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by pinko 10y ago
FYI, the "HTTP protocol" link[1] in the intro page above is broken. PS: I love the name "Prolly Tree". [1] < https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/datas/databas...
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by pinko 10y ago
Here's a relevant (albeit 4-year-old) StackExchange thread, "Is there a Git for data?": http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/748/is-there-a-g...
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by pinko 10y ago
Another question to help me better understand the tool: who do you see as your competitors, technically? What do you see as viable alternatives to Noms, but worse? (Or better!) I do see that you were inspired by git, but clearly your use
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by pinko 10y ago
My queston is on scalability. You say "large datasets" on the website. What is large? 1x/10x/100x Terabytes? 1x/10x/100x Petabytes? What kind of access rates? Etc. Very general answers are okay -- I'm
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by pinko 11y ago
This is a great point. I'm hugely attracted to the quantified self stuff, but the fact it's not clear the outcomes of knowing all this data is net good, given our flawed selves.
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by pinko 11y ago
Don't tabs preserve cursor position and collapse/expand state in a long (potentially multi-screen) document in a way that saved searches cannot?
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by pinko 11y ago
I'm part of the LIGO team responding to the AMA. If anyone on HN sees a good question that hasn't been answered, link it here and I'll sure we get to it!
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by pinko 11y ago
This comment above is better than the marketing copy on the web page!
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by pinko 11y ago
I presume (hope!) Deepika is a "real woman", and not a "real girl". I'm not trying to scold, but it's worth pointing out that most men wouldn't want to be described as "boys", and the culture th
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Doing SaaS Cancellation Interviews(extendslogic.com)
3 points by pinko 11y ago|0 comments
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by pinko 11y ago
Can you give some examples? (To be clear, I'm not at all skeptical but would just love to hear specifics!)
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by pinko 11y ago
Just signed in for the first time in years... the bulk of my ratings were done in 2002!
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DataKernel framework(datakernel.io)
2 points by pinko 11y ago|0 comments
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by pinko 11y ago
The media, and society more generally, are also more forgiving of the foibles of young white men than they are young black men. The same social media missteps may lead to very different interpretations and outcomes.
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by pinko 12y ago
This implies that these things must throw false alarms with some regularity, otherwise this would have been a huge red flag and they wouldn't have hesitated to follow up immediately.
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by pinko 12y ago
Great idea except for the battery life. He presumably wanted more than a few hours of activity.
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The Pannini Projection – perspective images with very wide fields of view(tksharpless.net)
133 points by pinko 12y ago|6 comments
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Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth(rein.pk)
137 points by pinko 12y ago|45 comments
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by pinko 12y ago
Will someone please sell a well-maintained (and regularly blocklist-updated) Privoxy-as-a-service? I'd like to block ads on my phone, and haven't had time to set it all up myself.
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Technical Interviews Are Bullshit by Anonymous Author – Model View Culture(modelviewculture.com)
2 points by pinko 12y ago|1 comments
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by pinko 12y ago
I think this is great; the transition to open data in Big Science will be slow, but it's clearly the right thing to do. That being said, the biggest short-term practical consequence of this will be a stream of disturbed pseudo-scientis
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by pinko 12y ago
Isn't this also a feature of ASCII-based markup languages, which the author suggests as the right alternative to LaTeX?
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by pinko 12y ago
Speaking personally, the marginal value of my time is quite a bit higher than my normal billable rate, because I'm busy.
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by pinko 12y ago
Flagged. This is a snuff film.
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Documenting Your Ansible Roles Interface (And Making Other People's Life Easier)(t37.net)
2 points by pinko 12y ago|0 comments
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by pinko 12y ago
Not necessarily -- even if you could reliably choose your throws pseudo-randomly, that wouldn't eliminate physical tells (like the elbow swing the article mentioned). The interesting thing about this (to me, as an amateur) is that i
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by pinko 12y ago
Why can't/hasn't this technique be automated into a "pourover-style" drip coffeemaker? If such a thing already exists, are cultural factors the only reason it hasn't displaced manual labor in frou-frou coffeeh
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by pinko 12y ago
...or maybe even a PATCH of a horn resource, updating the value of "honking"?
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by pinko 12y ago
This is the key point many people miss. Assuming a basic level of sanitation, less faecal contamination (there is never zero) + less bacterial competition may be worse in practice than more faecal contamination + more bacterial competition.
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by pinko 12y ago
Any evidence or reference? I can't believe this is true, since such persistent, immobile jammers would be trivial to locate (and presumably would be -- cell providers track down problems as the OP's article attests), and hotels wo

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