jamii

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811.
by jamii 16y ago
I don't have as much spare time as some, so I automated it: http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1274/311469/319933
812.
by jamii 16y ago
Well, its certainly more fair than giving puzzle/coding questions during an interview. This way you are under no pressure and can work on your own machine in your own time.
813.
by jamii 16y ago
> I'm guessing those rates only apply for south-east asia and south america and maybe some rural locations in Europe or eastern europe. For western european hostels budget about 16 euros per day. It used to be closer to 8 but the supply
814.
by jamii 16y ago
A couple of favourites: "I'm not a computer guy,” they'll say with a big smile on their face. Well gee, the personal computer is only the most significant invention to come along in the past 100 years. You'd think one might be mildly curiou
815.
by jamii 16y ago
In the forest of dean the boars have become a pest. They rip up tents and steal food.
816.
by jamii 16y ago
Slightly OT: I would love to see games designed to be scripted by the users. It would be fascinating to see the kinds of strategies and user interfaces that would evolve. RTS user interfaces haven't changed significantly in the last couple
817.
by jamii 16y ago
Where is DupDetector when you need him?
818.
by jamii 16y ago
So what you are saying is you would like a law to prevent talented engineers from competing with you because they work harder and demand less money? The world is opening up and you have to face up to how privileged you have been so far. If
819.
by jamii 16y ago
Absolutely. Android is really popular in Korea, a Korean-English pack would make a killing with all the english students and expats.
820.
by jamii 16y ago
> just to keep it off the Android platform Oh god, I hadn't thought of that. I just naturally assumed this would be coming to Android soon.
821.
by jamii 16y ago
Absolutely. I travel pretty much nonstop and I would pay dearly to be able to translate signs on arrival into a new country. Things like 'ATM' and 'Toilet' are crucial.
822.
by jamii 16y ago
When I lived in London there was an outdoor pool on the route to the office. The exercise and the sunlight helped me wake up and I had a choice of 20 or so places to grab breakfast on the way. Nowadays I run in the mornings but its not the
823.
by jamii 16y ago
The guys behind arXiv have some interesting thoughts on the subject: http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/blurb/pg02pr.html
824.
by jamii 16y ago
This paper presents an optional type system where type errors can only occur in the untyped sections: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/blame/blame-sche...
825.
by jamii 16y ago
Because the british rail system is one of the oldest in the world. Whether through mismanagement or misfortune it has never been able to afford the lump sums to significantly improve its infrastructure and is left with the more expensive (i
826.
by jamii 16y ago
Blogspam. Original article: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
827.
by jamii 16y ago
I wish OkCupid could get their hands on LinkedIn's data. Then we might learn something useful.
828.
by jamii 16y ago
Except for short scripts I generally start programming by figuring out what the data will look like. In a strongly typed language I have a built in language for describing my data. Of course the data structures change as the program evolves
829.
by jamii 16y ago
This is a fascinating historical perspective on the problem. I think the people who complain about the internet reducing attention span and memory are missing the point. Our intelligence is not reduced, just more and more distributed outsid
830.
by jamii 16y ago
More detail: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.64....
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DSL implementation in MetaOCaml, Template Haskell, and C++ [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
1 points by jamii 16y ago|0 comments
832.
Combining static model checking with dynamic enforcement [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
1 points by jamii 16y ago|0 comments
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Opis: Reliable Distributed Systems in OCaml [pdf](perso.eleves.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr)
1 points by jamii 16y ago|0 comments
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Deens: 2x faster than BIND, 25x less code [pdf](os.inf.tu-dresden.de)
14 points by jamii 16y ago|14 comments
835.
by jamii 16y ago
> Some people like their solitude and are probably happy that alternate means to communicate empower them to enjoy more of it. It's not just communication but the ability to easily keep track of where people are in the world and to coor
836.
by jamii 16y ago
> Do you really want to be traveling all the time? Personally, yes. I'm aware that this is unusual. Maybe I will settle down one day but the few times I have tried so far I have experienced what I can only describe as cabin fever. >
837.
by jamii 16y ago
> you need to know Javascript You need to know javascript. There are a lot of industries where you can live without it. It certainly doesn't make it onto my top three.
838.
by jamii 16y ago
OneSwarm has an interesting approach to that problem, using short hop onion routing when sharing data with unknown nodes. Tribler promotes seeding by gossiping upload/download totals between peers and is experimenting with various methods o
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by jamii 16y ago
Bigger databases, proactive distribution of torrents and similarity based clustering of users. Tribler is too small as yet to know if it will work but it certainly looks like an improvement on gnutella.
840.
by jamii 16y ago
I've used it a couple of times. Their streaming video is pretty useless most of the time but downloading stuff and watching it offline works fine. I can't tell how well the search works - there are only a few thousand active users so its li

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