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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Time for all the car magazines to update all their cost of ownership estimates to account for software licensing fees.
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Does it have onboard memory? I feel like calling it a system-on-chip kind of implies it, but I didn't see anything about it.
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: R, SQL, Scala (+ Java), ML, Linear Programming Résumé/CV: Provided upon request Email: saosebastiao@gmail.com I'm primarily a business intel
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Cold starts for the VM are only part of the problem. If you're on a JITed runtime, a cold start also means compilation and optimization. It would be nice if they had ways to cache the JITed machine code so they could start back up with
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Good call with that sanity check. Patio11's assertion definitely had that paradoxical lightbulb moment that makes you want to believe it is true (a la Malcolm Gladwell), but two data points were all that was necessary to expose it.
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I briefly had a (failed) startup in this area, and I did a lot of research. There are certainly a ton of clubs that do this, and there's an obvious reason why: in nightclubs, your product is your customers. They don't show up for
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
This is one of those things that always gets repeated, but I have some strong doubts about how successful it could be. You are deliberately slowing your revenue stream by limiting your throughput, and losing customers due to the long line d
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
...as long as their revenue keeps increasing. AMZNs stock price isn't driven by current earnings, but it isnt driven by investor magnanimity either. It's all about the promise of future earnings. If revenues flatline or decline, y
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
> This is terrible math. Nursing a child severely inhibits getting pregnant; without use of formula (or a substitute like goat's milk or what have you), it is extremely rare for children to be spaced only one year apart. It's r
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Lack of affordable housing is a problem that government policies cause. Why not fix it?
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
And the taliban didn't finance or plan the attack on the US, they merely wouldn't give up those who did. Even if the Saudi government isn't directly financing salafist or wahhabist terrorism (and it's not clear that they
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I dont need to draw any lines, there is more than enough of that work already done for me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Sa...
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
It could have easily turned out differently. Our president was thinking about handing over a US resident to Erdogan so he can be killed, just so he could get Erdogan to lay off of Bin Salman for killing another US resident. And let's n
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
> It definitely "ruins" the restaurant, in the sense that it becomes basically impossible to eat there anymore. This just happened for me with a tiny little southern restaurant down the street from me. For about a year, I would
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
This, and compiler performance, are my big problems. Unification can be very costly on large codebases. And for this reason, I wish my IDE had a hotkey that would automatically infer and then insert type annotations on an entire file (as op
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
That brings back an old memory of the data warehouse being extremely overburdened during peak. Capacity constraints and over utilization kept bringing down clusters. As a last ditch effort, the data warehouse team started randomly disabling
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I'm curious to know what sort of timeframes they were manipulating on. Most if the large institutional banks are operating as market makers, which would likely limit their influence on price movements to a few pips at most. Most instit
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
The problem comes from the fact that clojure and clojurescript are two different type disciplines, but people approach them with the same expectations. That exact problem would have errored out if they were running clojure, and a thrown exc
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I've tried it while it was unstable and it was excellent (I remember some random forest training that went from a few days down to half an hour). Since everything was unstable at the time, one update was all it took to break everything
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I noticed a lot of clojure codebases at amazon in 2013 (I was looking because I was learning clojure at the time). It took a look about three years later and most of them were either ported to java or scala, or dead. There were a few still
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I've used all three, and at least in my opinion, Scala is the most production ready by miles. Clojure is great if you like dynamic typing...by far the best dynamically typed functional language out there. Beware of claims that clojures
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I'm definitely well in the R camp but keep feeling this nagging pull from Python. Especially for trading...it would be so nice to have a language for both research and production, as right now I translate all my research into scala for
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Singular they was in common use long before Left or Right has been to describe political factions. It is the right wing that politicized it, not the left.
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they... > Former Chief Editor of the OED Robert Burchfield, in The New Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1996), dismisses objections to singular the
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
I asked for proof, not your personal anecdote. I too have lived in many cultures. Singular they has been commonly accepted everywhere that speaks English. Think about the phrase "Everyone loves their mother". Everyone is a singula
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Please provide proof of this claim. I find it hard to believe, seeing how singular they has been in common use since the 14th century.
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
So you have objective proof somewhere that a majority of those 1.5B people don't understand or accept singular they?
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
According to the non-existent authority of the English language?
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by saosebastiao 8y ago
Except that you are arguing with dozens of people who have already accepted it .

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