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by surrealize 11y ago
pdf.js was a pretty cool hack, but I wonder if it's time to integrate pdfium. edit: I meant "hack" in the "cool application of technology" sense.
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by surrealize 11y ago
> every time a cyclist stops, they lose kinetic energy and have to work harder upon starting off in order to accelerate and restore that kinetic energy. Please. When you choose to ride a bicycle, expending energy is part of the bargain.
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by surrealize 11y ago
It's tax free for the REIT. If it were a C corp, it'd have to pay tax on earnings, and the shareholders would also have to pay tax on dividends. So for the REIT there's a meaningful sense in which "tax-free" appli
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by surrealize 11y ago
w.r.t. concurrency: As you know, the difficulty with concurrency is with shared mutable state. Purity simplifies concurrency by restricting mutability; rust simplifies concurrency by restricting sharing. That makes purity less important fo
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by surrealize 11y ago
Call me HTML
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by surrealize 12y ago
Nice! I'm happy to see low-level wrappers around webgl. It does have a really verbose interface. And there's room for a level of abstraction above webgl but below three.js. Everyone uses three.js, but if you want to write shade
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by surrealize 12y ago
We're starting to build API endpoints with this where I work. We didn't have compound documents in an earlier version of our API, and we ended up having to make a lot of roundtrips for some things. So I had been thinking about s
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by surrealize 12y ago
In JS, you know that library code that you call almost certainly won't do blocking I/O. If you're trying to do non-blocking async stuff in other languages, you have to hope/check that none of your code and none of your
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by surrealize 12y ago
What if the buffer is aliased? In rust, when you transfer ownership, you can statically guarantee that there's no aliasing. But AFAIK that's not possible in go.
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by surrealize 12y ago
The headline is total clickbait. The abstract of the paper says: "In contrast to demographic reconstructions based on mtDNA, we infer a second strong bottleneck in Y-chromosome lineages dating to the last 10 ky. We hypothesize that th
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by surrealize 12y ago
I thought this intro started really clearly, but I did get bogged down a bit matching up the pointers as numbers. So yeah, I think diagrams with arrows would be a lot easier to follow. I remember seeing a talk from Niko with animated box&
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by surrealize 12y ago
> ("Mark Cuban faults ‘Silicon Valley groupthink,’ says FCC broadband rule a mistake") Ha, cable network owner Mark Cuban is totally unbiased, of course.
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by surrealize 12y ago
It looks like they open-sourced the PDF viewer: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/06/google-chrome-pdf-engine-f...
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by surrealize 12y ago
> Curricula in mechanical, chemical, electrical, and biomedical all include solving DEQ and PDE systems Civil?
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by surrealize 12y ago
The "eating more" and "environmental influence" explanations are not mutually exclusive. One could be causing the other--chemicals that mimic hormones could be influencing appetite or satiation, for example.
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by surrealize 12y ago
Maybe Uber heard rumors about Lyft's project, and announced theirs early?
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by surrealize 12y ago
It wasn't clear if uber was going to start asking about destinations for uberpool. But lyft specifically mentions that; it seems necessary to do good matching. And the extra effort seems minimal.
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by surrealize 12y ago
If a lot of people suddenly decide to consume less (as they have since 2008), then they save more. The money they put into the bank is, ideally, productively invested; that investment creates new demand, and then there's no such thing
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by surrealize 12y ago
> typically it will go almost entirely to consumption, instead. If your economy is suffering from a shortage of aggregate demand, as ours is, then promoting consumption is a good thing. > Note that growing the pie lowers the cost of t
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by surrealize 12y ago
At first blush it seems fine to me; updating a purely-functional tree requires work that's O(depth of tree), and updating a Merkle tree also requires work that's O(depth of tree). I think that means that using a purely-functional
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by surrealize 12y ago
There's a point-by-point reply from one of the authors, David Carrier, in the comments: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/10/our-skull...
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by surrealize 12y ago
When I experimented with rust, I ran into 6393. ezyang had a good blog post about that and 6268: http://blog.ezyang.com/2013/12/two-bugs-in-the-borrow-checke...
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by surrealize 12y ago
It's both in safari and in the webview: http://blog.ludei.com/webgl-ios-8-safari-webview/ Been waiting for this forever, seems like. Webgl's been in firefox since version 4!
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by surrealize 12y ago
Speaking of interesting things you can do with type systems for database interaction, have you looked at the sqltyped library for Scala? https://github.com/jonifreeman/sqltyped
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by surrealize 12y ago
Just thinking out loud here--what about just using RFID for most of the pallets, and then putting powered electronics w/GPS only in some fraction of them? Say, 1 out of 20 or 50 (or whatever) pallets would have a battery, GPS, and an
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by surrealize 12y ago
There's a nice example from Shriram Krishnamurthi of implementing automata using functions, where the functions represent states and state transitions are just function calls. It's an elegant way of creating automata IMHO, but th
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by surrealize 13y ago
If the meteorite strikes are evenly distributed, and if the planes aren't actually stacked (i.e., flying directly above one another) very much, then I don't think the plane positions matter for this calculation.
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by surrealize 13y ago
San Francisco, CA | Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Group (CTIG) Help cure cancer by building webapps. At CTIG, we sequence the DNA of cancer tumors to recommend the right therapy for that tumor's specific DNA mutations. Patients and th
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by surrealize 13y ago
San Francisco, CA | Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Group (CTIG) Help cure cancer by building webapps. At CTIG, we sequence the DNA of cancer tumors to recommend the right therapy for that tumor's specific DNA mutations. Patients and t
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by surrealize 13y ago
This message conflates two issues in an unfortunate way. One issue is the licensing of GCC, the other issue is the architecture of GCC (how modular it is). No one is arguing that GCC should change licenses. But he seems to think that maki

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