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by mwambua 10y ago
I don't want to be petty... but your comment would have a lot more weight if you made it with your primary account. That said, I agree with all your points... but we're humans... Even if most of our time is spent on science, we st
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by mwambua 10y ago
I'm donating to keep this nested motivation going. :-)
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by mwambua 10y ago
IBM's Bluemix has supported Docker Containers for a while now, but hasn't gotten much limelight... probably as a result of the size of their community and Bluemix's sketchy [but improving] stability. Does anyone have any expe
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by mwambua 10y ago
Haha... I also like how the first example is a batch script. :-D
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by mwambua 10y ago
Their demo is very pretty... and they seem pretty keen on performance.
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by mwambua 10y ago
Very interesting. I think the reality in a lot of situations is that most people don't really need the full feature-set that graph databases provide. I ran into a similar problem trying to explore Wikidata's json dumps. It's
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by mwambua 10y ago
Skype is one of the more regrettable acquisitions. Linux support has been deplorable ever since.
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Varnish Website's IT Infrastructure(varnish-cache.org)
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by mwambua 10y ago
'For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. "Use a knife!" they say. Well...my parole officer won't allow me to be around knives....' You made my day! :-)
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by mwambua 10y ago
You and @skunkworks both raise interesting points. I'll have to think through this some more... I have more experience with code than economic policies; but here's a first go: I have a problem with neither paying taxes, nor helpin
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by mwambua 10y ago
Yeah, those schemes tend to work a little better. If the recipients of mircro-financing are subject to the risks associated with taking credit, they tend to invest it better. For instance, the mobile micro-loans given by Safaricom ( http:&#
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by mwambua 10y ago
I'm a Kenyan and I can tell you that this will do more harm than good. NGO money has been distorting our economy for years now... giving people livelihoods they can't sustain, making job opportunities that create no value and maki
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by mwambua 10y ago
Even if it doesn't prove identity, it's certainly significant. The ability to move around the genesis blocks is huge... whether or not he is the original Satoshi.
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by mwambua 10y ago
I second that. Keras was the first really intuitive interface to neural networks that I stumbled upon. It was also convenient that it was built in Python and played well with the numpy/scipy ecosystem. Thank you fchollet!
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by mwambua 11y ago
Cockroaches have the ability to survive some of the most difficult situations... they've been around for the past 320 million years. That's what they expect from their db... the ability to survive huge failures whilst maintaining
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by mwambua 11y ago
CS Lewis is pretty good... I read the Chronicles of Narnia around the same time I started reading Harry Potter. What do you think about Philip Reeve? By the way, I wasn't asking to challenge you... I'm just a big fan of childrens&
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by mwambua 11y ago
While we're straying from hackery... I'm curious to hear your recommendations for well written kids' fantasy.
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by mwambua 11y ago
Unfortunately there's no easy answer to the correct solution. One method is to setup interrupt service routines and put the mcu to sleep the rest of the time. There are a couple libraries that provide convenient interfaces to AVR'
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by mwambua 11y ago
Most embedded applications consist of a tight loop of constant polling. People slow things down by using delays... But if you use the wrong sort of delay (read: the most popular one https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference&#
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by mwambua 11y ago
This is all very nice... but real programmers use ed http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html