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by pbh 15y ago
Any chance of PL/python or similar? I guess I'm probably one of like three users of PL/python, especially since it's untrusted. Worth a check, though!
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by pbh 15y ago
I'm actually still confused as to the right way to do defaultdict in Ruby. StackOverflow has three ways... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190740/setting-ruby-hash-... (i) The most idiomatic way seems to be: (myhash[key] ||= []) &#
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by pbh 15y ago
No, it just seems to have a redirect from plan_ahead to plan_ahead#dashboard that breaks the back button (at least on Firefox 3.6.20, Linux). (I'm not sure what the original commenter's platform is though.)
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by pbh 15y ago
I'm on sonic.net and get 20mbps down, 2 mbps up. You need bonded Fusion service to get those sorts of speeds though. dslreports.com has speedtest results, down to zip code, though they don't include things like what service product and/or
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by pbh 15y ago
I hope readers aren't getting the impression from this article that the code examples provided are the correct way to do word segmentation in English. (Though I understand this is an article about interviewing and not about word segmentati
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by pbh 15y ago
I have no idea about the lobbying, but the article seems to suggest that he is just paying increasing insurance and settlement costs instead.
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by pbh 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, Mark Cuban has $2.5 billion. If he thinks the patents are bogus (which I totally believe), why not fight a high profile, precedent setting case? If he thinks the law is broken, why not lobby for patent reform? Or a
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by pbh 15y ago
Since we are on the topic of names, Bringhurst notes: "An increasing number of persons and institutions, from e.e. cummings to WordPerfect, now come to the typographer in search of special treatment. In earlier days, it was kings and deiti
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by pbh 15y ago
Ah, down to 14s for 100 tests. I had originally avoided spork because it looked rspec only, but I guess there's spork-testunit as well. Thanks!
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by pbh 15y ago
That's clearly part of the answer: running 1.9.2-p180-patched instead of 1.9.2-p180 drops the total test suite time from 65s down to 52s. But the test suite still takes 52s, of which only 12s is actually attributable to tests (since rails a
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by pbh 15y ago
I'm a (somewhat new) Rails developer now, and I'm really confused by the premise of this article. Why are Rails test suites so slow? For a small app, one of my test suites takes about a minute for 100 tests. That's crazy! This author se
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by pbh 15y ago
I think that you make an important point. Not counting detected cheaters in course evaluations seems like a good policy. This is especially true because student evaluations have been shown in a number of cases to be very highly correlated
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by pbh 15y ago
It has been fascinating to watch the reaction to Panos' blog post on cheating. I agree and disagree with this follow-up post, however. On one hand, I agree that most reactions have generally been shallow and poorly thought out. On the ot
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by pbh 15y ago
Your claim that the author has drawn the wrong conclusion relies on a major assertion for which you have failed to provide support. Specifically: why do you think a 22/108 cheating rate is non-standard for a large US research university's
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by pbh 15y ago
Even more confusingly, The Elements of Typographic Style actually has sub-editions. For example, I have version 3.2. However, none of the online booksellers seem to account for this, and simply say that they have the 3rd edition. Alas!
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by pbh 15y ago
There has been some academic work on this (CIDR'05), but I'm not sure if it has been used in practice. http://ilpubs.stanford.edu/659/
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by pbh 15y ago
This idea seems to come up every few months. Don't do it! (At least unless you seriously understand the caveats or something substantial has changed with encfs and/or Dropbox.) Here's my comment from a year and a half ago: http://news.yc
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by pbh 16y ago
encfs didn't work for me either. See this comment from a year and a half ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895660 Dropbox supposedly encrypts server side. If you want to encrypt client-side, use SpiderOak or TarSnap. These hacks
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by pbh 16y ago
I actually think there needs to be an explicit tag for landing pages on HN. This sort of thing seems to be increasingly common, for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2260581 Personally, I don't think a web page saying that you
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by pbh 16y ago
Probably a substantial fraction of the public delicious data was collected for this: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu/858/1/2008-2.pdf The primary issue is that it does not seem terribly clear what the legal status of redistributing such data w
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by pbh 16y ago
Admittedly, the OP is not very clear. There could be at least three questions, based on the headline, the body text question, and the example URLs cited: (1) "Why are journals not open access?" (2) "Where can I get free copies of academic
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by pbh 16y ago
A fairly detailed (if opinionated) answer to your question is here: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/02/06/openacc... The summary is: (1) academics have historically given away their research and reviewing work for free to (
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by pbh 16y ago
I can't speak for Dan, but it's probably best if you don't do this! I think most of the data itself is UMI data from ProQuest, which seems to be licensed pretty strictly.
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by pbh 16y ago
It looks like they are using extra-large standard and extra-large high CPU instances rather than the more recent quadruple extra-large "cluster compute" instances. Maybe that's the reason? (EDIT: Though amock seems to have said it better t
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by pbh 16y ago
If you have already looked into this (and decided to write your own), it would be great to see a blog post or similar on the current state of payments in Python (and what you intend to do differently). It seems like there's Satchmo, various
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by pbh 16y ago
Does anyone know if it is actually possible to use Yahoo! Pipes commercially? I have always wanted to use Pipes, but unless I am misreading the Terms of Use (1.f.iv), it seems to suggest that you are not allowed to derive any income from an
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by pbh 16y ago
I'm very confused by this comment. Did you switch mysql and pgsql in this comment, or was this what you meant as written? MySQL has always struck me as having a non-standard and quite strange type system (broken time/date types without mic
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by pbh 16y ago
One of your previous comments is, I think, one of the most succinct descriptions of why I'm planning to leave CS academia. (That said, CS academia has been pretty good to me.) "While amazing, groundbreaking research is possible in academi
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by pbh 16y ago
I for one am relieved that SciDB will be supporting bulk load rather than the "single road insert" that we have been saddled with all this time in other relational database products.
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by pbh 16y ago
The situation is very analogous to undergraduate with advanced placement (AP) courses. Any university is going to require you to get credit for, e.g., some introductory computer science sequence (CS1, CS2) to get a bachelors in CS. However

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