jonlawlor

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by jonlawlor 9y ago
Puerto Rico's population has been falling for the last 10 years or so, which is a strong factor in why they had so much trouble with debt. This is going to make it much worse. See https://www.cfr.org/blog/puerto-
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by jonlawlor 9y ago
Then live coding might be a way to improve that skill and get over your fear! Nothing feels quite like facing a fear head on.
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by jonlawlor 9y ago
If it was 100% isolated, the heat from the sun would continually increase the internal temperature, which would probably be bad. They're looking for a steady state dyson sphere.
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by jonlawlor 10y ago
Yes maybe some of the success stories regarding changing from X language to Go are actually because Go enforces behavior at the language & tooling level that could potentially be enforced culturally at the company, but for whatever reas
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by jonlawlor 10y ago
I don't think that Go is a good language to compare with Scala. (I do like Go, though.) The two languages could not be more different in philosophy. Scala is maximalist - you can do things many ways, you can call java, you can have
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by jonlawlor 10y ago
Always show up in court if you are being sued. If no one shows up at all for one side, they lose. He sent his assistant, but I doubt that made the judge happy. That's probably the mistake that cost him 100k of his and his employees&
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by jonlawlor 10y ago
Musk is a savvy businessman before anything else. He would prefer to not have competition.
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by jonlawlor 10y ago
It is kind of both; go doesn't allow some approaches in native go code that can make it slower than other languages. (I love go, but that is my experience.) In this case the choice to use utf-8 everywhere, including in the csv delimit
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by jonlawlor 10y ago
It is also often much faster than pcre.
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by jonlawlor 11y ago
His book "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers" is brilliant, his work included information theory, sampling, and running bell labs during its most productive time. He wasn't a professor, he was a giant.
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by jonlawlor 11y ago
Thanks, I've been having trouble finding a good place to start (looking) as well.
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by jonlawlor 11y ago
Side question: are there any open source synthetic chemistry projects that I can look at to get an idea of the techniques and problems encountered? I try to learn about a new non work related subject every few years and it piqued my intere
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by jonlawlor 11y ago
Are there any open source projects for computational chemistry?