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by sradman 6y ago
> ... he was just a competent person, at the right place and time. Right skill set, right place, right time. The decentralized team workflow of Open Source projects demanded a decentralized version control system (DVCS). A number of DVCS
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by sradman 6y ago
TLDR; Gödel’s incompleteness theorem rests on recursive functions which can be expressed as looping programs, i.e., for() loops. Dennis Ritchie’s PHD thesis, which was never accepted by Harvard because he refused to pay for a bound copy req
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by sradman 6y ago
Joel Spolsky is one of the founders and blogged about it [1]. [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2020/06/18/hash-a-free-online...
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by sradman 6y ago
After reading the architecture post [1] referenced in the comment by mpociot [2], I’d say PHP is more “suitable” for the server-side if you choose to self-host the Open Source code rather than use the service. These tunneling services use a
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by sradman 6y ago
The video [1] quickly lists a number of use cases. > Explore the new AWS Snowcone with Bill Vass and Jeff Barr (2:46) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RNRssCiR_E&feature=emb_rel_...
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The Wikipedia page on the history of the StrongARM [0] makes the following claim: > According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-power version of the DEC Alpha, which DEC's engineers quickly co
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The irony in the narrative surrounding the ascendence of ARM is that the key innovation occurred in the Apple Newton. [1] History rhymes, they say. If I remember correctly, it was Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) silicon team tha
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by sradman 6y ago
> The projects you've mentioned are attempts to address stream processing needs with a SQL-like language. That is fundamentally different from providing incremental view maintenance of actual SQL using streaming techniques (what Mat
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Materialize sounds like it has reinvented Michael Stonebraker's StreamSQL [1] and SAP's Continuous Computation Language (CCL) [2] which was created as part of a StreamSQL competitor named Coral8 and lives on in an enterprise produ
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> the projection doesn't remove redundancy under most cases Maybe I'm missing something; I don't understand why projections are part of this discussion. Maybe I should have been more precise. I was thinking about the type
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I was thinking AWS Athena (Presto) for the data warehouse and AWS Glue (Spark) for ETL. Redshift has always had the feel of a Column Store Appliance that runs side-by-side with your other IaaS resources. There is nothing particularly cloud-
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by sradman 6y ago
I reread DeWitt and Stonebraker’s (D&S) MapReduce criticism [1] and I still find it misguided 12 years later. Map() is not equivalent to a SQL GROUP BY clause, it is equivalent to a user-defined Table Function that is used in a FROM cla
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by sradman 6y ago
One of the famous SQLite refrains is: > SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen(). This undersells SQLite somewhat. Like Berkeley DB, SQLite was created as an alternative to dbm [1] and one o
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Microfuidic Drops-on-Rails(advances.sciencemag.org)
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Best Practices for OAuth, OpenID Connect, and CORS(blog.cdivilly.com)
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Interesting. According to the Facebook Crawler link provided by the OP [1], it makes a range request of compressed resources. I wonder if the response from the OP’s PHP/SQLite app isn’t triggering a crawler bug. Maybe Cloudflare can st
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TLDR; via Wikipedia [1] > [May 25, 1992] As part of PepsiCo's local promotion titled Number Fever, it was announced that the person who possessed the Pepsi bottle cap with the Number 349 is eligible to claim the 1 million peso priz
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by sradman 6y ago
That is an unexpectedly balanced and informative piece from Slate. There are two main assumptions underlying progressive politics: systemic oppression and exploitation. Social Justice Activism takes these assumptions to be true by default.
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by sradman 6y ago
Perhaps we need smart refactoring for our identifier names that remove redundant words (eg “all”) and replace long words with shorter synonyms (eg pending vs outstanding). var pendingOrders = getPendingOrders()
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Or maxMultiSpeakerSampleRate since one of the lessons from the article is that good variable and function names remove the necessity for comments. Naming things, unfortunately, is hard.
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> This last paragraph of yours is a mirror image of the same argument against manned space exploration... Indeed it is the exact same argument and it has been made more eloquently by much greater men than I. Freeman Dyson made the argume
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And knows the ins and outs.
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The Five Deeps Expedition technology [1] includes a two-man submersible, three unmanned sea floor landers, and the support vessel. The EYOS Expeditions blog post [2] is the press release from which the NPR piece is based. The technical chal
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Markdown is an imperfect trade-off. It is the best readable/writable format that transpiles to HTML5, IMHO.
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No I don’t mean that. Git and Markdown are the de facto standard for general purpose content and content creation workflows. These tools are as future proof as anything in existence; the acid free paper of the digital age.
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Stratechery recommends using either Wordpress.com SaaS or the LAMP Stack based Wordpress.org platform. He does not mention Static Site Generators like Jekyll which is OSS and the default option for Github Pages freely hosted on github.io. A
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by sradman 6y ago
> As a creator, it’s laziness Perhaps a tad self-effacing but the sentiment reveals a core truth: publishing a stream-of-consciousness video/audio artifact is easier than releasing a carefully planned and/or edited version. Wha
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Seems to be back with the following added to the top of the article: > This is a temporary rehosted version while my website is hugged to death.
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Choose “proven” technology, or “boring” tech as the original article calls it, applies here too. Popular libraries that are embedded in multiple language runtimes are written in C. SQLite comes to mind. Choose boring dependencies written wi
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From the about page [1]: Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in New York.... In 2007 he made his directorial debut with Helvetica, the world’s first feature-length documentary about graphic design and typography.

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