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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
Maybe I'm a special case, but once in a while I'm working on a local branch somewhere that doesn't have internet access, like on the subway. I feel this is directionally the same win as the offline capability of a VCS like Gi
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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
Wouldn't issues get merged in the same way code does -- with a merge request?
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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
This is more of a packaging problem. There are various ways to package python code with it's dependencies into a single executable. In any case, comparing a stdlib library to a 3rd party one is a bit apples to oranges. Most people firs
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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
Many institutions, such as university endowments or sovereign wealth funds, invest on these time scales. Example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-29/why-yale-... And as another commented, thes
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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
Manhattan can build higher to meet office space demand.
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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
I assume filing for bankruptcy means the lender gets to claim the medallion and sell it? That means losing potentially hundreds of thousands in payments already made, as well as the loss of any source of income. I think renting a medallion
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by jazzkingrt 7y ago
I don't think it's safe to assume that everyone is working on geenfield projects, where the performance requirements of the project are known at the outset. Work that increases the upper bound of Python's performance is valua
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by jazzkingrt 8y ago
That's called a cocktail! The process of brewing beer produces interesting flavors. Why not take advantage?
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by jazzkingrt 8y ago
What a great example! I'm realizing that perhaps the "second mover advantage" may be more pronounced in markets with low switching costs. Flyers can easily compare airline prices against one another, and drivers are incentivi
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by jazzkingrt 8y ago
Nice work! I like this bicycle analogy and believe we have a ways to go for improving programming environments. In a far less ambitious vane, I've been trying to integrate the pytest-watch plugin to get a tighter feedback loop about re
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by jazzkingrt 8y ago
It's fairly easy for well-intentioned mathematicians to make small mistakes in their reasearch that drasitically affect the outcome of a proof. The sorts of falsehoods discussed in this paper are a consequence of lying about the source
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by jazzkingrt 8y ago
This is amazing thank you.
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by jazzkingrt 9y ago
This was posted on HN recently and does a good job with your question: https://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipu...
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by jazzkingrt 9y ago
These are private market investments, so nobody is crunching any numbers for them and producing a valuation, they pay for this out of pocket. A small VC would lose with an "invest everywhere" strategy, each new investment grows su
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by jazzkingrt 9y ago
This post was helpful to me, as well as #4 of the same series: Event loop and the rise of Async programming I come from a native programming background, and whenever I worked on front-end javascript I always felt I didn't quite grasp w
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by jazzkingrt 9y ago
In my city low income people are technologically literate enough to have smartphones. The poor are excluded from traditional taxis as well, whereas at least ride-hailing can pool people together to lower prices. In the future we might see l