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by lars512 14y ago
Haha, well pointed out. I'm clearly having trouble parsing today. "rm target; make" can work, but only if you're using a pattern for data pipelines where there is only one default set of downstream targets. If the one Makefile supports a ra
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Thanks for pointing that out, much appreciated :)
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This is basically the case where you don't (or it's infeasible to) capture the dependences fully, so you want to rebuild everything from target onwards after some change. In that case: "rm target; make target"
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by lars512 14y ago
That's exactly what "make -B mytarget" does... Are you thinking of a particular problematic scenario?
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So make's default behaviour "make somefile.csv" is to build the whole tree of dependencies. To force rebuild of everything, run "make -B somefile.csv". It then assumes everything is out of date. To force rebuild of one step, just delete its
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by lars512 14y ago
Make can certainly generate multiple outputs, and can trivially be coerced to redo any step you like. Provided you add your code as a dependency in the analysis, then it will happily redo only what's changed, giving you nice tight iteration
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There's two main types of use cases: (1) geotagging actions you take on your computer, like git commits, for later analysis; and (2) writing software which varies its behaviour depending on your location, perhaps triggering useful events.
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Doko: using Core Location on the command-line(bitbucket.org)
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Executable documents are powerful tools for teaching and learning. Focus in this area will pay off all across the Python community.
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For people who can't get the quiet they need to do their work, try drowning it out. I highly recommend Rainy Mood http://www.rainymood.com/ which just plays the sound of rain continuously. In open plan offices, sometimes it's the best you
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by lars512 14y ago
Have a read of this article: http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/feedback-unemp... There's good reasons to believe that the portfolio that designers develop through 99designs is likely to be worth far more to them than the win i
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Evaluating text pipelines with one-boxing and Git at Wavii(blog.wavii.com)
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The inconsistent reads in replica sets is something we've come across with MySQL read slaves as well. I think it's a gotcha of that whole model of replication, rather than a MongoDB-specific issue.
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Faster Github using SSH multiplexing(frankenbyte.tumblr.com)
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If there's an obvious flaw in the existing study, you can make something out of a new study which doesn't contain that flaw. But it's very hard to convince yourself (and others) that replicating/failing to replicate someone's work is the sa
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Streaming frequency distributions with anytop(frankenbyte.tumblr.com)
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The building blocks of Wavii(blog.wavii.com)
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by lars512 14y ago
The "lot less parking" will do wonders for urban landscapes. When I travel through cities (including my own) and land that could be used for parks or habitation swallowed up by parking space, it seems like an incredible waste.
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This article is really about the importance of the stories people tell themselves, stories which explain how what they're doing now fits into some greater purpose in their life. Basically, it argues that as an employer, you can help people
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To be clear, this is after controlling for income? It's not just about poverty?
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Kanji contain repeated elements ("radicals"), which form something of a graphical alphabet. Learning a new character's form is not too difficult then, you can identify that it's radicals A, B and C, in this kind of arrangement. Basically, i
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The offline equivalent is just how people achieved something similar beforehand. It's ok for it to be worse. I think the USB key is just right for Dropbox's offline equivalent.
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by lars512 14y ago
Google is the real-world example of Python deployment you're looking for, although we don't have the full details of where it begins and ends in their no doubt complex stack. So again, the comparison isn't that useful. Talking about what la
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I was amazed that Australia had only increased its inclusive wealth by 0.1% in the 1990-2008 period. Whatever we're doing, it has problems.
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The IPython notebook's a real pleasure to use, and worth the trouble of getting it set up. The inline graphing works well, and if you take the trouble to give significant objects you care about a _repr_html_ method, you can use it as a very
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IPython 0.13 released(ipython.org)
55 points by lars512 14y ago|10 comments
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Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster(research.microsoft.com)
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I find the opposite. Installing a useful module for a once-off task is a no brainer, since I won't have to worry about whether I'm introducing some long-term dependency I'll have to maintain. The real issue is in discovering that a better o
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by lars512 15y ago
> Once the mentality cements, everything is eventually someone else’s job, and they’re being a toad for inconveniencing you with it. There's so many parts to this that they actually need unpacking. Someone discovers a problem... are the
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by lars512 15y ago
Sounds like an iterated prisoner's dilemma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma#Strategy_for_... Apparently successful strategies should be "forgiving", meaning they can retreat from this price war, and "non-envious", meaning t

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