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by leif 16y ago
It sounds more like hacker speak. They tend to communicate the most important information not in code or math, but in (as unambiguous as can be made possible) english. It's the sense of "I'm not giving you a crack, I'm just describing it,
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by leif 16y ago
I worry that in your example, vs is passed in to reducefn as an array. A generator would be more memory-efficient (though from the example it isn't possible to differentiate and I haven't looked at the source).
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by leif 16y ago
Not necessarily. It can also just be a vast amount of data, in which case bandwidth (which is generally pretty good), not latency, is your limiting factor with mapreduce. Also, you only need one part of your infrastructure to require mapre
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by leif 16y ago
Sequel, as in "my sequel" because it takes less time. I gravitated to this when I started having to use the term a lot more. Interestingly, I still say "post gray ess queue ell", dunno why. Actually, more often I'll just say "post grays" be
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by leif 16y ago
Wow, is the typesetting royally screwed for anyone else? See http://i.imgur.com/Doy2r.png . Seems to happen whenever he switches to something like a code fragment or italics inline.
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by leif 16y ago
You seem to have figured this out already: A new product is probably the easiest for them (because there's less ramp-up learning your code) and for you (because you don't have to deal with their crap code if you don't want to). Similar to
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by leif 16y ago
Taking breaks for tea/showers/walks in the fresh air is the one thing with the best chance of helping me solve a problem. Of course, this is only effective after staring at it long enough that when I eventually do take a break, I can't sto
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by leif 16y ago
Heh, heh. "FatMax"
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by leif 16y ago
We call you a "pescatarian".
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by leif 16y ago
http://imgur.com/8YJIB.png Looks like it includes someone's source code, probably that of the page itself?
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by leif 16y ago
> I'm a cooking geek hence, you should have no trouble. :)
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by leif 16y ago
The vegan/vegetarian diet problem is very real, and it is not just protein. You can very easily miss out pretty severely on a lot of things just by cutting meat out of your diet (iron, for example), and you do have to work hard to make sur
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by leif 16y ago
It's slightly foolish to think about such an idealized scenario, but I believe that the answer is no, until mass A rises fully, the rope can still slide around masses B and C without needing to apply its tension to moving them upward.
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by leif 16y ago
A good way to think about this is to replace the man with a fourth weight, fixed to the rope (as opposed to a pulley). Now it should be clear that the weights would not rest in that configuration unless they were supported by a floor.
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by leif 16y ago
Finally . Can't tell you how long I've been waiting for the Wheezy release.
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by leif 16y ago
parts of my desktop are around 6 or 7 years old, but I gave it a refurbish about 4 years back not currently using for production because after staying up all night updating and deleting old backups, I forgot to bring it where I was going :(
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by leif 16y ago
Yeah, because they're probably spending some of their time working on their product.
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by leif 16y ago
Well in general, if you're a polyglot programmer (which all Perl programmers should be because honestly, nobody in their right mind is going to let you program only in Perl all day), you don't have to do much to learn either one. These thre
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by leif 16y ago
The whole language is all One Way To Do It-ified. It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it, I just always feel a lot more like I'm part of a creative process when I'm working with perl, like it's this magic goop I can mush around and throw
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by leif 16y ago
I went from python to perl, I'm just imagining based on what I know of each.
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by leif 16y ago
No. I wrote the bulk of my intern project this summer in perl.
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by leif 16y ago
> from Perl to Python (it's a really easy jump) I disagree. Python is incredibly restrictive when you're used to perl. I would be so frustrated if I went that direction.
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by leif 16y ago
The four great truths in this article: > It just so happens that sex and violence are the only two things that you can't fake, and we keep coming back to them as the definitive "measures of the man." > No, we're not sexist, we're na
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by leif 16y ago
voice, gmail notifier, readability, chrome to phone, priceblink voice is my favorite
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by leif 16y ago
> A tablet is ... easier to seize in the heat of the moment awkward
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by leif 16y ago
can't go wrong with paredit or the emacs client/server (google them)
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by leif 16y ago
> How many lines does the THEN clause of an IF need to have before you surround it with curlies? If I'm your manager, 0.
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by leif 16y ago
I had a similar experience. I went to an open bar birthday party, where with a particular wristband you could get unlimited drinks. I ordered something simple, and tipped a dollar, came back once, and did the same thing. The next time I
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by leif 16y ago
Python and ruby give you nothing in terms of direct memory manipulation. I read this as a request for a cleaner, more beautiful C. I sort of like that idea, but I actually think C is wonderful and it doesn't need to be cleaned up (maybe a
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by leif 16y ago
black, like my men: http://i.imgur.com/SciNb.png

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