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by tzahola 8y ago
I assume it's using the great circle distance metric. I wonder how it would look like if the metric was "shortest land/sea travel time".
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by tzahola 8y ago
I'm surprised there's not a single mention of Bash in the post, because you know, Bash has functions too... /s
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by tzahola 8y ago
"Those hip-hopster kids will love it"
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by tzahola 8y ago
But we need these measurements to provide more customer value !!!
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by tzahola 8y ago
Cool! With CocoaPods building everything from source, a fast compiler would be a godsend for most iOS shops, even for just debug builds. It should be pretty easy to add Objective-C and C++ support, right? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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by tzahola 8y ago
Sure, that's how I would implement it.
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by tzahola 8y ago
Use black nail polish.
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by tzahola 8y ago
Errata: simple.wikipedia.org
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by tzahola 8y ago
First law of battery tech headlines: it’s all vaporware unless it’s shipping in laptops.
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by tzahola 8y ago
>>Researchers at the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma found that if two people share negative feelings about a third person, they are likely to feel closer to each other than they would if they both felt positively a
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by tzahola 8y ago
Reads like basic.wikipedia.org
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by tzahola 8y ago
No.
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by tzahola 8y ago
>I was recently asked by my manager not to give talks in really difficult to get in industry events Wait, what? I don’t think your employer has the right to prevent you from giving talks. Am I misunderstanding something?
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by tzahola 8y ago
Another iteration of the "managers creating programs by connecting boxes" pipe dream. I pity the engineers in advance, whose job will be rewriting the horrendous "enterprise apps" this tool will leave behind at the end
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by tzahola 8y ago
Wirth languages deserve a comeback.
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by tzahola 8y ago
Interestingly this coincides with them slowly becoming irrelevant in all areas.
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by tzahola 8y ago
inb4 anecdotes like “I have a friend with a PhD in applied chemistry with an IQ of 73”
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by tzahola 8y ago
I know, but stored procedures are a PITA in general. Last time I’ve checked there was no widespread standard way of version control for stored procedures, other than DROP PROCEDURE followed by CREATE PROCEDURE, which makes blue/green d
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by tzahola 8y ago
If your endpoints are backed 100% by a db, then you can get by with the postgrest approach. However GraphQL resolvers can do much more beyond a simple DB query. E.g. you can call other services and combine their reponses. Or calculate the n
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by tzahola 8y ago
Javascript was a mistake Edit: Answer to “always_good”: If a toddler shoots himself with a handgun, we can say that his mistake was pulling the trigger. While technically correct, it’s not addressing the real issue, that is, how did the tod
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by tzahola 8y ago
Hmmm. It's called validation , isn't it? And it's pretty much how they evaluate machine learning performance since day 0.
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by tzahola 8y ago
>One or two fixed position monochrome, low resolution forward facing cameras such as in a Tesla just won't compare. I'm pretty sure humans could cope with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CITIXlw_T4
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by tzahola 8y ago
They need training examples for their neural nets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by tzahola 8y ago
The latter.
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by tzahola 8y ago
>Eventually, if not already happening, trading becomes machines attacking other machines. Welcome to high frequency trading. You’re a bit late to the party though (around 15 years).
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by tzahola 8y ago
The bikeshedding is strong in this one.
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by tzahola 8y ago
What do you mean by “ports”? Homebrew builds stuff from source, like you always do on Unices.
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by tzahola 8y ago
Sure! For example I commanded my browser to close this page.
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by tzahola 8y ago
I find the font on this site pretty annoying to read.
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by tzahola 8y ago
Build stuff from source? What’s the issue with that?

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