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I imagine that the current codebase is tightly coupled to their internal infrastructure. They're writing the stand-alone version for the first time.
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Agreed, it would have been a great shame to let all that work go to waste. I can't help but think that the protocol will really flourish once companies can self-host, and once the entire stack is available to tinker with.
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I prefer Menlo/Deju Vu Sans Mono. It's amazing how all these monospace fonts differ in rendering between, say, 10pt and 18pt. I often find that the best looking one at a larger size just doesn't have the right 13pt/14pt sweet spot where it'
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To drill into your example more, I think that many small issues in proficiency get carried on through schooling, especially in areas like mathematics. My little sister-in-law was having trouble with it at school, and started doing some Kumo
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I imagine it's hard to enforce caloric intake limits effectively. Perhaps people who drank water simply had more success staying within (or close to) the allocated limit.
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The following two sentences seemed a bit self-contradictory. "They like agricultural research but loathe genetically modified (GM) plants." "As the briefing explains, Brazil’s progress has been underpinned by the state agricultural-research
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A system that's actually running is more useful than one just planned. Really though, current paper records are "document oriented databases", where each record is self-describing (at the cost of redundancy) and access latency is the bigges
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The cookie monster reads Hacker News! (and has an iPhone) =)
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Getting to the bottom, he describes how he no longer beats himself up about not being better at tennis since he knows he could be better if he was willing to invest the time in it. The same realization about foreign languages is what caused
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Actually, if the wave is successfully removed average traffic speed should increase. In fact, the whole post is an argument about ways to improve average traffic speeds. He basically advocates estimating how fast traffic is really going, an
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Questions have context. Explaining them is easier if someone's there interactively prodding for missing context you failed to give. "Can I ask you a question?" == "Got a moment to chat interactively?"
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It removes the latency if you need to interact with the remote server, for example with remote repositories. I tried some experiments today with Bitbucket, and using connection multiplexing halved the time of most of my common mercurial ope
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Before customers even, business founders can offer the credible promise of customers. The credibility comes from some sort of market validation. They should be able to convince you that a good execution will actually get traction, and help
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+1 for distributed issue tracking. I'm a BitBucket user, where the wiki has been Mercurial-backed for some time now, but I'd like both sites to go distributed on their issue tracking. Then you'd get complete portability on any project. I lo
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Wow. I've travelled to many countries and lived in a few, but I've never been somewhere without sidewalks. I looked at that street view and thought: "that's weird, grassy sidewalks". I had to pan 360 degrees a few times to realise it was p
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I think the "differentiated online services" part is a reasonable compromise, and they say there are safeguards and limits in place. Your broadband provider is in the unique position of having super-cheap bandwidth directly to you, cheaper
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How is WakeMate different/better than the Sleep Cycle iPhone app? It just seems like extra hardware to buy and charge...
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Chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The problem of resizing all these images is an "embarrassingly parallel" one, right? You don't care about how fast any individual image is resized, only how fast they're resized in aggregate, and each image is a nice small chunk of work. Th
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Some quick examples: Garden path: "The horse raced past the barn fell." The whole meaning is changed by adding one word to the end of the sentence, and you have to read the whole thing again to get it right. Makes hell for software trying t
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I prefer not to use "god" as a pronoun, since it makes assumptions which aren't warranted. Let's remove the assumptions by using "a god" instead, and look at your sentences again. "I do not believe a god exists." "I believe a god does not e
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Google is "fun" for two reasons. They provide lots of perks since, once their salary reaches a certain level, the top of the talent spectrum prefers these improvements to their work environment rather than an incrementally higher salary. Th
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The article: because the buyers aren't the users Nice comment below the article: because accommodating the long tail of user requirements is too expensive to be worth it, so they make a cut somewhere, get something good enough for 95% of em
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I don't really use GitHub, but the same issue comes around with BitBucket. The main obstacle to taking projects off BitBucket is their issue tracker (wiki is cloneable). You don't really want to lose issue history every time you take someth
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This is where it gets fun though. An inefficiency being found amounts to you knowing something about pricing that others don't. You exploit it for profit, and the process of exploiting it removes or reduces the inefficiency. The only way th
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Doesn't Google App Engine provide some of this for free? You upload versions, change which one is deployed, and can easily roll back at a moment's notice. It's not as swift or sexy as multiple configurations in the same code, but still far
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To complement what other people are recommending here, I'd say that in cases like this I only sometimes read the documentation. Other times I put a line in my code: import pdb; pdb.set_trace() which makes it enter the debugger at tha
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I consider the indentation approach excellent because it's so clear and readable. For exactly the same reason, I prefer YAML over XML, because the result is something more readable, something whose structure is understandable at a glance.
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There's many dimensions on which we can evaluate programming languages, but the NLTK folk are only really interested in one: readability. Their page implicitly argues that high-level languages with good string processing are the most readab
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Individual programmer style does matter, but languages also guide our style. I'm often asked to convert Perl scripts to Python scripts, and the originals don't exhibit the "optional readability" you're advertising, and which Python encourag

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