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by jamii 15y ago
$79 in the US. £89 (~$140) in the UK. That's far a far bigger markup than can be explained by import tax / VAT. Anyone know why we have to pay almost double?
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by jamii 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Nomadic, but I plan to spend the majority of this year in London. I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I've worked in search ( http://bit.ly/ji-texsearch-opt , https://github.com/jamii/texsearch ), test
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by jamii 15y ago
A lot of the new ticket vendors on Hipmunk only accept US cards. I would love to see an option to filter them out, it makes the slick Hipmunk UI totally pointless if I have to go through by hand and check which vendors are available for eac
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by jamii 15y ago
The facebook puzzles are pretty good, especially for graph algortihms.
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by jamii 15y ago
> Search is not easily distributable and will remain silo'ed up for a long time. Faroo seem to be doing a pretty good job, although their UI could do with some love.
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by jamii 15y ago
Shopping. Plenty of places in the UK have online shopping with home delivery but the interface is terrible. If they published an API someone could do a proper job of it. I would pay a fair bit of money for a weekly box of food with a list o
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The Rust Programming Language(dl.dropbox.com)
170 points by jamii 15y ago|79 comments
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Riak Pipe(github.com)
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by jamii 15y ago
For some reason this is the most common mistake I see from students: for i in range(0,n): if i % 3 == 0: print 'fizz' elif i % 5 == 0: print 'buzz' elif (i % 3 == 0) and (i % 5 == 0): print 'f
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by jamii 15y ago
> I'm hoping for a future where you get paid what you are worth and can travel around the world working from wherever you want. If you're a competent programmer, you're already living in that future. Remote work is pretty easy to get th
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by jamii 15y ago
I had to go back to T9 whilst travelling in the US (no pay as you go for smartphones) and even after 3 months I still struggle. My muscle memory is never going to be as good for T9 as it is for a keyboard, writing symbols is a pain in the a
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by jamii 15y ago
[Edited to be less confrontational, I don't want the tone to obscure the message] > ... also helps them see through the seemingly-meaningless boilerplate and social grease that we call people skills. 'Seemingly-meaningless' being the ke
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by jamii 15y ago
I had absolutely the same experience. Quitting caffeine entirely made me so much happier and healthier. I sleep better, I can concentrate more easily and I don't get irritable like I used to. I felt faster witted and more productive when
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by jamii 15y ago
Even more dramatic, a number of genetic studies suggest that hominids faced near extinction more than once eg http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=early-human... estimates a total population of around 50k.
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by jamii 15y ago
In your own code you can just wrap argument-less decorators in a function. def decorator(): return some_library.decorator_with_no_args @decorator()
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by jamii 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Nomadic - currently in LA, flying to SF next week. I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I've worked in search ( http://bit.ly/ji-texsearch-opt , https://github.com/jamii/texsearch ), testing ( http://b
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by jamii 15y ago
I can't imagine a more fulfilling place to work then the OLPC foundation. Its a shame they aren't hiring.
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by jamii 15y ago
> I'm sure lots of male devs would be more attracted by constructive rather than competitive language. I usually look for some measure of professionalism. There is nothing wrong with being passionate about your work but talk of ninjas a
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by jamii 15y ago
There is plenty of room for premium ISPs (such as bethere) as long as they aren't locked out by the cost of running cables. The pipe might be dumb but latency, bandwidth caps, traffic shaping, filtering and blocking/censoring all contribute
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by jamii 15y ago
Alternatively, send an sms to +1 (650) 763-8782 to talk to Eliza.
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Show HN: dial-a-stranger
2 points by jamii 15y ago|1 comments
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by jamii 15y ago
Thanks for mentioning Hetzner. The EQ4 is exactly what I've been looking for.
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by jamii 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Nomadic - currently in New Mexico and heading towards the west coast around mid-July. I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I've worked in search ( http://bit.ly/ji-texsearch-opt , https://github.com/jami
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by jamii 15y ago
Which comes back to the problems with the OPs argument. Sure, you can explain continuity in a few simple sentences but sooner or later you will start to hit corner cases and you find that those few simple sentences are really quite ambiguou
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by jamii 15y ago
The latest release supports workers written in any language. Disco comes with worker libraries for python and ocaml. http://discoproject.org/doc/howto/worker.html
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by jamii 15y ago
I just finished building a proof of concept with disco doing some simple analytics calculations on one machine. I did run into a couple of bugs ( http://groups.google.com/group/disco-dev/browse_thread/threa... ) and the documentation is awf
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by jamii 15y ago
This book is excellent - http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ . I have a whole working system based on the exercises in this book - https://github.com/jamii/tecs .
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by jamii 15y ago
I'm currently looking at tools for making distributed programming tractable. NesC is one I've been keeping an eye on, although it is targeting much more constrained systems than I am currently interested in. Here are a few more worth checki
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by jamii 15y ago
Indeed, haskell has a standard library function for this: bar z = foo z + baz z foo = undefined baz = undefined
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by jamii 15y ago
I suppose turning type errors into type warnings would satisfy both camps. That way you can experiment with incremental changes and then fix up the rest of the program when you are ready. Erlang + dialyzer works quite nicely like this.

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