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by w23j 8y ago
From the author's comments: "The uncompressed image is 12 times larger than the source code of the program which includes the image data and the complete decoder. The actual image data is 1220 byte long, which gives a compression
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by w23j 9y ago
What do you guys do if you need a short break from work? Between tasks or if I have finished something mentally demanding, I will often skim some news sites or hacker news. Any recommendation what else to do as a quick break between program
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by w23j 9y ago
They already do: "The loss leaders of the investment world" [1] Their theory? You'll come in the door for the index ETF and stay for the more expensive funds, the alternative investments, the retirement advice. [1] http:&#
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by w23j 9y ago
But how would you compete against the established companies? It cannot be higher returns, because all index-funds are supposed to have roughly the same returns (if they mirror the same index). So it must be lower fees. And you are able to c
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by w23j 9y ago
Locking the task row and doing the work in the same transaction has the nice property, that the task will be available again, if the worker fails and the transaction is rolled back. Unfortunately this may cause problems when the tasks take
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Web Hosting Provider Pays $1M to Ransomware Attackers(securityweek.com)
2 points by w23j 9y ago|0 comments
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Morning Routine for Knowledge Workers(journal.thriveglobal.com)
13 points by w23j 9y ago|4 comments
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by w23j 10y ago
Oh my god, a dream come true! I had always hoped Bob Nystrom would write a book about interpreters/compilers. Back when I tried to learn how to write a recursive descent parser, the examples I found either ignored correct expression pa
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by w23j 10y ago
Ok, got it! Thanks a lot, this is really helpful! :)
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by w23j 10y ago
Can you point to any instructions on how to do water only fasts? It has been surprisingly difficult to google. Most articles talk about intermittent fasting or some variation of fasting, where people drink a lot of juice! In particular I wo
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Using Protesters for Marketing(observer.com)
4 points by w23j 10y ago|0 comments
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by w23j 10y ago
The big pictures in this case is: You use a neuronal network to decide at each step to flap the birds wings or not. That is the only output. The input is only the birds height (y-position) and the height of the next hole. ( https:/&#x2
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by w23j 10y ago
This is one of these fantastic "all that is done with so little code?!" moments. Amazing that this can be done in 300 lines of perfectly readable JS without any libraries. And the author apparently wrote it in 2 days. Great intro
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by w23j 10y ago
But i can avoid that by only using Chrome for browsing, can't I?
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by w23j 10y ago
My impression was that by only using Mobile Chrome for browsing (which gets updates through the play store), I was at least save from being infected by surfing the web. Is that correct?
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by w23j 10y ago
So I have a Galaxy Nexus, which does not get OS Updates anymore (Android 4.3 at the moment). Do I understand correctly that vulnerabilities like this one mean I do not have any protection when I install an App on my phone? I mean the Androi
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by w23j 10y ago
It is certainly true, if there is absolutely no time to clean up, there is nothing to do be done about it. However I think there are too points to consider here. First, cleaning up code is a skill and as such it improves with practice. That
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by w23j 10y ago
> Most people "going to the gym" at one point have to come to terms with that it's to some extent a waste of time. Parent divided people into those that don't do anything alone and those who do. A similar dichotomy is
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by w23j 10y ago
This is a great interview by Tim Ferriss with Jocko Willink, who probably can be considered a "Born Soldier" in a similar vein: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/09/25/jocko-willink/ The huge di
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by w23j 10y ago
So I have just updated WebStorm. The "About" dialog now says: WebStorm 11.0.4 Build #WS-143.2370, built on April 29, 2016 "Check for Update" tells me I have the latest version. However the FAQ ( http:/&#x2F
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by w23j 10y ago
Anticipating such tests to be on the horizon the Baltimore Ravens drafted this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urschel
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by w23j 11y ago
Does anybody know if this also concerns drugs taken with an inhaler? I use an inhaler for allergic asthma and am not sure if the drug is "anticholinergic".
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by w23j 11y ago
How do you get these numbers? Aren't the number of possible pins 10^4 = 10,000 and 10^6 = 1,000,000?
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by w23j 11y ago
Of course the timeline in this case was: 1. Retire 2. Live of savings as planned for years 3. Start a blog that ends up making money
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by w23j 11y ago
This is amazing. I spent some time staring at he gopher picture in disbelieve. 'Mindblowing' would be the fitting description. Then I scrolled down to the samples...
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by w23j 11y ago
Cool. This looks like what I had in mind.
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by w23j 11y ago
The slides look great. Thanks a lot.
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by w23j 11y ago
You probably already know this stuff and don't need the info. But maybe somebody else reading this can find the link useful. This is a great tutorial on expression parsing using Pratt Parsers by Bob Nystrom: http://journal.s
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by w23j 11y ago
Can somebody point me at some introductionary material (or approachable code base) to writing an optimizing compiler? There seem to be a lot of very good tutorials on writing a simple compiler, like http://scheme2006.cs.uchicag
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by w23j 11y ago
My Sophos Anti-Virus blocked this site, mentioning a 'Mal/HTMLGen-A' on it.

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