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by sigil 15y ago
Try Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians."
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by sigil 15y ago
Common fallacy: personifying "the top N%" as if it were some mostly static set of people -- hard for anyone else to break in, rare that anyone falls out once they make it in. The old class system anxiety. In reality, the further you get tow
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by sigil 15y ago
Yet another instance where, someday, people will discover and embrace diff. The legal and tax codes are another. Reading through legislation on thomas.gov is like reading through a pile of bad patches with no unified diff context.
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by sigil 15y ago
Watched your intro video. That seems like a pretty useful service. For the diffs, do you actually convert block elements to text and run the diff(1) algorithm, or do you compare element trees directly? I imagine either way the comparison is
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by sigil 15y ago
> Protobuf's python performance was abysmal — over 10x worse than Thrift. This is still true of the official implementation from Google, which is pure Python. That's why I wrote the Python half of lwpb [1], and why the Greplin guys wrot
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by sigil 15y ago
Indeed. Here's how from the command line: protoc -o schema.pb schema.proto The meta-schema for compiled .proto files can be found here [1]. In fact, I know of several protobuf implementations [2] [3] that avoid parsing .proto files
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by sigil 15y ago
How is a gateway that reads, buffers, and parses HTTP headers into an environment object [1] before turning it over to your "raw wsgi application" not protecting it from HTTP? WSGI protects you from HTTP. CGI protects you from HTTP. mod_p
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by sigil 15y ago
As a special case, how about allowing the response body to be an iterable, and writing whatever blocks of data it produces back to the client? You should also allow multiple headers with the same field-name, since that's in the spec. I like
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by sigil 15y ago
We're building a "Priority Inbox for News" that's the opposite of sort by magic: all the factors that determine priority (you mention some of the key ones) can be exposed and tweaked. Sign on up! We're close to alpha. http://signup.linktam
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by sigil 15y ago
> For one, the path argument comes before any options or flags. Actually, it does conform to unix conventions: find [OPTIONS] [PATHS] [EXPRESSION] Where options are "-PLHDO" in the GNU version. The elements of EXPRESSION may be
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by sigil 15y ago
The JPL release also captions the picture with "This artist's concept illustrates..." Engadget didn't even bother. I really hate it when that gets left out.
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by sigil 15y ago
> It's difficult to set up a world just for study, because people will not actually join and play unless it's an enjoyable game, and at that point you're a game developer rather than an economist. It would be cool to see the two team up
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by sigil 15y ago
I wonder, are there economists out there setting up and studying game worlds? Seems like a great way to run your simulation, and avoid the costs of phone surveys / data collection.
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by sigil 15y ago
Weird. Isn't client eval one of the big advantages of having the same language on both ends?
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by sigil 15y ago
Total Federal spending is around $3.5 trillion a year these days. This and lots of other useful information can be found here: http://usgovernmentspending.com/
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by sigil 15y ago
"Most of the debt is from war" is not true. This site has some good information: http://usgovernmentspending.com/
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by sigil 15y ago
Consider showing your support for Aaron here: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/support_aaron/ Demand Progress is an organization Aaron co-founded. They've done some great watchdog work on things like PROTECT IP, the Patriot Act, the Int
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by sigil 15y ago
This is a little proof-of-concept thing I threw together yesterday. The har(1) and unhar(1) programs are both 54 line shell scripts. Let me know what you think!
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Show HN: har, a fast, random access replacement for tar(github.com)
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by sigil 15y ago
but that command triggered a series of pipes internally, now you have to trim the status mess? No. If you run an external command from an rc script, ie the shell is doing the fork and exec for you, then $status will have a single number j
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by sigil 15y ago
I'm not an rc expert, merely a disgruntled POSIX shell scripter, so here are some attractive rc features [1] missing from sh and bash: > Rc captures command exit status in the variable $status. For a simple command the value of $status
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by sigil 15y ago
Might be nice for prototyping. I've never been a big fan of the Arduino programming language. It's a thin veneer over C that insulates newbies from "scary" things like port i/o bit twiddling, while not really moving the dial on language exp
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by sigil 15y ago
What happens when master fails? jganetsk mentioned Paxos, which you could use to reliably elect a new master. If I were evaluating your tech for usage at scale, I'd be pretty interested in failure modes, and pretty skeptical of anything tha
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by sigil 15y ago
Where's the benchmark code? I'd like to see how ucspi-ssl [1] performs. [1] http://www.superscript.com/ucspi-ssl/sslserver.html
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by sigil 15y ago
I just used inkscape for the first time last night, worked out pretty well. See the first slide here: http://www.iobound.net/iocopy-talk/ Another thing I experimented with for the first time is doing all the slides in html / css / js. The
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by sigil 15y ago
Hmm. Are you referring to this? http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/acc-cuda.pdf
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by sigil 15y ago
Interesting. What's the site, and is the original Clojure source before -> js transformation published somewhere?
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by sigil 15y ago
Great article! The only thing I'd do differently is just serve up the js as a static file instead of using code transformation. That seems likely to break for non-trivial amounts of js.
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by sigil 15y ago
> But if AMD were to introduce something purpose-built (eg, with a Matlab-like syntax), then that might compel devs who aren't assembly or GPU gurus to develop against this. Does anyone know if it's possible to program GPUs today witho
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by sigil 15y ago
...we are able to perform all our maintenance without downtime. We can deploy new versions of our software, make database schema changes, or even rotate our primary database server, all without failing to respond to a single request. We ca

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