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by paddy_m 8y ago
Nice blog btw, I'll definitely be digging in. What do you think the chances of Nordic Valley's planned expansion are?
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by paddy_m 8y ago
The relational model is awesome. SQL is one of the worst languages I have ever encountered. The syntax is awkward and unwieldy. The only unit of abstraction in SQL the language is the VIEW. I end up with so many repeated patterns in SQL
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by paddy_m 8y ago
In response to the first quote "Today’s developers have never learned about this history" I agree. I would love to see more CS history classes. I know that star schema were a thing, and hierarchical databases were a thing, but I
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I have been leaning on Django a lot in the past couple of years. A couple of highpoints Everyone talks about the admin. Yes it is nice, but the real core for me is a sensible way to map URLS to queries. I have taken the filtering and sor
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by paddy_m 8y ago
The examples were a lot of fun to play with. Nice work. I was thinking earlier today of creating an F1 engine note simulator. I would want to play with the number of cylinders, v angle, crank offset (v8 normal crank/180 crank) and m
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Thank you.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Can someone explain glitch.com to me. I looked at the website and I don't have a clue what it does or why it would be useful? It looks like some meme game.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Where do you work? Are they hiring?
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I used to have a drive that required an hour drive each way in and out of Manhattan. When I arrived at the building, I shared a room with two other engineers who were team mates. I had so much energy after a day of work in that environmen
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by paddy_m 8y ago
There is a large section of the SF Bay area that is horrified at the idea of closed borders, yet they are as horrified at the idea of anyone new or poor moving into their neighborhood.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
What was the name of that chart startup? I have been thinking about making an open refine type tool for python. Every time I do data cleaning in python, it feels so repetitive.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I'm an F1 TV subscriber. The F1 TV website has a pretty poor UI. No spacebar to pause. No distinct bookmarkable URL for past seasons. Sporadic full race archives - from 93 to 2001, there are only about 3 full races per season, the
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by paddy_m 8y ago
At highway speeds yes, at city speeds no. At highway speeds most noise is from wind and tires, so electric vehicles don't help too much. Electric vehicles still don't help cities too much, they still sit unused for 95% of the tim
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by paddy_m 8y ago
This sounds close to a land value tax. If you look around most US cities you will see a lot of land not being used for housing as compared to European cities. Land used for parking, lawns, roads, and vertical space not filled with bedroom
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Great book!!! I'm working through it myself.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
From what I can see the largest source of inaccuracy with this machine would be in the bed rails. Angle iron has wild tolerances. Still impressive work, more than I can do.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
That's an ingenious design, and I get building it as a hack, but old manual machine tools aren't that expensive. I have seen large (16"+ swing 48"+ travel) lathes sell for under $1000 regularly. A couple of observation
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by paddy_m 8y ago
How many other aspiring machinists hang out here on HN? I have watched a bunch of youtube videos. Over the winter I worked with a guy who ran a small machine shop 3 CNC mills, 1 CNC lathe, a manual mill, a bridgeport. I found working in
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I'm a fan of uxrvt too. I ported it to javascript [1] years ago. Compared to all the other popular terminal emulators, especially xterm, it was much easier to understand. [1] https://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I'm trying to help my girlfriend manage the inventory for her cactus business. She raises cacti from seed, cuttings, but mostly from wholesale suppliers. She has a square account and store. I’m trying to set up inventory tracking fo
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by paddy_m 8y ago
It's worse than that. They have to setup a job site every Friday night and break it down on Sunday night. Think about doing a craft/construction project in your house when you don't have a dedicated workspace, most of the t
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by paddy_m 8y ago
How did you get the zip down to 50MB. I was under the impression that pandas+numpy was closer to 300MB and bumped up against AWS size limits. I was considering building some hacked together thing with S3 I came to this thread specifically
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Years ago I read an article or paper about writing a lisp compiler. The compiler started with regular looking lisp, then through macro expansion lisp primitives were defined in terms of each other. Then the small subset of lisp primitives
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I paid $5000 for a 2001 GMC 2500 with a lift gate and 56k miles. There are some dents and surface rust, but the truck is generally solid. Crank windows and only one working speaker. I call it my luxury vehicle because I have the luxury o
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Here is a recent annoyance. I use bluetooth headphones and a bluetooth speaker. I want my bluetooth headphones to never be louder than $x, I want my speaker to have the full volume range. There is only one volume control (under Settings
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by paddy_m 8y ago
It's virtue signalling that puts a pinch on your competitors who can't turn down money from bad actors.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Side Note: Who would be interested in a Hacker News SLC meetup? My email is in my profile, get in touch. I moved to Salt Lake City From NYC in January 2017.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I wish that Symbolics was still a going concern. I wish that openGenera was a going concern so that it could developed and distributed to run in a VM. The lisp machine computing environment still sounds so well thought out and engineered.
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Heidi Game(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by paddy_m 8y ago|0 comments
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The Common Lisp Cookbook – Fundamentals of CLOS(lispcookbook.github.io)
18 points by paddy_m 8y ago|1 comments

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