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by nunb 8y ago
Kenneth Eng writes only about smalltalk... Despite promising directions like Amber ST, somehow smalltalk has failed to reach critical mass, and that's a shame. My feeling is that something about their approach promotes learning by show
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by nunb 8y ago
Good point, though it might trigger the correlation-not-causation debate. When one has a widespread, general rise in cancer and vascular disease, one should look for a systemic cause. The general perception is changing from 'cancer is
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by nunb 8y ago
interestingly, the plural is apparently octopodes or octopuses [1] [1] http://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/
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by nunb 8y ago
It's been working fine for decades! Even through enormous bad calls like their early noughties call on oil.
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by nunb 8y ago
link to the [talk] from the parent comment [by wwilson] [talk] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc [by wwilson] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877401
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by nunb 9y ago
I wonder what pg thought of dabbledb
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by nunb 9y ago
Doctors Phinney and Volek would disagree on the carbs/sport connection.
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by nunb 9y ago
Dr Fung's article [1] is a good complement to this one and explains how the market for insulin has been deliberately increased. As other commentators mentioned, once you can have carbs with insulin, why bother changing and looking for
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by nunb 9y ago
It's on this page in the shipping section [1]. I remember it had something to do with live object databases too, back when Avi Bryant of DabbleDB [2] was heavily pushing the Ruby world towards Smalltalk in the 2007-2010 timeframe with
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Accenture left a huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers(zdnet.com)
194 points by nunb 9y ago|33 comments
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by nunb 9y ago
you don't have to "look at it" -- as long as there's line of sight it should work. I pretty much agree with your position though, just wanted to clarify that as long as the infrared scanner can find your eyes/nose y
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TimescaleDB vs. Postgres benchmarking(blog.timescale.com)
2 points by nunb 9y ago|0 comments
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by nunb 9y ago
Is the telephone party line protected free speech?
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by nunb 9y ago
Excellent distillation of its core concept and its free speech nature. Just as much as decss for example.
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by nunb 9y ago
aha! I recant my: did nobody think of Agrajag[1] and the petunias[2] ? [1] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Agrajag [2] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/124539-curiously-enough-the...
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by nunb 9y ago
Perhaps the 'step back' is that LFE is a Lisp-2 like Common Lisp whereas Clojure is a Lisp-1 like Scheme. You might find Joxa interesting, it predates Elixir, but came after LFE and is patterned on Clojure. http://joxa.
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by nunb 9y ago
well said -- I just came here to post that same link
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by nunb 9y ago
yes that was a good book. very different from the aikido I have seen :) but that was the point he was making -- about how in its the birthplace it has evolved differently...
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by nunb 9y ago
Hello, nice to see another big fan of Fogarty & Dixon's work ... such a pity that Microsoft or others didn't make these ideas mainstream! Dixon pointed me to his repo on github if you're interested...
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by nunb 9y ago
There is also timescale which is built atop Postgres. Or rather, modifies Postgres' query engine etc., this is not some rails app! https://blog.timescale.com/when-boring-is-awesome-building-a...
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by nunb 9y ago
only when they can get some finger-wagging in and finish with a poor pun or end with a non-sequitur smart-aleck sentence
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by nunb 9y ago
this journalistic shilling is a fun game! I'm no journo but here's a stab at it: These laws against sewing in sweatshops will only lead to them moving abroad and taking the jobs with them. A better change would be to allow them to
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by nunb 10y ago
A very apt description. Cargo-cult is right.
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by nunb 10y ago
Thanks for an insightful comment. I think it's spot on, SF is young and hip and snooty about its hipness. Hacker culture is much more accepting... I think even the startups are differentiated along those lines, SF is super snooty about
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by nunb 10y ago
That's a great analogy thanks. I still have the scars of doing the JS powering a crazy UX related to a time-chart zooming in and out with various aggregation level filters. On the other hand, when I told the designers to do X (just cha
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by nunb 10y ago
especially true when your main interface to real work is a terminal or emacs. most everything else is browser based.
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by nunb 10y ago
I use a T100HA for exactly these reasons, but it's got a detachable screen. Older models had extra batteries and HDDs in the keyboard section, which is a great addition imho.
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by nunb 10y ago
Here's a small user-experience report for a similar Atom-powered machine from Asus. I bought it because I am trialling a life built around a dumb-phone, a large tablet/laptop, and AWS based primary computing power for sci-kit, ML
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by nunb 10y ago
Goat are great ... funnily enough was just at a small sheep/goat farm yesterday. The goat's milk is salty (great for keto) and my lactose-intolerant gut can stand a glass or two. Plus the cheese is way tastier, milk has more fat e
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by nunb 10y ago
Joel Salatin of Polyface farms might be an interesting read. He also has a lot of videos on youtube. Here is one [1] but I recall seeing an interesting video where he runs larger ruminants (cows) and then chickens (coop on wheels) and then

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