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by levbrie 10y ago
This response is precisely what has made insecticides so incredibly dangerous for world agriculture. Documentaries like "The Vanishing of the Bees" and "More than Honey" do a great job highlighting just how criminally n
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by levbrie 10y ago
I believe the assertion is that in order to maintain the bee population at the level necessary to meet demands on agriculture given the extraordinary rise in the death rate of both individual bees and entire colonies, the beekeeping industr
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Will Machines Eliminate Us?(technologyreview.com)
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Learning Online Alignments with Continuous Rewards Policy Gradient(arxiv.org)
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by levbrie 10y ago
I like this response. It seems like jamwt is actually trying pretty hard not to be biased. If I were at Dropbox, I'd probably also want to point out that just about every competitor that's been listed here is a Dropbox copycat.
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by levbrie 10y ago
I expected to hate this but I love it already. I'm not on the all-functional all-the-time bandwagon. I go functional when it suits what I'm building. But working with CSS is broken for many of the reasons that chibicode outline
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by levbrie 10y ago
There doesn't seem to be any insight in this article.
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by levbrie 10y ago
On that point, after you've read whichever of the many great recommendations you end up reading, don't get discouraged if you end up having to scrap the first several APIs you build. Part of the reason building APIs is so opinion
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by levbrie 10y ago
Facebook's targeting of seconds rather than milliseconds and their reasoning behind it ought to serve as a template for companies with similar requirements. Discussions of latency in Spark often center around micro-batching and just h
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by levbrie 10y ago
Finally.
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by levbrie 10y ago
It is beautiful, and even if it weren't harded to misrepresent video download speeds, it's a significant step up from speedtest.net. And now there's no need to leave the command line, which is even better. That said, perhap
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by levbrie 10y ago
I think this misses the point. React Native is not a replacement for the web in any meaningful sense. I think React Native can be a really useful platform to develop on, but it was developed precisely because iPhone and Android made it so