jgord

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by jgord 11y ago
upvote for Ramda, which I happily use everyday ( be it on server or front end)
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That really would be the rising tide that lifts all boats - trickle up from the bottom.
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The cost of saying "All Lives Matter" in response to "Black Lives Matter" is that you are seen to be ignoring the main issue. Its not that its wrong, its that its perhaps insensitive - a certain amount of empathy and sol
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I use the term 'slavery' because its descriptive, not because its literally true. I do understand that 711 shift workers don't have their feet cut off if they leave. When I say things like "we need a bit of Socialism rig
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by jgord 11y ago
yes - in order to say something that is true, I need to say something that is false. You'd be right to call me on it, and I'd have it no other way.
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PGs articles aren't wrong - but they are second order, when we need a first order response to a current evil [ before it leads to bloody revolution ] If you look at income distribution its a hockey stick - you really have to slap yours
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.. it may play out that the best defence is a good offense - ie. to hunt down and attack the attacker. I imagine there are a few thousand linode fans who'd be happy to help fight back.
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As a happy linode user, your update is much appreciated. I do feel a certain amount of loyalty to linode, as they've been an excellent service the past few years, and I see them battling to put out these fires. I'm hoping as linod
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.. awareness of the distinction seems absent from the article, and from a lot of popular articles I've read. My point is that it would help if this distinction permeated into the popular discourse on depression ... [ Awareness of the d
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by jgord 11y ago
Maybe its useful to discern between 'rational depression' and 'medical depression' .. by firstly labeling them as such ? I don't know how you'd differentiate between this formally, but it seems there is a massi
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The central idea seems so important, with so much benefit to education if it were true, that it would justify a large scale rigorous experiment [ just as a new kind of promising medicine would be trialed over a wide sample ] Maybe schooling
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yeah, it is a bit unwieldy.. hence A: mithril.js
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by jgord 11y ago
Dumb question from non-physicist - if the 'Standard Model' is a good theory, why don't we have a good idea of where to find particles [ ie. predict their mass and other properties ]? Is the problem that its just hard to compu
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by jgord 11y ago
I never jumped on the CoffeeScript bandwagon .. I know people love it, just not me. Hence unlikely I will try TypeScript. Despite all its glaring flaws, javascript is an insanely productive language due to excellent mix of features. To im
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by jgord 11y ago
..I feel the same way. I prefer creating dom with code syntax. You can replace JSX by hand-coding with React classes - take a look at the compiled jsx and mimic that. I find it as easy to work with, and less cognitive dissonance [ a person
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by jgord 11y ago
... I remember deleting ~500 C++ files .. they were all classes that differed by a constant, so I just passed in a parameter. Was not popular at all, they liked lots of files.
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by jgord 11y ago
I had a great session with my 12yo getting an animated ball bouncing around a box, programming it in javascript using the canvas api [ ~120 lines ]. He got collision detection working with some help. I have tried myself, with very limited
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by jgord 11y ago
interesting, and I hope they fund some outlier, less established forms of AI. For example, we may find that massive simulation yields more practical benefits in the medium term than stronger pure AI / ML, in some domains. By analogy wi
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by jgord 11y ago
..thanks, this thought anti-pattern has become a cultural virus - having a name helps combat it.
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I read the article - There is not a single bullet point I give a shit about, that isn't summarized by their share price. I look at the yahoo.com front page, I look at msn.com front page - they look similar and are both spam to a first
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by jgord 11y ago
my perception is - they dont love the internet. they are missing the whole "fuck you, were yahoo, were building the internet" chutzpah which was so charming, and for which we all have a little glowing candlewick in our hearts for
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by jgord 11y ago
Really interesting to see you had a similar use-case... [ you explain the approach much better than OP :]
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by jgord 11y ago
prewarm extension sounds interesting, Ill take a look.
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by jgord 11y ago
yeah.. I started with bullets as a draft, intending to expand into prose, but it seemed borderline readable, so I thought Id leave it as an exercise in blogging. awesome, thanks Thomas - Ill check out your blog too.
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by jgord 11y ago
You and others make a good case - my post was to summarize what I ended up doing, as an interesting hack / datapoint - not to slam postgres [ or Redis, or Lucene/solr, for that matter ] The main takeaway is really how fast SSDs ar
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by jgord 11y ago
..your right. The spirit of my hack was really just that - to apply the well known data structures and algos to solve a problem. Its unusual to want fast, large and cheap all together - if you really want to squeeze things you might look at
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by jgord 11y ago
.. I should give a fair and proper comparison to Lucene / Solr / Elasticsearch .. and indeed Sphinx - but haven't used these much. I guess I assumed the entry-point is a 2 to 4 node cluster ? But this may be my own wrong as
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I was aware, but definitely worth reiterating. My post should have a disclaimer - "unless you have several years using many sql and nosql datastores and some background in algorithms and data-structures - DONT DO THIS" My reason f
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by jgord 11y ago
I had a look at the obvious things, by no means exhaustive - but I hadn't heard of Sphinx, thanks for the suggestion.
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Web search 30M rows sub-second, cheaply(quantblog.wordpress.com)
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