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by luhn 9y ago
I don't see how that's relevant. Repurposing an old oil rig is a far cry from scuttling it.
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by luhn 9y ago
> Always write your plan -out, and apply that plan I have in my dotfiles: alias tfplan='terraform plan -out=.tfplan -refresh=false' alias tffreshplan='terraform plan -out=.tfplan' alias tfapply='ter
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by luhn 9y ago
I love Postgres' time handling, even more so whenever I have to handcraft time-based queries in other databases, like MongoDB (which is more often than I'd like). Some things the author didn't mention that I like: * Timestamp
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by luhn 9y ago
Best practice is to ask for those permissions as they come up, rather than asking a user to trust your app with the world up front. https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...
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by luhn 9y ago
Besides both being a rounded cylinder, they look nothing alike.
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by luhn 9y ago
> Jimbo Wales, in touting the value of overcoming fake news with his new WikiTribune, is without realizing it admitting to the utter corruption of the Wikipedia model. The author makes this assertion and then quickly moves on. I don&#x2
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by luhn 9y ago
Believe them both. Apple is investing massively into AI and is using it in their products. However, Google has been working with AI longer and has much more experience. (The article praises Amazon's AI chops as well, I dunno about
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by luhn 9y ago
AWS is launching instances from 4 to 16TB of memory in the coming year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-in-memory-processing-up... Even terabytes of data isn't "big" anymore.
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by luhn 9y ago
TL;DR: It's the same as Amazon Mechanical Turk, but aims for higher quality by screening the people performing the tasks.
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by luhn 9y ago
I'm not sure why you're linking to that. Care to elaborate?
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by luhn 9y ago
Dried eggs are definitely less desirable, but in cake batter they are there for neither taste nor texture, but rather for their chemical properties as a binding agent. Swapping out traditional egg for dried eggs wouldn't make a differ
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by luhn 9y ago
Re 2: That syntax is already in use by `SELECT schema.column`. I do agree that the syntax is a bit cumbersome and harder to learn, but I'm not sure if they could have done much better while being consistent with SQL.
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by luhn 9y ago
[2016]
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by luhn 9y ago
You aren't. They describe how to check your system for the Trojan if you've already run the installer.
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by luhn 9y ago
> ...people seeing eating as a nuisance that should be optimized away versus something that should be savoured and enjoyed. > In one world, Soylent could eventually dominate, in the other, it will remain a niche product because eating
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by luhn 9y ago
No, the name is directly referencing the movie. It's a tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, much in the spirit of programming culture.
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by luhn 9y ago
I've heard too many horror stories of people blowing through their data caps because Wifi Assist was too aggressive.
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by luhn 10y ago
I just started listening to the Startup podcast, which features Chris in the first episode. He seems to be a very intelligent and talented guy while still remaining grounded. I wish him well with his future endeavors. Also, ten minutes af
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by luhn 10y ago
What you showed in your example is Server-Sent Events, not HTTP2 Server Push.
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by luhn 10y ago
This is not multi-cloud as it is commonly defined: Simultaneously handle workloads with multiple cloud vendors, to prevent lock-in to a single vendor. Rather, this is passing workloads between AWS and Google to leverage the advantages of
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by luhn 10y ago
Instant Articles is the best experience I've ever had reading an article online. It loads lightning fast and doesn't have bloated layouts or obtrusive advertising. I was shocked the first time I [unknowingly] clicked on an Instan
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by luhn 10y ago
Yeah, F1s are generally available in US East now, so the pricing is listed. f1.2xlarge: $1.65 per Hour f1.16xlarge: $13.2 per Hour
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by luhn 10y ago
Sure it is. AI is a computer reacting to its environment to solve a problem. It doesn't necessitate machine learning, neural networks, or what-have-you.
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by luhn 10y ago
No, a CDN can support HTTP/2 server push on it's own. For example, https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/http2/server...
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by luhn 10y ago
Deis has changed a lot since I last looked at them. They've dropped their original PaaS and developed an ecosystem on top of Kubernetes. Microsoft has been showing a lot of interest in Docker, so can see why this acquisition would ma
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by luhn 10y ago
I've used SQS for a simple job queue before. It works well and it's nice not to have to worry about more infrastructure. To make things even better, Celery now has an SQS broker, which I'd like to try out. I've also ha
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by luhn 10y ago
How would the former affect web trackers?
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by luhn 10y ago
That behavior was what I was referring to. I only have limited understanding on the topic; it seems my explanation was not quite right. Thanks for correcting me.
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by luhn 10y ago
Floating point math is a bit fuzzy, so many languages will round to the nearest integer if the float is within a certain margin. Numeric types are meant to be exact, so they will be represented as an exact value.
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by luhn 10y ago
> aside: please don't abuse collections.namedtuple to make a simple Python object; the class is meant to help porting APIs that return a tuple to a more object-oriented one, so starting with namedtuple means you end up leaking a tup

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