qohen

31 ms·

1. 241.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   A cute song about the inventor [0], apparently from a British comedic radio program(me), "John Finnemore's Souvenir Program" [1]: [0] https://soundcloud.com/otterintheflightdeck/carmela-vitale [1] https
2. 242.▲
   “Mastering Python for Finance” Ebook FREE Till Friday 4PM PST (midnight UTC)(packtpub.com)

   1 points by qohen 10y ago|0 comments
3. 243.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   However! Erlang doesn't have any hard real time guarantees But this, from the end of the GRiSP page, is interesting: * When Erlang is running on RTEMS there is very little latency between something happening on the hardware and a rea
4. 244.▲
   Lawyers: New court software is so awful it’s getting people wrongly arrested(arstechnica.com)

   9 points by qohen 10y ago|0 comments
5. 245.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/55/
6. 246.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   * Perhaps we should just ban Wells Fargo from business for a couple of years then, equivalent to a prison sentence.* The state of California did something like this, suspending Wells Fargo from bond-investment work, at the end of September:
7. 247.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   The author is themselves handing out incredibly rash and potentiality harmful advice. The author answers this objection [0] on the Reddit thread [1] about his "Code I'm Still Ashamed Of" post: devmastery[S] 15 points 4 day
8. 248.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   Excellent news! Some details, from a Facebook post [0] by a friend of theirs: Hi Everyone, here's the official update from the parents to put everyone at ease. From the parents that spoke with both Masha and Aaron: They were at the sa
9. 249.▲
   by qohen 10y ago

   BTW, the manufacturer is running a promotion [0] that, if you buy the ResQlink or ResQlink+ (or Aqualink), you can get a $50 rebate. (Or get a ResQlink+ for free if you buy a $700-ish GlobalFix iPro). Check the promotion [0] and rebate-form
10. 250.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    I was looking into PLBs earlier this evening, for obvious reasons and, since the topic was mentioned here, and since this might be helpful to people, I'll describe something notable I found. On a site called outdoorgearlab.com, which h
11. 251.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Good to hear. BTW, it turns out there's a registry of volunteer drone pilots for doing SAR (search-and-rescue) called SWARM, whose website is this: http://sardrones.org/ I don't know how helpful this would be for
12. 252.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    I assume this is them -- Aaron Morganstein and Masha Mitkova? https://www.theeastsiderla.com/2016/11/elysian-valley-couple... If so, there's information on the GoFundMe page -- in the comments as well as the
13. 253.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    The embedded Prolog was ProLog by BIM, from BIM Systems, which was the Belgian-based competitor to a US-based company called Quintus, in Mountain View; both offered high-end Prolog systems for Unix. One of the things that ProLog by BIM had
14. 254.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Given the recent election, may I suggest this song of his: "Democracy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y http://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-democracy-lyrics
15. 255.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    This might help with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming
16. 256.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Kind of related: In 2012, the NRO -- i.e. the US agency responsible for spy-satellites -- surprised NASA w/two brand-new Hubble-equivalent telescopes (in some ways better, actually) that it just happened to have lying around since the
17. 257.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Related: a detailed 50-minute talk about using Consul at scale (for service-discovery) at DataDog, by Darron Froese. (The talk was given at SREcon16, on 04/08/16.) We had many VMs in AWS - were ingesting millions of metrics per s
18. 258.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Erlang's usage of commas, semi-colons and periods is based on Prolog's use of these punctuation-marks. (Erlang was developed in Prolog and retains many similarities to it).
19. 259.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    This is absolutely not a solution if you have tinnitus or a hearing damage or both. Arguendo, one could wear headphones without them being plugged in, strictly for signalling purposes, if it were necessary.
20. 260.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    a surprising number of languages contain embedded interpreters for it. Mostly Lisps. Also, Smalltalks (seriously).
21. 261.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    The idea of logical programming has much promise. Not for programming, but for running queries on a knowledge base. You might want to take a look at Datalog [0]: Datalog is a declarative logic programming language that syntactically is a
22. 262.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Just saw intercooler referenced in a post a couple days ago and took a look. It does look refreshingly simple to get started. Aaaaaand...we've come full-circle now: Intercooler depends on JQuery, version 1.10.0 or higher. :-)
23. 263.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    FYI, this is part of PacktPub's free daily book giveaway -- every day at midnight UTC (e.g. 4PM PDT) -- or a little after -- the book at the free-learning link changes to a new title, which can be downloaded in a variety of formats or
24. 264.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    FWIW, my dentist recommended Colgate Total because it had Triclosan in it; I don't remember exactly what she said -- it was years ago --- but something along the lines of it being the one toothpaste that seemed demonstrably better than
25. 265.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    This is what the Prime Minister of France, Manuel Valls, thinks about that demographic (in "Is it Time for the Jews to Leave Europe", a 2015 article in The Atlantic [0] by Jeffrey Goldberg): Valls is deliberate and—unusual for
26. 266.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    But, of course, Ubuntu also has LTS (Long Term Support) versions for people who don't want to upgrade frequently (you get security patches and the like but otherwise things stay stable for years). http://tech.shantanugoel.co
27. 267.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Also, it suffers badly from Darlings: this is when an author discovers a Cool Thing, and is determined to use it whereever possible. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch meant something else when he said "Murder your darlings" in a lecture
28. 268.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    And, the book is -- legitimately -- available for free, in a variety of formats -- details on the author's blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... This free ebook edition i
29. 269.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    All gone :-(
30. 270.▲
    by qohen 10y ago

    Never let it be said the CIA doesn't have a sense of humor. If you haven't seen it [0], they began posting on Twitter with this: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. [0] https://twitter.com&