rubyfan

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by rubyfan 9y ago
Given the choice between a drone+iPad and an A10 warthog, I'd pick the warthog all day every day. That said, I doubt it's an either or thing.
902.
by rubyfan 9y ago
There are a few unresolved issues with the preventative / home sensor approach. 1. Sensors dramatically increase the acquisition cost for a policy. 2. It is unproven that sensors will mitigate losses. We all see the potential but there
903.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Any reference to the beacon protocol? I've never seen or heard of this. I've implemented mechanisms to periodically drain queues and clean up onbeforeunload for single page apps. Does GA's event queue span pages?
904.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Agreed, FA looks like raw material compared to piwik. There's a lot of components needed to build a full solution. You need browser capture, data sink, backend aggregation, dashboards, adhoc query capability, etc...
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I'm interested. I built something to track events for analytics long ago ~7 years. Constantly surprised it's stood the test of time. Coincidentally the loading portion is similar to the GA loading portion analyzed in the article.
906.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Right, back to the point of saving characters/bytes at scale it's a cheaper way to getTime()
907.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Seems like a better way to find out about reading habits would be to tap into the internet and track a bunch of meta data about people... oh, wait
908.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Just tried it out, wow does that feel slimy. The waiting queue felt totally fake and the "while you were waiting these sold out thing" was obnoxious. Of course the psychological aspects might have worked differently if I were actu
909.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Now I need to go look up whitewashing
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Tertill: The solar powered weeding robot for home gardens(kickstarter.com)
25 points by rubyfan 9y ago|4 comments
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Thanks that helps. Seems like one misstep after another with this company but sounds like he did the right thing in resigning.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for clarifying. Yeah the quotation on its own was unclear what point it was even trying to make.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Don't overlook the inverse incentive created and psychological aspect of this equation. If you are the one working and at the same level as the non-working, there is a cognitive dissonance that cannot be easily overcome.
914.
by rubyfan 9y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand the point he was trying to make? Was it a dig at Huffington not adding value?
915.
by rubyfan 9y ago
What are you hoping to learn?
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Step 1. Start quietly looking for another job that pays 20% more than you currently make. You'll likely find something. Step 2. Take the new job. Rationale for not making a stink with your current employer or negotiating with them once
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by rubyfan 9y ago
The code https://github.com/bioinf-jku/SNNs
918.
by rubyfan 9y ago
I don't know much about how other people think but I'm fairly certain that I favor auditory mode. When I write code I generally am in auditory mode and then expressing logic becomes fairly easy with text. Further, I believe abstra
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Also specific to the 529 issue, many of these families will go on to pay more out of pocket tuitions than the bottom 80% who benefit from all sorts of government money and aid.
920.
by rubyfan 9y ago
Wondering where are they now: the MA toll both employees who used to push the button and hand me the toll ticket as I passed through the booth. Now I drive through without stopping and a camera takes a picture of my license plate and mails
921.
by rubyfan 9y ago
The popular narrative has been GOP colluded with Russia, hence the negativity (not that I agree one way or the other)
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Not that I agree with gp but a political party vs personal is a little different.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Yeah recreational thinking about your circumstances sounds fun too
924.
by rubyfan 9y ago
tl;dr eat magic mushrooms, become a millionaire
925.
by rubyfan 9y ago
It is not uncommon in business to pay a premium for access to a pool of qualified potential buyers. 25% pays not only for the single conversion but all the other exposures and access to the market. So 25% doesn't seem that bad to me.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Agreed, I usually try to keep my eyes open to fool myself that I'm not sleepy. My face is probably limp though. From what I've seen from recent neural nets I believe it's possible to detect the pre-sleep phase given a trainin
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Yeah this was back in 2010-ish. I explored a lot of distributed file systems, was really looking for something that would share files across the cluster once generated by one node. NFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, GridFS, some others.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Caching. I used to be responsible for sites involved with the Olympics. For 100 weeks traffic was next to nothing. For the two weeks preceding and two weeks during the games there really was spike after spike after spike. The site basically
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by rubyfan 9y ago
You are not the only one. I've actually felt that Windows 2000 was probably the highest quality least bullshit product they ever released.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
There's probably a language skill experience aspect that the author neglects. Tiobe puts JavaScript at #7 and Rust on #40. Though C++ is #3 I'd have a hard time believing there's a mass of professional C++ programmers buildin

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