jey

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by jey 14y ago
I have a logistical question: how/what do you eat?
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by jey 14y ago
If even rtm, tenured professor of computer science at MIT, can't escape from sysadmin duty, I really have no hope.
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by jey 14y ago
Good idea, maybe they should even set it up under a trust right now?
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by jey 14y ago
The idea is to fail in the direction of being safer than unsafe, if for example someone adds a database column and forgets to write "attr_protected" in the Rails code.
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by jey 14y ago
I doubt it's an issue of Python community vs Ruby community. Instantiating arbitrary objects is the sort of feature I'd expect an object serialization library to have, but not a document serialization library. Pickle is clearly an objec
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by jey 14y ago
It's partly a problem of optimizing metrics that are easy to measure, like ass-in-chair time.
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by jey 14y ago
Where does PayPal ask for an SSN? That doesn't sound right.
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by jey 14y ago
I think iOS doesn't allow normal programs to fork().
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by jey 14y ago
Tangential factoid: GNU libstdc++ has a parallel mode that includes parallel std::sort, http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/parallel_mode...
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by jey 14y ago
> did you know that thanks to a standards committee decision, erase by iterator in a typical C++ TR1 hash set or map is O(n) Weird, never heard of that. What is it about the iterator requirements that causes erase to be O(n)?
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by jey 14y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899
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by jey 14y ago
Interesting. Looks like it maps TeX directly to HTML, so it must support fewer constructs? Or what are the downsides? Being 10x faster and 10x smaller without any drawbacks seems too good to be true.
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by jey 14y ago
Read >100 times, or just clicked >100 times?
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by jey 14y ago
This is apparently something that's not Zurb's "Foundation". That was confusing.
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by jey 14y ago
I just use a hot key that launches a gvim instance...
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by jey 14y ago
Colin, how do you produce these lists? Do you tag and index every HN story or something?
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by jey 14y ago
As far as I know, GCC and Clang have the most complete C++11 implementations, and I use many C++11 features daily in GCC 4.7.2. (Planning to give Clang another whirl, but haven't gotten around to it yet.)
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by jey 14y ago
It's incorrect to treat "technological, scientific solutions" as a single entity. There's many entities performing science and creating technology, and some of them pay more attention to side-effects and long-term effects than others. Ultim
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by jey 14y ago
Online courses often require you to find and hire proctor locally meeting some criteria. For example, http://www.uis.edu/colrs/learning/gettingstarted/ProctoredEx...
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by jey 14y ago
Wow, that's even better than the University of Illinois at Springfield, which requires you to do 4 semesters of online courses.
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by jey 14y ago
The PATH stuff isn't even in the same ballpark. It only worked for specially-outfitted express lanes that had magnets embedded in the road.
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by jey 14y ago
Agreed. Maybe make it so women don't even have to send the first message, and instead just click an "I'm interested" button, which then notifies the guy so he can send a message if he wants. This addresses several problems: if women are goi
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by jey 14y ago
While this is a nice ad for their site with a novel take on online dating, its claims about other dating sites are pretty wrong. Every dating site sees its primary objective as not scaring away the women, and designs itself accordingly. The
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by jey 14y ago
using $a or $b for a throw-away script, but Perl uses these internally for sorting Everything I learn about Perl just makes me hate it more. But a lot of people seem to love it -- it must have some redeeming qualities, right?
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by jey 14y ago
Facebook is working on making that useless too by changing everyone's profiles to only list their @facebook.com address and redirecting all email from non-"friend"s to the bit bucket labeled "other" in Facebook's message center. Source: ht
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by jey 14y ago
If you're wondering how Google generates these Street View images from the individual photographs and approximate camera position/orientation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_adjustment http://lear.inrialpes.fr/pubs/2000
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by jey 14y ago
Can we just hurry up and address the real problem: California's constitution? We should just burn that flawed thing and start over. As I understand it, one of the major problems with California is that the reasonable-sounding idea that citi
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by jey 14y ago
Usually there's a few tiers of packages, with the first tier packages being extensively tested and maintained, and the second tier packages mostly just provided as a convenience. I believe Debian calls the first-tier "main" and the second-t
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by jey 14y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case. Here's Google's description of the scaling used: Numbers represent search volume relative to the highest point on the chart, which is always 100. Hover over any point to see the search volume at t
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by jey 14y ago
> My pet peeve, though, is leap-seconds. Life would be a lot easier if you could rely on days always having 86400 seconds. Is this sarcasm? The only time I've ever noticed leap seconds was the story about a bug in the Linux kernel's han

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