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by wamatt 14y ago
“How big a deal is this static typing thing??” - Barb Darrow (author of the article) wow
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by wamatt 14y ago
Ahh ok, subtle distinction. Thanks for clearing that up. :)
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by wamatt 14y ago
>This strikes me as SaaS as having gone too far. Yeah I was pretty skeptical when these guys first launched. I mean why not just DIY? But if you think about it doing file uploads across tons of services and platforms is a PITA. As muc
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by wamatt 14y ago
Interested if anyone had any thoughts on Prior Knowledge's predictive DB, Veritable. https://www.priorknowledge.com/
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by wamatt 14y ago
Ta, just signed up. Love the site! Wonder if it would be hard to allow users to specify custom Github projects for typing? Learn the style of some of the more prominent coders in a particular community or sub-community, whatever that may be
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by wamatt 14y ago
11) Become the universe Used to joke with my friends about this, as the most ambitious goal of any rational entity in maximizing the existence utility function. "Happiness" etc are human factors, while obviously relevant to us now, and may
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by wamatt 14y ago
Quite a cool idea, nice! :) Suggestion, might be friendlier to let us play with the app first, before requiring an upfront commitment to register. After clicking the "Fork" button, and then seeing that form... CMD-W and onto the other 20 op
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by wamatt 14y ago
Agreed, in fact it's ironic that they try sooo hard to have 100% uptime, as a small amount of downtime, can be a good thing. No-one cares if vital utility x is working. It's not like they are texting their friends, about x being 'up
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Prior Knowledge launches predictive db, Veritable(priorknowledge.com)
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Vooza: Radical new approach to the mobile web(vooza.com)
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by wamatt 14y ago
Yeah, it was cutting edge back in the day, but Wave is kinda oldschool tech now, being easier and faster to build with the latest RTW frameworks out there now. (mostly built on JS).
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by wamatt 14y ago
Congrats! :)
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by wamatt 14y ago
Not sure if I agree or not, but reckon the mantra 'Always Be Shipping' works out pretty well for him :p
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by wamatt 14y ago
Well done guys, great achievement for a 24hr project! Even has Evernote integration, neat.
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by wamatt 14y ago
> "The counter-intuitive nature of startup investing..." The hidden premise of that statement, appears to imply there exists a universal intuition to which this is "counter". I'm not sure that is completely accurate, and is perhaps mo
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by wamatt 14y ago
Very cool James, I usually use Spotify indie lists, but surprisingly this has a found a few cool tracks I hadn't discovered yet. If you don't mind sharing, how does the playlist selection algorithm work?
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by wamatt 14y ago
I agree, my first question on SO was: "What is vert.x and why is it useful?" was basically downvoted to hell, and then closed and eventually deleted. It didn't leave me with a great impression of the community TBH, and felt overly draconian
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by wamatt 14y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. Which is why it could also be problematic, if taken out of a QM context and applied classically.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Yeah I noticed this too. Sadly there also seems to be an emphasis on style and tone, instead of the content of the message.
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by wamatt 14y ago
> The observer effect applies even to classical systems. You just can't measure something without affecting it in some way [1]. What I have never understood about the observer effect, is how it applies to the observation of blackbody
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by wamatt 14y ago
> Possibly more accurate with this qualification. Accuracy? Close to 9000.
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by wamatt 14y ago
It might be useful when thinking about motivation over a longer term, to consider another word: passion
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by wamatt 14y ago
Coincidentally, I was just reading this rather insightful essay on press releases http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html yesterday, and remember a line that stood out: >'why he's writing about this subject at all.' Makes one wonder
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by wamatt 14y ago
Looks interesting, but who is to say they don't keep logs? A VPN on VPS provider, whom accepts similar payment options is an alternative option.
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by wamatt 14y ago
The higher contrast is pretty neat, but was hoping Amazon had figured out how to significantly improve on the slow response rate of E-Ink. Slow UI or animations (ahem, looking at you iOS/OSX), are for me personally, a serious distraction to
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by wamatt 14y ago
A huge part of life is tenacity.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Haven't tried the latest nginx install, but according to the wiki, ssl_session_cache controls this, and is set to 'none' by default. http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule As for Github, could just be a misconfiguration, or perhaps they
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by wamatt 14y ago
Good find! Didn't realize Github were using 2048 bit keys. I would be interested in knowing what the actual performance differences are between key sizes, given RSA is used in the initial negotiation before symmetric SSL takes over. >so
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by wamatt 14y ago
Upon further investigation, it's not just the API, it's the entire site. A significant cause of the issue is their SSL implementation. Specifically it negotiates a new connection every time instead of resuming the session, eek! http://se
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by wamatt 14y ago
Github is generally pretty nippy for me, and it's a pleasure to work with. Just 2 performance concerns I've noticed: 1. The network graph https://github.com/<username>/<repo>/network seems very sluggish to render 2. The AP

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