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by muaddirac 11y ago
Wouldn't you want your arrow to wobble so that it has a node right at the tip? The archer they interview says he that he times the wobble to be able to hit an aspirin, but in the slow motion video at the end, you can see that while the
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Wanted to add that as of 3.3, Python has a nice constant-time compare built in: https://docs.python.org/3/library/hmac.html#hmac.compare_dig...
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Jepson seems to do a lot of what you want in Bender: https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen and https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Some of this is reminiscent of xiki: http://xiki.org/
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I've been writing a blog locally that I haven't published since I don't feel I have an article that's really polished yet - but my plan was to publish in the blog format and also do a good job of categorizing my articles
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I always think that people dislike the sound of German because of its media representation. When it's only ever spoken like the political leaders in Triumph of the Will, it's understandably unpleasant. But I find spoken German qui
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I have to agree - the only whitespace-related errors I've ever come across are "IndentationErrors" - which are pretty easy to resolve.
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I have no interest in the issue and have barely skimmed some comments on it, but from what I understand a lot of the problem is the high chance mods will conflict or just not work at all - a game can update at any time and break mods. Payin
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by muaddirac 11y ago
This article is a confusing combination of things I agree with (it's better to hire employees with a good attitude) and things I just can't get behind (an employee who values his or herself over the company is bad and must be avoi
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I recently saw a charming example of this (for a physical patent): http://youtu.be/vCLyPMSrdko
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I'm a little late to jump in but I've been watching this project with interest over the past couple of years: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.25 It's not complete yet, but most of the pieces are th
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I also found the statements in the leading and final quotes almost absurdly contradictory. "Fuck you, I didn't choose this, but I love it." Living in a city with a lot of visible homelessness and panhandling, I constantly str
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Massdrop.com often has a pre-built option for their ergodox sales. (You do pay a premium for that service, though)
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by muaddirac 12y ago
I really like the idea here, but haven't thought of a good way to do it with languages like Python/Ruby/Javascript. Is there any good way to bundle up, say, a Flask app on Gunicorn into a single, minimal-dependency executable
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by muaddirac 12y ago
To my eyes it's a quick overview of some linear algebra basics, the only complex thing possibly being notation (but I would assume and hope the book builds up to it while also building intuition).
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by muaddirac 12y ago
To answer your question, I don't think it matters what it's called, just that you learn what it means (just like any word). As an aside, what you're describing isn't strictly currying. The key insight of currying is that
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by muaddirac 12y ago
What are your testing methodologies like? Startups aren't what come to mind when I think of rock-solid engineering - but as a medical hardware company I'd expect a thorough and rigorous testing practice. What sort of automated or
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by muaddirac 12y ago
I see this more as a technology issue - no one has sufficiently solved the "remote creativity" problem of allowing people to communicate as seamlessly as they can in a room with a whiteboard. (Or someone has, and I don't know
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by muaddirac 12y ago
What you're describing is known as Applied Kinesiology[1] and is not supported by evidence[2]. The Hawkins scale of consciousness is equally unsupported. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_kinesiology [2] h
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by muaddirac 12y ago
The forum linked in the first paragraph of the article? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-discussion/165403...
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by muaddirac 12y ago
Also from that RFC: > Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important distinction here
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by muaddirac 12y ago
> As a rule, HTTP GET requests should not modify server state. This rule is useful because it lets intermediaries infer something about the request just by looking at the HTTP method. As long as we're picking nits, it doesn't r
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by muaddirac 12y ago
I think if I were attempting to make it more accessible for beginners, I would start with a concrete example of a category (like Set) and introduce the concepts in what is, for most people (programmers in particular) familiar territory, and
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by muaddirac 12y ago
I was wondering the same, and had to go back to the article to check that they don't address it. (They don't)
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by muaddirac 12y ago
I'm an avid waze user due to a long and traffic-dependent commute. It's hard to get worked up about the concerns raised in this article simply because I view where I'm driving essentially as public information (as almost all
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by muaddirac 12y ago
> Open Image Spec I'm wondering if this will eventually merge with the ACI that Rocket implements.
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by muaddirac 12y ago
As a casual node user, I'd love to better understand how this release compares to io.js. Are they diverging more? Is node playing catch-up?
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by muaddirac 12y ago
I agree with you say but I just want to emphasize how much that is NOT what Adams says in his book. In the book, he dismisses science because it's just looking at things and our eyes can deceive us (he uses the example of thinking th
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by muaddirac 12y ago
He has some odd ideas about science. The end of his book "The Dilbert Future" calls for "new ways of looking at existing things." And then claims that all of science is just "looking at things" which, he points
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by muaddirac 12y ago
> I've had my auto-generated, 20-char digit/char/symbol PW from keepass get rejected for such things. Huge pet peeve of mine. Really? "(uJgP6h9=8Uc6x?}#B6Q" isn't enough for you?

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