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by jfim 11y ago
Both architectures are indeed similar. The distinction between PQL and JSON is mostly a client issue, as you could have a client that converts a hypothetical Druid query language to JSON. Pinot does use Helix, as it's been used success
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by jfim 11y ago
The linked article is from August 1982.
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by jfim 12y ago
> My example above may also be convoluted but I'm sure others could imagine a future where the majority of searches come from another mechanism besides typing words into a little box on a webpage. Google is definitely aware of it. F
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by jfim 12y ago
California passed a law about that I believe. An excerpt from this [1]: Section 2802 of the California Labor Code requires employers to reimburse employees for expenses “necessarily incurred” with the stated purpose of “prevent[ing] employe
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by jfim 12y ago
Note that most of the road signs in Quebec have no text [1], similar to the ones in the rest of Canada (and unlike the ones in the US, which use a lot more text). Notable exceptions to those are construction and information signs, respectiv
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by jfim 12y ago
I don't know how the data is obtained, but it's probably more likely that the driver is tipped but the actual tip amount is unreported than the actual tip amount being zero.
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by jfim 12y ago
It turns into a rant about how he'd wish the compiler and the editor and the source control should be all talking with one another. It's funny, because there's actually a language just like that: Smalltalk. The development en
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by jfim 12y ago
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) essentially refers to various algorithms to determine egomotion (how much a robot moves in an environment) using sensors, while building a map at the same time. Essentially, at each time step, th
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by jfim 12y ago
This dataset often has typos and other mistakes. If you consider the other salaries for that company, it's likely there's just an extra zero at the end.
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by jfim 12y ago
It really depends what is meant by heavy rain. Heavy enough rain, snow or fog has zero visibility (significantly less than 100m), in which the only option is to stop the car on the shoulder and wait until the weather conditions improve.
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by jfim 12y ago
I don't think adding the integration would be hard. For example, the Montreal bike system (and other Bixi deployments) has all the information you'd need to add the integration, including the lat/lon of all stations and their
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by jfim 12y ago
It's a synthetic number. From the article: "We don't disclose exactly what we pay for transit, but I can give you a relative sense of regional differences. To start, let's assume as a benchmark in North America you'
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by jfim 12y ago
Note that tax brackets have significantly lower bounds than in the US. For example, an individual making 90k here (Quebec) would be have an income tax rate of about 50%, on top of a 15% sales tax. This is likely to be significantly lower in
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by jfim 12y ago
Wolfram Alpha actually has climate data ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=montreal+climate for example), if you're interested in the temperature distribution. As for surviving winter, the Scandinavians have a
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by jfim 13y ago
The US and Canada do not really have the same language demographics. 56% of Canada speaks English as a native language, 21% speaks French and Spanish clocks in at 1.2%; in contrast, the US has 80% English, 12.4% Spanish and 0.45% French.
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by jfim 13y ago
True, but they would simply assign them different two letter TLDs. For example, compare Montenegro (.me), Macao (.mo), Mongolia (.mn), Malta (.mt), Madagascar (.mg), Mauritania (.mr), etc. I can understand how it would be frustrating, thoug
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by jfim 13y ago
Two character ones are for countries, though. What would you do if a private entity owns ".op" and a hypothetical country of Opzerkistan declares independence? As for domain hacks, I think many laypeople just enter "something
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by jfim 13y ago
It really depends what you mean by designing UML diagrams. From my personal perspective, UML is mostly a communication language, so that certain abstract concepts (class structures and hierarchies, message passing sequences, etc.) can be co
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by jfim 13y ago
A MacBook Air that probably cost less than the 1995$ price of the "base PC."
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by jfim 13y ago
scalac -Ybrowse:typer Foo.scala still works on 2.10.3. It's also pretty convenient when writing macros, not only for compiler plugin developers.
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by jfim 13y ago
The IM case can be done without JS, actually, using chunked encoding [1]. This is similar to the MIME multipart/x-mixed-replace technique [2] that was used for "streaming" webcams in the late 90s. [1] http://en.wik
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by jfim 13y ago
It's not only those three languages. From the rules[1]: Programming languages that are currently available for selection are C, C# / Mono, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go. At the moment, d
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by jfim 13y ago
From organizing past events, it's much easier to just do it and have it flop (nobody's going to notice it if it does) than try looking if there's interest or not. Ask your target venue if you can do it, make sure it has some
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by jfim 13y ago
Seems pretty cool, and it'll definitely be interesting to see what people will do with it. However, some parts of this (introspection and modification of ASTs) are already possible in other languages, such as Scala (through the present
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by jfim 13y ago
Does Helvetica come as part of iOS?
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by jfim 13y ago
They don't take height into account, for example, which has been shown to have an influence on wages [1]. They also cluster region in broad regions (page 37), even though there is a large variation in wages within the same region. Also
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by jfim 13y ago
For those who did not get the reference, Valve paid out 400K$ in the first week of 2014 [1] to item creators for Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2, which are purely cosmetic video game items ("hats") [2]. [1] http://steamdb.in
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by jfim 13y ago
I don't think this particular bit was in Doom, but there was the fast inverse square root trick[1] that is only a couple lines of code, yet has a very lengthy explanation that requires both knowledge of math and floating point represen
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by jfim 13y ago
Mame has support for later arcade machines, which have CD-ROM drives and hard drives.
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by jfim 13y ago
Are you doing "sbt idea" or "play idea?" From what I recall, "sbt idea" was broken, while doing it using the play launcher works, as they have some broken dependencies.

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