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by wyc 10y ago
Hilarious context: https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/
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by wyc 10y ago
Why use such a thing? Array languages are very powerful for dealing with high-dimensional data. R, matlab, octave, and Julia can all do this and are satisfactory for most people. However, proponents claim that languages such as K are much m
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by wyc 10y ago
I find that many financial technology companies opt to store currency as strings. The small overhead is typically well worth freedom from floating-point errors.
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by wyc 10y ago
I think libraries generally take care of stuffing the schema into the wire protocol, and I have a hunch you're right in that it's implementation-defined. I like that in this regard, any individual record in Ion is standalone. I ca
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by wyc 10y ago
I think it depends on what level you're referring to. If you mean record-level, then I concede that it's not self-describing. However, looking at the suggested use cases, it seems that it's "self-describing" in that
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by wyc 10y ago
This reminds me a lot of Avro: https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/ They both have self-describing schemas, support for binary values, JSON-interoperability, basic type systems (Ion seems to support a few more fi
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by wyc 11y ago
Here's a relevant passage from the essay "Worse Is Better" by Richard P. Gabriel: http://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html """ Two famous people, one from MIT and another from Berkeley (but working on Un
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by wyc 11y ago
Thanks! Helped me solve this in Gentoo: emerge -av fira-sans
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by wyc 11y ago
"Baidu does not show up in this year’s rankings. The company made more submissions than were permitted and ultimately apologized and fired the team leader who directed juniors to make the unacceptable submissions."
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by wyc 11y ago
If you're interested in picking apart a small self-contained project, I wrote a simple IRC bot in ARM for GNU/Linux a while ago: https://github.com/wyc/armbot There are instructions to run/debug it on an
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by wyc 11y ago
Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)
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by wyc 11y ago
Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)
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by wyc 11y ago
Slightly off-topic: If you're considering MySQL for HA, a project called Vitess jives well with Kubernetes + CoreOS, and has been in production use at YouTube for a while now: http://vitess.io/
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by wyc 11y ago
The detailed diagrams, code samples, and demos are greatly appreciated. I think it shows that you put a lot of work into this. Thanks! However, Shazam corporate doesn't seem very nice: http://www.royvanrijn.com/blog&#x2
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by wyc 11y ago
Their premium model has six blades[0]. Made me chuckle remembering this article[1]. [0] https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/blades [1] http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/fuck-everything-were-doing-...
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by wyc 11y ago
One reason is that Delaware companies get their cases disputed at the state's specialized business court[0]. The trials are expected to be speedier and outcomes fairer. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Co
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by wyc 11y ago
In software, you're guaranteed that 2 + 2 is perfectly 4 in an int32. It's a very clean abstraction. In hardware, operational amplifiers are affected by thermal noise, magnetic fields, parasitic capacitance, etc. It is not "i
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by wyc 11y ago
My personal favorite is alice: https://github.com/justinas/alice It's not very much code (only ~90 lines inc. comments), but I think it establishes a pattern that makes everything very straightforward from authent
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by wyc 11y ago
Nice! I'm sorry I missed that.
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by wyc 11y ago
Very cool! I like the presentation on the landing page a lot. It's immediately apparent what it does. The most difficult part of using this for me seems to be trusting tmate--not that tmate is inherently untrustworthy, but IMO untrustw
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by wyc 11y ago
A lot of nice solutions have already been posted for talking. If you want to show some code, a shell session, your dwarf fortress, etc., you can look at screen/tmux with a shared guest account: # you type: $ screen -S session
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by wyc 11y ago
Yes, it has! Again, I don't think the design decisions were made to lock out other vendors. It's very reasonable to me that the first platform to be supported by Google engineers is Google's platform. Side note: I should be a
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by wyc 11y ago
Agreed. I have more specifics of Google-centralism in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9330049
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by wyc 11y ago
Rescuetime isn't extension-only, but the extension is arguably an important part of the product, and I like the product lot. https://www.rescuetime.com/
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by wyc 11y ago
You can also see if your friends are currently active using their browser, mobile device, or are inactive. These data could be used to infer usage rates over time. It might not sound that intrusive, but the tone is very different if you wer
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by wyc 11y ago
TLDR summary: “Evan views advertising as a product, while most Internet founders view advertising as a necessary evil.” Snapchat may have overestimated the pull it has with advertisers. It started its program by charging about $100 per 1,00
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by wyc 11y ago
A caveat of the popular "would you invest in this company?" question: it's not a good litmus test for "should I work at this company?" because you're not a VC. If you're considering employment, it strongly
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by wyc 11y ago
Shameless plug for a companion IRC bot in ARM assembly: https://github.com/wyc/armbot
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by wyc 11y ago
Cool! I love net/http. Below is my stab from a while ago. It's more of an example than a library. https://github.com/wyc/go-server-sent-events-example/blob/ma... I think it's great that the lan
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by wyc 11y ago
Even if you know the most optimal solution in terms of computational complexity, it might not be the best thing to put into your code base. There are a lot of other things to balance including (but not limited to) readability, maintainabili

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