TimSAstro

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by TimSAstro 7y ago
Hi, HN! Author here. A friend mentioned this was on the front page so I wanted to stop by and make explicit that this advice is OUT OF DATE as far as I'm concerned. It's way too much hassle (I work in a much larger team now than I
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Networking for founders(stripe.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 9y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 9y ago
Things are changing, slowly but surely. Those of you interested in this sort of work should check out http://rse.ac.uk/ , and also https://software-carpentry.org/ (Run a workshop! Improve the software enviro
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Duc: tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage(duc.zevv.nl)
3 points by TimSAstro 9y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 9y ago
Very Von Neuman! http://www.primepuzzle.com/leeslightest/howfar.html
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by TimSAstro 9y ago
This is something I've been giving some thought to recently. I came to the conclusion that the best way to go currently is git-clean filters built using jq. It's still a bit hacky though. Gentle write-up here: http://ti
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The History of RANDOM.ORG(random.org)
3 points by TimSAstro 10y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 10y ago
Have you tried turning on pipelining in ansible.cfg? Details here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_configuration.html#pip...
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
See also (if you're happy working in Python): https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/
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Demis Hassabis of DeepMind on Artificial Intelligence and the Future [video](livestream.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 11y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
I call Poe's law!
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Meizu MX4 Ubuntu smartphone review(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 11y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
While I see what you're saying, I doubt you would claim to 'use' assembly when writing a C++ codebase - because (unless you're doing very low-level hand optimizations of the kind that get ever rarer), someone else has do
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Are algorithms copyrightable? (2006)(imranontech.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 11y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
Interesting dilemma. I had assumed that re-writing in another language basically meant you were copyright free (as long as you're not literally transcribing or automatically translating), but it appears it's not that simple: http
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
It'll be a bit more expensive than your local store, but you could try ordering (decaf) beans online. Weirdly this seems to be a much bigger thing over here in the UK, but I did find this: http://dailygrind.com/index.ph
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
tl;dr: A competitor to Virgin Galactic (space tourism) using what appears to be a more traditional booster rocket / parachute pod arrangement - except that the booster rocket self-lands after separation. Interesting to see another comp
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by TimSAstro 11y ago
I disagree about this being worse for beginners - if we're teaching a new programmer about functions, surely a basic print function is a great introduction? Whereas before it was a one-off special case.
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
'Deep Six' (short story anthology) and 'Wind-up Girl' by Paolo Bacigalupi.
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
While I'll be interested to see how the blockchain gets exploited for new tech, there are a couple of problems with your statement. First, right now there is a problem with how we generate energy, and a centralized banking system shoul
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
For anyone else who was wondering about their Nalgene, they're BPS free, apparently: http://nalgene.com/why-nalgene/ (funny smells aside)
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Duc, a library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage(github.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 12y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
Minor correction on income tax: 0-10K: Untaxed, 10-40K: 20%, 40K+: 40%,
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
Well, mostly: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/science/30manh.html?pagewa...
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Crossing Language Barriers with Julia, Scipy, and IPython(github.com)
4 points by TimSAstro 12y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
Interesting, I wondered if anyone else was playing with XFCE config this way. I have the important parts of my .config/xfce4 folder under git and replicated across 3 machines, which a branch for dual-screen tweaks on the desktop, etc.
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
Steuard is right, and astronomers have good reasons to expect this behaviour - wave dispersion. The best link I can find from a quick google is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_(water_waves) -which refers
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by TimSAstro 12y ago
The raw representation is a somewhat cluttered (to the untrained eye, anyway) json file - especially if you have checkpointed images which are bascially base64 encoded blobs! So as far as I know it's pretty much the web-editor or nothi
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Using python pip offline(timstaley.co.uk)
1 points by TimSAstro 13y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
+1 For the Dell Precision, although it's very much a 'portable workstation' rather than a truly mobile laptop. Think of it as something you will use with a docking station in place of a full tower. Also, you'll probably

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