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Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire [pdf](maartenfokkinga.github.io)
1 points by xkgt 7y ago|0 comments
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by xkgt 7y ago
// Idk any package manager that bootstraps itself like this. All you need is the Lein JAR and obv a JRE installed and you are good to do anything. Scala's sbt works in a similar manner.
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by xkgt 7y ago
Free market works only as long as both parties have the freedom to bail out. In case of essential commodities like housing or healthcare, this isn't the case. Even if a deal is beyond your budget, you can't turn it down and live i
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says extradition bill ‘is dead’(scmp.com)
3 points by xkgt 7y ago|1 comments
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by xkgt 7y ago
I believe they are trying to make money out of other services by commoditizing internet. It seems unlikely that this aggressive pricing is to elbow out of the competitors because in this age, the tech companies normally have short-lived mon
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by xkgt 7y ago
I scored 38% and I turned out to be pessimistic on all counts. Perhaps it is time to give Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now a read.
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by xkgt 7y ago
The commonly accepted view right now is that there was an Aryan migration and not an invasion over the Indian subcontinent. But there are politically motivated narratives abound that are pushing this theory to either extremes (Aryan immigra
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by xkgt 7y ago
I am of the firm belief that it is government's job to reach out to the people it represents and not the other way around. Designating an official language or set of official languages renders a section of people as disadvantaged outca
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by xkgt 7y ago
I am not sure how much we can read into it because they are the ones who are already bought in to that ecosystem. Even I was a happy WP user and but I can't be sure how much of my satisfaction was out of choice-supportive bias.
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by xkgt 7y ago
And they did all they could to kill Windows Phone (a viable alternative ecosystem at that time) by blocking access to Youtube[1] and providing sub-par experience for their other services. Now I fear Firefox has a similar sisyphean task at h
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by xkgt 7y ago
IMO it is not a fair comparison between EMR and MapR flavor of hadoop as they are designed for different usecases. MapR and other flavors of hadoop are engineered to make the task of administering a long running cluster easy. In comparison,
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by xkgt 7y ago
I saw a similar complaint video[1] from ZoggfromBetelgeuse but didn't know the problem was pervasive. It is a shame this killed one of the best channels on YT. [1] https://youtu.be/SADDJY7e7cM
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by xkgt 7y ago
As many others pointed out, these product vendors are getting killed by the cloud (I am not saying whether it is good or bad). On-demand compute and storage scalability of cloud makes perfect sense for Big data infrastructure. These compani
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by xkgt 7y ago
It is because only one thread at a time holds the lock in order to avoid race conditions. The keynote[1] by Raymond Hettinger from PyBay '17 will be a great place to start if you are new to this. [1] https://youtu.be/9z
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It's Time to Pay Attention to Intel's Clear Linux OS Project(forbes.com)
32 points by xkgt 7y ago|16 comments
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by xkgt 7y ago
The title is definitely click-baity although the author is a bit more charitable towards books in content. I feel he is too harsh on books by judging them against unrealistic expectations. We can't remember everything we read from a b
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by xkgt 7y ago
I don't understand why everyone talks about cleaning the ball, whereas for it was the roller which accumulated dirt every time. Gone are the days when we shuddered to use mouse without a mousepad. A truly welcome change indeed.
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by xkgt 8y ago
Procrastinating here at 95% completion of my side project. Can't wait enough for it to get over at the same time dreading the fact that the end result will be never as good as it was in my mind.
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by xkgt 8y ago
I was an engineering manager until recently, didn't get much enjoyment out of my role since I had to focus more on whats and whys instead of hows which is what excites my engineering mind. Now I have changed job to an engineering role
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by xkgt 8y ago
It seems likely that the justification is retrofitted and team's familiarity with Swift was the bigger driver. I am surprised they didn't find Scala to be a good fit given that it has already been used with great success in Spark
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by xkgt 8y ago
While there is no doubt that this happened, any one has any idea why there was no reverse push from the fat industry? Was it less organized than the sugar industry or were the profit margins more slender?
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by xkgt 8y ago
It is not just about visualizing but also the choice of visuals. One of the things that Harry Lorayne stresses on, is to visualize something out of the ordinary, so crazy that it sticks out in the memory (for e.g, to remember a sequence of
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by xkgt 8y ago
The YANSS podcast (you are not that smart) discussed the same phenomena in 2015. On the whole, a pretty interesting podcast. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/03/26/yanss-podcast-046-la...
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GitHub servers were taken down globally today(roguemedialabs.com)
4 points by xkgt 8y ago|0 comments
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by xkgt 8y ago
Yeah I get that. But this method doesn't help for scripts that need to modify the current session state (such as export session variables). I am guessing here that such scripts are an edge case and most shell scripts can be simply exec
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by xkgt 8y ago
How do people manage scripts to be used in such niche shells? I started using zsh at work recently, while I quite enjoy the shell experience it is a pain to rewrite all bash scripts to zsh or add lines of codes for compatibility. Any pointe
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by xkgt 8y ago
Quite a few out there but the problem is that of fragmentation. There have been too many API changes making following online resources tricky. Having said that, I got great value out of these resources. Make sure you are working on the righ
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by xkgt 8y ago
This year was quite fruitful. I started off dabbling a bit with basic Neural Networks. Nothing stuck in my mind until I did a mini project. In 2019 I plan to expand my knowledge to cover more algorithms and try some ML engineering tools suc
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How 3ve’s BGP hijackers eluded the Internet–and made $29M(arstechnica.com)
2 points by xkgt 8y ago|0 comments
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Statistical atlas of the United States (1874)(loc.gov)
2 points by xkgt 8y ago|0 comments

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