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by jgord 9y ago
I think ETH is being pulled down by association with BTC, in the minds of investors. Bitcoin growth is being stifled by those who will do anything to prevent an increase of blocksize, up from 1MB. We could turn 4MB max blocksize on next we
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by jgord 9y ago
Partly this is a meme diffusion problem - eg. we have really good diagrams that explain visually why Pythagoras' theorem holds ... yet students often don't see these more intuitive forms. Another example is the Feynman Video Lect
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by jgord 9y ago
my bad.. just found about plv8, and will experiment with it and jsonb on future projects. [ pg installs I work with are invariably running on linux, so all good. ]
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by jgord 9y ago
Id love postgres even more if they had native support for writing stored procs [ functions ] in javascript.
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by jgord 10y ago
Wider HN community could probably have rounded up 36M to keep DA being DA.
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AUS startups need to Recycle talent, more(quantblog.wordpress.com)
1 points by jgord 10y ago|0 comments
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by jgord 10y ago
How the hell do we get the money out of politics and the democracy back in ? The DNC also seems almost in a stalemate due to this cancer - under the survival pressure they evolved into a fundraising outfit beholden to big money, and they ha
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by jgord 10y ago
The _real_ problem is psychological - "managers" feel the need to control "workers" by physical monitoring. I suspect 80% of all office work could be done remotely. We need a cute psychological trick like "daylight
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by jgord 10y ago
Perhaps offer tiered packages of sponsorship for companies to advertise at OctaveConf ? eg. A special thankyou to our Gold sponsor XYZ Corp who donated 10k to support Octave core developers and this conference. etc.
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by jgord 10y ago
alternative anecdota : I rewrote a backend that was using mongo, moved it to postgresql+postgis. Solved an ever-expanding RAM issue and is still blindingly fast [ on SSD hosting ] The main win was not server stability, it was having genera
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by jgord 10y ago
Now that Apple has all power and wealth, they arrogantly push an api nobody wants, resulting in man-centuries of wasted effort and frustration .. instead of listening to their users [ in this case developers ] We have seen this before - for
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by jgord 10y ago
This will help, but isnt the real issue .. which is that the main qualifier for high office is having immense wealth. The measure of wealth in and of itself selects for people without the depth of experience in fields other than personal-we
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by jgord 10y ago
I wonder about the low-tech use case of : writing on this wb surface on laptop, then re-covering with clear plastic to make it semi-permanent [ preventing wipe off with handling / slipcase / backpack ] Does the original peel-off w
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by jgord 10y ago
I wonder if there are stats on how many hours per year students at public schools spend lining up or waiting in line. Can we measure the impacts of 'disobedience' - what is the penalty at various levels of school for refusing to
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by jgord 10y ago
Agree Vue and mobx look promising ... I would say Ramda.js is most deserving of much wider adoption.
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by jgord 10y ago
retry : Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence, here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negl...
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by jgord 10y ago
They should just keep going, and other countries join them - but don't do it as a bargaining tool, actually kill the company. Its basically a scam, and its holding back scientific progress.
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by jgord 10y ago
Its very noisy to read these 'blip' articles, rather like following the stock ticker blow by blow ... Its wonderful that we see these interesting reports every week, but as a non-specialist you never how it will impact human longe
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by jgord 10y ago
Maybe your actual IQ was varying, and the tests were accurate enough to show that ? We should consider the real possibility that both a) IQ tests are a reasonably good proxy for general intelligence AND b) preparation by training on problem
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by jgord 10y ago
Nooo.. it just needs a proper formal grammar adopted, that captures the best of the common variants. Then people can extend their tools to use that single variant and standard parser/grammar. Most [good] languages were implemented firs
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by jgord 10y ago
Disagree, not because it isn't a good idea right now, but : a) we should not abandon the general rules, unless under the most exceptional circumstances [ ie. unless these posts threaten to kill the HN site or render it unusable in the
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by jgord 10y ago
ok, fair enough .. will try to spellcheck more carefully. Thanks for specifics.
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by jgord 10y ago
Sorry my bad writing detracts, Ill work on that. I was expecting a mixed AUS/US audience, so used "Math" not "Maths" I did proofread it thru[through] a couple [of] times myself, but should have had a few friends pr
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by jgord 10y ago
op here.. True, there is a fraction of Homeschoolers who are very pro a particular religion. There are others who Homeschool, in part, to avoid religion or discrimination in public schools. I have noticed quite a few Homeschool sites promot
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by jgord 10y ago
op, here - yes, you could argue Im not well educated for writing such articles - I was educated in schools not homeschooled :) Im happy to correct spelling grammar errors - I by no means represent myself as a professional author. Be aware t
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by jgord 10y ago
op here .. no, in many case they have really tried to fix the system, work around it etc, before they have opted out. Its never the first option to take children out of school.
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by jgord 10y ago
op here.. all too true! To mitigate that, at least in Melbournes East there is a growing group of homeschoolers who get together for events - organised on facebook sites such as HEN aka http://home-ed.vic.edu.au [membership] and
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Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative(quantblog.wordpress.com)
175 points by jgord 10y ago|362 comments
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by jgord 10y ago
I actually disagree - maybe 60% of good software dev is really really thinking. A lot of it is automatic, based on learning the crafts good habits, repeating motifs, testing can be repetitive but is important to do as you go. Making sample
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by jgord 10y ago
Plauger is one of my unsung heroes. I discovered a little book by him after wading thru recursive descent parsers chapter by Herb Schildt... I don't want to get down on Schildt, I enjoyed that too, he showed some cool stuff.. but Plaug

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