lasfter

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by lasfter 6y ago
I still say "themselves" with singular "they", in western Canada
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by lasfter 6y ago
Lots of bioinformatics use cases too, getting frequencies of patterns in protein-protein interaction networks for example.
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by lasfter 6y ago
The American government is putting ethnic minorities in camps right now too. And performing forced hysterectomies on them. Either America is not ashamed of the atrocities it has committed, or it is so dense it cannot understand it is repeat
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by lasfter 6y ago
This article was lovely to read, but I wish there was an RSS feed so I can catch the later installments.
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Daniel Rozin Makes Mechanical Mirrors [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lasfter 7y ago|0 comments
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by lasfter 7y ago
Ah yes, think of the poor high-rise owners who won't take on long-term tenants because they make more from tourists. How else would they afford their vacation home
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by lasfter 9y ago
Facebook: "Send Nudes"
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by lasfter 9y ago
Have you considered Lua? You can develop web apps with Lapis [1] and do your data analysis with Torch [2]. The tradeoffs compared to Python: LuaJIT is much faster, which should ease your scaling worries, but the ecosystem is not as develope
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by lasfter 9y ago
Oh no! Sorry I didn't mean to disparage American debaters. I was saying exactly what you are: that LD doesn't transfer well to Worlds style. My point being that penalising dropped points didn't lead to spreading in other styl
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by lasfter 9y ago
In debate styles (BP, Worlds) outside of America, "spreading" fails completely, even though dropped arguments are still considered conceded. The key is that inane arguments can be shot down with POIs (questions asked during the sp
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by lasfter 9y ago
What is the use in Lua without pattern matching or coroutines?
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by lasfter 9y ago
npm install --save-dev flow-bin babel-preset-flow, add "flow" to the presets in .babelrc and it just works, at least for my projects.
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by lasfter 9y ago
To be fair to the GP, I've, for example, seen/heard my friends and acquaintances call people Nazis for condemning vigilante violence (e.g. "punching Nazis"), the Berkeley riots, and Antifa protests. I think the sentiment
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by lasfter 9y ago
Thanks so much for the heads up! My domain was being pointed to some stale nameservers in Libya (the .ly extension) which I guess responded to you before the ones in North America :) I got rid of them but it will take a while for the change
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by lasfter 9y ago
Hi there, I made this site because I wanted to find pen pals to practice French with. While HelloTalk exists, I didn't really like how it worked and it lacked a web interface which I really wanted. This web app won't be very usefu
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Show HN: I made a website to connect you with speakers of different languages(trypol.ly)
10 points by lasfter 9y ago|7 comments
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by lasfter 9y ago
Quick heads up that your website doesn't display properly (I can zoom out so that your entire site is a thin column on the left of the screen) on my phone. I'm on Chrome on a Samsung Galaxy S5.
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by lasfter 9y ago
I see some merits. I am not sure I buy using JavaScript based on performance/dev speed ratio though. Lua is even faster, lighter weight and has clean, logical semantics. I guess I'm just trying to decide if having a large talent p
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by lasfter 9y ago
I don't think asnyc/await is a good solution to asynchronous programming. Lua, Go et al are more what I was thinking of as good examples of asynchronous programming. See http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/
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by lasfter 9y ago
I actually have, but it doesn't alleviate my biggest issue with Javascript, which is its async story. Also I've had experiences with Typescript code compiling with an error then immediately recompiling without any errors. Then err
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by lasfter 9y ago
But how valuable is that? I hear this a lot but is it really that much of an inconvenience to write backend code in a different language? Especially if there are different engineers working on the frontend and backend.
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by lasfter 9y ago
I can't imagine choosing to write Javascript on the server, but considering its popularity I'm wondering if I'm wrong. So I'm curious as to the reasons people chose Node.js and whether you would recommend it, anybody w
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by lasfter 9y ago
I believe they meant three hours per week for each hour of class. So if you have 6 courses, each with three hours of lecture a week, you'd spend 3x3x6=54 hours a week. That's still pretty rough but that's what happens if yo
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by lasfter 10y ago
My guess is Server Side Routing.
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by lasfter 10y ago
It's all just for a laugh! Should I lay it on thicker next time? I thought it was too much as is.
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Stop writing JavaScript, LUA is the future(kasrajamshidi.com)
3 points by lasfter 10y ago|4 comments
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by lasfter 10y ago
Yeah, seriously... I was looking forward to watching the tiebreaker in suspense. I suppose it isn't too surprising to find the story on HN though.
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by lasfter 10y ago
For example, mocking masculinity/men, white people, Conservative people, etc is all "politically correct". I would not call it respectful to call Trump voters deplorables or to belittle issues that men face, but it's cer
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by lasfter 10y ago
That doesn't seem like a useful exercise because political correctness does not always equate to behaving respectfully, even if there is overlap (i.e. most respectful behaviour is politically correct and vice versa). I could just as we
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by lasfter 10y ago
I think it may have more to do with the article being written by a native French speaker than sexism. One of my friends routinely says things like "a woman has rights to his body" when speaking in English because in French possess

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