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by mwhite 11y ago
Allowing sellers not to fill out additional information that they easily could provides a useful signal to buyers about how well the transaction is likely to go.
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by mwhite 11y ago
Idea: crowd-sourced issue triaging across many open source projects that rewards issue triagers with reputation points.
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by mwhite 11y ago
Cool, but a more meaningful number concerning the original meaning of "six degrees of separation" than the average of the average of the degrees of separation between each individual and everyone else would be the average of the a
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by mwhite 11y ago
That is the distribution of the average degrees of separation for each person. What would be useful is the distribution of distributions of the degree of separation between each person and every other person.
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by mwhite 11y ago
Obligatory link to my Markdown resume which converts to PDF (via LaTeX) and HTML using Pandoc: https://github.com/mwhite/resume
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by mwhite 11y ago
I haven't made that journey, and it depends on how complicated the sites you want to "setup" are, but here's my advice as someone doing full stack web development for several years, having started from frameworkless PHP
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by mwhite 11y ago
For those curious, list comprehensions were introduced in 2000 with Python 2.0.
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React 0.14: Why Local Component State Is a Trap(safaribooksonline.com)
1 points by mwhite 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwhite 11y ago
1 in 200 men are direct male-line descendants of Genghis Khan. Many more are descended from Genghis Khan in any path (probably all Mongolians, and large fractions, quite possibly majorities, of many Asian groups). https://en.wik
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by mwhite 11y ago
Another extremely powerful open source BI solution is Saiku, based on the Mondrian OLAP server: http://www.meteorite.bi/products/saiku
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by mwhite 11y ago
React, react-router, Backbone models, https://github.com/magalhas/backbone-react-component , systemjs, jspm
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by mwhite 11y ago
If the people who care about the environment don't have children, then future generations will just be comprised more of people who don't care about the environment.
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by mwhite 12y ago
Try Kupfer. Been using it for years with no complaints. http://engla.github.io/kupfer/
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by mwhite 12y ago
Could you give an example of the type of bug you're referring to here? > This means that only the fields of an object that a component explicitly asks for will be accessible to that component, even if other fields are known and cach
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by mwhite 12y ago
Wow. I bet these could even be grouped into one module with minimal size overhead by using some higher-order functions or something. https://github.com/blakeembrey/swap-case https://github.com/blakeemb
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by mwhite 12y ago
I'm doing this right now. IMNSHO, the best stack for 99% of real-world projects is: Database: Postgres As the leading relational database, Postgres is a significant human achievement. It has recuperated most of NoSQL's critique
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by mwhite 12y ago
> If you think the U.S. is in technological decline... how come oil production has drastically increased? I read a fair amount about energy issues, but mainly for my own understanding and less so to be able to readily explain it, so forg
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by mwhite 12y ago
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ http://pchiusano.github.io/ (was http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/ ) http://www.daedtech.com&#
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by mwhite 12y ago
Exactly. This article doesn't address the fact that for most programs you ideally want to have a separate UI validation where you're dynamically validating the user input before it gets submitted, and an internal validation where
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by mwhite 12y ago
I don't find it completely implausible that some people with influence in the lawmaking process (whether it be congresspeople, their advisors, or interest groups) have the historical knowledge and analytical ability to develop a perspe
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by mwhite 12y ago
An alternative solution could be to innovate in licenses. I think a lot of the problem is the idea that MIT/BSD-licensing is the ideal solution because it promotes freedom the most. Clearly, using restrictively licensed components und
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The Problems of Open Source (2009)(lambdassociates.org)
2 points by mwhite 12y ago|0 comments
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by mwhite 12y ago
To say that Firefox, one of a handful of end-user open source software packages with global reach, is hostile to open source, is absurd. Frontend web developers are a small fraction of Firefox's users, and you can't expect them to
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by mwhite 12y ago
Can you expand on why you think Tom Preston-Werner is mean? From all I've seen he appears to be a good person. GitHub reached 150 employees without having anyone quit, which hardly seems likely if the Founder and CEO is mean. https:&
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by mwhite 12y ago
What is a feminist company? Given that 'feminist' and 'feminism' are used by many people to mean many different things, it would be nice to specify what being a feminist company means. Is it just a company run by people
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by mwhite 12y ago
There seems to be a bug where if you try to create a gif at the same starting point but with a different length than one you've already created for the same video, it only ever returns the original length gif.
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Silicon Valley may not be fixable(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
10 points by mwhite 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: What are you listening to?(mwhite.info)
1 points by mwhite 12y ago|0 comments
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by mwhite 13y ago
For a quite in-depth comparison of various RDBMS, check out http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/
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by mwhite 13y ago
My apologies, I clearly didn't search well enough, and in retrospect it probably wasn't even worth saying anyway.

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