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by lars 13y ago
This appears to be a photo gallery software, that also handles video and sound. That's fine, but there's no way that's a "decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud". Am I missing something?
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by lars 13y ago
I work in a European branch of one of the very large tech consultancies, and I know that decisions to this effect have been made in several of the countries we operate in. There's a lot of money that isn't being funneled to Amaz
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by lars 13y ago
> And while we don't have proven-better alternatives for many of the problems that arise Oh please. The US has a recidivism rate within 3 years of 67.5%. Norway has a recidivism rate of 20% within 2 years. There are proven-better alte
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by lars 13y ago
I have for a couple of projects. Overall, I loved it. It allowed us to share code on iOS, Android and Windows Phone (though we wrote native UIs separately, in C#). Plus C# is a great language, and Visual Studio is a great IDE. It's not perf
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by lars 14y ago
JavaScript is compiled by every modern browser, in fact it has some of the most advanced compilers that are out there. And the dichotomy of "scripting" vs compiled languages is false. You may be thinking of dynamic and static typing.
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by lars 14y ago
Sorry, I meant that as in reliably renders whatever you throw at it. This where others would fail, i.e. sections of the page would be not be rendered, or they would execute javascript, but the execution would fail half way through,, it woul
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by lars 14y ago
I'll chime in and say that the company I work for was ready to pay 1200$ for a piece of software that we hoped would do this reliably. There are cheaper or even free alternatives out there, but they all had different problems. If this site
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by lars 14y ago
You're right, I assumed the billion times figure was correct, it should be a million.
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by lars 14y ago
Yes, but you only have to double a megabyte 30 times to get a terabyte. That's a better perspective to take when dealing with exponential growth. Of course, the genome and the brain are different things, but the point remains that if you be
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by lars 14y ago
It's on the same timescale as the European Blue Brain Project (and also Kurzweil's predictions, if you put any faith in that). If you believe that this an information technology that has an exponential growth, it's not a sufficient objectio
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by lars 14y ago
A few years ago I made a (non-interactive) visualization similar to this, that made its way to hackernews [1]. It puts this on a linear scale, so you can get a feel for the baffling difference between your most local caches and your hard dr
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by lars 14y ago
The point is, inverting control doesn't need a three letter acronym in Ruby, it is built into the language. You get those things automatically. No javascript programmer ever talked about singletons, and no Ruby programmer ever built an IoC
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by lars 14y ago
You can redefine any class in Ruby, so you never need to do dependency injection. If you want to test class A independent of class B, you redefine class B in your test. In that sense , dependency injection is a feature built in to Ruby, whi
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by lars 14y ago
Neither Smalltalk nor Self had interfaces, and never needed them. Let's be clear, interfaces give nothing to a dynamic language. If you bring them into a dynamic language, you are essentially inventing code contracts - which can be useful,
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by lars 14y ago
There reason you don't see interfaces or abstract classes in Ruby or Python is because they are dynamically typed. Interfaces and abstract classes are byproducts that are required for Java and C#'s type systems to work. What use would you h
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Peter Norvig on the current state of AI and machine learning(fora.tv)
5 points by lars 14y ago|0 comments
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by lars 14y ago
Meteor.com runs on meteor, and it survived their own launch, which was bigger than anyone seemed to expect. In practice, that's probably the biggest thing to run on meteor at the moment. The framework is built around long lived requests, wh
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by lars 14y ago
I don't know that it's all that smart. It uses the DOMReady event in all modern browsers, and uses a load of tricks to get the same behaviour in older browsers. It will never fire before the DOM is ready, like the function in the article do
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by lars 14y ago
You can't stop supporting IE8, but Google can? Everyone would like to not support IE8, but most people still find it benificial to do so. I can't help but think of this as a political move against Microsoft.
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by lars 14y ago
You test some statistical hypothesis, and you end with some probability that the hypethesis is true. Increasing the number of people increases the number of samples. Loosely speaking, increasing the number of samples will reduce the varianc
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by lars 14y ago
> ...their interest in implementing PHP using invoke-dynamic on the JVM This is very interesting. > The main seismic event will be nothing less than the complete removal of interpretors from main stream general purpose programming.
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WebKit sorts JS arrays using Selection Sort(trac.webkit.org)
53 points by lars 14y ago|40 comments
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by lars 14y ago
I don't dislike Software Architects (I've only worked with actually brilliant people with the SA title), but I think there's a strong truth to this: "The SA/Dev stratification is an anti-pattern." A good architecture is a good high level or
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by lars 14y ago
I can't speak about RT, but there is definitely a truth to American news simply being bad. Some friends who moved to the US for a period described it as being "a country without news". A pretty clear example of this was the time leading up
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by lars 14y ago
No prob, I'll send you an email when I get home from work.
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by lars 14y ago
The semantic web has one huge problem imo: There was/is typically zero incentive to semantically encode data. As shown by things like IBMs Watson, you're better off extracting sentence semantics with NLP than by hoping someone has encoded t
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by lars 15y ago
It's been a while since I've done work in Java, but I'm pretty sure the GC is not to blame for this. Java uses a concurrent mark and sweep GC. The concurrent part means it does not pause the world while it's collecting. So as mbell says,
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by lars 15y ago
I like this idea, but here's a word of warning: ICQ actually had software that did this about a hundred years ago. It was a stand alone app you would download, and you could chat with people viewing whatever webpage you were on. And I remem
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by lars 15y ago
I don't think you need voting data. Rather, answer the question: "what subreddit is similar to this particular subreddit". Then you use the degree of overlap in subscribers as a distance measure between subreddits. Use a tf*idf like approac
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by lars 15y ago
It probably is, but trust me, you wouldn't want to use it. Because it does hardware level emulation, the Android emulator is unbelievably slow. Way too slow for normal use. Edited to add: There have been efforts to build android simulators

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