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by paultopia 9y ago
Why is my system slow? $ grep -R "map" * reduce(filter even? (apply ( 3) (map inc (i for i in (filter even? collection)))))* What's with the dissing on map? Awkward code like that can be written in lots of ways... (rew
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by paultopia 9y ago
Yeah. This is a classic free rider problem. Game theorists have known about it for decades. See Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action .
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by paultopia 9y ago
Ugh ugh ugh no. Storytime . A couple years ago, I was in the midst of copyedits on a book with a bunch of math in it. The copyeditors were using a different version of Word. When they sent the edits back to me, the math was gone. Comple
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by paultopia 9y ago
oh, interesting! I didn't know those would work on iOS, but at least some of them do. That's a nice tip.
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by paultopia 9y ago
That is reaaalll nice. I like it a lot. (Although I'm a little embarrassed that I paid 20 bucks for an app in the app store that's open source. But that's totally worth it to not have to fight with xcode...)
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by paultopia 9y ago
Thanks! I'll totally give it a try.
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by paultopia 9y ago
Honestly, I try to write code on iOS all the time, and it's not really the absence of tools that can execute that code that really stands in the way. Instead, it's: - The absence of a really good typing story. The 12.9 iPad Pro
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by paultopia 9y ago
Yes, that. This is not a difficult problem. App purchase behavior that is more than a couple of standard deviations away from ordinary, but successful, apps should trigger a heavy human review.
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by paultopia 9y ago
Naturally someone has already started that business :-)
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by paultopia 9y ago
The thing that makes me sad about R is textmining. TM makes me sad, strings-as-factors makes me very sad. But maybe I'll try tidytext...
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by paultopia 9y ago
How much of devops in AWS-land is really forensic accountancy? Moneymaking idea for someone: a devops person, a lawyer, and an accountant get together and charge companies to predict their cloud bill.
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by paultopia 9y ago
Philz FTW. Go to the In-n-Out on Rengsgtorff.
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by paultopia 9y ago
Coolness---thanks!
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by paultopia 9y ago
Thank you so much! I may well apply in a year or two, after doing more ML work and talking my way into sabbatical time. :-)
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by paultopia 9y ago
This is interesting: The program invites two dozen people, with varying backgrounds in ML ... "with varying backgrounds in ML" -- does that mean that relative beginners have a chance of being accepted? (I have a personal stake i
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by paultopia 9y ago
Yeah, exactly. And, I'd add, the attention even of sophisticated Excel users who don't actually write code for Windows.
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by paultopia 9y ago
The really infuriating thing about this report is the message these terrible applications give to users. "Links to other files?" And the inquiry about whether those "links" should be "updated?" That's a
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by paultopia 9y ago
At least on iOS (mobile safari) attempting to download the source of a generated resume produces a binary blob of some kind, rather than anything that looks like Tex... (maybe I'll go file this as an issue...)
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by paultopia 9y ago
FWIW, I started with Eloquent Javascript and moved on to You Don't Know JS. For me (self-taught type but with some experience, mostly use Python and Clojure) that seemed to do the trick, I'm working on a small Vue.js learning-typ
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by paultopia 9y ago
I wonder how many views there are for questions on exiting the numerous REPLs that are similarly unintuitive. (Node, Elixr, etc.)
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by paultopia 9y ago
Yes, THIS. THIS. Lying to a federal agent brings a world of hurt (obligatory disclaimer: I am a law professor but I am not YOUR lawyer...). Right now any customs agent with a brain can just ask "do you have that travel mode turned on
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by paultopia 10y ago
It ticked me off that their CC version of a useful-looking GNU Make book is distributed as a bunch of individual chapter PDFs, a.k.a. royal hassle to download and combine by hand. So I banged out a quick 40-ish line CLI utility to scrape su
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by paultopia 10y ago
jupyter. nothing beats a repl in a web page for instant feedback and iteration.
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by paultopia 10y ago
Actually that makes a lot of sense now that you mention it---given the huge number of JS libraries, and the fact that unlike other languages with massive library ecosystems (cough cough Python) JS libraries are all written in JS, that does
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by paultopia 10y ago
Seems like it would make more sense to go the other way around... who voluntarily writes in JS to compile to some other language, as opposed to writing in any of however many dozens of other less horrible languages (but maybe typed JS is be
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by paultopia 10y ago
OMG. Arbitrary code execution just from visiting a URL, and dump all the passwords?
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by paultopia 10y ago
Frankly, I am starting to have serious reservations about brew itself. It seems to now be forcing a self-update on every package installation, and that update somehow (I'm not a good enough *nix hacker to sort it out) gets some kind of
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by paultopia 10y ago
I've been dying for details about Windows 10 and the linux subsystem, and don't actually know anyone who uses it for serious work. Is it actually a replacement for the BSD-based goodness of OSX? Do you get GCC, Make, instantly-f