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by mojoe 11y ago
I'm disheartened that my site seems scary to you -- the "we" referenced is myself and some friends who have signed up as slush readers. I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know what information I could publish t
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Compelling Science Fiction is a self-funded hobby -- I want to support the creation of great science fiction. Ultimately I'd like it if the project became self-sustaining, which would allow me to pay more authors more money and promote
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Show HN: I'm looking for science fiction writers(compellingsciencefiction.com)
103 points by mojoe 11y ago|81 comments
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My data science group is currently transitioning to Python-based development from R. It's actually amazing how much faster Python development is, because of two things: 1. R libraries (and even rarely the R interpreter itself!) tend to
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by mojoe 11y ago
Unit testing has saved my butt twice in the past week alone. It's hard to overestimate the development time savings you can get with unit tests and a good continuous integration pipeline.
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Using Unit Tests to Write Better Embedded Software(allaboutcircuits.com)
4 points by mojoe 11y ago|1 comments
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One of the World's Top Aging Researchers Has a Pill to Keep You Feeling Young(fastcoexist.com)
2 points by mojoe 11y ago|1 comments
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by mojoe 11y ago
Reminds me of the math program that Jason Roberts is providing to a group of younger students in Pasadena. If you've never heard the TechZing podcast I'd recommend it: http://techzinglive.com/
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by mojoe 11y ago
I use lambda in a pipeline that spins up ec2 instances using a cloudformation template. The lambda is kicked off by an SNS message sent by a GUI on a dedicated server, and also checks an SQS queue.
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Yep, and considering that extreme poverty leads to all kinds of avoidable crime, I'd much rather live in a society where people are doing something unproductive (like playing video games all day) rather than going out and hurting each
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I've thought about this a lot, and if you assume that automation will continue to put more and more people out of work, then there seems to be two probable paths forward: either bureaucracy continues to grow, causing more and more peop
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This is a cool analysis, although I think every t-shirt I own is from Target (Merona and Mossimo brands) so I didn't have a single point of reference for the width and length charts. Those charts seemed like by far the most useful part
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by mojoe 11y ago
Vernor Vinge is very good -- try "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky".
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It's possible to successfully breed inbred insects like this, because eventually you can select out all the ones with recessive gene problems (you can get lots of generations quickly with insects). The big issue is that such a homogene
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Having such a genetically homogeneous population would make me nervous about disease potentially wiping them all out. Hopefully they can keep many breeding pairs in multiple locations around the world to prevent this.
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There are definitely a lot of school officials that do a disservice to students by not explaining to them what the job market actually looks like. It would be amazing if more officials and parents were able to convey to students which degre
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by mojoe 11y ago
This was definitely frustrating to read. I graduated from college in 2008, and myself and most of my friends went to state schools with relatively low tuitions. We got some academic scholarships to cover parts of the tuition, and even then
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Locked In: Behind the Scenes of the Escape Room Craze(makezine.com)
1 points by mojoe 11y ago|0 comments
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It lasts just long enough for my round trip commute! Too bad the entire route is restricted airspace. If they ever release I wonder how these will be regulated under existing laws.
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I would guess that whoever said this meant "0-2 per week" when busy with work. Taken literally it means he takes almost no vacation, unless you assume there's a third label beyond work and vacation :)
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by mojoe 11y ago
You impelled me to go look up groupthink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink It looks like the main idea behind the groupthink term is that it results in "an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outco
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by mojoe 11y ago
We've come a long way from the days of unloading individual items from ships by hand. The NPR Planet Money podcast had a great show on the invention of shipping containers: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/20
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by mojoe 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, what's the probability that Twitter would shut down these river gauge accounts because they're not people? Does Twitter have a history of leaving projects like this alone?
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I can't determine what the postulates are that this proof is based upon. If someone has a relatively succinct explanation, I'd appreciate it.
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Mocking Embedded Hardware Interfaces with Ceedling and CMock(electronvector.com)
3 points by mojoe 11y ago|0 comments
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The fact that the cooled compressed air expands upon exiting the machine is also very important -- this, along with impurities in the water, allows nucleation to happen immediately as the water exits the nozzles. More info here: https:&#x2
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For those unfamiliar with ambergris, it's a waxy secretion from the digestive system of whales that is sometimes found floating in clumps in the ocean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
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Oracle Data Cloud | Westminster, CO (Denver/Boulder area) | onsite The Oracle Data Cloud (ODC) is currently looking for two different skill sets: 1. data scientists that have experience with big data tools (Spark, Hive, Hadoop, etc) an
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I know several people who worked for a company with an abusive culture, and they were definitely miserable. What's interesting is that these types of interviewers attract people who are themselves abusive, and eventually (without outsi
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I like the idea of bookmarking services, but I've never used one due to the fact that I always have enough to do at any given moment. I've never had a moment where I thought "OK, now I have time to get to those articles I boo

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