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by suchire 12y ago
Apparently with clustered masters, with network partition failover and healing, it by default drops messages, which means it's not even at-least-once. https://aphyr.com/posts/315-call-me-maybe-rabbitmq Not so grea
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by suchire 12y ago
I always found the parallels between hypermodernism in chess, shin fuseki in go (which Go Seigen was one of the most prominant proponents of), and modernism in art to be pretty cool. They were all similar in their challenge of traditional t
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by suchire 12y ago
Dropbox has some mobile apps that have some fairl complex client-side logic with multithreading ( https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/building-carousel-part-i-ho... ), so they use a cross-platform C++ library with bind
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by suchire 12y ago
Distributed systems is often something self-taught programmers lack. Reading something like the course notes for http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824-2013/ is useful.
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by suchire 13y ago
Just FYI, I wouldn't put too much faith in safety profiles of related family drugs. The classic med chem example of really unpredictable toxicology is mevastatin vs lovastatin, which have exactly the same structure but for one lowly me
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by suchire 13y ago
You can selectively unsync particular folders in your Dropbox Advanced Preferences; that's what I do with my Camera Uploads folder.
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by suchire 13y ago
Orgo is, in many ways, like learning a foreign language, in that the memorization early on is supposed to support and later be superseded by understanding the "grammar" of how things fit together. I think the way orgo is often tau
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by suchire 13y ago
Certainly new algorithms and data structures are going to be crucial (e.g. Bowtie), but statistical analysis/scoring, even in a heuristic way, is always going to be an essential component just from the nature of the work being mostly a
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by suchire 13y ago
Postdocs in biological/physical sciences are easily 3-6 years for < $60k (generally closer to $40-50k in the past 5 years), and the chances of getting an academic position with meaningful salary are very low. Postdocs are plentiful,
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by suchire 14y ago
Yes but that mostly is distributed according to dairy consumption from around 500 years ago. Grain consumption is widespread across the globe in almost every culture.
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by suchire 14y ago
Yep, I was Harvard '07, and I've TA'ed at Princeton as a grad student. It was pretty obvious in both places that students were collaborating pretty often; for the classes I taught, in general (though not always) students were cautious enoug
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by suchire 14y ago
"However I have a hard time believing that someone smart enought to make it through law school and pass the bar is not be able to learn enough about technology and motivations behind the actions in this case." Much of law is a very technolo
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by suchire 14y ago
Marketing + lobbying expenses are not mutually exclusive with research expenses. Companies maximize revenue, and to do that you need both marketing and research expenses. As it happens, throwing more money at research doesn't work (see Pfiz
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by suchire 14y ago
More than likely it is difficult to disentangle the fact that Samsung made an incredibly heavy marketing push for the GS3 right around the time that the iPhone 5 launched, so there are no statistics that will tell you whether it's because o
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by suchire 14y ago
A bit off topic: I like the font you're using on your console screenshot, but I'm having trouble narrowing down what it is. Do you mind telling us?
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by suchire 15y ago
IANAL (but my wife has a JD): it's a fine line; on the one hand, the legal principle of "meeting of the minds" might make the judge rule that the "basically" illustrates the true intentions of the contractual clauses. On the other hand, as
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by suchire 15y ago
Or, you know, the difference between headline-writing, bullet-point, "breaking news" "journalists" and the journalists that write long-form investigative reports, in-depth stories, and other less "news-y" pieces that flesh out things like a
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by suchire 15y ago
Are there really programmers that get pangs of fear at the bought of middle school algebra?
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DCM launches $100 million Android Fund(mobilized.allthingsd.com)
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by suchire 15y ago
Presumably they mean that there were lower sales in Japan, but that material and supplies sourced from Japan weren't affected.
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by suchire 16y ago
How about the "Terms of Use" that say "Apps and other products and services may not use Instapaper’s name, logos, or other trademarks in their titles or logos, or in any way that implies endorsement, sponsorship, or false association with I
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by suchire 16y ago
Actually I think Snow Leopard stripped out a lot of those extra gigabytes; only a few printers have drivers out of the box now.