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by msluyter 11y ago
Well, wrt chess, we can have dueling GM quote battles over this point: From "Andrei Istratescu's top 10 reasons for stagnation:" 1) Too much play Playing chess - practice - is very important for improvement. When you play ch
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by msluyter 11y ago
The author did mention Dropwizard: The first wave was around lightweight Java frameworks (a few of which we wrote about: Dropwizard vs. Springboot). These delivered lightweight, modern frameworks for Java and helped cut down development ti
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by msluyter 11y ago
It seems that you can upgrade to 32GB as well. For the iMac, yes, but apparently not for the Macbook Pros. See: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJLT2L...
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by msluyter 12y ago
One great resource is the high scalability website/blog: http://highscalability.com
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by msluyter 12y ago
A concrete example we've faced. A certain operation requires writing data to N flaky services. You successfully write to N-1 of them, but the Nth fails. Now what do you do? If these N things were just database writes to the same DB, tr
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by msluyter 12y ago
Could be promising but falls short for my use cases, which mainly consists of running ad hoc queries. I don't like Squirrel, but here are a few things squirrel does that are nice that I wish this did: 1. Auto limit 2. Syntax highlighti
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by msluyter 12y ago
I think you're on to something in recognizing the impact of other people. It's very difficult to just learn something in a sustained way in a vacuum, even if you deem it important. Eventually, you'll either get bored or find
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by msluyter 12y ago
Yeah, when I hit save from the admin console, I errors in the console, like: http://msluyter.github.io/blog/hubpress/scripts/Dexie.min.js... Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404
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by msluyter 12y ago
I have a similar issue. I was able to access the admin console, but get a 401 when trying to save anything.
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by msluyter 12y ago
I've thought a lot about this. 1. Noise -- ironically, I can concentrate in a loud coffee shop much better than in the open office, because the sounds of the former blend into a general din, while in the latter, various conversations g
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by msluyter 12y ago
I've felt for a while that not knowing much about sports has been a huge liability. As in, sitting at lunch with co-workers locked out of the conversation because I didn't know anything. So, a couple of years ago, I had a sports-f
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by msluyter 12y ago
I like Twilight Struggle a great deal, but I find its top BGG ranking somewhat odd. I'd wager there's a sort of selection effect: the sort of person willing to sit down for a 2 player game in the first place is probably the sort o
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by msluyter 12y ago
Side note: I've been on a ketogenic diet (high fat, very low carb) for a couple of months now and, cognitively, I feel far sharper and more alert than at any point I can recall. And more stable -- no more post lunch slump. So there&#x2
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by msluyter 12y ago
shrug . This seems like a pretty standard use of the ternary operator to me. I mean, just google examples of Comparator, and you'll find tons of examples like this: @Override public int compareTo(Object arg0) { Country
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by msluyter 12y ago
There's the language and there's the ecosystem. A lot of negative feelings that still linger are, IMHO, directed more at some of the painful historical aspects of the ecosystem: J2EE XML configuration hell, EJBs, bloated applicati
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by msluyter 12y ago
For some reason I was having difficulty getting it to connect to our internal servers, though I could connect to one on my local machine. I'm guessing ssl related. In any event, definitely pretty neat, though it wouldn't really re
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by msluyter 12y ago
Yet the idolatry has had a stifling effect on subsequent generations of composers, who must compete on a playing field that was designed to prolong Beethoven’s glory. Odd that the article doesn't leverage much evidence to support thi
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by msluyter 12y ago
Yeah, this is what I was thinking. Though I do have backups of my photos/music, in a worse case scenario in which all my drives were lost/stolen/eaten simultaneously I would lose everything. (This would be unlikely, because o
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by msluyter 12y ago
There is a tool we use at work (rpmbuild, I believe) that's not available via homebrew and only through macports. It's a nightmare, because if you install macports, it interferes with brew (or at least, brew will complain a lot).
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by msluyter 12y ago
+1 for introducing me to the term "bullshittery." My undergrad was in music and when I went for a master's in CS, I knew like, nothing, and suffered under a lot of the command line bullshittery he refers to. And most profs at
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by msluyter 12y ago
Are we including cashing out a 401k/IRA in these results?
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by msluyter 12y ago
At least part of it is that folks like my mom just never attach their phones to their computers and ignore any upgrade notifications on their devices, so they basically never upgrade until their son comes to visit. This applies to me as wel
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by msluyter 12y ago
Possibly http://www.goodreads.com .
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by msluyter 12y ago
How is it possible that ruby is faster than Java? Are they counting jvm startup time or something? That seems rather suspicious to me.
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by msluyter 12y ago
I think the problem is that it's not possible (or rather, extremely difficult) to choose in any global sense, due to co-ordination problems. A very interesting (though long and occasionally whimsical) essay called "Meditations on
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by msluyter 12y ago
Kevin Drum has been making the case for lead quite passionately. Some interesting articles: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li... http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru
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by msluyter 12y ago
The action of the switches is described as "crisp," but is it light? Ideal for me is something with a very light but not mushy action. If that's the case with these, then... please take my money.
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by msluyter 12y ago
Alex Tabarrok has been discussing this passionately on the Marginal Revolution blog: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/08/fer... http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevol
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by msluyter 12y ago
Playing devil's advocate for a second, I'm wondering whether HN's somewhat kludgy method of following someone's responses to your comments has the unexpected benefit of allowing conversations to die a natural death. The
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by msluyter 12y ago
Nice writeup, though I would have liked some examples using "partition by". The main gotcha I recall -- and it's somewhat confusing the first time you run across it -- is that things like last_row() don't work as expecte

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