remus

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841.
by remus 9y ago
Maybe it's just been the last few days, but it feels like every time I look at hn there's 2 new posts announcing new Aws services!
842.
by remus 9y ago
Thats not QC, thats customer service.
843.
by remus 9y ago
Are generics as useful as an arm? I think that's a slight exaggeration. I'm sure they're useful in a lot of situations but there's a lot of programs you can write where their absence is neither here nor there.
844.
by remus 9y ago
Surely that's the work of the editorial board? Again, they are largely unpaid as far as Im aware. This makes interesting reading if you're interested in how a free (or at least very low cost) journal can work https://go
845.
by remus 9y ago
I'm not aware of any, though I haven't really looked. My understanding is that peer review is done for free because it's understood that it's a necessary part of science. That is, you review other peoples papers for free
846.
by remus 9y ago
> Don't forget the peer review and vetting process. Which is almost universally done for free by the editorial/review panel for the given journal. > As for the price I don't think it's really that expensive. I&#x27
847.
by remus 9y ago
London only came online relatively recently, maybe there's some operational stuff getting in the way of deploying? Or perhaps London has relatively few users at the moment, so the number of clients who will be able to take advantage of
848.
by remus 9y ago
Not to mention all the potential operational problems it can cause. At a previous job a new system was deployed to help the customer service team. I can't remember the details, but it was backed by this pretty meaty database so we coul
849.
by remus 9y ago
> In Europe the 4G network coverage is amazing. Within the last five months I had less issues with my connectivity than some of my co-workers using a cable internet. Same experience for me. I've got a 4G dongle that I use for travel
850.
by remus 9y ago
> One exception is can see is answering private emails - if my wife or a friend writes to my work address, I can't see any problem with replying from that same address, and it would feel a little silly to require employees to copy-p
851.
by remus 9y ago
I think that's quite subjective.
852.
by remus 9y ago
Non-paywalled https://archive.fo/0KSDw
853.
by remus 9y ago
It's funny they'd mention that, and then later in the same article say they had to use a Cron job to scale up their gcp solution for a daily spike.
854.
by remus 9y ago
> Frequent high-quality updates, lots of communication Genuine question: does this really make a difference in your day to day usage? I feel like once I've learnt the ~20% of features that are useful to me on a regular basis everyth
855.
by remus 9y ago
That seems a very cynical view. What I see is a very stable editor with a good breadth of well thought out features. Im struggling to see greed, arrogance and a lack of mature leadership.
856.
by remus 9y ago
I don't think the issue is the act of citation itself, more that the citation is meant to provide a level of assurance that the idea you're citing is true. If you cite a paper in Science that carries with it a knowledge that some
857.
by remus 9y ago
I don't think it's so much as a complete abandonment of benchmarks as a de-emphasis on them. I'm sure the chrome team are still running plenty of benchmarks, but I'd guess they're more tuned towards 'real worl
858.
by remus 9y ago
UK residents are getting free roaming and GDPR anyway so you're not missing out on those. It seems tricky to reconcile Theresa May's stance on encryption with this proposal though. A real shame in my opinion.
859.
by remus 9y ago
> Everything about Go is designed to maximize what Google wants out of mid-range programmers. It's so weird how non-google people seem to find this state of affairs good. If it let's them build products that serve billions of u
860.
by remus 9y ago
How so? A 32 bit platform doesn't mean you're limited to 32 bit ints....
861.
by remus 9y ago
Theoretically yes, though I guess the details are a little more complicated (depending on who exactly bought the energy and under what terms). e.g. energy company x might have bought all the capacity from wind farm y for the next 10 years,
862.
by remus 9y ago
You could think of the problem in reverse: there's an excess of energy and they need to pay people to get rid of it (because using that much energy isn't as easy as dumping it in the ground). If you could find a good way of gettin
863.
by remus 9y ago
You can walk off the back.
864.
by remus 9y ago
To be honest it wasn't really kept that quiet. Plenty of climbers knew he was working on it, and I'm sure plenty of people in the climbing media knew he was working towards it. Fortunately I think the climbing media are a pretty s
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by remus 9y ago
Yeah, the route he climbed is very popular and there's a lot of 'fixed' ropes that teams climbing it will normally leave in place on a short term basis.
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by remus 9y ago
There's been some interesting discussion about the possibility of removing them in go 2 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19921
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by remus 9y ago
The logs might be pretty big, so it might have a significant impact on people on metered internet connections.
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by remus 9y ago
Probably not. MySQL and postgres are both very general purpose relational databases that have a broad range of features aimed at a wide range of use cases. MapD is designed for more specific use cases, specifically analytic querying and vis
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by remus 9y ago
It depends what you're doing. I haven't looked in a while, but last time I did the idea behind MapD was to produce interactive visualisations over lots of data. That can certainly get pretty computationally expensive.
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by remus 10y ago
Pure speculation, but I wonder whether they're doing something clever with their image data to generate the elevation data? Id guess the details of the process are tricky, but it's possible then you only need to concentrate on get

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