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961.
by nimish 12y ago
Use HTTP Switchboard. Faster, more powerful, and honest.
962.
by nimish 12y ago
Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive. Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks. Once I learned to live with a 64GB macbook air, I realized that 90% of the data I was keeping around was not usef
963.
by nimish 12y ago
I would love to see this data--it would help me greatly when picking a format that needs to work.
964.
by nimish 12y ago
It would be very nice if y'all gave a detailed rationale mentioning things like this over "we made a cool new format" I still am not seeing why the other formats fail, especially with the very limited compression that you hav
965.
by nimish 12y ago
Possibly but in many ways it's a lot easier to pick and write a fast implementation using e.g. typed arrays than it is to convince the world to use your special format
966.
by nimish 12y ago
Why is self-description a necessity here?
967.
by nimish 12y ago
1. Protobuf 2. Avro 3. Thrift 4. MsgPack 5. CORBA 6. ASN.1 7. Cap'n Proto 8. FlatBuffer + whatever internal stuff big software companies have cooked up etc. What was so special about your use-case that demanded a totally new standard?
968.
by nimish 12y ago
TypeScript is heavily used inside Microsoft. The Azure preview portal is mostly typescript. I suspect they had this in the works for a while and couldn't make build.
969.
by nimish 12y ago
Not the best explanation for "at scale". A toy implementation of map-reduce would have gone a bit farther in showing that yes, monoids are fundamental to a lot of scalable things.
970.
by nimish 12y ago
iOS 8 is beta, they are totally fine about not supporting it there.
971.
by nimish 12y ago
Would love to know how the animations were designed and implemented--they really add the extra wow factor.
972.
by nimish 12y ago
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
973.
Court documents in the Microsoft/ No-IP civil case(noticeoflawsuit.com)
2 points by nimish 12y ago|1 comments
974.
by nimish 12y ago
By convincing a judge that it was necessary? Actual detail here: http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/index.htm
975.
by nimish 12y ago
Or: welcome to the memory mountain, enjoy your stay.
976.
by nimish 12y ago
Offsite backups are critical. What happens when wherever you're storing those nas drives / tapes gets flooded or destroyed?
977.
by nimish 12y ago
toml is unstable and has no real spec + YAML has a well defined spec and is widely used?
978.
by nimish 12y ago
Yes there is nothing stopping you from doing let p1 = scat [c..c']^/4 p2 = delay (1/4) p1 p3 = delay (3/4) p1 in (accent . legato) (p1 </> p2 </> p3) It's a full
979.
by nimish 12y ago
Yes but numerically approximating the beta function is extremely fast, much faster than running a CAS optimization routine and possibly faster than going through the factorials! Not really worth it unless this is in an inner-loop.
980.
by nimish 12y ago
You use an non-informative prior, like a Jeffreys prior.
981.
by nimish 13y ago
Yes this is the most practical use of lenses I've found. Entirely principled access to every flavor of object...multiple results even fall out naturally with traversals.
982.
by nimish 13y ago
Backprop lets you calculate the gradient efficiently. What you do with that gradient is up to you (I would try L-BFGS or something akin to a stochastic variation). So you could use conjugate gradient or some other optimization method
983.
by nimish 13y ago
CLA's are good practice in general. It's always up to the maintainers whether they want feature requests. And as you pointed out, you can always fork.
984.
by nimish 13y ago
Killing itself for $20 EPS.
985.
by nimish 13y ago
It is, but you have to remember latex is best thought of a programming language that outputs pdfs so splitting into multiple source files is useful, as is source control.
986.
by nimish 13y ago
It ought to be a PUT since it's idempotent but still modifies state. It definitely should not be a GET, since good practice says that GET is idempotent ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html )
987.
by nimish 13y ago
But TeX justifies (and hyphenates and microtypes...) by default? I'm curious why it would hurt legibility. It's the default text font for non-math stuff there too
988.
by nimish 13y ago
The nicest looking of the many mostly identical mechanical keyboards out there. Should've gone with double-shot injection molding for durability; I wonder what it would have cost.
989.
by nimish 13y ago
It's often faster too. List/generator comps are the way to go in python. As much as I like the combinatory approach, python does not make it very readable or maintainable.
990.
by nimish 13y ago
You might as well make a datatype for "HashLiterals": data HashLiteral a = HashLiteral { _character :: Char, _trailingChars :: [Char], _representation :: [Char] -> a} (Underscores for lenses) And then ``hashLiteralInfo

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