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by kiwidrew 9y ago
Here's a link to the earlier post, which was (unfairly IMHO) flagged despite the direct relevance to HN and a largely civil discussion in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661
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by kiwidrew 9y ago
While awk is indeed under-appreciated, there are many instances where using grep to pre-filter your input is helpful because the grep family (GNU grep, agrep, etc.) can match strings much much faster than awk's regex engine. For exampl
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
And in typical PC hardware fashion, switching to/from this A20 compatibility mode was handled by the keyboard controller . What in the world? Turns out that the 8042 chip that handled the keyboard had an unused pin which could be &q
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
It's even worse if you're an expat living in a foreign country (e.g. Hong Kong). Despite being signed in to my Google / YouTube accounts (where Google knows my language preferences) every. single. advertisement. was complete
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Thiel put the vast majority of this money towards buying Xero shares on the public sharemarket. Hard to call that a bold investment strategy. As if that wasn't low-risk enough, he then managed to buy these shares on 50% margin (that&
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Personally, I think that the part of this deal that stinks is that the Valar/NZVIF partnership only invested in TWO companies; the majority of funds were just used to buy Xero shares on the public market (yes, they were already listed
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Thanks for the link to the research paper, it's a good read. Are you aware of any event sourcing frameworks/datastores that use one (or more) of these strategies to tackle the problem of schema evolution?
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
While I can't imagine why anyone would want/need to do this... it does do a great job at demonstrating the flexibility of modern CSS! The most clever bit (to me) is the underline characters on the <h1> element.
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
This is a great recommendation, but I would suggest paying just a little bit more (around $330 USD) and getting the U2515H. It has a higher resolution -- 2560x1440 -- and that makes all the difference if you want to rotate it into portrait
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
This is very, very cool. It allows you to deploy application logic extremely close to the user (in terms of latency), and Cloudfront has an order of magnitude more edge locations than the other AWS services like EC2 and S3. In fact, if the
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Amazon API Gateway introduces 3 new features to simplify API configuration(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by kiwidrew 10y ago|0 comments
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Yep, definitely. Here's a quick look at Marriott's ownership structure, which is an operating model shared by many other global hotel brands: http://marketrealist.com/2014/10/why-marriotts-hotels-have-s.
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Interesting -- I like the concept. But it's completely unusable for the Real World (tm) because strings cannot contain the '[' and ']' characters AND YET there is no mechanism for escape sequences. What if my data
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Actually, I consider the immutability of a `namedtuple` instance to be a benefit. I wish more things in Python were/could be immutable. I have been known to subclass `tuple` from time to time when I want both immutability and the abi
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
My main peeve is that distutils2 died, and with it, the idea of putting package metadata (author, version, dependencies) in `setup.cfg` instead of `setup.py`. It's bad enough that I have a boilerplate `setup.py` that just does `import
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Yep, I'm doing the same thing to deploy Python apps on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk... I write an "abstract" app-requirements.txt (which typically just has a single line for my application's own package), create a fr
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Yep, happens all the time in HK. [1] The MTR (metro system) charges based on the station where you enter and the station where you exit. The ticket is valid for 150 minutes after you enter, which is plenty of time to take a train to a dis
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Yes, path segment parameters are a rather interesting (but mostly historical) curiosity. Recently I have begun using them in a few of my internal APIs, where it is useful to have a distinction between "parameters used to filter a set o
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
At least in Hong Kong, "new" characters for spoken Cantonese are often derived from existing Chinese characters that sound similar, despite those characters having a completely different meaning. Wikipedia has a fascinating entry
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
I received this e-mail and had my password reset by Github. Based on the "security history" shown in my Github account's setting page, my account wasn't compromised as there was no login activity during the past week. I
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
CompareGlobal Group | Hong Kong | ONSITE / Full-time We run Asia's largest financial product comparison website (MoneyHero.com.hk) which helps consumers save time and money when selecting a new credit card, insurance provider, or
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Ah, okay, I missed that part!
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by kiwidrew 10y ago
Why would you bother going to all this trouble when you could just use Amazon's official Spot Fleet service/API? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-flee...
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by kiwidrew 11y ago
I have always felt that Bitcoin was doomed to this sort of fate, for the simple fact that the "specification" for the Bitcoin protocol was "whatever Satoshi's client does". The community repeatedly failed to encour
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by kiwidrew 11y ago
Meanwhile, Google Compute Engine still only has four regions and hasn't expanded in over 18 months. (Don't get me started on App Engine, it's not even available for the Asia region!) Still no presence in the entire southern
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by kiwidrew 11y ago
This is a great new feature! I always disliked the fact that cloud providers sized their instances using a "power-of-2" approach. Now, with Compute Engine, it looks like I can choose any reasonable CPU/memory ratio (between
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Google Could Platform: Introducing custom machine types(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
21 points by kiwidrew 11y ago|1 comments
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BC Startups: The Government Is Not Your Friend(medium.com)
72 points by kiwidrew 11y ago|28 comments
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BC Startups: The Government Is Not Your Friend(medium.com)
5 points by kiwidrew 11y ago|0 comments
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by kiwidrew 11y ago
One feature that I'd love to see: the ability to update part of a file (e.g. replace bytes 512-1023 with new content of the same length) and/or append to an existing file! For whatever reason, these cloud storage products are al

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