jamii

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by jamii 16y ago
It worked pretty well for Jeremy Paxman.
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by jamii 16y ago
> Erlang is not really that fun or exciting to use It depends what you use it for. Its brilliant for infrastructure - software that has to live forever and survive no matter what gets thrown at it. It makes a lot of the hard problems go
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by jamii 16y ago
In both my last job (latexsearch.com) and my current job (smarkets.com) I've worked with couchdb in fairly large scale installations. I haven't experienced a single bug nor had any couchdb-related performance problems. It's pretty solid.
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by jamii 16y ago
The majority of the data for the smarkets.com betting exchange is stored in couchdb. Asynchronous calls and cache purges are handled by rabbitmq. The entire backend is written in erlang. This is far from a pet project. Online betting is a h
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by jamii 16y ago
One could choose to use it to excuse one's failings but that doesn't make the argument invalid. You have to understand your enemy. I know I am incredibly absent-minded. I've learnt through such reading that this is not a failing of willpowe
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by jamii 16y ago
http://smarkets.com/about/jobs/ http://smarkets.com/about/internships/
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by jamii 16y ago
When I was doing freelance work I worked for ~4 hours every day of the week. I got much more work done that way than doing 9-5 Mon-Fri even though I was working less hours in total. Its a much easier rhythm to get into and you get to skip t
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by jamii 16y ago
According to a biologist friend, the biggest challenge in working with genetically modified organisms is keeping them alive. Even in a sterile lab they generally end up getting exterminated by native organisms.
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by jamii 16y ago
Arimaa is a game that you can play with a chess set. Its designed to be easy to learn but hard for computers to play. There is an unclaimed cash prize for the first bot to win the annual open tournament. Google 'arimaa' to find the rules.
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by jamii 16y ago
The general lesson is that randomized algorithms often remove the need for synchronization between concurrent processes. For example, choosing ids at random from a large space rather than coordinating to choose unique ids.
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by jamii 16y ago
Cutting the brake lines leaves physical evidence of sabotage. Messing with the computers is a lot harder to spot. Do police even check for this sort of thing? Would they know how to?
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by jamii 16y ago
> Making time for documentation, automation, cross-training ... Inside an existing company I would totally agree with you. I'm not in any way advocating for the job-security hoarder of information. Being a freelancer, when I've been pre
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by jamii 16y ago
I'm aware of that. My point was that rather than just look at the potential problems it should be viewed as a tradeoff. Hiring a larger group of people is less risky but will cost you more.
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by jamii 16y ago
> "What happens if you get hit by a bus?" Put it this way: by hiring an unneeded developer you are betting circa $100k a year that you will be hit by a bus. From that point of view it seems like a losing bet.
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by jamii 16y ago
Also check out Nitrogen which is an interesting approach to the problem: http://nitrogenproject.com/
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by jamii 17y ago
Ocaml has ocamljs and orpc: http://code.google.com/p/ocamljs/ Haskell has a couple of haskell->js compilers but I'm not aware of any rpc mechanisms. Clojure has clojurescipt: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/tree/master/c
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by jamii 17y ago
> BBC has government funding ... I think the state controlling a big media institution is terrible The BBC is independent of the government and the vast majority of its funding comes directly from the British public. From wikipedia: Acc
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by jamii 17y ago
> Ask yourself this: do you like the BBC because it supports things you already believe? Whilst I appreciate that this is a useful exercise to consider, if he was watching the BBC solely to affirm his own beliefs he would hardly be watc
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by jamii 17y ago
I like the chrome approach of including experimental features in stable builds but requiring a command line switch to turn them on. It makes it much easier to try out new features without making people expect future compatibility.
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by jamii 17y ago
> A fairly cliche example of this ... A more practical example is http://ocsigen.org/docu/1.3.0/XHTML.M.html The html type in Ocsigen is only capable of representing valid XHTML. Polymorphic variants are really useful for this sort of
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by jamii 17y ago
You don't have to be nice to others to survive as a species, you just have to avoid genociding your own. Humans have managed not to nuke each other yet but we are mostly a predatory species and, with a few exceptions, have very little respe
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by jamii 17y ago
Personality flaws aside, would you choose to hire someone if you knew they were going to move on in 12-24 months or is it an automatic no?
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by jamii 17y ago
Alternatively, the scalper sells half the tickets and makes a 50% profit overall. The concert sits half-empty and thousands of fans miss out unnecessarily.
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by jamii 17y ago
Detexify is also available as an android app. Much easier to draw on a touchscreen than with a mouse.
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by jamii 17y ago
Woo. I wrote the backend for this. See the comments on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/bu580/springers_new_la...
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by jamii 17y ago
Some of Alistair Reynolds' books feature Neotonic Infantry - genetically engineered super-soldiers that look like children. They take up less space, eat less and being forced to kill a small child causes serious psychological damage to the
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by jamii 17y ago
Datalog is more or less equivalent to SQL with recursion. I don't know of any serious, database-backed implementations but there are a lot of in-memory implementations and some interesting extensions for distributed databases. http://en.w
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by jamii 17y ago
> It's hard to even recommend desktops to users unless they're heavy gamers or dealing with hardcore media editing. Even for gaming, my current laptop can handle everything I've thrown at it at the highest settings and I can take it t
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by jamii 17y ago
I eventually found http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/ This is exactly what I was after - step by step instructions, decisions made for me, gotchas explained. I highly recommend it for anyone else in the same position.
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by jamii 17y ago
> the entire race is becoming more and more homogenized Not necessarily. Improved communications do increase the mixing rate of different cultures but they also allow subcultures to form more easily. Just walking down the street this we

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