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by mtrn 10y ago
> I used sed today to complete a "large story" in a single command. Great, I sometimes do that, too. Downside is that your patience level for "enterprise architecture" goes way down.
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by mtrn 10y ago
Just a thought: Is it mostly select statements that your colleagues write? Because if they do, they might not fear accidentally altering the data. I found that new programmers can get confused by the difference between things that are immut
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by mtrn 10y ago
There was a spreadsheet floating around on r/libraries from 2007 about the subscription costs in Tennessee: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/4jodic/found_an_...
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by mtrn 10y ago
> You may hate it but... you clicked on it. We're giving you what you want. You tell me once, I need X, I won't care. You tell me ten times a day I need X, I might get tired. Color me pessimistic, but people in general just nee
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by mtrn 10y ago
From a developer perspective many aspects of the current system (with respect to resource usage and allocation) look like technical debt. Governments may try to make ends meet with limited budgets and come up with sometimes nonsensical or j
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Futuristic Chinese Bus Concept Aims to Improve Public Transit(youtube.com)
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by mtrn 10y ago
> One problem is that people are too macho to admit they have cognitive limits. Yes, I experienced this and it seems to be a real problem, for various reasons: if it does not look complicated, investors won't like it, won't buy
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by mtrn 10y ago
> but the essence of science, the pursuit of better understanding, is lacking When I read articles and books from scholars from the 19th and beginning 20th century, I'm often surprised how broad their horizons were and how cautious
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by mtrn 10y ago
Funny, people seemed to have used the site because it was owned by academics, e.g. http://kennethcwilbur.com/whyssrn.html > Since SSRN is owned by academics, I expect it will continue offering similar services for the
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by mtrn 10y ago
Thanks, just sent an request for invitation.
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by mtrn 10y ago
Great, thanks, would love to contribute since it looks like a useful product.
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by mtrn 10y ago
Excellent, thanks!
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by mtrn 10y ago
Never heard of infinit.sh, but it looks great. The repo is almost empty, though ( https://github.com/infinit/infinit ). Is the code completely open source? Could I setup infinit.sh inside my own infrastructure?
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by mtrn 10y ago
I don't believe in rewrites. But I believe in the evolution of the understanding, what a system is supposed to do and how to do it. A customer might have a lofty web-scale vision, the first version is built with all scaling and no main
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by mtrn 10y ago
I don't think so. HN frontpage HTML is about 31201 bytes at the moment. Techcrunch 249162, Google 64871. Here, less is more.
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by mtrn 11y ago
youtube-dl is great. It belongs to a class of software, that could not exists without a place like github (or any platform, that makes it easy to contribute). Many developers (here: 403) sharing the burden of keeping the scrapers up-to-date
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by mtrn 11y ago
Would love to share experiences or collaborate (contact in profile if you are interested).
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by mtrn 11y ago
Interesting. To be honest, a static data set would be perfectly fine for a first batch processing attempt. > that could be used to get the kind of data you need. Cool. Would you be interested in sharing or exchanging data?
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by mtrn 11y ago
I see scientific agents on the horizon and with them a new wave of research. But access to raw data, e.g. publications, is very limited and restricted. It's a pity.
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by mtrn 11y ago
I would love to have a list of URL of all .edu domains, which contain the word "publications". It's a bit silly, but I'd love to build a open version something like Google Scholar. I can think of many other use cases as
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by mtrn 11y ago
I would pay for an API, that gives me access to partial quality crawl content. It would be even better, if the web would be treated, at least for parts, as a digital library and non-profit organizations would recognize the value of access t
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by mtrn 11y ago
I guess, the library authors needed to learn Go themselves as they build up the stdlib.
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by mtrn 11y ago
Turbo Pascal 5 got me into programming. I wish people would build smaller things again.
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by mtrn 11y ago
The Go standard library. At least two things coming together: A stripped down language, that explicitly aims to be readable and experienced programmers / authors.
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by mtrn 11y ago
Sticking with a MacBook Pro 13" as well. Gives you a hard limit on the length of functions that fit on a screen. Upgraded to 16G RAM, 1TB SSD + 2TB HDD (not really possible with Retina), since I work a lot with data. Would love to upgr
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by mtrn 11y ago
Flink comes from a more database oriented background. It grew out of research project at TU Berlin[1]. I believe, Flink tried to focus on query language and optimization, as you probably would in a database settings. In contrast, Spark is s
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by mtrn 11y ago
They might not be perfect, but my uBlock says 611,492 or 8% blocked requests, which still helps.
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by mtrn 11y ago
Thanks for your insight and encouragement. I actually studied compsci and creative writing, so I have a background in both. I am still working as a software developer / "data engineer" by day, and I am starting to sketch out
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Ask HN: Is it possible to live off technical writing?
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Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind(southampton.ac.uk)
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