jared314

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by jared314 12y ago
> He shorted the ever living crap out of the stock, broke the news, and won big. Wait, I thought shorting meant he effectively sold shares to some other, unfortunate, investor. It sounds like he participated in a pump and dump scheme&#x2
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by jared314 12y ago
> Could "sterile" water be potentially dangerous then? "Sterile" is like Absolute Zero (0 Kelvin). A better question is: What is the effective minimum concentration, and how do you get below that?
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by jared314 12y ago
This solves a security issue I had with ClojureScript. Because of the whole-program compilation, you couldn't completely remove the JS a user was not allowed to access. While you could still secure the external resources (server), it w
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by jared314 12y ago
> had a lot of very similar patterns with my Angular code I had the same "weird terminology" and "thought stopping" reaction to Angular's, Ember's, and Meteor's architectural terminology. I know they&#x
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by jared314 12y ago
> One can suck at, or dislike kickball and shine somewhere else. The lack of social acceptance, in this context, is related to the desire to play and not being accepted, more than the success at playing. The fact that you are in the the
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by jared314 12y ago
Is there a tag for "junior level job that accepts experienced devs looking to switch stacks by working nights or weekends on something they can put on their resume"? Because, that would be very cool.
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by jared314 12y ago
StackExchange is pretty open with their hardware metrics. The StackExchange performance site: https://stackexchange.com/performance
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by jared314 12y ago
Being picked last in playground kickball hurts. That doesn't change when you trade a playground for an office. Social acceptance is a human need, like thirst, hunger, and safety. People will kill for acceptance.
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by jared314 12y ago
Just add it to one of the many HN browser extensions. The tough part is correlating the different urls and titles while filtering out the irrelevant comments from past discussions. I don't just want to know that this is an old story (I
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by jared314 12y ago
More Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767410 (1054 days ago)
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by jared314 12y ago
> you would have to add schema attributes for every event property AND the logical aggregate properties. In that case, you can serialize the hash-map with the fressian serializer (the one Datamic uses internally) and store it in an attri
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by jared314 12y ago
I believe you misunderstand my comments. A Datomic transaction is also an entity, with associated facts about that transaction. You can add custom facts, such as your application's domain event, directly to the transaction entity to fu
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by jared314 12y ago
> Every single attribute in the event gets indexed at least 3 times and it grew out of a manageable scale really quickly. Ok, so it was a technical issue. I assume you attempted to change the indexing. The technical reasoning did not com
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by jared314 12y ago
> Adding transactions that just have events attached to them isn't a particularly useful aggregate to query. I still don't understand. The transaction log, in datomic, can be queried as easily as you would query the rest of the
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by jared314 12y ago
I was under the impression that Datomic alone could handle everything involved with an eventstore, just by adding the domain event as an attribute on the "transaction" (because transactions themselves are also entities). I don&#x2
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by jared314 12y ago
Interaction. There is something different / powerful about being able to ask, express, and share knowledge with the person streaming. Something far more innate. You can see this in how the successful streamers all have microphones and
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by jared314 12y ago
There was an effort, in 2012, to create a generalized TCO in Clojure using CPS and trampolining. I don't remember why it wasn't fully pursued, but the JVM team is now talking about eventually fixing the core issue behind not suppo
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by jared314 12y ago
Blow is also attempting to build a programming language [1], based on his experience in game development. While I don't agree with his direction, so far, watching the process is very interesting. The next Jai demo was announced for Feb
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by jared314 12y ago
Does it do Pandora-style recommendations like Jinni [1]? I only see popular and new titles. [1] http://www.jinni.com/
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by jared314 12y ago
I always thought the "Desert of Despair" was the point at which you should find a mentor with professional experience, instead of waiting for the "Upswing of Awesome".
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by jared314 12y ago
GDC 2013 Myst Postmortem: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018048/Classic-Game-Postmortem Their Hypercard experience is at the 38 minute mark.
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by jared314 12y ago
> because notation and nomenclature changes over time. That is why there are desires to standardize Physics notation [1]. It would be nice if a newer field, such as CS, could learn from those mistakes early. [1] https://news.y
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by jared314 12y ago
Links to the actual study: Abstract: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/07/1417731112.abst... Text: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/07/14177
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by jared314 12y ago
> Why not just link it to http://littleosbook.github.io/ - To get around the previous-submission url filter. The url you mentioned was posted several hours before this submission, by a different user. http://h
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by jared314 12y ago
> and it's replaced both a gym and a trainer for me In that case, the gym and trainer were not actually necessary in the first place. Below a specific level of fitness, it doesn't matter what exercise you do. There are safer an
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by jared314 12y ago
> which weighs the same no matter how many books are on it Fun fact: a fully loaded kindle weighs more than an empty kindle, by about 10^-18 grams. So, at a maximum of 50mb per book, each book would come in below 12.5 zeptograms (normall
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by jared314 12y ago
> This problem should probably be addressed before we create a problem that we can't solve. That still leaves the nasty issue of what to do with the large number of people who have contracted a highly contagious and drug-resistant &
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by jared314 12y ago
> it's the write once run anywhere that's been promised so many times. It has yet to even obtain Java-level "write once, debug everywhere". Most of the people talking about "isomorphic JS" and "JS is ev
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by jared314 12y ago
Mixing a progression though programming language/machine/tooling history and nand2tetris, and perhaps a companion tetris2nand [1], would make for an amazing foundation for future programmers. You would just have to make sure the h
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by jared314 12y ago
> The explosion in tools that do somewhat similar things makes me feel like we're doing the wrong thing as a community. Yes. And, that thing is forgetting to teach history to people. There was a story a few days ago about a father p

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