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by lsb 16y ago
I was living in Stoke Newington 3 years ago with a couple, paying £585/mo for a first-story rowhouse flat with a backyard garden and a piano and an open invite to the older gentleman's main home in Seville, and was 2 blocks off of the A10,
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by lsb 16y ago
They're accounting for gender, age, education, and physical activity, but are they also taking into account things like free time and stress level and salary? If I need shove junk food into my face between my day job and my night job, of c
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by lsb 16y ago
What are the benefits of holding onto each instance?
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by lsb 16y ago
2x speed improvements by getting better memory management. It's astounding how good Ruby feels to program in, as well as how much the webapp bounce cycle can hide significant infrastructure problems.
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by lsb 16y ago
That's a pretty ungoogleable name. "e business card" might be hard to optimize for.
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by lsb 16y ago
Romans used to use the ammonia in urine to clean sweat and salt off of clothes, and then a second round of sulphur would whiten the urine color off of the clothes. You'd have to have your clothes airing out for a year to get the stench out
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by lsb 16y ago
Constraint Handling Rules. CHR looks pretty interesting; I saw someone describe an implementation of Fibonacci heaps in CHR[1] as "executable pseudocode", and that's generally a sign of something useful. [1] http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~
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by lsb 16y ago
Encoding system information into a string should be a last resort. That's why a good type system, where you can encode EscapedString [Char] versus UnescapedString [Char] as strings of different types, where you have to work hard to do
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by lsb 16y ago
Not to be a ML/Haskell weenie, but dynamic languages aren't the only ones that don't require writing out every single damn type. We've had type inference since 1982, thanks to Hindley and Milner, and you get free compiler-enforced testing
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by lsb 16y ago
Also with more RAM, more and more datasets are fitting in memory. You can have all of Wikipedia in memory on a machine that costs as much as a Venti Latte per day.
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by lsb 16y ago
I'm a Jew. I got Chinese food.
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by lsb 16y ago
It's the opposite way: Debug.Trace.trace :: String -> a -> a and if you don't like debug.trace, you can make your own, via unsafePerformIO! hackyDebugTrace s v = unsafePerformIO (putStrLn s >>= \_ -> return v)
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by lsb 16y ago
MTurk has been in beta for a while. What's new about MTurk since last year?
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by lsb 16y ago
The reward is one-click sign-in for 500M users. If you're an instant personalization partner, zero-click sign-in for 500M users. To have zero-or-one-click sign-in for half a billion users is a useful feature to have. Just keep your own lo
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by lsb 16y ago
As hackermom said above, "exercise" doesn't have to be some boring gym workout; cycling or running to work is exercise too, and makes for a far more awesome commute (if you live within 10 miles of work).
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by lsb 16y ago
Good design is as obtrusive as it needs to be --- a fruit juicer shouldn't call attention to itself as much as the center of religious and political life in a town.
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by lsb 16y ago
Census data's definitely interesting. If you have the cash, you can rent a box with 68GB of memory for $0.70/hr on EC2, as a spot instance.
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by lsb 16y ago
If you don't have enormous amounts of data, one thing I've found helpful on my own projects is to make a hot backup of the database every time the schema changes, as well as make hot backups daily, and then when you check out a version of c
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by lsb 16y ago
1) Shower in the office: makes it easy to cycle to work and feel fresh afterwards. 2) Smart colleagues: for work and non-work conversation. 3) Fridges stocked with healthy food: junk food is cheaper, but leaves you unable to think clearly.
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by lsb 16y ago
Their main goal is in disseminating information. The front page is just the wrapping paper. If you want to further their goals, seed their torrents.
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by lsb 16y ago
Are you just inexperienced? Don't prematurely sell yourself short. I'd read that a Rails hosting company found that 70% of their customers hadn't properly indexed their tables, and knowing's half the battle.
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by lsb 16y ago
Wordpress has had lots of security issues; see tptacek's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328261 Given their prioritization of ease-of-use over security, why would anyone want to run your own WP install, instead of wordpress.
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by lsb 16y ago
Funeral wreaths on the side of the road as decoration commemorating nothing reminds me of Ghost Bikes. It's bicycles spray-painted white, chained up close to the scene of fatal bike accidents, with a descriptive placard. It started in NYC
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by lsb 16y ago
Not tackling pattern matching is a pretty big deficiency. Otherwise, it seems interesting, and I wonder if :i-o would really be easier to type than IO for most use cases.
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by lsb 16y ago
The fact that they outsource their news-gathering doesn't bode well either.
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by lsb 16y ago
I have a double-major in Computer Science and Latin, and the history/rhetoric/linguistics that you learn from studying humanities is mind-opening. (Paul Graham compared Latin and Lisp in this way.) And if you manage to do a literary analys
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by lsb 16y ago
At a hospital that my dad programs for, the radiologists were using medical transcription software to translate "normal foot, normal shoulder" into doctor-speak, and the pre-canned phrases were too repetitive to be pleasant, so they ended u
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by lsb 16y ago
And, for one day, it was "Innocuous News". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
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by lsb 16y ago
I believe they got 50% compliance at Yale, from the same format. The 92% obedience was in the format where the "teacher" is in a group of paid actors, and one of the other actors was actually pressing the switch while the "teacher" read the
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by lsb 16y ago
If only there were a mapping to make a relation in my data store out of an object in my language. ActiveRecord seems like a local maximum, and I'd be very curious to see what comes up in the next decade.

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