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by jboy 11y ago
Here in Sydney, Australia, the term "halvie" seems to be relatively common amongst those who discuss such things. It's not considered derogatory or offensive; at worst, slightly unsubtle or socially inept (like any labelling
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by jboy 11y ago
If a company has a significant amount of existing code in Python, no sensible engineering manager will agree to a complete re-write of the existing code-base. It would divert resources from more-pressing functionality (new features, bugfix
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by jboy 11y ago
Hi yes, I'm a Nim community member who's working on that. A simple version already exists and works (for Python primitive types and Numpy arrays, via the Python C-API), but it's embedded in my company's proprietary Pytho
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by jboy 12y ago
What sort of "graphics" are you looking for? I generally use Numpy NDarrays and Scipy's NDimage functions for graphics & image processing in Python. Aside from the NDarray data-structure itself, there's almost no O-
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by jboy 12y ago
Please elaborate.
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by jboy 12y ago
I don't think that I'm putting words in his mouth. He's become famous recently for beating the "Monopoly good, competition bad" drum, but he's never really laid out a path to get to monopoly (other than "
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by jboy 12y ago
OK, so it's obviously a little transparent of Thiel to say that Uber [a competitor to Lyft, a company in which he has invested] is "on the cusp" of going too far, but Airbnb [another company in which he has invested] has &quo
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by jboy 12y ago
Can you elaborate on the difference between finding references (in GLOBAL) and finding callers/callees (in cscope)? The cscope caller/callee search is apparently still just text search in the code (rather than unambiguous call-gra
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by jboy 12y ago
For me, the most useful information was the "Comparison with Similar Tools" table (in the OpenGrok project wiki), which was linked-to from the GNU GLOBAL page: https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok/wiki&#x
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by jboy 12y ago
Yeah, the Chris Dixon analogy piqued my interest too. I've thought about it a bit, and I've identified two useful ways to generalise UNIX commands to web businesses: 1. Take a command that would run over files on a filesystem, an
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by jboy 12y ago
OK, you make a fair point. :) The difference between one-vote-per-person and a vote proportional to the amount of money you are willing to risk, is a significant one. So I suppose Thinkable is halfway between the plutocratic and democratic
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by jboy 12y ago
The Dating Agency model discussed by the author is interesting, and I'm impressed that he went to the effort of discussing the idea with ethicists, lawyers and entrepreneurs (and of course, scientists). > Every year, an untold numb
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by jboy 12y ago
I have to disagree with your conclusion for several reasons: 1. Living longer doesn't mean your standard of living will rise. Even if you work longer, you will not necessarily accumulate significantly (or perhaps even any) more wealth
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by jboy 12y ago
SIFT and SURF are both patented in the US. SIFT: http://www.google.com/patents/US6711293 SURF: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=... More info: http://opencv-u
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Project 6014: A Fan-made Sequel to Star Control 2: The Ur Quan Masters(youtube.com)
2 points by jboy 12y ago|0 comments
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by jboy 12y ago
The sensationalist assertions made in this article (particularly in the headline) don't follow from the results that the article describes. Part of the blame for this sensationalism seems to fall at the feet of the original scientist h
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Clinkle: A 21-Year-Old Stanford Kid Got $30 Million, Then Everything Blew Up(businessinsider.com.au)
10 points by jboy 12y ago|2 comments
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by jboy 13y ago
It might be worth waiting a month or two to see what it's like, and then running this poll again at the end of that trial period. I think that many people (myself included) would feel more relaxed about the change if there were a commi
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To animals, power lines look like glowing, sparking flashes of UV light(pbs.org)
3 points by jboy 13y ago|0 comments
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by jboy 13y ago
Start-ups have been hot-housing like this for years. I have friends who went through YC who did it. PG even suggested in one of his essays "Ever notice how much easier it is to hack at home than at work? So why not make work more lik
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by jboy 13y ago
Your mention of sexism in the technology industry suggests to me that you interpreted my comment as men slut-shaming women. I agree that sexism in the technology industry is an important and sensitive issue. My comment wasn't intended
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by jboy 13y ago
Many of the comments in this thread are depressingly similar to same-sex slut-shaming. "I can't or don't want to do that, so I don't think you should be allowed to do that either. I'm going to judge you and speak b
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by jboy 13y ago
This is an excellent answer, and (in my opinion, at least) really gets to the heart of the matter. I'm not unduly obsessed with classes or design patterns in object-oriented languages, but to me the key benefit of functions, classes an
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The "irony mark" and the 1881 origin of emoticons(brainpickings.org)
1 points by jboy 13y ago|0 comments
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by jboy 13y ago
It would seem that the two main incumbents in this market (founded in 2005 and 1998, respectively) are getting nervous about Freelancer.com's (founded in 2009) rapid growth (predicting ~73% in 2013) and recent IPO [1]. [1] http:/
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by jboy 13y ago
> You should be worried then, because this data is routinely shared with the NSA, seems to be collected under the remit of a joint program Exactly. Snowden says "If you send a data packet and if [sic] makes its way through the UK
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by jboy 13y ago
To me, much more concerning is Snowden's revelation that the British intelligence program 'Tempora' "saves everything": "Tempora is the first 'I save everything' approach ('full take') in th
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US army blocks access to Guardian website reports about US govt surveillance(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by jboy 13y ago|0 comments
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by jboy 13y ago
I think it would be an exceedingly interesting project to define a Pythonic syntax for Rust, then implement a Cfront-like frontend to translate Pythonic-Rust to brace-and-semicolon Rust before compiling it. (The Rust language spec is gradu
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by jboy 13y ago
To me, one of the most interesting design decisions of Rust is that the creators strongly try to avoid inventing new language features. Instead, they attempt to find the best combination of tried-and-true existing features from a variety o

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