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by math 8y ago
David Cope used lisp for his 'Experiments in Musical Intelligence'. Lisp is very suited to this problem, and it's through his books that I first 'got' lisp (at the time, I was trying to do something similar in Java)
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by math 8y ago
It upsets me more to be reminded that governments grant monopolies on not-very-difficult-to-come-up-with ideas such as any of those mentioned in the article.
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by math 10y ago
Confluent also provide commercial support for it and employ Magnus who developed it. I've been working closely with librdkafka for a few months now and find it fast and reliable. Many companies rely on it in production. In addition to
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by math 10y ago
Here are my notes on getting Kafka running on a system with limited resources (it's pretty easy): https://kafka.blog/posts/scaling-down-apache-kafka/ It actually runs well in such scenarios, it's just th
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by math 10y ago
My experience over the last few months has been v. good. Earlier (maybe even 6 months ago), my sentiment would have more mirrored that of the parent. The main downside at the moment is many of the packages on NuGet don't target dotnet
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by math 11y ago
I lived in Sydney for 8 months and Brisbane for 4 years. When thinking back, both feel like a distinct part of my life to a surprisingly equal extent. Maximizing the number of distinct phases in your life seems to me to be important in maki
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by math 11y ago
I wrote go-like because I think of C#/.NET and go as somewhat comparable and I'm not aware of any other language in a similar class that produces statically-linked binaries. However I'm pretty ignorant, so would not be surpri
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by math 11y ago
"I wonder if I’m hurting my chances of future employment by working so long on my own." Based on my recent experience getting back in the game after 5 years of self directed projects (not all of them software related) I would say
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by math 11y ago
no - they first mentioned plans for cross platform go-style single binary compilation at connect (one of the videos here I believe: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event... ) and I'm pre
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by math 11y ago
Not anything to do with this CMU effort, but I've been working on a tool for visualization/exploration of large time-series data sets (where time-series are identified by a set of key/value pairs). I wasn't going to tell
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by math 11y ago
yeah. I actually suggested that to someone who sells an industrial historian and his response (believe it or not!) was that no, there is too much data, a relational database solution is no good (and by the way! the business model of inducti
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by math 11y ago
On this, I get a lot more upset with those setting the rules than those playing the game.
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by math 11y ago
For it to get popular I think a friction-less way of adding bookmarks is a key requirement (I'd very likely use it then - have been looking for something like this)
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by math 11y ago
you could allow free use of patents under a license that requires the entity doing so to also allow free use of their patents. If you believed the patent system is largely counter productive (as I do), this would be an awesome way of trying
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by math 11y ago
These guys seem to think relational databases are a valid alternative in the process automation world, and seem to have made a successful business around the idea: https://inductiveautomation.com/news/process-historians
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by math 11y ago
On that page I was basing my opinion on woeful animation speed, but now I think that's probably some issue with events. Ok, here's what I'm working on: http://www.datavstime.com/horizons - i think the followi
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by math 11y ago
on a mac. SVG for sure, eg: http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/bundle.html I'm pretty sure other things as well including text and updating text in a text input element, though I haven't deb
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by math 11y ago
I've found the gap in rendering performance between chrome and firefox to be enormous (in a number of areas) - didn't realize this until I started doing some pretty intensive visualization stuff lately. are those numbers you cite
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by math 11y ago
indeed. "Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is th
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by math 11y ago
gRPC is probably worth mentioning in this thread (new since the article), though I haven't used it yet and have no idea if it can satisfy his asynchronous requirement. He considers using message queues and dismisses the idea because &q
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by math 11y ago
Two points here: 1. I'm more inclined to judge a policy by the net benefits to society rather than specific participants in it. 2. I actually think the patent system favors large enterprise more often than it does small companies. For
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by math 11y ago
For me, .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 are the most exciting things going on in this space at the moment. On Linux, it's all still too buggy to be usable in beta5 (the version shipping with VS2015), but the vibe I'm getting from the week
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by math 11y ago
Yes, I think there would be some system of government sponsorship that would more efficiently deliver the same benefits to society. On the other hand, you can probably rely on governments to screw it up, and it's a tricky issue so I&#x
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by math 11y ago
Most of the time, I don't think you do. I think innovation is still going to happen anyway. For example, I think companies would have still made mobile phones and furthermore I think they would be better without patents because one mak
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by math 11y ago
The CLR offers a lot of functionality that the JVM doesn't (see Someone123's comment) - which in my opinion makes is it a lot more compelling - so in that way it is more sophisticated than the JVM. A reference to back your stateme
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by math 11y ago
user CHY872 says it much better than me :-)
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by math 11y ago
Probably, but you'd expect that because the interviews only test part of what is required to be a good employee. It's just a in-precise filter - a bar they force you to jump over, which if you manage to do so pretty much proves yo
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by math 11y ago
For software engineers at least, I think the Google interview process would naturally select younger people. You need to have a pretty good grip on algorithms / ability to do programming competition like problems and in my experience a
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by math 11y ago
Related: The best study I'm aware of that attempts to estimate the distribution of fund manager skills is this one by Fama and French (of 3 factor model fame) from 2009: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstr
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by math 12y ago
it's perhaps worth remembering the service isn't 100% altruistic... though I agree it is indeed awesome and I'd probably be happy to pay for it too.

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