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   by vijucat 9y ago

   You know what the nihilist in me would like to see? Derivative contracts on the future worth of instagram models and YouTube stars traded using BitCoin. Maybe even derivatives on top of derivatives, such as swaps on "prime" and &q
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   PowerShell script by MS to show protection status against Intel Meltdown,Spectre(support.microsoft.com)

   1 points by vijucat 9y ago|0 comments
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   No. It's just a json file with timestamps. I suspect the original authors would not want to move away from this simplicity.
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   Great list. You'll face a predictable backlash by git fanatics, but the fact remains that git's surface area / complexity is way beyond the needs or wants of non-technical users. This is another good rebuttal to the supposed
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   Hey, I do that, too, but just OBS, YouTube, and private videos with explicit sharing. Also, the unfortunately named but really useful asciinema (careful pronouncing it!) is a great tool if the other person is hands-on and the entire demo is
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   > People say R is the best and optimized for data-analytics which is simply not true. It's a marketing-lie spread by the creators. There is no data-analytics-task that you cannot do with the same ease in other programming languages.
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   Good idea. In the finance space, I did something similar to understand FIX message log files; there's a lot of back and forth among algorithmic trading engines, the GUI, and the stock exchange that can be confusing, and some visualizat
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   I saw this video called "Fasting vs. Eating Less: What's the Difference? (Science of Fasting)" just yesterday, and it's good to hear many of the points it raised validated by your experience: https://www.youtu
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   by vijucat 9y ago

   A quote from an acquaintance: "Money isn't everything. I'd tell you more about it, but my phone's account balance has almost run out, so I need to cut the call" /s.
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    OP, it just occurred to me that the Lua live-edit mode should ideally work like Excel Record Macro, i.e., everything you do in the drawing editor is actually generating code in the backend. Hope you find this a useful analogy.
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    What happens if you try to book 9007199254740993 spurious lap infants? Just curious. I'd love to QuickCheck the diapers out of this method.
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    I found Power BI's natural language Q & A to be the real killer feature that Tableau, et al currently don't have. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se... It actually works 90%
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    Very usable and intuitive, yet powerful. I love it and you have a happy, new customer. Maybe it's my inexperience with advanced tools, but this is the first time I could simply align the text inside a box horizontally and vertically wi
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    I get what you're saying. Metabase is quite simple, by the way. I think you're assuming that all BI tools are heavy. You can get Metabase running in 5 minutes and you wouldn't know it from it's very intuitive GUI, which
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    Absolutely. It's much worse if, instead of HN, you follow a niche area like machine learning because the pace of progress is so fast plus each paper / project that gets released is so dense . It took me a couple of weekends just
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    Thanks, that's a good one!
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    I'm not that familiar with Stripe, but my first impression is: why spend time on creating an inferior Metabase / Periscope / Power BI / Looker / mariusandra/insights clone? Just allow data export and if you rea
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    I believe in the value of this project, OP (lihaoyi). Your example of https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 and rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* erasing everything when $STEAMROOT i
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    The day after the Fukushima nuclear incident, the top-voted article on HN was an extremely confident-sounding article by an expert about how this was a minor incident, sure to be contained and forgotten. The comments in the article were dis
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    I find the language off-putting. Calling people who don't understand technology "grunts", and then "facepalm"-ing repeatedly at their failure to understand what you are an expert at...I believe this is called "
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    by vijucat 9y ago

    I still use Firefox ScrapBook for this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/ Just for articles, mind you, not entire websites.
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    Pepsi, United, and the speed of corporate shame(hbr.org)

    4 points by vijucat 10y ago|0 comments
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    ED-209 wants to have a word with Robocop + I decreased frustration and societal unrest by massively funding Entertainment: http://bit.ly/2mwwO7T Basically, "Running Man" was entertainment / fiction when I rea
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    Interesting, thanks! :-)
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    I've never grokked Virtual Desktops (I used to use DexPot years ago on XP). You anyway carry the list of windows open in your head in that horrible background energy-sucking way that multi-tasking does to you (not to mention the fancy
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    Edit: I realized that your question is just about the versioning scheme (the "what"), and my answer is more about the "how". I hope you still find it useful. After being inspired by Hans Werner's answer here (severa
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    I could write similar paens to Matcha, and the harsh truth, coffee lovers, is that the top feature of green tea is that it is not coffee. Coffee , as is this piece by Balzac), is like dramatic prose, whereas green tea is like a haiku. Coffe
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    The "OK, Google" voice interface on Android, whatever it's brand name is, is amazing. Do try it out. It's able to understand me even with a lot of noise (street sounds). Also, there might be something wrong with the mic
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    Genetic Programming, rather. See the papers authored by their Co-founder and Chief Scientist: https://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?q=Babak+Hodjat+genetic...
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    by vijucat 10y ago

    Still a happy user of Winamp 5.666 (released Dec 2013). I love the keyboard shortcuts.