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by sradman 6y ago
In the bad old days when software shipped in boxes, one of the most important roles on a software team was that of "Build Master". The holy grail was reproducible builds that generated identical binary build artifacts. This was ac
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The Cell paper [1] begins with a three bullet Highlights section: - Sleep deprivation leads to ROS accumulation in the fly and mouse gut - Gut-accumulated ROS trigger oxidative stress in this organ - Preventing ROS accumulation in the gut a
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by sradman 6y ago
> Are you suggesting complicated version control could be useful for e.g. some group of teens doing a 6 paragraph research paper in their social studies class? Yes, kinda. I am suggesting that revision history is a powerful tool. The con
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I’ve often thought that pair programming and daily stand ups work because they align with our natural social behavior. This could be fear or anxiety driven but it doesn’t have to be. Do scientists have a non-intrusive and accurate mechanism
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by sradman 6y ago
> I don't see anything in the feature list about how they handle "pure documents". True, but I’m taking the product name “Github Classroom” seriously. Maybe it should have been named “CSLab”. I think that the Scrum-like to
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Yet Markdown has become the de facto standard for creating eBooks. Long and/or complex documents need to move to a multi-file build process independent of whether Markdown is used.
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I’m not familiar with GoAccess or Matomo but after some Googling it looks like Matomo requires self-hosting it’s PHP/MySQL server. If you are using a CDN then I’m assuming that multiple access.log files need to be aggregated at some po
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This type of system seems obvious for programming courses but I wonder how intuitive it is for pure documents; the classic essay or report style assignments. At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their docum
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> As someone that has never embraced the mobile craze, I sorely missed the ability of texting (or “iMessaging”) from my PC, and came to absolutely despise having to drag my phone out of my pocket and text from its cramped display, consta
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by sradman 6y ago
You may be interested in the book “100 Days: The Rush to Judgement that Killed Nortel” by James Bagnall. This story should be better known as it is a cautionary tale of virtue signalling, both by American regulators and Nortel’s Board of Di
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by sradman 6y ago
I wonder if the hangars in the jungle came from the script or from the memories of someone who experienced the view from Temple IV at Tikal. I had the surreal experience of standing atop Temple IV and suddenly recognizing this was the camer
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I was making a comparison between European proper nouns (like Jacques and Hans) and English title case. I was speculating why the English title case practice arose.
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I’m guessing that Title Case in English is a logical extension of the European norm of capitalizing proper nouns; a title is the proper noun used to identify a written work.
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The underlying dataset is fascinating and supports the UV-B damage hypothesis while also falsifying the mega-volcano hypothesis. It took a great deal of Wikipedia research for me to get a feel for the paleo geography and paleo climate of Ea
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by sradman 6y ago
There has always been a case for server-side embedded databases for app servers. It can be an in-process library like SQLite or Apache Derby, but databases like SQL Anywhere and SQL Server also have local IPC protocols that achieve the same
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by sradman 6y ago
I find the type system unique compared to other RDBMS systems but I too wish that constraint integrity was enforced by the engine. I don’t want to give up on variant types (call them ANY types) as they can solve some interesting problems th
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by sradman 6y ago
Maybe I misunderstood the Firebase comparison. I expected to see a browser-side database with sync similar to Minimongo in the Meteor real-time architecture. From my quick scan of the docs and github repos, it looks like the WAL replication
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by sradman 6y ago
Interesting. I haven’t seen a log shipping mobile sync solution in quite some time. Sybase SQL Remote did log shipping for SQL Anywhere over email or messaging. This tech predated WiFi, never mind HTTP/JSON. There is little information
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A code of conduct that flexibly promotes civil interactions between community members is commendable. Framing civility in terms of the language of social justice activism is worrying. Attempts at inclusivity should not hand-out veto power.
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by sradman 6y ago
Actually, after my quick scan of the readme, I think pgTyped takes a different approach than the other tools listed. It is a YeSQL-style tool with build-time code generation. The code generation is based on prepared statement metadata rathe
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by sradman 6y ago
The video clarified my initial confusion. DuckDB is an embedded column store library and borrows the SQLite C API and some of the SQLite philosophy (single cpp/hpp amalgamation file, no external dependencies, and resource sharing) but
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The black goo is bitumen, or tar. It is the binder used in road asphalt and was a common pitch used to seal boat hulls. The article focuses on the ritualistic aspect but doesn’t focus on the functional reasons. Sealing the mummified remains
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Oxidative stress, why? I’m really confused at why we don’t think of the mechanics of this disease in terms of the cell and tissue types that express ACE2 receptors. ACE and ACE2 receptors regulate fluid pressure. ACE increases pressure by c
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I think they were riding a wave as it was beginning to form; the microprocessor wave. It was very much part of a place in time but they made some exceptional choices given that context. I don’t think that their success was due to luck or po
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The PDP-10 comment hints at a key innovation by Paul Allen: BASIC was originally ported to multiple 8-bit CPU architectures by first writing an emulator for each CPU that ran on DEC systems.
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“It’s too crowded”, the punchline to the Yogi Berra quote, is the point of the blog post. It is a sentiment that we can all now relate to due to COVID-19. Living with a genetic disorder that makes one susceptible to respiratory infections a
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by sradman 6y ago
The GoLang-like URL import and dependency management are indeed an innovation in simplicity while simultaneously offering better compatibility with browser JavaScript. Perhaps the HN-hate is not about simplified greenfield tech as much as i
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I assumed that their bandwidth needs were due to their web crawler rather than serving cached content. I guess I’m basing that assumption on my own usage patterns.
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Canada has had a unique situation in that a large proportion of the population was out of country when the pandemic went exponential outside of Wuhan. The large number of imported cases represented every isolate found globally. Perhaps this
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This seems to be a general set of guidelines for developing web apps/APIs and it somewhat overlaps with the recent HN post “Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?” by Jessime Kirk: https://news.ycombinator

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