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by lumpypua 12y ago
Ehhh, the analogy doesn't hold totally because you might not have to pay it back. In that case you're ahead. FTA: Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code (without tests) because they capture the unpredictability
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by lumpypua 12y ago
I've typed in dvorak day to day since about 2004. I type in querty on my phone without any issues—the devices are different enough that my nervous system doesn't get confused. On library computers and such I'm reduced to hunt
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Yah there's really good explanation of why eukaryotes are jump posted up above! http://ronbarak.tumblr.com/post/25996121029/life-is-it-inevi...
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by lumpypua 12y ago
I agree with your overall statistical/singularity argument, but that's not reason enough to call a great filter nonsense. The biology of a great filter is at play along with the overall cosmological context. "Power, Sex, and
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Power, Sex, and Suicide is one of the best books that has ever been written for the educated lay audience on biology. Great topics—the origin of life, sex, maad biochemistry. Seriously, if you're interested in biology and you have a
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Can't speak to likelihood of discovering life on Europa but it would be fucking awesome. To be clear, microbial life in no way entails higher life. It's only by the insanely chance event of the eurkaryotic cell emerging that s
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by lumpypua 12y ago
The mechanical solutions are always really interesting and clever, but digital systems are much more flexible. Really cool video on the mechanical ignition timing control in a delorean to control emissions. Explanation of ignition advance a
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by lumpypua 12y ago
There are 100s of ex-googler startups. I've personally worked at 2 between 2008 and 2011, then went to google, then started my own ex-googler startup!
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by lumpypua 12y ago
> The difficulty with pointers is, for me, keeping track of them in your head, especially when you work with arrays. I think this is mostly an artifact of C's type system. I wish pointers were taught in a language with similar runti
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by lumpypua 12y ago
I do agree with this critique. Object allocation patterns that suck down space in a GC'ed system equally abuse a refcounting system, just you're paying in CPU time rather than memory.
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by lumpypua 12y ago
> What algorithm are you referring to when you say "better throughput at the expense of significantly increased memory usage"? Here's a discussion of the particular paper behind that statement: [1] I'd also like to re
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by lumpypua 12y ago
GC has better throughput at the expense of significantly increased memory usage, and variable latency for any individual task. On servers, that's fine. On my phone, I'll take lower memory usage and predictable latency any day. Yay
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by lumpypua 12y ago
https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/urb/zod/arvo/ames... There are hundreds of lines of noise. This makes perl and forth look absurdly readable. What on earth do the directory and f
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by lumpypua 12y ago
To paraphrase, all problems can be solved by another level of indirection.
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by lumpypua 12y ago
You have 200 tabs open? 120-200 in each Chrome, FF, Safari. How do you find the tab you want? For me each window has tabs on a particular topic, e.g. database api docs plus stack overflow (10 tabs), a javascript one (7 tabs), hackernews
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Sick, thank you for the reply and pointer to uniplate and associated tools!
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by lumpypua 12y ago
As an intermediate Haskeller I'm curious, what's the replacement for SYB? I've worked in haskell primarily on compiler-like tree tranformation code and SYB seems to fit the bill perfectly.
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Give it a shot. There's much to be learned by having these discussions in public!
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by lumpypua 12y ago
You don't need to inject it. I use ketamine for management of depression, though I've thankfully been doing well and haven't needed it for the past 6-8 months. The fast relief getting you back to being able to function and ca
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by lumpypua 12y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1e8k3k/three_exampl... Tekmo I highly recommend reading these slides by Oleg: http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/Iteratee/IterateeIO-tal
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by lumpypua 12y ago
I liken this to Intel's "tick tock" development approach. If they're moving to a new microarchitecture they stay on the same process, and if they're doing a process shrink they use the same microarchitecture. Workin
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Thanks man, very cool!
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by lumpypua 12y ago
PDFs are nice. I print 'em out, read them on the crapper and pretend I'm at the googleplex. <3 Testing on the Toilet
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Does anything else have the capability to work with the json format? Or what can I convert it into?
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by lumpypua 12y ago
The public perception of evolution misses out on the depth of scientific work being done these days. Two more books that make modern evolutionary research accessible to the public: 1. Nick Lane's Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and t
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by lumpypua 12y ago
This seems great! What is it?
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Agreed, a display of stars for projects hosted on github would be amazing. Tells me the projects I need to know about.
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Any suggestions on packages you're using for your Go toolchain? I'm a django developer that's somewhat fed up with python's slowness. I love django but I'm looking to diversify. I've worked through a bunch of G
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by lumpypua 12y ago
Montserrat looks great over here (albeit mac): http://i.imgur.com/BNdPqG0.png
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by lumpypua 12y ago
I like your graphing a lot definitely! LS has a similar network activity visualization. You can of course drill down by process and such: http://i.imgur.com/ZQX0XEa.png As a power user, I like alerts for all unclassified ne

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