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by mvanveen 14y ago
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I see a lot of The Kid in myself in many ways, and I don't think that this individual is striving for some local optimization point which is going to make them extremely valuable, but is instead hea
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by mvanveen 14y ago
> Well, a 60W/h battery would, in theory, power it for one day. I'd use something like an old motorcycle batter. (12V 10Ah) Which might run for 2 days continuous. I do this currently with a raspberry pi in the front of my backpack, usin
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I wrote a small, ScraPy based HN crawler available at http://github.com/mvanveen/hncrawl in case anyone is interested.
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I also did this in HS, and echo what others are saying about this paying off later in life. Four years from now, when you're a junior in college and are scrambling to parallelize the build for your homework due next class, you'll be thankf
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by mvanveen 14y ago
The site is sort of sparse on details. Just gave you my email addr. Can I link this up with my own DNS?
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I've wanted to tackle this idea forever, it's always seemed like low-hanging fruit. I'm super excited to see someone take it on full-time. Best of luck!
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Does anyone know what sorts of speeds I can expect with throttling?
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Maybe you could help us understand what the Raspberry Pi isn't addressing for you? I run debian on mine, can SSH into it easily over ethernet, am running a webserver on it, and could put external storage on it should I want. And it only c
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Given the overwhelming sample size of 37, I think we can all agree that this is statistically significant information which one should base big platform decisions on.
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I just started a project where I'm keeping a raspberry pi in my backpack and am archiving a constant stream of jpgs to the cloud. I've been looking at all the available cloud archival options over the last few days and have been horrified
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I brought up pointer indirections as a way of illustrating how stringent some of these rules are and what sorts of forces are at play. Sorry for muddying matters.
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I remember reading semi-colon in the report ;-) . I can't find the PDF that I believe I read this in, unfortunately, and I'm not sure if it's publicly available. However, this wikipedia article points to a hypen and suggests that there's
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by mvanveen 14y ago
This is a much larger discussion, akin to most religious wars in software ;-). There is a huge argument for what you're saying, but there's other forces at play. One aspect that plays into it is that C is a really nice layer on top of ass
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by mvanveen 14y ago
You don't want to do anything interesting in a space flight mission. Code affecting a space mission only has one chance to get it right in many cases. In general, memory management in these systems is extremely serious business. Think o
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Anything that makes it "very easy to do wrong" is not a good idea in flight software. A missing semi-colon in FORTRAN once completely killed a space mission.
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by mvanveen 14y ago
A few summers ago I was an intern at JPL working on a static analysis suite for this exact standard. Writing code checkers for these sorts of rules is a really interesting exercise and it helped me grow a lot as a programmer! I went from h
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I find mixpanel to be really good here also. Unfortunately, I quickly surpassed Mixpanel's 500 user free tier and it's been less useful ever since, but it still tracks events and has a lot of really helpful views on your data. Recently, I'
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I think it's a balance just like anything else. In high school, nothing was safe from my tinkering and everything was extremely fragile but also extremely tailored to fit my usage. In college, I found myself practicing a sort of configurat
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I fundamentally disagree with the thesis that because a product is centered around a "lifestyle brand," it is ineligible for lean, iterative development. As someone currently investigating a product like this as a side project, I definitely
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Did you even read the link? I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a worse time to invoke the editor wars. Shame on you. Look, I love my editor just as much as the next guy. I have tremendous respect for emacs, and you can take vim from my cold,
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by mvanveen 14y ago
That's npm, not node itself, that relies on package.json. When its creator chose it, he knew exactly what JSON is. He's maintained on HN and elsewhere that he made a good decision. So even if you stop calling this JSON, he's no
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Am I correct in believing that the scope of these documentation proposals is limited to the python standard library and runtime, and does not include the Python package index?
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by mvanveen 14y ago
This is definitely a shameless plug, but I thought it might be worth mentioning here that my current side project is a MIT-licensed Python documentation API called "Python Docs," available at: http://github.com/mvanveen/docs . The goal is
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by mvanveen 14y ago
What does this move signal to people grandfathered into AT&T unlimited data plans? Is the end nigh? Do consumers have any available legal recourse?
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by mvanveen 14y ago
Great. Now I'll never get my collaborative vim plugin :-(
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by mvanveen 14y ago
I feel like the author sort of answers this question with the following statement: It’s not perfect. We ship too many features, many half-baked. The product is complex, with many blind alleys. It sounds like his team is more focuse
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by mvanveen 14y ago
This post just seems fundamentally misguided. The author's point that "there's lots of things that are difficult in the world, but, that doesn't mean no one is attempting them" seems to be his strongest defense for a native app. Other than
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by mvanveen 15y ago
My teammember's remark when I mentioned this made front page: "Still reindexing."
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by mvanveen 15y ago
since when is the set of integers a finite set? Without understanding you argument more fully, I don't see how this follows at all.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I have a gripe with the opener. > At Clearspring we like to count things. Counting the number of distinct elements (the cardinality) of a set is challenge when the cardinality of the set is large. On a turing machine, you're always oper

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