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Reverse Debugging for Python(morepypy.blogspot.com)
169 points by scribu 10y ago|53 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
> It really is a simple problem to solve -- pay talented people in Europe more. Playing devil's advocate: If we limit the discussion to pure tech companies that target a global market, then yes, it is that simple. But there is a vas
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by scribu 10y ago
The Boston Dynamics robots seem to have realtime motion planning that works in unfamiliar environments, which seems to make pre-processing impossible. Would anyone with experience in robotics hazard a guess on how they implement that?
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by scribu 10y ago
> You get to vote for zero in the EU. The European Parliament is directly elected by EU citizens, with the UK getting 73 seats. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament
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by scribu 10y ago
Saying "it's not a difficult problem" and then turning around and implying "... but only if you're not one of those lousy web programmers" sure sounds like moving the goalpost.
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by scribu 10y ago
I expressed my opinion that GP's argument was poor and explained why. How is that belittling?!
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by scribu 10y ago
> Why should any people have a desire to be a part of a political organization over which they have zero control, but must pay taxes to? That's called a strawman argument. Of course no one would want to be part of such an org, if
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by scribu 10y ago
Myers Brigs tests are fun, but they're not much more scientifically valid than your astrological sign. See http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personalit...
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by scribu 10y ago
Yes, but you would need to keep a transaction open for each user session. I think the stateless nature of time-travelling queries would map much better to the stateless nature of HTTP requests.
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by scribu 10y ago
Animal behavior is governed by brain activity, which is electrical. (Yes, there is some chemistry involved too, but it's secondary).
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by scribu 10y ago
It's amazing that all plant behavior is actually governed by chemical reactions applied to "cleverly" constructed structures. I suppose the next step would be desinging a structure that responds independently to two or more t
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Manifesta 11 radically reimagines modern labor(artsy.net)
1 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
This is such a useful concept! Surely someone gave it a name much earlier, right? Edit: The closest thing that came to mind is the idiom "penny-wise and pound-foolish".
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by scribu 10y ago
I agree that it's nothing new in a general sense, but the reason this is catching people's attention is because there is this lingering perception that there is less corruption in the UK (and in western Europe, in general) than in
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by scribu 10y ago
That may be the overall conclusion, but I find the many distinctions the article draws between Anglo-American economics and others quite interesting in themselves. For example, I thought the point about inequality was very well articulated:
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by scribu 10y ago
As a noob, I'm having a hard time grasping why the Ramsey pairing is interesting: If you pair up every member of an infinite set with every member of that same infinite set, of course you'll get an infinite subset for almost every
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by scribu 10y ago
Oh, so that's why they call them Michelin stars!
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by scribu 10y ago
That's pretty cool. If one were inclined to take it to the next level of absurd awesomeness, one could employ machine learning: 1. Feed all the examples from the Gregg dictionary into a neural network. 2. Generate all the possibl
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by scribu 10y ago
On a more trivial note, this reminds me of the radiation-hardened quine: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine Would be amazing if the method used for implementing it could be generalised somehow.
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by scribu 11y ago
There are two related but different things that people mean by "remote work": a) working from home (but in the same city) - relatively easy to adjust to b) digital nomadism (moving from city to city every few months) - harder
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by scribu 11y ago
Presumably someone who has a BS in Computer Science or related field.
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by scribu 11y ago
What would those internal issues be? Wanting to be appreciated by your peers? The argument made by the author is that the graph implicitly transmits a message which I think most of us don't agree with: "Passionate developers work
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by scribu 11y ago
The gist of it seems to be that each file is stored as a series of binary chunks inside RethinkDB. [1] [1] https://github.com/internalfx/regrid-spec#chunks-record
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The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom's Orbital Structure(io9.gizmodo.com)
2 points by scribu 11y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 11y ago
I don't know, the WaPo article adds some useful context, like links to stories about previous, unofficial information sharing. Of course, the usefulness hinges on whether you trust that WaPo is being impartial. (I have no opinion on th
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by scribu 11y ago
It seems to me like a big difference between multi-core CPUs and conventional networked systems is the expectation of reliability. For example, when a CPU core randomly fails, you don't expect the CPU as a whole to continue operating,
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by scribu 11y ago
Ok, so what about JSX? Yes, you can write React templates without JSX, but not happily.
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by scribu 11y ago
I'm a Vim user, so Caps Lock is already assigned to Escape. :)
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by scribu 11y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience with Ergodox. Usually, I want to press Cmd + T when I'm in the browser, so my right hand is usually on the mouse. That's why I want to do it with a single hand. (I've tried browser plugins t
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by scribu 11y ago
I switched to a split keyboard last year (Kinesis Freestyle2). While it's definitely better than a flat keyboard, it's still incredibly awkward to execute some basic combos with one hand. Chief example: Cmd + T. I'm still wai

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