by ishi 9y ago
My experience is that it's difficult to stay productive at home, since there are too many temptations luring you away from work. And when the kids come back from school, it becomes nearly impossible to do anything useful. This funny pi
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by ishi 9y ago
INFINIDAT | multiple openings | Herzliya Israel | ONSITE | http://hiring.infinidat.com/ INFINIDAT was founded in 2011 by a team of storage industry experts focused on helping customers to eliminate compromises between cost,
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by ishi 9y ago
I agree that if your server is just serving a JSON API, you're probably not using 90% of Django's capabilities. So you might as well use Flask instead. But as for non-relational databases or other external systems, Django does not
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by ishi 9y ago
To paraphrase: "Whoever does not know Django, is doomed to reinvent it". You can use Django with its "batteries included" philosophy. Or you can use Flask and start adding in lots of extra libraries (which may or may not
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Impressive image classification demo from Clarifai(demo.clarifai.com)
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by ishi 9y ago
Some would argue that Israel has "the hottest startup culture outside the US". There are 96 Israeli companies listed in NASDAQ, and only 12 Indian ones. http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-region.aspx

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