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by wting 14y ago
I'm interested in the price of Bitcoin, but we don't need these daily submissions. If you're interested in following the price, I suggest these links: - https://bitcoinity.org/markets - http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD - http:/
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by wting 14y ago
Think of the cache pyramid.[0] Latency may be higher, but if there is enough work / data then it's still efficient to do work remotely / put data farther away. From what I understand, the article is about two things: 1. Hot swappable compon
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Not too long ago when iOS was released users jumped ship to Android due to the maps fiasco. If Facebook forks Android, do you think people are willing to give up Google's ecosystem in exchange for Facebook's? Even if you find Facebook chat
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You can artificially create this limitation without having a child. If you make arrangements at 7pm (e.g. dinner or sports), it forces you to finish everything during the work day so you can go out at night. This deadline can create an arti
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by wting 14y ago
Flask started out as an April Fool's joke that eventually became a real product, there's no reason why the same can't happen with this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flask_(programming)#History
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Without knowing you personally, it's hard to suggest things to do. I would suggest you check out wikitravel.org. I found it a great guide when I was backpacking through Europe. http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/San_Francisco Edit: Switched to
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Right now there seems to be about 15M transactions total. Number of Transactions https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-total Transactions / Day: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions Trade:Transaction Ratio: https://blo
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There was a study on how real estate agents sell clients' houses vs their own. On average, agents will keep their own properties on the market ~10 days longer.[0] If a client's house sells for $310k vs $300k, that's an extra ~$10k for the c
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Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python(github.com)
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`gofmt` uses tabs, and is one of the few languages where it is idiomatic to use tabs rather than spaces.
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Well you could follow the link they have to the DC Chinese Embassy: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/visas/
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1089.html#e...
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I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note,
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This is a form of price anchoring.[0] By representing salaries as a fraction of CEO income, it makes all employees evaluate their worth relative to the CEO. On the other hand, representing the CEO's income as a multiplier of the company's a
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by wting 14y ago
This is a common view held by engineers. Engineers believe in meritocracy and thinks the market behaves the same way. "Build a great product and the customers will come." Unfortunately this is consistently disproven in the market. Many tech
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Madoff is a straw man; he committed fraud.
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If you can't afford to lose your investment, you shouldn't be investing at all. Scared money is essentially lost money if you can't make rational decisions without being influenced by fear. As for #2, that can be solved through self educa
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This happened at a Walgreen's nearby here in Austin. There is an ATM just inside the doors and the storefront didn't have concrete poles out front. One early morning a pickup truck just reversed into the store, chained up the ATM and dragge
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Your (lack of) use of Google Now is unrelated to the difficulty of the problem. Predictive analytics is an interesting engineering challenge, and is probably what appeals to the author. On the other hand, re-solving the same web problems re
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by wting 14y ago
Hooray, another tools discussion where nothing gets resolved. Tools are a highly personal topic, what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. My advice is to try using one and only one new tool a week. By the end of a mon
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Google Keep—Save what’s on your mind(googleblog.blogspot.ca)
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AFAIK, all PyCon 2013 talks were recorded and are being processed. Once they're finished the videos will be uploaded here: http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013
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by wting 14y ago
Unfortunately Google I/O has become a "why not" conference. I would love to go to Google I/O at current prices even if they did not offer any swag. Unfortunately that doesn't seem apply to most people trying to get a ticket. They really sho
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by wting 14y ago
University of Texas at Austin teaches Haskell to 2nd year students in a required course: CS 337 - Theory in Programming Practice. Programming Languages is also taught in Haskell, but it's an optional course and languages varies by professor
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"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." - Postel's Law
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I have a few comments about some of the slides, feel free to correct any misunderstandings. Dictionary vs Object: Lookups in both data structures is O(1), the difference being the hashing cost (and an additional memory lookup for heap) vs a
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Multi-factor authentication means choosing from: 1. something you know (password) 2. something you have (phone, yubikey) 3. something you are (biometrics) With Google's two-factor, logging in requires something you know (password) and somet
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No. I've been contributing to the Rust compiler in my spare time, and needless to say documentation is quite lacking. In fact, the Rust source code itself and git diffs are probably the best documentation available since everything is still
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It's trained pattern matching gained through experience, i.e. machine learning. What you said in the GP post stands true, it's important that beginners learn the correct patterns (look up documentation for idiomatic examples) and not false
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No, given a bunch of Apache logs I needed to find the top 10 queries that met conditions A and B. 1. grepping for conditions and extracting the query with sed 2. appending a char to a flat file (i.e. increasing query count by 1) 3. sort by

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