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Why your company should have a very permissive open source policy(nathanmarz.com)
52 points by nathanmarz 16y ago|11 comments
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by nathanmarz 16y ago
"Without understanding the language" Certainly any language is unreadable without understanding it. I don't pretend to make any comments on the readability of Chinese because I don't understand it. Most people aren't familiar with logic pro
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News Feed in 38 lines of code using Cascalog(nathanmarz.com)
15 points by nathanmarz 16y ago|3 comments
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
On the contrary, sperm competition occurs frequently in many animal species (and more often than you'd think in humans - the stats are quite enlightening). Since this trait increases the chances that your sperm will win and pass on your gen
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
Good idea - Cascading already has a tool to print flows as .dot files so I'll expose this functionality through Cascalog as well. I'll have to spend some time going through that paper. Being able to generate a small dataset for development
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IMVU’s Approach to Integrating Quality Assurance with Continuous Deployment(engineering.imvu.com)
8 points by nathanmarz 17y ago|0 comments
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Proof that 1 = 0 using a common logical fallacy(nathanmarz.com)
21 points by nathanmarz 17y ago|26 comments
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
Thrift has the exact same feature as I discussed in my post.
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
Thrift's compact protocol is a fairly recent addition and is both dense and fast. What are the flexibility advantages of Protocol Buffers?
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Nanny - a simple dependency management tool(nathanmarz.com)
2 points by nathanmarz 17y ago|0 comments
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
They're using Rapleaf's API for the data.
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
My post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek :) The main point is that the incentive is there to wrap uninteresting research in terminology and complexity - so if the incentive is there, you wonder if anyone does it deliberately. I've read a lot of
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Why so many research papers are so hard to understand(nathanmarz.com)
22 points by nathanmarz 17y ago|19 comments
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
Michael Lewis talks about the mismatch between salary and value for offensive lineman in his book "The Blind Side", which is similar to how great hackers are underpaid according to their value. Once the NFL shifted to a free market, the sal
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Mathematics behind Hadoop-based systems(nathanmarz.com)
35 points by nathanmarz 17y ago|1 comments
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
"Maverick" by Ricardo Semler - This book is about the company Semco in Brazil and challenges everything you think you know about business. Semler advocates radical ideas like public self-set salaries and workplace democracy. I don't necessa
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by nathanmarz 17y ago
1. Started hacking the TI-82 in 7th grade while bored in math class. Moved on to TI-89 in 9th grade, and then "graduated" to assembly language so I could make better games. I then moved on to "real" computers with C++, which seemed like an
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Cycles of Doom in Batch Processing Workflows(blog.rapleaf.com)
3 points by nathanmarz 17y ago|0 comments