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by owyn 13y ago
Exactly. I also read that the gov't there is currently revamping their asylum rules and that for now anybody who applies for asylum can stay until the rules are sorted out, which may take quite a long time... I don't think he&#x2
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by owyn 13y ago
It would cost an arm and a leg... it would be interesting to run the calculation though. There are a lot of bottlenecks in running a render farm like that, but one of them is just moving the data around. A typical scene uses upwards of 1TB
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by owyn 13y ago
Maybe you could use boris for a PHP repl? https://github.com/d11wtq/boris Discussed last week on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5673032
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by owyn 13y ago
Yep. I think individuals can choose to work directly or indirectly on a problem and both are worthy. But Buffet didn't start his own foundation, he gave a bunch of money to Gates because duplicating all that infrastructure would be wastef
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by owyn 13y ago
I asked this exact question once when bradfitz was giving a talk about Go at AirBnB. The answer was that the team is led by minimalists who are interested in keeping it lean and avoiding bloat and especially in avoiding it becoming C++. I
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by owyn 14y ago
I ran into the same issue. I'm not sure why it's so slow but I contacted them directly and they bumped my import to the head of the queue. I would recommend doing that. The site may be slow but at least their support is responsive. They
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by owyn 14y ago
It's off topic, and it's only as real time as the network allows, but this project is pretty cool and has a good community around it: http://www.ohmstudio.com If you think about a recording studio experience, you usually lay down a rough
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by owyn 14y ago
Yes, that happened to the company I work for now... twice! In both cases we've maintained good relations with those developers and the tools they've built are still useful to us. I'm of the opinion that it's better to hire entrepreneurial t
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by owyn 14y ago
I would rewrite mediawiki from scratch... It's an important piece of software and it should be easier to use, manage, hack on and extend. I'm sort of working on that now, but slowly from the inside out with a bunch of other responsibilitie
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by owyn 14y ago
I don't think that's true, even if you look at most open source software. On one extreme, Mediawiki is a pretty complicated piece of software, approximately 900k lines of "core" PHP/JS code plus another 1.5 million lines worth of extension
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by owyn 14y ago
A friend of mine has some ski goggles with a HUD from Recon Instruments. They do make sense for some applications. In your case, I hope they're waterproof (but I don't think they are...)
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by owyn 14y ago
Wow, I joined almost 4 years ago... I went from slashdot (3 digit ID) through a totally non-productive fark/digg phase to here. I guess I missed the reddit bandwagon although the company is based in the same building I work in now. :) I p
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by owyn 14y ago
I think it's fine... I've been to one of these in person and hope to attend more. I think the presentations are high quality, and having watched a few online I know where I'm landing when I click on that link. I'm not opposed to a bit of b
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by owyn 14y ago
This blog post is from 2009, I think Wolfram Alpha was pretty new back then. It would be interesting to know what he was looking for and if it still isn't there. His example of a query that doesn't work seems to return data now, when typed
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by owyn 14y ago
Hasn't been updated since 2007... math doesn't really change that often but that does not look promising...
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by owyn 14y ago
Ugh. This city does have some bad housing shortages right now, but this kind of whiny name-dropping i-was-here-first essay doesn't help. Neither does this epic rant I am about to write, but I'm going to do it anyway... My favorite quote so
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by owyn 14y ago
That's one approach, but I don't think there's any evidence that you would end up with a working brain at the end, let alone a copy of the individual you started with. And good luck finding a volunteer. :) The brain's functionality is not
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by owyn 14y ago
He donated all of it. Whatever you got isn't that interesting. You know, I've never had a problem with the income taxes that I pay. They're taken out of my check and I work with what's left. I never think "oh man, they're taking my money
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by owyn 14y ago
This is very cool! Have you seen vextab? http://vexflow.com/vextab/ It's a javascript library for displaying tablature and musical notation. It uses its own text format for describing tablature, but it is pretty easy to work with. I no
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by owyn 14y ago
Yep, almost any of them have an API these days. Your software would make the list of trades which is uploaded and executed... Oh, I forgot about another backtesting framework for python. It has a built in IDE as well. http://www.quantopi
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by owyn 14y ago
Nope, there is absolutely no way to do this with python or ruby. :) Seriously though, there are some existing frameworks and products that you could check out. I haven't used this myself, it's just in my bookmarks: http://www.rapidquant.c
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by owyn 14y ago
The new inspector is totally unusable. It doesn't seem to solve any of the normal workflows that you run into doing front end dev work. Like inspecting source, looking at the console, looking at network traffic, request/response headers an
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by owyn 14y ago
Wikia Inc - San Francisco http://www.wikia.com/Hiring We are hiring engineers, design, product management and marketing. We are looking for well rounded PHP developers, a MySQL DBA and a javascript specialist in advertising delivery plat
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by owyn 14y ago
SO.... This is a blog post which is promoting an ebook about a "Grunt Fund" model of equity allocation. Don't divvy up 100% of the pie at too early a stage. People disappear. Instead, let people work for equity on an ongoing basis and mak
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by owyn 14y ago
Not legally. You can buy OS X server for $20 and run it on a VM, but the VM has to be running on mac hardware to be legal. I'm sure it can be done though...
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by owyn 14y ago
A fashionable bike helmet isn't really "saving the world" by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a nice video. Anyway, airbag vests already exist for motorcycles... There are various designs, protecting the body and the neck. I've nev
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by owyn 14y ago
Sourceforge was great back in the day when it was the only (?) option for public code hosting besides running your own site, but it's not as "cool" now... it feels like most projects have left, only abandoned projects remain. Putting a "ne
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by owyn 14y ago
Mandating that a certain amount of money (especially a percentage) of budget be spent on something (no matter how noble or desirable or effective) is one of the ways that California has managed to ballot initiative itself into failure. I t
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by owyn 14y ago
That's not why stuff gets deleted from wikipedia, the USERS do that, because they have processes and policies which encourage it. That's a much more difficult problem to address, because you can't fix it with technology. Same problem affe
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by owyn 14y ago
Ugh. If you've ever worked on a project with more than 1 person, you'd understand why... it's about the team and the work they'd done over the last few years. Even if they had no direct "joystick" control over the procedure, there was plen

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