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541.
by spenrose 14y ago
You sir have won the Internet. Well played.
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by spenrose 14y ago
In conventional blocking languages, you can get a start on parallelizing your programs this way: - break program into function calls that match the steps that can happen in parallel - wrap the function calls in messages passed over t
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When the Whole World Has Drones(mobile.nationaljournal.com)
1 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
Here it is, and it's quite good: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/utilitie... "in the long run that's a problem for Google. Because we tend not to entrust this sort of critical public infrastructure to the private secto
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by spenrose 14y ago
Your logic is impeccable and many well-qualified observers have repeated it. Turns out not to be so: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Grid-Integration... The reason is human psychology: the systemic costs we pay for the old stu
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Two reasons climate change is not like other environmental problems(grist.org)
2 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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"What we really need is a political price on carbon"(swampland.time.com)
1 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
Really nice piece. Thank you.
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Don’t Have Health Insurance? Start Your Own Insurance Company(slate.com)
3 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
The article makes a cogent recommendation for robust 3-to-2 tooling as the key missing piece. Recommended.
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by spenrose 14y ago
If this sounds like the Next Great Thing, you really want to read the Beazley piece he cites at the end. Beazley comes to the conclusion that you want to use these techniques sparingly. That said, I found Beazley's tutorials well worth work
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Against the Grand Bargain(slate.com)
1 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
Here is a well-reviewed book on this topic: http://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publishing/dp/0226899152/ From the editorial reviews: "Telling me to 'Be clear,' " writes Joseph M. Williams in Style: Toward Clarity a
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by spenrose 14y ago
THIS. My current work involves managing a range of different concurrency and multi-process systems. Focusing on clean, forgiving message channels as the foundation of the system has been a win in the last three very different problem spaces
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Why Online Education Works(cato-unbound.org)
2 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
Sounds like a modest twist on the Hedgehog and the Fox, star of a thousand pop-science essays in the last few years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox Note that (1) I agree and (2) there is nothing silly about the comm
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by spenrose 14y ago
I still feel the canonical answer to "what should my default data management policy in write-some-read-a-ton situations" is to, at write time: 1) store an appropriate write-whole/data-mining-friendly format 2) ASAP, for each major
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by spenrose 14y ago
I'm also finding pass-by-value multiprocessing with Redis to be extremely effective for going wide on I/O-bound problems. It's just so easy ...
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by spenrose 14y ago
I really like this. Has some overlap with Command-Query Responsibility Segregation, which I have found very useful: http://www.udidahan.com/2009/12/09/clarified-cqrs/
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by spenrose 14y ago
I permanently fixed my wrist RSI and chronic back pain by a simple course of weight lifting. When I started, I maxed out at 8 or 10 pushups and couldn't bench 1/4 my weight 10x. Once I reached about 15-18 pushups (~1/2 weight 10x), RSI and
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by spenrose 14y ago
The logic of your comment depends on there existing a value of "as much time as they needed" which is significantly longer than the time they took and significantly shorter than, say, their lifespans. The point of earlier comments is to say
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GPS vs WiFi: The Battle for Location Accuracy Using Yelp Check-Ins(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
2 points by spenrose 14y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
Related: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/why-generators-are-terrified... http://grist.org/article/2011-11-23-the-problem-with-the-ren... http://www.recycled-energy.com/newsroom/publication/the-batt... http://www.ilsr.org/solar-grid-p
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by spenrose 14y ago
Hey Antirez, the link to hires in the announcement is broken. Replace "anirez" with "antirez".
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by spenrose 14y ago
Thanks for this: very interested to hear how live an issue it was that many more platforms supported C than LLVM.
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Why not space?(physics.ucsd.edu)
9 points by spenrose 14y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 14y ago
On many of the questions I gave relatively conservative answers because more aggressive Redis use is in the planning stages. I love Redis because it has helped me replace intra-process concurrency with inter-process concurrency, which I fee
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by spenrose 14y ago
Hhmm. I was assuming the purpose of such a visualization was to understand the offense, which can't be done without including free throws. Perhaps it serves some other purpose, like employing "front-end developers".
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by spenrose 14y ago
As best I can tell it does not include free throw attempts. If that is correct, the data and therefore the visualization is seriously incomplete and misleading.
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by spenrose 14y ago
Clay Shirky does not agree with Buffet's reasoning: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/05/warren-buffetts-newspap...

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