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by scottfr 8y ago
If I understand your query correctly, Google Cloud Firestore would support it. https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/querie...
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by scottfr 8y ago
> First, I ran a small sample of 2000 requests to check the performance of new deploys. This was running at around 40 requests per second. ... > When I ran my initial Fargate warmup, I got the following results. Around 10% of my reque
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Future JavaScript: what is still missing?(2ality.com)
242 points by scottfr 8y ago|277 comments
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Basic Comparison of Python, Julia, Matlab, IDL and Java (2018 Edition)(modelingguru.nasa.gov)
3 points by scottfr 8y ago|1 comments
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by scottfr 8y ago
I've been trying to teach my 5 year old with a custom language/app I built a while ago: http://modelian.com/ Basically, it's a programming language to make very basic 2d physics simulations. It's actuall
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by scottfr 8y ago
I got one of the new MacBooks at work. After a few months the 'G' key started getting flaky. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would do nothing, sometimes it would trigger twice for a single key press. I took it to our tech su
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by scottfr 8y ago
In the US civil engineers must go through a multi-year certification process that involves a significant amount of on the job work in addition to standardized examination before they are labelled a Professional Engineer (PE). As a PE, they
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by scottfr 8y ago
They have a dedicated section about performance improvements in the release notes. It links to a list of 53 commits from this release targeting performance: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_request
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by scottfr 8y ago
I'm not sure I really agree with this, because in science studies are biased towards aligning with the results of previous studies. This can be due to many factors: authors' expectations, journals like to publish positive over neg
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by scottfr 8y ago
The point is you can't accurately simulate typing without something like Selenium. Neither the standard DOM API nor the additional features provided by the Web Extension API allow you to do so. You can simulate some parts of typing by
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by scottfr 8y ago
The Web Extension APi doesn't seem too suitable for browser automation as it doesn't have support for simulating key presses or mouse movements (other than HTMLElement's click method). Yeah, you can simulate events, but that
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by scottfr 9y ago
"Aramis, or the Love of Technology" is a fascinating book on the attempted launch of such a system in Paris. https://www.amazon.com/Aramis-Love-Technology-Bruno-Latour/d...
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by scottfr 9y ago
This is interesting > Instead of ignoring unrecognized HTML and SVG attributes, React will now pass them through to the DOM. Does that mean we can start using "class" instead of "className"?
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by scottfr 9y ago
Their Blueprint React component library is also quite nice: http://blueprintjs.com/docs/#core/components/button
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by scottfr 9y ago
I know this is supposed be about unnecessary regulation killing a company that was bringing wins to both homeowners and providers, but... am I reading this right: "By the Summer of 2015, we had onboarded over 1,200 Heroes, provided car
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by scottfr 10y ago
Quick back of the envelope calculations. For AC Transit (the primary Bay Area bus system): The Annual number of riders is: 54,987,132 [0] The average trip is: 3.1 miles [1] The budget is: $398.4 Million [2] This means the cost p
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by scottfr 10y ago
Agreed, I naively bought this book. Then I found out you were not allowed to use the source code in the book for commercial purposes without purchasing a separate very expensive license. Definitely, recommend you stay as far as way from thi
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by scottfr 10y ago
With arrow functions released and class properties likely to be approved soon, this has minimal value and is probably not worth the cost of the extra complexity to the language.
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Obama-era techies weigh staying under Trump(politico.com)
4 points by scottfr 10y ago|0 comments
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A Sour Surprise for Public Pensions: Two Sets of Books(nytimes.com)
2 points by scottfr 10y ago|1 comments
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Homeowner files lawsuit against Niantic over Pokemon Go trespassing(gamasutra.com)
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by scottfr 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of R^2 and you should be too. The simple way to think about R^2 is that it is a measure of relative predictive accuracy (and that is exactly how it is calculated). This is both a more accurate (and a more useful definiti
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Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company(nytimes.com)
151 points by scottfr 11y ago|142 comments
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How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans into Suckers(nytimes.com)
178 points by scottfr 11y ago|147 comments
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When Presidential Candidates Go Too Far on Social Media: #FeetInMouth(nytimes.com)
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State Provider: Experimental Use of ES6 Proxies for Easy Undo/Redo(github.com)
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Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows(nytimes.com)
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Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows(nytimes.com)
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by scottfr 11y ago
When reading about any predictive technique the first thing to focus on before trying to understand the predictive mechanism is to understand the predictive accuracy of the model. A paper like this should have extensive discussions of overf
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by scottfr 11y ago
Doesn't having to ask your users to go to chrome://flags and click the "Enable" button next to some very scary looking technical text have the same effect? I can't imagine asking users (either public or interna

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