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Counterintuitive economics of a chess tournament(davidsmerdon.com)
34 points by rkrzr 11y ago|46 comments
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Counterintuitive economics of a chess tournament(davidsmerdon.com)
1 points by rkrzr 11y ago|0 comments
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Is there going to be a backwards-compatible version of Prelude then? Maybe called something like SimplePrelude which could be imported to keep all old code working without any changes (it could also be used for teaching purposes then, becau
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by rkrzr 11y ago
They also gloss over the fact that packages in package managers are usually vetted by the maintainers which often have additional safety measures in place like e.g. repeatable builds to insure that they are not compromised.
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Good point. It's true that you can successfully use Core and the ORM in the same project. Since the ORM is basically just a higher layer of abstraction (and is cleanly separated), you can always drop down to Core, if that's requir
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by rkrzr 11y ago
One of the best things about SQLAlchemy is SQLAlchemy Core in my opinion. It is the layer on which SQLAlchemy ORM is built. There are often times when an ORM is overkill or when you really just want a lot of control over your SQL or you jus
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by rkrzr 11y ago
It's not just the history feature that's archaic. Bash itself is quite the abomination, also operating on bytestreams is really error-prone, and then there is the whole tty system.. As much as I like my command line, I think it wo
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Thanks so much for creating autojump! autojump + Crl+R are saving me so much time that would be lost searching around. There is just this impedance mismatch between our brains hazy recollection of things and the exactness that is required b
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Steam works great for me. There is no discernible difference to the Windows version. There are 1400+ games available now for Linux, including some (older) AAA games like Bioshock Infinite. Just make sure to buy a Nvidia graphics card (and u
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Does Dalga support job dependencies? I.e. job A can only run after e.g. job B and C have finished first.
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by rkrzr 11y ago
The non-existing support of some crucial libraries that you are depending on. That, in my opinion, is the number one reason holding people back from upgrading. Fortunately that is getting better and better, it is just a very slow process.
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by rkrzr 11y ago
I wonder if any of them are working for their online publication "Spiegel Online"[1] as well. It certainly doesn't feel that way, given that spell-checking their articles often already seems like too much work. EDIT: Quote fr
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Euro-Summit ‘Agreement’ on Greece – Annotated by Yanis Varoufakis(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
1 points by rkrzr 11y ago|0 comments
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Killing the European Project(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
16 points by rkrzr 11y ago|0 comments
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by rkrzr 11y ago
"But if you're not using a foreign language, after passing the test you will completely forget it in 2 years" You usually take this test because you will have to speak this language, so the case where you take the test and th
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by rkrzr 11y ago
I hope they succeed in taking away some market share from TOEFL. The TOEFL test is ridiculously overpriced for what they provide and your results expire (no joke) after 2 years. Since clearly you will have forgotten everything you knew ab
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by rkrzr 11y ago
"But what we find totally unacceptable is log files being shoved into binary repositories as the primary storage location" The way I read his article, he's not really opposed to additionally keeping your logs around as text.
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Think of it as an interactive notebook where you can not only write down notes, but also enter data and code and interact with it. You can then draw nice graphs of the data and explore it interactively. The nice thing about it is that it is
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Configuring IPython Notebook Support for PySpark(ramhiser.com)
1 points by rkrzr 11y ago|0 comments
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by rkrzr 11y ago
Interesting. I wonder how this compares to an IPython notebook? While I haven't tried it, I imagine that you can use pyspark from an IPython notebook and have much of the same functionality as with Apache Zeppelin. Makes me wonder if i
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by rkrzr 12y ago
"Isn't this true for all languages". No, not at all. Many languages have an idiomatic way to write things. Python definitely does and so does Haskell (to a lesser degree). "One could also argue that this provides evidenc
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by rkrzr 12y ago
I'm currently learning Scala (background in Python and Haskell) and I have encountered a few road blocks: 1. The REPL is not very helpful: You cannot look up documentation a la IPython (i.e. myFunc?) or inspect objects easily to find o
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by rkrzr 12y ago
Ah that would explain it. That's a pretty misleading claim then. So I guess ARMs are still pretty slow and Amazon is not all that terrible after all performance-wise. That also makes more sense intuition-wise.
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by rkrzr 12y ago
I find this surprising in both directions: Either that an AWS M3 medium instance is so slow or that ARM servers got so fast! Edit: It seems that ARM CPUs got really fast: According to [1] an Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz gets a Passmark sco
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by rkrzr 12y ago
Type errors come in more shapes than the obvious one: e.g. Untyped data structures like dictionaries are a frequent source of error in Python (KeyError e.g.) or non-uniform lists. These are pretty common bugs, I'd argue, which simply c
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by rkrzr 12y ago
I think this approach is underrated and can highly recommend it. If you are an engineer and you keep your living expenses low, you can most likely survive doing consulting/contracting for 1 day per week, leaving you the rest of the wee
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by rkrzr 12y ago
Could you give an example of something that could not be expressed with DataFrames? Would e.g. tree-structured data be a bad fit for DataFrames, since it doesn't fit well with the tabular nature?
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by rkrzr 12y ago
We've been using it in production for about half a year now and it's been great. It especially shines when you have iterative algorithms were you e.g. first need to group-by something then process that a bit, then split it out aga
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by rkrzr 12y ago
I like how Sweden is a third-world country according to that definition. But seriously, I don't think that's how people use this term any more. It's just a synonym for developing country by now. I also like this definition fr
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U.S. Drops to 49th in World Press Freedom Rankings(firstlook.org)
17 points by rkrzr 12y ago|0 comments

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