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by nchammas 11y ago
The decision to put type annotations for variables in comments was made specifically for backwards compatibility reasons. Remember that Python has supported function annotations since 3.0 [0]. Python 3.5 will only add the option to type che
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by nchammas 11y ago
On a related note, Apache Spark recently landed Python 3 support in master, which will be released as part of Spark 1.4 in the next month or so. [0] [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4897
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by nchammas 11y ago
Hi Nicholas! That's good to hear, and definitely makes more sense given how popular and old tmux is as a project. So I guess something just didn't translate correctly to Thomas's GitHub mirror.
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by nchammas 11y ago
The feature I miss most is being able to link text. Right now people just paste links as-is, or use this numbering syntax [0] which works but could definitely be replaced with something better. After that, supporting lists and fenced code b
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Ask HN: Should HN support Markdown comments?
2 points by nchammas 11y ago|4 comments
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by nchammas 11y ago
Searching the tmux mailing list [0], it looks like there were some recent discussions about migrating to GitHub. Basically, it looks like the developers don't see any benefit to migrating that outweighs the cost of a migration. [1] The
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by nchammas 11y ago
Just to be clear, though that video shows an example of what a notebook is in this context, that isn't a demo of Zeppelin. (It wasn't clear which you were referencing in your comment.) That's a demo of Databricks Cloud [0], w
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by nchammas 11y ago
I'm not sure from what perspective you were looking to compare asyncio to green threads (performance, readability, etc.) but there is an interesting blog post [0] by the lead architect of Twisted about the fundamental difference in pro
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by nchammas 12y ago
Markdown Here [1] It lets me write stuff on Gmail/Inbox or a number of a other sites in Markdown. Then I hit Control + Option + M (on OS X) and bam, it coverts the Markdown to neat HTML. It's really great for writing technical ema
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by nchammas 12y ago
> It looks interesting but seems like a very Docker-centric Packer I think you mean a Docker-centric Vagrant, no? Packer is for building images, Vagrant is for launching environments. You can use Packer to build Docker images akin to `do
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by nchammas 12y ago
Btw, there is an new PR by Josh Rosen to fix SPARK-4454 here: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4660
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by nchammas 12y ago
Nathan Marz (of Apache Storm fame) also wrote about this topic recently: "Now, I don't want to comment on the effectiveness of open floor plans for fields other than my own. But for software development, this is the single best w
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by nchammas 12y ago
That may well have been true a year ago, but it is not true as of a few weeks ago [1], and hasn't been true since around Spring of this year. [1] http://youtu.be/zW0Pqfb8ij0?t=3m50s
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by nchammas 12y ago
> I would love to see MR and Spark compete on the exact same hardware configuration. You may find this benchmark [1] interesting to read. It needs some updating (a lot has changed since February 2014), but it compares Shark (which uses S
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by nchammas 12y ago
> Spark _requires_ Hadoop to run This is not correct. Spark uses the Hadoop Input/Output API, but you don't need any Hadoop component installed to run Spark, not even HDFS. You can -- and many companies do -- run Spark on Mesos
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Project Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary(youtube.com)
2 points by nchammas 12y ago|0 comments
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by nchammas 12y ago
Published benchmarks comparing commercial databases are difficult to come by due to the DeWitt Clause [1] in many commercial database licenses. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt