rainloft

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Post-Startup Life: Reflecting on My First 18 Months Living in Denver(daniellemorrill.com)
2 points by rainloft 7y ago|0 comments
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by rainloft 7y ago
This book enabled me to think better from first principles. e.g. How might I go about optimizing a redshift query? Well, now that I have an idea about how data is laid out on disk, because redshift is a columnar store, if I try to optimize
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Semantic Code Search(experiments.github.com)
6 points by rainloft 8y ago|3 comments
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by rainloft 8y ago
For the longest time I believed that Kubrick knew exactly what he wanted before he began shooting. The finished film existed in his mind, and set pieces and actors simply had to materialize and adhere to that vision. I don't buy into t
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by rainloft 8y ago
I've watched 2001 twice in my life. Once on my laptop screen, and once in a theater. Wildly different experiences. On a laptop, it was maddeningly slow. I couldn't bear that scene where the spaceship docks on the space station whi
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by rainloft 9y ago
CS 251: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies at Stanford https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/
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by rainloft 9y ago
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/15... He combines words and images in a style that inspired Wired magazine. The book is about the influence
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by rainloft 10y ago
I really dig MDN's tutorial: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/D...
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by rainloft 10y ago
It took 33 years before it was publicly announced that GCHQ succeeded in deciphering Enigma codes. Every single time they used intercepted intelligence to their benefit, they made sure to leave false trails of other ways they could've