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by ljw1001 10y ago
Blogs are also not literature, apparently. :) Otherwise they would merit more careful editing.
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I would take it one step further and say that a better analogy than collecting specimens would be that code-reading is like doing secondary research: Read an overview, dive down one path, take notes, find and read three more articles, etc.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
The author is looking at this from the perspective of someone who reads 'for fun' or generalized learning. When you have to maintain (or god forbid, rewrite) a module, you do a lot of code reading. At that point the more like read
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Because straw men make the best targets
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by ljw1001 10y ago
I'm currently working on a DSL for manipulating tables. It's a cross the between smalltalk family (ST, Self, NewSpeak, IO), SQL, and vector languages like Q. The code translates into Java, where it executes tablesaw code. Tablesaw
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Ask HN: Best way to support community for small open source projects?
1 points by ljw1001 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why can't I write a int literal like 2,333?
3 points by ljw1001 10y ago|10 comments
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Dan Ingalls (implemented smalltalk) Jim Gray (transaction) Chris Date (SQL, QUEL) Gregor Kiczales (CLOS, Aspect-oriented programming) Ivan Sutherland (Sketchpad) Leslie Lamport (LateX, Paxos, much work on distributed computing) Butler Lamps
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The problem is the excessive power of corporations, rather than how they conduct their business. The combination of publicity, lobbying, and donations gives them too much control for a healthy democracy
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The newer version is called visallo. https://github.com/v5analytics/visallo . same people different company/platform
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This is what I'm looking for. Thank you.
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Nah. I'm thinking of the people trying to understand the relationship between (for example) Trump and the Russians. They don't have that much data because they're not drinking the firehose of wiretaps. They're relying on
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by ljw1001 10y ago
no. they keep it pretty hidden, but there are other tools designed for intelligence analysis that are easier to see.
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I'm thinking about software that does link analysis - this person works with that person, got paid by other person, etc. Basically, computer support for intelligence analysts, but in the public service.
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I think people greatly underestimate the importance of integration, but I take your point
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Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
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by ljw1001 10y ago
That's often the case with an early release, but later releases can have enough debt that bugs multiply and changes take longer no matter what you do.
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by ljw1001 10y ago
TLDR: Get educated. Get Angry. Get Inspired. Take the time to read a great book. It's ironic that people are arguing that books are a waste of time - on HN. There are certainly too many one-idea books, but there are also many extraordi
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Consider repricing to $99 and $299, respectively. It seems like a cheap trick but (a) it's been shown many times to work, and (b) especially with the former, you may just put yourself inside someone's purchasing limit.
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Neither of these is exactly what you asked for, but both are awesome in their own way, and both are (narrow and somewhat dated) histories: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. The Pulitzer Prize Winning) The Soul of a
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It would make a lovely web app.
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You should post your resume.
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In related news, he picked a climate-change skeptic to head the EPA transition team: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/297755-top-clim...
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by ljw1001 10y ago
Google is a MySQL shop. It's what their RDS-like cloud offering runs, and it is (or at least, was) the supported RDBMS for building apps internally. (Sadly)
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Is there any information on building connectors to new data sources? I can't find any on the site.
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This is an economic problem at heart. If you could find a way to make investing in, say, peace, or hunger, as tempting to investors as software we could solve the really important problems.
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(edit) Their book, The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms, impressed me greatly for the clarity of the thinking and conciseness of explanation, not just compared to other algorithm books, but against anything I've read in any s
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I worked in one place where the policy changed while I was there. In my experience, people don't take any more time than they did under the prior 'limited' vacation policy. The only beneficiary was the company, which wiped a
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In the US, hardly any software companies offer less than 3 weeks vacation to new employees. I've never heard of 2 weeks.
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Tablesaw ( https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw ) Tablesaw is a high-performance dataframe in Java, with hooks into plotting and machine-learning routines. Open-sourced under Apache2. Would be happy to have help with: -

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