saosebastiao

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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   Consistency, simplicity, and a pretty sparse range of WTFs. No language is magic...Lua is just more pleasant to work with.
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   Big Data is whatever you want it to be. For the VC blowhards around here, it is happiness, wealth, a solution to world hunger, and a bikini model with DDD boobs that loves old nerds and doesn't get them thrown in jail for drug trafficking.
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   I'm sitting here wishing lua was the de facto web language. Javascript makes me sad.
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   Public housing or housing vouchers are one thing. Price controls are another. Price controls are absolutely, without a single empirical doubt, the worst policy you could enact. You might as well start torching your housing supply...the effe
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   This is confusion of intelligence and knowledge. I don't know how a hash function works...but that is a reflection of my experience, not my intelligence. I did not study to be a computer scientist...but I sure as hell can optimize your supp
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   The thing that keeps pulling me toward python is the ecosystem. NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Mapnik, Cython, PyPy, IPython, Jython, Sage, PyQt/PyGTK, PyCuda/PyOpenCL. I rarely have trouble finding a tool that I need. It is frustrating, because Rub
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   It is annoying, but it is also part of their job...at least if they are doing it right.
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   At least he didn't say "pivot".
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   by saosebastiao 14y ago

   DRPK's military is still stuck in the 1950's. Our military got caught with its pants down when going up against a military that was trained in the hills of Afghanistan in the 1980's...and responded by combining its perfected 1950's style wa
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    But they are bait and switch when the terms and offers change after you sign up. Instagram for example.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Note that many of these fall into a bait-and-switch category. You use the product for free for a while, and then all of a sudden you are spammed to high hell, or functionality is taken away unless you pay. Paying isn't really that bad of an
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Don't stop there. He thinks it is unconstitutional for Congress to limit the President's power to assassinate US Citizens without a trial.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Bitcoin threads are always the most interesting, due to the extremity of the positions conveyed. Why cant people see this as it is? A cryptocurrency that is illiquid due to volume, and subject to the ups and downs of hype.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    I live in Seattle and would definitely use them more often if we hadn't repeatedly been screwed by their customer service.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Do you write rants like this for every article on HN which is not about Scala? As far as I can tell, different programmers like different languages for different reasons. I don't write webapps, but if I did, I would probably choose Clojure
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    As someone who has absolutely zero interest in gaming, this is the most exciting news I have read on HN for a good month or so.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Ahh the perils of being a customer of Google.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Did you care to calculate out how much $8B is when it is spread out over 270,000 people and 5 years? Apple is a big company, no doubt, but it is not an economy...no matter how hard their PR department tries to spin their "study"
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Because it isnt that great of a language and only a handful of people can actually make money with it?
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    They waited until the day before my upgrade to patch my phone. The FTC charges are meaningless to me...they already lost my future business when they decided that they didnt care about their existing customers to push out a patch to their O
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Sib has it about right. It is an NP complete problem, and I'm pretty sure the solution is using a Heuristic, but it does seem to be pretty suboptimal during lunch time. Then again, maybe it just seems worse because you wait longer as a trad
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Actually, yes...they do. I work in a building with an elevator control system designed by an internal engineer. More importantly, the elevator control system uses mathematical expertise that is normally used solving variants of the multi-co
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    This is awesome. I feel like I owe you a couple of beers or something.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Oh, so we have been hoodwinked, duped, and bamboozled by the mysterious "political industrial complex" huh? All this time, electric vehicles have been perfectly viable and competitive with internal combustion? It is all just a big conspirac
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Cool. Does it qualify as some sort of mutual recursion if you use haskell to build a lisp which builds haskell?
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    Matt Taibbi? I agree with his general point of view, but it is amazing that people still consider him a journalist. It appears he has mastered the art of making smears look like journalism.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    BBC should feel free to invent its own web protocols. They should also feel free to require closed source clients for using those protocols. But the W3C should outright refuse to listen to their demands.
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    It runs each statement individually? Or commits each statement individually? Column stores are destined to have slower inserts, due to how the data is stored on disk. But if they are actually committing each statement individually, that is
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    I don't think they will ever go extinct, although they might gain significant market share. The AI that driverless cars is using is experiential, not symbolic or pure logic...after accumulating enough experience with a certain situation, it
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    by saosebastiao 14y ago

    I think your proposal is sound...the people that get primary benefit of the infrastructure should be the ones that pay for it. Unfortunately, that causes more problems for drivers than it does for transit riders (which is why we are in the