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by zedr 7y ago
Is there a marketplace for ideas for fighting COVID-19 or mitigating its effect on people?
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Ask HN: How can developers help fight Covid-19?
8 points by zedr 7y ago|7 comments
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Lessons learned as an aspiring quant trader(quantwizard.com)
1 points by zedr 7y ago|0 comments
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by zedr 7y ago
Fascinating... What are the odds against finding this particular type of antagonist protein?
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by zedr 7y ago
Do you think research on 2019-nCoV would benefit from having available a platform for distributed computing, e.g. a dedicated Folding@Home?
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by zedr 7y ago
Padding?
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Not-Our-Unix: A Compendium by Dennis Ritchie (2000)(bell-labs.com)
4 points by zedr 7y ago|0 comments
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by zedr 7y ago
I had a flashback of myself, in my early teens, programming in AMOS on a Commodore Amiga 500, while listening to their 1991 album "Joyride".
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by zedr 7y ago
Please add Milan, Italy. Thanks.
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by zedr 8y ago
Try Orzo coffee. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_d%27orzo
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by zedr 8y ago
There's PythonCard. http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
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by zedr 8y ago
Isn't this similar to the Nuitka project? http://nuitka.net/ Nuitka has fantastic Python 3 support (up to 3.7 currently).
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by zedr 8y ago
A sample template project using Nuitka if you want to play around with it: https://github.com/zedr/aiohttp-nuitka-docker
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by zedr 8y ago
Thanks! I didn't know about that. I'll try it out.
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by zedr 8y ago
Using a local virtual environment and then building a Docker image removes most of the headaches. I also bundle a Makefile with simple targets. See this as an example: https://github.com/zedr/cffi_test/blob/ma
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by zedr 9y ago
Do you think the gap was caused by a decline in the quality of education? I'm convinced the Italian software industry was set back in the Eighties due to the lack of laws protecting intellectual property. It was more convenient and ris
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by zedr 10y ago
The freedom of using a variety of desktop environments, and the ability to customise them down to the source code, is what got me interested in Linux in the first place. Back in 2003, I was experimenting with Rainmeter and a port of Blackbo
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by zedr 10y ago
> Facebook, like many sites, uses versioned URLs - these URLs are never updated to have different content and instead the site changes the subresource URL itself when the content changes. This is a common design pattern... Why not use th
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by zedr 11y ago
Wikipedia has a one-liner: { echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <some.file)\r\n\r\n"; cat some.file; } | nc -l -p 8080 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat
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by zedr 11y ago
I loved the atmosphere in this game. I played this in the eighties on a Commodore 64, in the height of the Cold War.
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by zedr 12y ago
Excellent work, Greg!
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by zedr 12y ago
We would reinvent UNIX, poorly.
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by zedr 12y ago
At this point, I think Mozilla really needs to: 1) launch a high end phone, capable of competing in specs with the Nexus 5 and the like; 2) release the first Firefox-OS tablet, which would be a prove very valuable to kiosks.
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by zedr 12y ago
Yes, mostly Python on the backend, JavaScript on the frontend, and some shell scripting (Bash). At home, I dabble in m68k (Amiga) assembly and C. On the bus, Racket (don't ask me why).
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by zedr 12y ago
I have very fond memories of Gentoo Linux. My first Linux distribution was Mandrake 7. After a few months, unsatisfied with the experience, I found out about Gentoo and Portage. The idea of having running a system that was fine-tuned to my
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by zedr 12y ago
> it was just yet another programming language. It was considered a high-level programming language.
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by zedr 13y ago
Where can I get nilzor_lint.pl?
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by zedr 13y ago
I'm more intrigued about his statement "in 10 years I'll likely no longer write code professionally". I wonder if it's a personal choice, or if he thinks that there is age limit for the profession.
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by zedr 13y ago
I switched from Eclipse to PyCharm last year and I am very happy with it. I was looking into IntelliJ to have a more polyglot environment. Could anyone tell me if I can get all the features found in PyCharm (.e.g wonderful Django support) i
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by zedr 14y ago
Yes, it is compliant. In this example, the (version, 2) key/value pair is an accept-extension. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html Another example of header field extensions could be `Content-Type: text/html; level=3`

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