mattmalin

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by mattmalin 5y ago
It's also taking down other services that depend on VMs spinning up e.g. builds in Pipelines: https://status.dev.azure.com/
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine services down many hours (so far)(status.azure.com)
20 points by mattmalin 5y ago|1 comments
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Existing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508629
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Overall I think it's good that we now have a pretty direct way to pay upfront for increased convenience of faster delivery time. This value is akin to the (opportunity) cost of actually going out to physically buy something if you want
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Overall I think it's good that we now have a pretty direct way to pay upfront for increased convenience of faster delivery time. This value is akin to the (opportunity) cost of actually going out to physically buy something if you want
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Agreed, not an equivalent system. Another scenario where this causes issues that a login equivalent can improve: imagine losing your phone including SIM card. This then causes a full interruption of all services tied to that phone number in
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by mattmalin 11y ago
This is the current system, but with "use this physical item, the SIM card, to login". This does assumes that the replacement phone in question is unlocked so can work on the other SIM card, but is certainly something that many pe
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Kobo evidently are doing some analysis on completion rates, and published a report last year aimed at publishers using analysis based on similar metrics: http://cafe.kobo.com/_ir/159/20149/Publishing%20in%20th
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by mattmalin 11y ago
This really would be interesting. I'd like to see data on overall completion % for ebooks. Assessing those books which tend to be completed once started would help identify the more interesting books. Combined with top selling book lis
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Note: this is not my work, just something I stumbled across. GitHub project is here, including examples of all angles considered: https://github.com/LasseD/BrickCounting
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All Combinations of Six 2x4 Lego Bricks(c-mt.dk)
42 points by mattmalin 11y ago|19 comments
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Very well presented and interesting analysis. Primary compliments I also have in particular for the author is inclusion of a link to source code and the concise but complete and informative "tools used section" describing the proc
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by mattmalin 11y ago
I also imagined floating point arithmetic problems when seeing the title. What is really happening here is that a, b and c may themselves have different values depending on the operation - as adding a month here isn't a fixed number of
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by mattmalin 11y ago
Whilst down, here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i4t2gyG...
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by mattmalin 11y ago
There's another lightweight version to do this here: https://github.com/mckamey/konami-js This includes a minified version resulting in a <1 kb addition to code: https://github.com/FlorianBezagu
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by mattmalin 12y ago
I'm also an actuary, but do some coding in my own time. I'm primarily here due to interest on current technology and programming trends and generally interesting articles. Our team does a lot of analysis programming in R rather th
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by mattmalin 12y ago
Both AnkiDroid and the iOS Anki support syncing, so then all reviews can place on the device without using any data and then synced later in the day. I do this myself and it works well: most of my Anki reviews each day take place using my p
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by mattmalin 13y ago
I had thought about that, and/or have it show information about the colour, but decided against it in the end as I really like the single purpose nature of it. I've also always quite liked the thought of people loading the site for the firs
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Explore the tree of life(onezoom.org)
1 points by mattmalin 14y ago|0 comments
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by mattmalin 14y ago
I also found the inaccuracy of the chart awful and looked into producing a correctly scaled version: http://i.imgur.com/8wgAk.png The main problem was being able to still display readable text, which should lead to using another way of vi