Transfinity

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by Transfinity 6y ago
> And, like in art, the formulation matters, and more often than not the best formulation is the original (because its closer to their source, the thinker who came up with those ideas). This is sometimes true, but I think it depends on w
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by Transfinity 6y ago
This feels fair to me. The news agencies spend time and money to research, verify and publish the news. If Google wants to use that content to sell ads, then they should pay for it. I don't understand the negative comments here, and I&
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by Transfinity 6y ago
Having done a lot of traveling along with a lot of reading (often at the same time), just reading about a place is a good start, but there's no substitute for actually going there, meeting real people, eating the food, dealing with pub
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by Transfinity 6y ago
Bigger factories being the kind of thing that takes hundreds of hours to build. The game is beautifully optimized and will run quite well on a potato.
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by Transfinity 6y ago
I think I agree with you. I would say this trouble comes about in programming though, in the form of DSLs. Anyone who's worked with Rails knows the pain of having to go look up the non-obvious syntax for xyz specific file that you have
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by Transfinity 6y ago
I would say that JSX is popular precisely because the cost of teaching it is low, which in turn is because of its similarity to other commonly used notation (HTML / XML). Of course it's got its fair share of dumb gotchas, but I fo
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by Transfinity 6y ago
Look at how much trouble NYC has had building new subways over the last few decades. That's a system that already works (pretty) well, that people trust and believe in and are invested in, and yet they can barely get enough fiscal buy
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by Transfinity 7y ago
I would argue that reinforces the point. Car customers don't really have a relationship with a dealership until they're far into the process of selecting and buying a car. Even then the dealership doesn't own the relationship
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by Transfinity 7y ago
One of my favorite courses in college was basically this. I learned so much about filesystems, data structures and concurrency that has been useful in my career!
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by Transfinity 7y ago
One big thing is that you can't change the default browser, so any time you click a link you end up on safari. In my experience (I tried iPhone for 2 weeks after my previous phone died, before returning it and switching back to Android
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by Transfinity 7y ago
I love the sentiment, but where else would you turn? AWS takes money from the CIA, Google has drones and Dragonfly, and Oracle doesn't even pretend to be a bastion of freedom.
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by Transfinity 7y ago
So long as those probabilities are aware of context (style, form of this piece, location in the form, etc.). I've played around with Markov models a little, but I don't think they would quite cut it. This problem is probably sligh
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by Transfinity 7y ago
As a programmer, I love this app. As a musician, I think it would be good for novices who are still in the "note identification" phase, as others have mentioned. However, I'm not sure how useful it would be for an advanced st
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by Transfinity 7y ago
Source: https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/getting-there-greener Turns out motor coaches (e.g. Greyhound busses) are the most efficient at pretty much any distance.
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by Transfinity 7y ago
The United States has a variety of techniques for making sure its business interests get what they want. Aircraft carriers are one (see Iraq, and possibly Iran if things go south), CIA-sponsored coups another (Guatemala, El Salvador), econo
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by Transfinity 7y ago
The Rainier Valley where this service is being tested is a long north-south residential corridor, bordered by Lake Washington on the east and a steep ridge on the west. It's a few miles wide, just wide enough that it's not reasona
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Thoughts on Teaching Inheritance from Ada Developers Academy(adadevacademy.tumblr.com)
1 points by Transfinity 8y ago|0 comments
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by Transfinity 8y ago
I am cautiously optimistic about this one. Partly because of promising recent decisions from them, and partly because if there's one thing Microsoft knows how to do well, it's business software.
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by Transfinity 8y ago
> Young men apparently don't have to work full time to survive, don't want to, and are free to do things they want. This is being painted as a bad thing... I don't agree that the authors call this a bad thing. They call it
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by Transfinity 8y ago
I feel like I've seen 3 or 4 big interesting DARPA initiatives announced in the last week or so. Is something going on or is it just a coincidence?
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Lessons from One Week Teaching React(adadevacademy.tumblr.com)
8 points by Transfinity 8y ago|0 comments
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by Transfinity 8y ago
I think the main difference between the two mediums is that email is push-based, while Facebook is pull-based. With email, you have to explicitly select recipients. You're essentially saying "here are my photos, I think they are r
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by Transfinity 12y ago
It's not just browsers. I work in storage, and their NFS client (a 25 year old protocol) is without question one of the worst we've seen. The number of hoops we have to jump through and spec violations we've implemented just