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Introducing Racecar: A simple framework for writing Kafka consumers in Ruby(medium.com)
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by jdnier 9y ago
Some excerpts from his first book give a sense of the depth of his (Naoki's) internal experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhPKpte3E78
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How an autistic writer changed the way novelist David Mitchell sees his own son(cbc.ca)
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Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction(pnas.org)
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by jdnier 9y ago
Google Translate translates that (DE->EN) as "damage cucumber".
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Don't click that Google Docs link someone just shared with you–could be malware(sfgate.com)
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by jdnier 10y ago
Ugh, so I did. Here's the link: https://github.com/bringhurst/tlaplus/blob/master/examples/P...
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by jdnier 10y ago
Or if you're interested in the opposite of pseudocode, here's a TLA+ spec for Paxos. Related to yesterday's TLA+ video post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918648
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by jdnier 10y ago
As a kid collecting stamps, it was the stamps from Burundi that amazed me most for their color and imagery. What a contrast with these typewriter stamps!
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Film actor Michael York has become a spokesman of sorts for people with the disease. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/20/michael...
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AL (light chain) amyloidosis is a protein folding disease that causes an accumulation of amyloid protein in the organs, and is usually fatal. This green tea compound, EGCG, seems to transform light chain amyloid, "preventing the missha
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by jdnier 10y ago
No, it affects protein folding in light chain amyloidosis, which often accompanies MM, but is a disease in itself. “The ECGC pulled the light chain into a different type of aggregate that wasn’t toxic and didn’t form fibril structures,” as
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Physicists have found a metal that conducts electricity but not heat(sciencealert.com)
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Re-Frame: a Reagent Framework for Writing SPAs, in ClojureScript(github.com)
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Ben Johnston Hears the Notes Between the Notes(npr.org)
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'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber(cnn.com)
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There's also Stephen Hicks' winning 2008 ICFP programming contest entry, where he writes "a controller for a Mars rover" in TeX. http://sdh33b.blogspot.dk/2008/07/icfp-contest-2008.html Rapid P
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by jdnier 10y ago
"The affected database contained records for all faculty, staff and students who were employed by the university between 1970 and Nov. 13, and all students who attended the university between 1991 and 2016." I bristle a little at
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The Josephus Problem: Algebra meets a suicide squad(sciencealert.com)
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by jdnier 10y ago
The post mentions in passing David Beazley's curio[1] project. Is anyone using curio for async programming instead of asyncio? The curio docs are fun to read through and didn't leave me feeling lost. They're also full of unde
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by jdnier 10y ago
Here's a really interesting interview with the founder of Plover, Mirabai Knight, explaining how she got started and how efficient steno can be. "Steno is so ridiculously more efficient than typing every word out letter by letter
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Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck(nature.com)
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Leaked documents reveal secretive influence of corporate cash on politics(theguardian.com)
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STEM to Steam: How Coffee Is Perking Up Engineering Education(npr.org)
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For some great exposition on what "regular" actually means, check out http://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-... "Thus the question arises: Can regular expressions match on
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MicroPython: a journey from Kickstarter to Space(youtube.com)
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Build a simple File storage service using VueJS, Flask and RethinkDB(tutorials.pluralsight.com)
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Building a Data Pipeline with Airflow(tech.marksblogg.com)
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Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel(sciencedaily.com)
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Hmm... "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide b

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