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by vijucat 7y ago
They allow a couple of articles per month before you hit a paywall. It's frustrating because there happens to be a ton of interesting content (esp. machine learning-related) on Medium and the exact same content could be in a Wordpress
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by vijucat 7y ago
Most businesses can probably run on a single server from OVH (see Paul Tyma's Mailinator architecture for inspiration: 1.2 billion emails on a single server, http://highscalability.com/mailinator-architecture ), but I s
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by vijucat 7y ago
Complicating the nature of these protests is that the 5 overt demands put forth by protestors (all related to the Extradition Bill) do not reflect a large cause of the latent / tacit discontent: the inability of youngsters to buy a hom
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by vijucat 7y ago
How is extensibility handled (on the UI side, on the back-end)? Are internals transparent or is it meant to be a black box? Just wondering what happens if one hits the boundaries of what the tool can do and wants to extend or integrate... T
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by vijucat 7y ago
The v5.666 build (Dec 2013) works just fine even now. Never makes an Internet connection, blazingly fast. I personally love the keyboard shortcuts for finding music, queuing it, pause, play, etc; Very intuitive.
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by vijucat 7y ago
Mac (Apple) and Linux users are the most vocal, that is all.
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Stay in the Game(albertbridgecapital.com)
2 points by vijucat 7y ago|0 comments
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by vijucat 7y ago
Suggestion: a) let the user add their commentary and b) get folks to mention which chair, too. Some of us invest in ergonomic chairs, and those who don't would benefit from opinions on which chairs are good For what it's worth, I
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by vijucat 7y ago
Great points, but it's actually much simpler than that: if you want static types, you have already eliminated the majority of HN darlings (JS, Python, and Ruby). Where do you? Most developers turn to C++, Java, or C# (not Haskell or F#
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by vijucat 7y ago
Thanks for responding here! Really appreciate the interaction. Pretty sure that this is one of the biggest requests / frustrations you will hear from users. The issue is that MS has normalized the right-click menu as the go-to method o
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by vijucat 8y ago
Ha, wonderful expression, thanks. Given that many people report that their best thinking is done while walking or taking a jog, it might not be too wild to try out interviews which allow the candidate to take a walk before they give an answ
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by vijucat 8y ago
Great point. Unless the guru is advocating the virtues of celibacy, there is no hypocrisy involved.
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by vijucat 8y ago
I've always been conflicted by these gurus, so let me play devil's advocate and present some things I found when I researched Ram Dass / Neem Karoli Baba a while ago: http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsample
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Subversion vs. Git: Myths and Facts(svnvsgit.com)
3 points by vijucat 8y ago|0 comments
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by vijucat 8y ago
Ah, I see, thanks. So these unsold copies somehow made their way to India. Interesting.
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by vijucat 8y ago
Love it. I grew up reading these. Somehow, they made their way to Hyderabad, India, and were sold on the roadside [1] for mere rupees, but had the top 20% of the front cover torn off. I never got that...Maybe a way to prevent re-sale in the
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by vijucat 8y ago
A bit off-topic: Not only is this incredibly impressive, it's a great white noise video, IMHO. Can listen to the robot cook do it's thing for a loong time. The Capsicum Sabzi video has a good amount of unintended ASMR, too: http
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by vijucat 8y ago
Ah, I see! Tortoise SVN is great for the scenario where business users can learn and use revision control, too, but I guess once you're doing branching using Tortoise SVN, you're in a weird territory where you're pro, but not
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by vijucat 8y ago
If you use a repository URL rather than a local filename / dirname in svn copy, it's a purely remote copy and is instantaneous: $ svn copy file:///var/svn/repos/test/dir1 \ file:/
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by vijucat 8y ago
Answering questions in a rapid, interactive way (, while using C to be efficient enough that one can run it on millions of rows): # Given a dataset that looks like this… > head(dt, 3) mpg cyl disp hp drat wt qsec vs am g
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by vijucat 8y ago
I've seen single quotes for chars vs. double quotes for Strings in Java, but in sh, it's "Strong Quoting with Single Quotes" vs. "Weak Quoting with Double Quotes": http://www.grymoire.com/Unix&#
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by vijucat 8y ago
> and then debate how to properly enslave it Don't forget the part where they are A-OK with putting it in a huge Boston Dynamics robot dog that could practically eat the Terminator 2 for breakfast.
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by vijucat 8y ago
> When I finally got our engineering team to spend some time on making the data pipelines less fragile, instead of using one of these open source solutions they took it as an opportunity to create a fancy scalable, distributed, asynchron
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by vijucat 9y ago
This look amazing, and the WYSIWYG editor mode is what R Markdown notebooks (in RStudio) are missing right now. However, there seems to be no way of uploading a private .csv? I need to make it public OR allow access to my company database (
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by vijucat 9y ago
> completely different Don't lose hope about losing all hope yet! Apparently, "Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles. The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japan
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by vijucat 9y ago
Actually, I really like these two GUIs which build on the strengths of R by combining the data-exploratory tools that Hadley Wickham created with the visual appeal of ggplot2 (also Hadley!), plot.ly, etc; 1. https://exploratory.i
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by vijucat 9y ago
This has to win some sort of award. I found it quite creative :)
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by vijucat 9y ago
The last time I looked at this (when having to deal with spaghetti-like execution flows through an Actor-based code base), I really liked the ideas of model checking with Colored Petri Nets and code generation ( http://cpntools.or
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Apple Investigating AirPods That Allegedly Caught Fire in Florida(macrumors.com)
1 points by vijucat 9y ago|0 comments
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by vijucat 9y ago
OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with links to subject matter on other Pages that naturally get organized into

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