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by stonesixone 10y ago
> In addition, never touch those buttons with the tips of your fingers. Use the knuckle of your pinky instead Combining suggestions above, perhaps touching it with a ring on your finger would be even better (e.g. a silver ring).
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by stonesixone 10y ago
There can be a balance. One could introduce more mixing while still relying primarily on the current metrics. It's not a binary choice between one or the other.
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by stonesixone 10y ago
If people agree that the software was correct but that the pairings were poor, there is always the possibility of reevaluating the algorithm itself. For example, an algorithm could be chosen that results in more "mixing."
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by stonesixone 10y ago
tl;dr Specifies a pyproject.toml file so alternatives to setup.py can be used.
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PEP 518 Accepted: Specifying Build System Requirements for Python Projects(hg.python.org)
2 points by stonesixone 10y ago|1 comments
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Proposed PEP for specifying build dependencies(mail.python.org)
1 points by stonesixone 10y ago|0 comments
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by stonesixone 11y ago
There is an effort happening in San Francisco right now to do just this. See here, for example, for a recent March 24, 2016 hearing on the topic: https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2567089... "Hearing
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by stonesixone 11y ago
> Partnerships are the way forward for a project like this. In theory, that sounds nice. But keep in mind that introducing more stakeholders also has significant downsides. For example, government organizations are complicated, slow-mov
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by stonesixone 11y ago
San Francisco uses both paper ballots and single transferable voting (in its single-winner, instant runoff voting form). Indeed, I believe all jurisdictions in the United States that use STV also use paper ballots. In San Francisco, voters
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by stonesixone 11y ago
Thanks, pzone! Yes, that's the idea: affordability, modifiability, etc. Stay tuned to next week's Elections Commission meeting for more on this. ;) http://sfgov.org/electionscommission PS - I'm the President
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by stonesixone 11y ago
And here is a video of the random selection process for last week's election (the two tweets above are from last year): http://sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=4938 This took place this morning (Tuesday, November 10). I&#x27
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Responses to San Francisco Voting System RFI(sfgov2.org)
2 points by stonesixone 11y ago|1 comments
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by stonesixone 11y ago
> Does anyone know why they have selected this versus the easier Score Voting option? Instant-runoff voting (aka ranked-choice voting) is the law in San Francisco. It was passed by the voters back in 2002. By the way, systems like appro
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by stonesixone 11y ago
Topic submitter here (and current President of the SF Elections Commission). As a software developer and open source contributor myself, I'd really like to see open source happen. But if no vendors respond to the RFI / RFP with a
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San Francisco Request for Information – New Voting System(sfgov2.org)
28 points by stonesixone 11y ago|11 comments
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by stonesixone 13y ago
Their reason for using Salt (from the Distutils mailing list [1]): "> Can you say a little about the choice to use Salt instead of Chef? I don't really care either way, but am just curious. Is it because Salt is written in Py
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by stonesixone 13y ago
Kelner's web site has the link (and confirms that it corresponds to what will be discussed at the ACM-SIAM symposium): http://math.mit.edu/~kelner/publications.html http://math.mit.edu/~kelner&#x2F
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by stonesixone 13y ago
I don't think it's comparable to compare the 1-word "nodejs" with the 2-word "xxx programming" phrases.
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by stonesixone 15y ago
One-sentence summary of this 20-minute video: people are hopelessly bad at making security decisions because we respond to the feeling of security rather than the reality.
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Bruce Schneier TED talk: The security mirage(ted.com)
13 points by stonesixone 15y ago|2 comments
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by stonesixone 16y ago
Nice concluding sentence: "The report suggests North American operators are most vulnerable to the increase in mobile data use, plunging them into profitability by 2013 ...."
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The Gap Rips Off Hobbyist's Flickr Photo for Baby-Sized T-Shirt(sfist.com)
11 points by stonesixone 16y ago|12 comments
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"Science" Cut From Anthropology Association’s Long-Range Plan(nytimes.com)
1 points by stonesixone 16y ago|0 comments
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by stonesixone 16y ago
Take a look at Wikipedia's description, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer... Applying this to one of Vambenepe's examples of an AWS method-- "AWS mostly uses RPC over HTTP. You send HTTP GET request
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by stonesixone 16y ago
This already made the front page a day or two ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1741319
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Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans(nytimes.com)
4 points by stonesixone 16y ago|2 comments