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by ximeng 11y ago
Some great posts on that site. https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladl... is good from the non Haskell perspective.
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by ximeng 11y ago
Shortened link goes to: http://roboheart.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=49bc41b243...
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by ximeng 11y ago
Link for the scanned copies?
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by ximeng 11y ago
"Shell plans to moor the Prelude FLNG some 200 kilometers off western Australia at the Prelude gas field for 25 years, where it is expected to produce the equivalent of 110,000 BOE per day." 25 years < 50 years
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by ximeng 11y ago
Is it possible for general members of the public to arrange tours of microprocessor fabs anywhere?
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Satellite Images Show Economies Growing and Shrinking in Real Time(bloomberg.com)
6 points by ximeng 11y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
Comments are marked as dead (can only be seen by people with showdead set in their profile), but appear visible to the user so that they may not realise why nobody responds to them or upvotes their comments. Normally a punishment for bad be
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by ximeng 11y ago
oneloop, your comment looks helpful but you are hell-banned, you may want to email HN to be reinstated. -- Edit - he's been reinstated.
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by ximeng 11y ago
Skritter will fix your Mandarin handwriting and tones if you use it regularly. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nwinter who did it is now doing a game to teach coding invested in by ycombinator.
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by ximeng 11y ago
Regardless of whether you or tptacek has the better method for hiring coders, I have much more problem with dvt's tone in his post than yours in the article. Hope this kind of response won't discourage you from posting more, as I&
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by ximeng 11y ago
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.107.... Self-tuning databases from MS Research
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by ximeng 11y ago
Can you elaborate on how they get made as you seem to have a major interest in this? Why couldn't distributed patronage work? Currently distribution and visibility seems to be equally problematic for movies, more engagement with produc
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by ximeng 11y ago
It works both ways. Copyright restricts a lot of creative uses of prior works, sometimes unintentionally and with little benefit to anyone. There are also some non-commercial youtubers producing very professional work - see Peter Hollens fo
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US-China Climate Deal Underscores Need for Substantial Energy Innovation(thebreakthrough.org)
1 points by ximeng 11y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
So are all assets. It's one of the quirks of capitalism that markets remain efficient only to the extent that people believe that they're inefficient, and liquid only to the extent that people are misinformed about an asset's
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Revolution in the Driver’s Seat: The Road to Autonomous Vehicles(bcgperspectives.com)
3 points by ximeng 11y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
"Registration closed" on that website
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by ximeng 12y ago
FX traders, economists, ratings agencies
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by ximeng 12y ago
I asked an MS dev evangelist about that and he said SQL Server was likely to be the slowest to move across and open up as it's practically its own operating system and the team are isolated and conservative.
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by ximeng 12y ago
That link goes to: http://leekuanyew.straitstimes.com/ST/chapter2.html "Today, about two million trees have sprouted, and each is recorded in the NParks database."
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by ximeng 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725387 has some commentary on the <30 line JS spreadsheet. It includes some interesting discussion on functional "spreadsheet" implementation with Haskell.
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by ximeng 12y ago
How much out of interest? I see prices of 180 USD a year on Google search. It's not expensive but for say an open source project which might not be bringing in income it's an annoying cost.
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by ximeng 12y ago
Didn't recognise SAL - assuming it is source annotation language: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15122-f10/lectures/25-sal... It looks like this can be used: https://msdn.microsoft.co
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by ximeng 12y ago
One barrier to developing drivers for Windows is the driver signing policy https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff... which requires you to pay for a software publisher certificate.
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by ximeng 12y ago
Making hardware - Surface, Dongle PC: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Unveils-Windows-8-1... They are also giving away visual studio now which is part of >1bn$ development business division
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Compact Fusion(lockheedmartin.com)
1 points by ximeng 12y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109157
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by ximeng 12y ago
Remote should mean anywhere in the world but expect that some companies will prefer people who can visit a local or head office regularly, or people who work in a similar timezone or country to make things easier to coordinate.
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by ximeng 12y ago
Changing data structure is one approach: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/935098/database-structure...
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Driverless car review launched by UK government(bbc.com)
1 points by ximeng 12y ago|0 comments

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