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by peatmoss 8y ago
I’ve been to Moscow twice in the early 2000s. The metro system there is still my mental benchmark for a metro system. The scale of everything is impressive. The number of people moved as well as the grand scale art. Say what you will about
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by peatmoss 8y ago
You’re not the only one to note this phenomenon. Airports in general aren’t the biggest generators of trips. I’ve watched the process unfold in Seattle; the light rail opened first with service connecting the airport to downtown. During thi
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by peatmoss 8y ago
R was originally not much more than a bunch of Scheme macros if I understand the history right. Suspect <- may have just been an infix macro for define at one point. Of course I probably would have preferred just keeping the lispy syntax
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Yes! People ask me what the best R programming book I’ve ever read is, and I like to say “How to Design Programs.” I keep thinking someday I’ll try and build some of the missing stats infrastructure in Racket. The problem at present is time
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I decided to leave a PhD program a few years ago, which left me feeling some existential angst. Leaving a PhD program was a little like leaving a job, friends, and a higher calling all at the same time. I restarted doing a martial art about
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Did the same. I really think it’s a pay now or pay later affair. PRK was a more painful recovery for sure, but I’ve had no issues and no restrictions. I healed very quickly. I did a review of medical research and did a few things to make PR
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> shaming cities into actually funding their road maintenance budgets. This makes it sound as if there aren’t hard choices to be made and that budgets aren’t tight. Would you rather have smooth roads, clean water, or low taxes? Road main
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I can’t second this enough. Snow Crash and Diamond Age were fun page-turners. I slogged through Cryptonomicon, but beyond that I haven’t been able to finish anything else. I’ve heard good things about Seveneves, but I’m a little hesitant to
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I also remember when Apple was pushing Java as an option for writing Cocoa apps. What little I did back then never felt like a first class citizen compared to ObjC.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think the parent is being a little tongue-in-cheek, but it’s a valid point. C is a dangerously inappropriate language to use... except when it isn’t. C still has some unique portability characteristics that are very hard to match in other
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Seconding this. For the price you can have a desktop at work and at home. The hardware will work flawlessly, and with much better performance as well. Ask yourself whether working from the coffee shop or couch is really critical or even ben
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think if this sort of thing happens in a lot of places, we’re going to see how quickly that $62 billion valuation evaporates. I also predict that venture capitalists will eventually tire of subsidizing everyone’s rides much faster if Uber
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Crows will pack hunt rats. I didn’t know they did this until I watched it happen this year. One would peck at it from behind; the rat would squeak and whip around; next crow would hop in and peck it from behind. Rinse, spin, repeat a few ti
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Data science / statistical applications. Nothing better than the laziness and speed afforded by bein' able to load large datasets into memory.
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Ask HN: Best open source home wifi router in 2018 (buy or build)
10 points by peatmoss 8y ago|7 comments
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by peatmoss 8y ago
BeOS. The BeOS filesystem had some nifty metadata features and the company was keen to show those off. Plus, I suspect they had to get creative to seed the OS with apps back in the day. As a result, many apps ended up feeling like a pretty
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> Been married 27 years so far so it seems to have worked! As I like to joke with my wife, it’s not a successful marriage until one of us dies. As for rings, we didn’t do an engagement ring, and my wife’s ring contains a sapphire mined f
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Though that could backfire. “This diamond was mined in a certified conflict zone.”
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Ah, going the Mongolian route. In actuality, Mongolian names often translate to completely badass things. Take for example Sükhbaatar. Translation? “Axe hero” You could do worse than a Mongol name for yourself.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Someone in the industry suggested to me that the number of long-haul truckers needed is relatively small. And that’s where autonomous trucks are going to be viable for quite a while. It’s one thing to autopilot a truck down a long straight
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by peatmoss 8y ago
You’ll be sad that it ends, but you’ll have closure.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I reject your reality and substitute my own :-)
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I don’t get it; the mainland is clearly just above Te Ika a Maui in that map.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
At the movie theater before films. And those commercials—even as an avowed peacenik—always made us chuckle as both my wife and I remembered the over-the-top US military recruitment ads. By comparison the NZ navy’s ads felt downright quaint.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I played around on a NeXT cube last weekend at the Living Computer Museum and was reminded just how NeXT-like macOS is. I mean, I’ve played with NeXT in the past, and was aware of the continuity since the beginning, but playing with a NeXT
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think this was the AI mentioned in a recent PBS Nova segment on AI. It was remarkable how much it appears people in China have been interacting with this system.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Oof, having been responsible for maintaining the building and upgrading of a bunch of open source software for a client years ago, this comment twisted my guts up something fierce.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I’ve watched 4k digital films at two exceptional digitally equipped theaters: https://cinerama.com/Technology.aspx https://www.geekwire.com/2015/photos-inside-one-of-the-world... And I swear each time
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> You start with a question, conduct experiments, analyze results, adjust your hypothesis, and repeat the process. This is missing my pet step: doing the literature review. I’m pretty ambidextrous when it comes to Python and R, so I’m no
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I see more segmentation in software roles: front-end, back-end, full-stack, embedded, devops, realtime systems are all labels that get you in roughly the right place. Beyond that, there are labels that refer to specific technologies that ge

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