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by rickmode 14y ago
I wonder how much of this is over-fitting. When I see statistical predictions like this I always wonder about the over-fitting problem.
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by rickmode 14y ago
XML is not Turing complete, nor are most configuration file formats. Yet these are used to provide significant behavior. They are are programs. Programs are data. Data are programs.
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by rickmode 14y ago
The web page is unreadable on my iPhone. Right side is clipped; same as another post says about Android.
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by rickmode 14y ago
Time Machine via a drive hooked to an Airport Extreme along with Backblaze.
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by rickmode 14y ago
Interesting the part about non-interference: "But Vecellio said it would go against Karisoke center policies and ethos to actively instruct the apes. 'We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don’t want to affect thei
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by rickmode 14y ago
I wonder if this is a at least partially due to the difference between gamers / geeks and the type of people that do PR. Perhaps the PR "normals" may not know the geek culture that deeply. Not that there isn't sexism in geek culture either.
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by rickmode 14y ago
Stated another way: The contract Object.hashCode() does not require a stable results between processes; it _only_ requires a stable result during a single run of an application. So if you need a stable distributed hash, the article recommen
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by rickmode 14y ago
Is there no need to tune the number of threads with an approach like this? Or is there a general notion of the appropriate number of threads given the number of CPU cores?
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by rickmode 14y ago
Sounds like it was calculated by page count: "Yes, only one screen in the entire LinkedIn iPad app is actually native."
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by rickmode 14y ago
I can see that. It isn't explicit, but it is there.
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by rickmode 14y ago
Meta question: how is this related to hacker news (related to technology or science)?
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by rickmode 14y ago
"BlinkDB can execute a range of queries over a real-world query trace on up to 17 TB of data and 100 nodes in 2 seconds, with an error of 2–10%" 17 TB on 100 nodes? That a lot of nodes to hold 17 TB; on average 174 GB-ish of data each. The
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by rickmode 14y ago
Usability observeration: The auto-load feature effectively makes the footer impossible to read. Perhaps move the important footer information to the top or sidebar?
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by rickmode 15y ago
Clearly the patent is invalid: the Internet is represented as a bean, not a cloud.
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by rickmode 15y ago
A clear sign Intellectual Property has jumped the shark.
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by rickmode 15y ago
And your organization has much more than 3 teams? The article specifically says this is a large multi-team coordination issue.
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by rickmode 15y ago
A side point that came up at the time: if Apple offered no support, we'd mainly lose a good Swing implementation. So without Apple's help, we could still use OpenJDK for non-GUI applications. I believe SWT would be fine as well, so Eclipse
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by rickmode 15y ago
The most striking bit: he found a Borders to sit at. OK, just kidding. This post is a year old. Naive? Sure. Doesn't mean the sentiments aren't correct. I wonder how he's doing one year on. The "just do it" theme is good to hear once in a w
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by rickmode 15y ago
There one phone with iOS so if the context is phones, "Android competes with iOS" is exactly equivalent to "Android competes with iPhone".
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by rickmode 15y ago
You're saying this approach doesn't fit problem domains that are CPU-intensive. That's a valid point. The article doesn't directly address this but does compare LMAX to a typical database backed business application. The computation here is
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by rickmode 15y ago
Hate the game, not the players. And Google has adopted the same strategy. Corporations do not have any human sense of morals, fairness, or ethics much as mobs will commit crimes any individual in the mob would never consider. Groups do not
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by rickmode 15y ago
Side comment: The mobile version of that link was exceptionally painful. A short article was split to 5 pages. Wow.
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by rickmode 15y ago
Not all of it.
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by rickmode 15y ago
Minor point: this is a blog entry, not an article. I don't believe "The Economist" holds their blogs to the same standard as their articles. Certainly the voice and formality is more relaxed in their blogs.
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by rickmode 15y ago
Question 1 I find the font easier to read, but I became and avid reader after getting diagnosed and given private reading lessons in the 2nd grade (circa 1977). I suspect I retrained by brain with constant reading from that point onward. By
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by rickmode 15y ago
In the US, limiting lobbying is tough (impossible?) without undermining the First Amendment right to petition. I totally agree lobbying is a problem - perhaps one of the largest (along with our two party political polarization). A solution
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by rickmode 15y ago
Goals are a good think. Faith in your own ability to achieve your goals is good. Spending time dreaming about outcomes and then wasting time wishing the real outcomes did not happen and wishing things had been different and that you had don
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by rickmode 15y ago
Regarding the ad the worked best, I couldn't tell what the heck the image was, and I'm curious - the image was interesting. Looks like a spiral of some sort. (I didn't see it as a stack of beer until I looked back after reading what it was.
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by rickmode 15y ago
Ya. I was implementing an abstract class so gen-class was the only way.
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by rickmode 15y ago
Using Java classes and interfaces from Clojure is straightforward. Instantiating objects is easy. Implementing Java interfaces is easy. Both are fluid and feel idiomatic. On the other hand, extending an existing Java class is quite awkward,

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