mdellabitta

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by mdellabitta 9y ago
People have reacted fairly strongly to the threat of defunding organizations like the NEA and the NEH, but haven't really recognized the threat against IMLS, which is the Federal agency in America that funds a lot of this. Worth a look
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by mdellabitta 9y ago
Hey, I'm wondering why you didn't consider using stopwords to prevent bloated inverted index entries fir words like 'the'?
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by mdellabitta 9y ago
Digital Public Library of America | Frontend Developer | Boston, MA | Full time | Remote | $80k-100k http://bit.ly/2q84JVC The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse an
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
> Hopefully your salary is enough to be able to afford ~$65,000 worth of option exercises every year, should you be interested in purchasing them! Just dropping a quick clairification: OP should not assume it's necessarily a good id
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
Have you looked at Truffle & Graal, which are going to be introduced in Java 9 to some extent? https://medium.com/@octskyward/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69#.h... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graa
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
> They get over it, eventually. Someone tell that to KDE!
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
Pissh. A sufficiently sophisticated keyboard is capable of playing arbitrary music of the user's choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG83krAsXO8
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
"The story of computing begins roughly 4000 years ago..."
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
Only problem is the Pi Zero has pretty poor availability.
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
I'm not sure any comparison would ever really be fair simply because SF is much more hospitable in the winter as compared to Toronto. That has an effect on homeless populations as well. Compare Vancouver and Toronto and you'll see
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Eulogy for The New York Times R&D Lab(medium.com)
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
But is it likely that they are? I would imagine no.
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
On Google, "dragon book amazon" lands me on a Google page. On DDG, "dragon book !amazon" lands me on an Amazon search result page. Very different. By adding one !, I saved a whole page load and render, and having to clic
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
Just FYI, !gm works the same as !gmaps
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
> I call bullshit. Can you spell datamining? Pretty sure you just suggested they make money by datamining cat gif and dank meme traffic...
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
Do you think it's more likely that they invented a unique id scheme that requires 50 bytes, or that they're using an overly wide datatype for ordinary UUIDs?
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by mdellabitta 10y ago
Don't forget about the threats of cave ins and poisonous gas...
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
I see, I was reacting to the slide that mentioned ODBC and JDBC are slow. It makes sense that no matter the context, forcing the DB engine to parse and plan SQL it hasn't seen before could be quite a bit slower than parsing/planni
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
You say JDBC is slow, but what if you're using PreparedStatements and PreparedStatement caching? Isn't that similar?
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
> Claiming that blacks are a different species, not even a different race, is some next level Hitler / KKK / etc. shit. I may be missing something, but the claim I've read around the Internet is that "Africans" a
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
It would be pretty hilarious if this was a ML problem.
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
Yeah, my last name has a space in it. For a while, the NY DMV's computer couldn't handle that, so my license had a hyphen in my last name. Talk about insulting.
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
Sounds like Microsoft has to up their game, then...
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
The point of the story is that social proof isn't enough when it comes to legal matters. The author contrasts his behavior with Michelle's to point out what can happen when you use social proof rather than direct legal advice.
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
The over-incarceration problem unfortunately does not extend to the white collar sector very much. EDIT: rather, there's generally a problem of underages, not overages.
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
Hey, anybody remember LeafyHost? http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=238085
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
I assume the discussion around how to manage HN addiction will be conducted elsewhere?
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
That's awesome. You're lucky she didn't just elbow you in the face from adrenaline.
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
Reddit itself was not like Reddit is now less than a decade ago. It itself was more like HN, although clearly not the same.
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by mdellabitta 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight

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