alanctgardner2

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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I'd just like to comment, because this comment hasn't attracted any replies yet, and it is: a) moronic b) completely tangental to the point under discussion The list of "things that people could do" is quite long. You, f
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
It's kind of interesting, but damn this guy cannot communicate effectively. Was the point that > 8 bits of colour in HDMI is a good idea? That modern displays can't show them (I don't think this is true). Is his example im
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This is what it looks like when Chinese hackers make your VPS a zombie(agardner.me)
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The point is that democracy is not always good if you want to be exposed to new and interesting things. A million people will listen to Justin Beiber, or Katy Perry, but how does a new/obscure band get traction? It used to be radio spi
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
If you nofollow the links you won't be penalized.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
You don't happen to work at Cloudera, do you? I noticed you have some submissions about Impala and Oracle being evil, which seems to be a pretty common view among the ex-Oracle DBAs there
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
In the next year I can imagine most people deploying Spark will be doing it on Hadoop, since Cloudera 5 will support Spark. It's a natural fit, most people don't hate HDFS but their use case doesn't naturally fit the MR progr
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Buffet isn't a bad guy per se, but it's worth noting that a lot of the businesses Berkshire Hathaway owns are benefiting from inequality. Wikipedia mentions jewelery and uniform manufacture as two industries they're involved
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The problem is that SO is not for entertainment. It's not even really for education. They (the site's operators) want it to be an injective mapping of google queries to solutions. You don't need to become a better programmer.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
To me, $.50 a page for a list of links to other resources seems like selling shovels to people trying to get in on the coding "goldrush". That said, I'd be into doing a review for my blog if you care to send a copy.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Flagged, because this is a complete non-story. It's not interesting, it's not well written, they probably feel like they've come out ahead by getting lots of views for their crappy blog. I know everyone on HN wants to pile on
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
As far as I can tell the content of the update is never sent back. I just went on FB and started typing a status update. The status box expands, and loads some extra assets. But you can type and erase repeatedly and no extra HTTP requests a
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
On mobile (KitKat, Chrome) the actual annotations obscured the text, and I couldn't figure out how to actually see them. It was easy to scroll through the unannotated bits though.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
If you need some help with developer events in the Ottawa area feel free to get in touch. I typically do Ottawa Javascript, Ruby Tuesday and sometimes the ArtEngine Modlab as well.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
edit: I get that this is a personal issue for you, and you got piled on for giving an anecdote that didn't fit people's expectations. I wasn't following the whole thread, so I didn't see you already answered my questions
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
My understanding is you get a DropBox-esque directory where you can download n tracks, in addition to whatever you own otherwise. The tracks are all DRMed and log the number of plays, etc. You could have 30 PulseLocker tracks, and they ca
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
There's a library for a PC to control the wall warts; I've done some fun stuff automating power cycling with it. You could plug the USB-enabled controller into a server, and then write an app for whatever you like: web server, blu
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Can anyone from the Bay Area comment on the frequency of these mass firings among small companies? I'd never heard of it until recently, but I've seen a couple now - at least this one seems to make sense, since there's a chan
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Seriously? In my experience (in Canada), the majority of engineering universities offer a co-op program. I get that Waterloo is the shit right now, but they don't produce the majority of the world's co-op students.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Having survived a childhood of OHIP, I find it hard to believe that your son received a significantly worse quality of care because you were in Canada. I don't doubt some doctors are better than others, but that happens everywhere.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Why does AirBnb even allow more than one listing per user? How many people have multiple residences which they can legitimately rent out legally? It seems like it would stem a lot of criticism if they only allowed one residence per user, al
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Maybe you aren't a native English speaker, so this is a misunderstanding. Despite what it literally means, "to undo" in common English usually just means "screwed over". If he had been convicted and was alive he wou
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Does anyone gain anything from these graph visualisations? The first few times I saw one I was impressed, but this one is so huge and nondescript, I think it's impossible to take much away from it. They're kind of like info graphi
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> CAT is currently at NASA Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3, meaning we are in the midst of performing experiments to probe its feasibility, thanks to private sponsorship Clicking on the link, 3 is a really far way from actually flying
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
As far as I can tell it also helps avoid bank runs. If you can only withdraw a small amount of your balance every day, it may prevent the price from tumbling precipitously when people get spooked - they would have to consciously cash out ov
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I don't know why it did't happen sooner. I started pre-roll seeing ads on mobile as well, which I don't remember until recently. I don't get why it's disgusting. This is how video creators and Google are supposed to
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
You can do OpenCL in C, that's pretty bare metal in some areas.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
As someone on SO pointed out, the most important thing is to not be dogmatic about "your language". You can start out on C#, Pascal or Erlang, but don't be closed off to looking at or building toy projects in other languages.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I think what the parent means is that the derivative of the appearances is a lot more interesting than the number of appearances (and possibly as a percentage of the total number of appearances). Google moving from 100 to 105 isn't ver
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Actually, it seems like Fring's bootstrapped company acqui-hires Heisenberg's, but he's not content to be a manager or COO. It's kind of like how Monty sold out to Sun, only to turn around and build the same project agai

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