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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
It's my understanding that the IO monad is largely a type system thing. The IO monad doesn't "do" anything -- a call to the print function actually does write to a file descriptor right there and then. In a lazy, pure la
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
To add to that, in some zombie stories, such as The Walking Dead, everyone turns into a zombie when they die, even if they haven't been bitten. I don't know if it's ever explained in the graphic novels, but in the TV show it&
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
It's a very smartly written novel that holds up very well. It's also unusually grim for the era. Steven Soderbergh's Contagion also comes to mind as an example of a realistic, scientifically accurate depiction of an epidemic.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Yes. It's in the documentation.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
It's my understanding, based on comments by googlers here on HN, that Google does run a bunch of apps on GKE. We don't know about which apps, but it's not surprising that they want to dogfood their own cloud platform.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
We run stateful apps on Kubernetes. There are obvious rough areas (the lack of persistent volume resizing, for example, which is scheduled for 1.11), but overall, it's great. What a lot of naysayers leave out, or choose to ignore, is t
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
It's not cheap, but if you run it on a single server, you can use it for as many projects as you like. Apparently someone made a hosted SaaS version, though, which might be affordable if you don't produce a lot of pages: https:&#
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Have you looked at Prince [1]? It's commercial, but highly regarded. The coolest project I've seen with it is OMA (Rem Koolhaas' architecture firm), which uses it to print internal, very professional-looking booklets automati
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
I can see that happening in cases of regulatory capture (e.g. present-day EPA and FCC), but how would it happen otherwise?
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
My personal theory is that the people who experience this problem are people who produce or invite an above-average amount of particulate into their work space (whether it's cigarette ash, bread crumbs, skin flakes/dandruff, cat h
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Scene in question: https://youtu.be/Y-V7ZxueazA?t=86 . Good example.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Are you outside the US? Because in the US, in my experience, almost all plastic bags are super thin [1] and not at all reusable; they tear at the slightest perforation, which is why grocery stores double- and triple-bag them constantly. Not
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Thanks for the link. Well, all state transition mechanics benefit from the strict, pure serializability that Redux offers. In this case, it was a component that not only autocompletes a location, but also offered to geolocate the user (vi
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
It's not that other frameworks are so awesome at it, either. But other frameworks (e.g. Apple's frameworks such as Cocoa/UIKit, Core Data, etc.) typically don't provide the kind of strict state-machine purity that Redux
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
I don't mean promises; thunks are fine, but don't solve the hard problems. I mean actions that start asynchronous processes such as fetching data remotely via XHR. In the end, such actions tend to be extremely similar. I tend to h
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
This type of data flow where components need to plug into multiple instances of the same type of state is an area where Redux doesn't help you, and solutions tend to be ad-hoc, using things like the "special keys" you menti
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
For multi-country trips, you want a European rail pass, e.g. from this site [1]. A 5-day ticket for the entirety of Europe is about $480, though you get a 15% discount for two people. If you're only doing 4 countries, it's about $
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Historic Tale Construction Kit: Create Your Own Bayeux Tapestry(htck.github.io)
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Correction: 4.5 hours, not 2.5 hours.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
It's amazing that until just a few years ago, there wasn't a direct translation of Solaris available in English. The English-language version, by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, was a translation of the French edition, which was
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Driving is not the alternative for me. Flying is. Chicago to Portland is a 2.5 hour flight for $180-200 round trip, make it 4 if you factor in transportation and security. That's why it's insane. Trains should be competing with fl
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Still completely insane.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
I actually checked a whole bunch of different dates. Cheapest non-stop I can find using that biketrain.net page is $1,532 r/t.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
No, roomette. Chicago-Portland direct round trip, in mid-May, is $1,900 for the two-person "Superliner Roomette". I checked a bunch of possible journeys, and the cheapest round-trip roomette ticket was $1,000.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Back in 2006 or so when I last used Flickr, one of my biggest problems was spam and noise. One of the biggest annoyances was the constant comments from "award groups" that wanted you to join them, enticing you with some arbitrary
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
Mermaid is great, and I've used it for architectural diagrams of how tech stacks are put together, or data flows between apps. But it only produces marginally nicer-looking diagrams than Graphviz, and it optimizes badly against unneces
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
I was considering taking a trip from NYC, since I like railway journeys. The NYC-Montreal (10.5 hours) and NYC-Toronto (12.5 hours) trips would be perfect... but they only have the café cars, which means microwaved, pre-made airline food. A
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
As I understand it, you need a brokerage account to get this; it's called the "High Yield Investor checking and savings account". It's not intended for most people, though apparently they don't care if you get the b
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
There are RPMs for all sorts of general purpose software, of course, but it's rare to deploy one's own apps (as in the one that runs your product or whatever) via RPM.
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
I've heard of a few people using RPM for app deployment, but the fact that it's not a widespread solution shows that it's not ideal. It has several issues. For example, it ties your apps to a very specific distributions. Depe

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