jlarocco

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by jlarocco 15y ago
"A research project had to load the full follower graph in memory" Really? It had to? There was no possible alternative? As often as I get the "fail whale" page on Twitter, I'm always skeptical seeing them present stuff like this and re
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by jlarocco 15y ago
The original reason may be dated, but there are other places where limiting line length is still helpful. For example, I'll often have my editor open and docs open in a web browser right next to it. It also helps when viewing side by side d
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by jlarocco 15y ago
I've been using Haskell on and off for a few years and have written a few (small) projects in it. Every time I end up turned off of it, though. First, I don't like how it makes side effects such a PITA. Fact of the matter is, computing is
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by jlarocco 15y ago
That's just silly. Indexes are a fundamental component of databases and give the DB clues about how the data in your table is going to be used. You might as well saying having different column data types is premature optimization. Should
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by jlarocco 15y ago
That seems pretty far fetched. How often has that actually happened to you? I can honestly say that in 15 years of web browsing I've never had either of those problems, and don't know anybody who has. Seems silly to significantly slow ever
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by jlarocco 15y ago
I'm also not a founder, so this might be a dumb idea.. But if you're doing well enough to have several employees and funding and stuff, wouldn't you pay yourself a reasonable salary? It seems hard to believe a company could be doing that we
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by jlarocco 15y ago
The way it works is some AF guy in Nevada remotely controls the drones flying half way across the world. My guess is it's not the drones themselves running Windows, but the consoles used to communicate with the drones. It makes sense. AF
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by jlarocco 15y ago
That can't be it because the error wouldn't straddle the speed of light. It would put the range at 1.000022 c to 1.000080 c, both of which exceed c, so they wouldn't have written it off as error.
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by jlarocco 15y ago
I don't see the connection between patriotism and taxes. I could see an angle where explicitly dodging taxes could be unpatriotic. But patriotism isn't something you buy. It just doesn't work like that.
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by jlarocco 15y ago
There may be something to that, but it's hardly a universal feeling. I was laid off a few years ago and I took as much time off between jobs as I could afford. I got a bunch of hiking, biking and camping in; read a bunch; and generally had
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by jlarocco 15y ago
On the other hand, maybe competing against the perceived threats is what's driving us to improve?
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by jlarocco 15y ago
I have thought it through, and I still think it's a good idea. People who choose to live in the middle of nowhere should pay the full price of doing so. I'm sure private companies would have no problem delivering mail to the middle of nowh
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by jlarocco 15y ago
Not as useful as 'a'..'z', but the '..' operator works on strings, also. For example, 'aa'..'zz'.