justin_vanw

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   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   I'm second from the left, in the Cool Story, Bro picture.
2. 632.▲
   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   This story is obviously false rumor. Feel free to mod me back up in 12 hours when this is official.
3. 633.▲
   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   So there is this absurd rumor, see, and it is totally unsubstantiated, so it is probably true right? I mean, what is more likely, that citibank is breaking federal law and has lots of rules in place that will basically send all their depos
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   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   I agree. It's like saying that a Porsche is 'better' than a Ford, but you own a Ford because the Porsche costs more money than you make in a year. I think functional language proponents want to compare languages using one set of metrics, e
5. 635.▲
   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   Spreadsheets are not functional, they are spreadsheets. Try to re implement a complex spreadsheet in another language sometime and you'll see what I mean (hint, any change propagates through the whole sheet instantly).
6. 636.▲
   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   Consider your grandfather's old hammer. The one where the head fly off and you have to wedge it back on as best you can. Yes, it will fly off and hit you and bystanders, but the nails generally get in there when it stays on. It's basical
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   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   Ok, that is great so long as you are processing XML. Actually, it isn't great even if you are processing xml. What is the functional way to get the 3rd - 8th li in the 2nd ul where the ul has id="foo" and is in a div (either directly or as
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   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   Functional programming simply isn't any better than the usual style of python development. I have used much of itertools. When you need to do some complex iteration through lists, itertools is great. When you need to pull an address out o
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   by justin_vanw 17y ago

   This is totally meaningless though. The existence of a hate group is just a geographically local group of people who are racist AND like forming clubs. A map of the per-capita hate crimes committed would be more educational, but again it w
10. 640.▲
    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    The reason you are having problems is that the first monitor is selected by the bios at boot time. If there is no monitor attached, it has to make the 'first' monitor the one on the laptop. If the laptop lid is closed, it may pick the ext
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Well, the good news is that this paper is old, and bcrypt is readily available for most languages, including Ruby, Python and Java (and of course C).
12. 642.▲
    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    I agree, that would be a bad idea. I should have read the original more carefully.
13. 643.▲
    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    This is a blog post responding to another blog post. The first one recommended using HMAC in a place where it is totally appropriate to use HMAC. The response seems to miss that point. To store passwords in a database the 'proper hash' to
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    I tried to do some rudementary research, but without more work it is hard to know if the current owner is the original owner, or just a corp with the same name. I caught ISC as one of these abandoned domains, there may be more. Oldest Doma
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    It is not a python compiler in almost any sense. It is more of a macro that allows you to write C++ in a python like syntax.
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Wouldn't disappoint me if you shut it down, since I've never heard of it. You asked! I guess more speech leads to better speech, and at a cursory glance your blog looks sincere. It really wouldn't disappoint me if you also didn't also
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    I'm not sure. This is my third user account. Coming from reddit and slashdot, I had an abrasive posting style, which sometimes would generate hundreds of upmods for my posts, and sometimes would generate dozens of downmods. Maybe this is
18. 648.▲
    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    I've got this car. It's absurdly easy to run over people. All you have to do is drive on the sidewalk. With a boat, this would be somewhere between completely re-engineering it and impossible.
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Ok, I'm not sure why my post was modded down, it obviously shouldn't have been. The market _should not_ be liquid. Liquidity is great, but you haven't provided any reason it's better that the market be liquid. Your first example (loaning
20. 650.▲
    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Yes, when a task consists of mostly waiting it makes sense to do more than one of that task at the same time! I'm glad someone cared enough to give back to the community and post this wonderful result.
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Simply force purchasers to hold stock for at least 6 months, or some other long period, so that fundamentals will have to be carefully looked at. Buying a stock signals confidence in a companies stock price for the duration you expect to h
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Ok, author of blog does not get it. If I make a magic box, then patent it, and then sell the patent, whomever I sell the patent will dominate the box making industry, since they are the only ones with a magic box. This is what the author t
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Ahh, you make a great point, that if an instance goes down you lose those keys. Cassandra doesn't necessarily solve this, however, unless you have enough failover that it is unthinkable that you could have cassandra lose data. If you can
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    No. NoSQL gives you memcached on a disk, which sucks a lot. SQL is good .
25. 655.▲
    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    SELECT `digdate`, `id` FROM `Diggs` WHERE `userid` IN (59, 9006, 15989, 16045, 29183, 30220, 62511, 75212, 79006) AND itemid = 13084479 ORDER BY `digdate` DESC, `id` DESC LIMIT 4; Ok, how do we optimize this query? S
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    As far as I can tell we have the same thing going on in our heads. Anecdote: In physics class (I was a physics major for awhile, so it was a 'real' physics class) there was what I guess was a very complex problem. The professor posed the
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Aha, someone else. I would describe it as sortof pressure and stuff in there, like I'm feeling my way through a dark room and 'seeing' as I work the problem around in my head. All these people who say 'english' or something like that, how
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    When you are thinking out a problem is language (human or computer) any part of it? If I understand how most people think (which I most likely don't), they have an internal monologue going, like they are thinking about going to the store an
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    There is no reason to own your own servers. Putting them in EC2 saves you lots of money and more importantly time, and allows for scalability which would be almost impossible with physical servers. Additionally, there is no large up fron
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    by justin_vanw 17y ago

    Am I the only one who doesn't think in any language at all? I just see little flashes and sort of feel ideas. I realize this is a very sucky explanation, but I've never heard it described. When I think about a program it is again a combi