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by rit 16y ago
Isn't today his birthday? (Random factoid lodged in my brain)
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by rit 16y ago
It's not intended to be a complex statistical model. It's intended to replace XML Files that may have included calculations, with a system that allows people to plug their assumptions into the program and get an answer, rather than parsing
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by rit 16y ago
But then you need a standard DSL interpreter platform. For any platform that investors use. I suspect this is a solid reason to take and use an existing language. Saying "You need a standard install of Python 2.6 to execute this", versus
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by rit 16y ago
Python has some FP features. More importantly, it's incredibly easy to learn, available on just about every platform (JVM users and .Net users can use it, Mac, Linux, Windows, etc).
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by rit 16y ago
I was more mortified at the tone in which this was posted. Something about it seemed far too carefree and nonchalant, as if the most important thing is quibbling over the subtle shade of blue in their uniforms. These being the people who
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by rit 16y ago
The TSA has posted an official reply to this: That's the Customs and Border Control's Job not ours. You can tell the difference because their uniform is NAVY blue and ours is more of a ROYAL blue. (I'm paraphrasing here but only barely. T
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by rit 16y ago
There's a great article on similar situations at: http://www.berghel.net/col-edit/digital_village/dec-07/dv_12... He talks about being brought in to help the cops figure out why they kept arresting hookers, crooks, etc with pocket fulls o
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by rit 16y ago
Slightly aside, but worth noting is that much of the founding team of Danger went on to create a small startup known as Android, later acquired by Google.
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by rit 16y ago
4. goto 1
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by rit 16y ago
On top of which, not every "Event based" system isn't threaded. They specifically provide fork/join as an example of Thread based. Scala 2.8 adds full support for using a fork/join model in Actors, which are... to the observer, event drive
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by rit 16y ago
5... GIGS? I probably sync that much back and forth in source code garbage and sample data sets between work and my house. Not to mention the fact that all of my video consumption is streaming now (Amazon or Netflix via Tivo). That's... wo
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by rit 16y ago
The new scala.collection.JavaConversions implicits are fantastic. I converted a bunch of code that was using jcl wrappers in 2.7 and with JavaConversions in scope, standard Java collections just work now as if they're Scala (e.g. map, for
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by rit 16y ago
Scala has Manifests to emulate reified types for just this reason. http://www.scala-blogs.org/2008/10/manifests-reified-types.h... It's improved a bit in 2.8 - in porting some code I discovered a nice little hack that lets you declare you
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by rit 16y ago
Totally reactionary, prejudiced statement. But my first reaction on headline before reading the article was "Ugh. I'm sorry". (I will read it in a second, I felt this obdurate urge to rant BEFORE I read it). I coded in Java for work (After
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by rit 17y ago
The Cherry Blue & Brown switches are damn close. I don't have an IBM to compare with - but this switch set is the first keys I've been happy with in probably a decade. They're built to be reliable, consistent and last FOREVER, like th
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by rit 17y ago
I have one of these on my desk and it's truly a fantastic keyboard, especially for the price. I advocated for it in a previous article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020447 (The Majestouch Click Otaku is basically the same unit. C
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by rit 17y ago
I'm not saying it's not at risk. I'm saying it MAY NOT be specifically targetted. This may be a shotgun clause that Apple pulls out as needed, rather than a "Hey Novell/Adobe/Unity cut that shit out as of now".
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by rit 17y ago
Interesting. MonoTouch, which is the Novell/Mono team's rather fantastic port of C#/.Net to iPhone, compiles down to native code and apparently that was OK with apple to begin with. Unity3D which is a popular 3d framework for many platforms
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by rit 17y ago
Sluggy.com has been using MongoDB in production (with Python as it's main API interface) since ~July '09. We haven't had a single problem with Mongo or API interfaces. This replaced MySQL + Memcache and was a MASSIVE difference in system l
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MongoDB 1.4 Production Release(blog.mongodb.org)
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by rit 17y ago
Yes, and Google, Yahoo, Apple, etc don't get to decide if their customers get the heart transplant they so desperately need. These companies need to be operating as not-for-profits, or coops. Their motivations between decisions should be d
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by rit 17y ago
Sure, if the querying is your only concern. The trade off you make to get the performance attributes, scalability, schemaless flexibility, etc from a NoSQL storage solution is that you end up in a different query situation. Things like joi
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by rit 17y ago
This is going to probably become a branding nightmare for Google. I know many of the Android phones have "with Google" printed somewhere on the casing (on my Eris it's on the battery door), and the Android brand has been fairly well associa
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by rit 17y ago
Stay tuned for our compelling report: Water ... Wet, or dry?
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by rit 17y ago
Presumably you mean Upper Darby, in which case no, I was at Haverford. I was out before Haverford started really implementing computers (at the time they didn't even have computers for the teachers) but I suspect you're right - if they coul
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by rit 17y ago
I grew up one township over from Lower Merion and am frankly shocked to hear about all this going down (part of my home township is split between Lower Merion and my school district) It's the kind of absurdity that I wouldn't expect - it's
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by rit 17y ago
But he DID invent the electric chair. And tested it on an Elephant to prove the danger of his competitor's products.
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by rit 17y ago
This looks like a filler blog more than anything else. No real content- just 15 unqualified vague screenshots with links.
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by rit 17y ago
Monads are hard, let's go shopping!
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by rit 17y ago
No, they couldn't decrypt anything. They'd need the private keys. And the passwords for the private keys.

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