bgammon

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   by bgammon 9y ago

   I hope Twitch chat never becomes more of a police state than it already is. Streamers consistently demonstrate the ability to create the chat environments they want with the scarce tools Twitch has provided them. That seems good enough to m
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   Are you suggesting the grid will turn into an interconnected graph of power supply lines with a routers and a routing protocol to supply power dynamically based on usage? Sounds a lot like our favorite graph. There are obvious political pro
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   I discovered MusicBrainz Picard about a year ago and it handled my collection pretty flawlessly. I was always wanting to know since then if there are other maintained/curated music databases. I also didn't realize at first that th
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   After reading this, I'm just wondering about two possibilities for the development of Internet culture: Increased policing -- people fear repercussions for posting disturbing content. The darkest corners live on. Increased exposure --
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14338328
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   I do not build my resume from scratch. Often it is exported to PDF from some other service. I store this PDF in the git repository for my website, which is published on GitHub Pages. So inevitably, my resume has snapshots. File formats like
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   > Remember, the focus of a business should be on delivering value and making money while doing so, unlike a usualstartup, whose sole purpose often seems to be burning money and thinking of ways to eventually turn a profit in the future.
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   Prepare ahead of time. Short of using an elastic load balancing service, predict when you may have traffic spikes, and choose a cheap-to-implement solution such as request-level load balancing. Create replicas of your web server processes o
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   by bgammon 9y ago

   I am a recent undergraduate. My undergrad CS major did not offer courses in line with my interests (they focus on data science, I focus on systems). The bulk of my working knowledge has come not from that program, but from the countless hou
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    by bgammon 9y ago

    Location: New York, NY, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Python, Django, Java, C#, Unity, C, GNU/Linux, nginx, DevOps Résumé/CV: http://bradengammon.com&
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    by bgammon 9y ago

    I haven't examined how it works, but in the same vein: http://www.whalesynth.com/
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    by bgammon 10y ago

    While riding in an Uber through Washington DC, my dad and I had a chat with the driver about his plans to build two solar installations in the US. He also mentioned the likelihood that their company would soon enter Latin America, where hig
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    8 Years in Obama's America(nymag.com)

    1 points by bgammon 10y ago|0 comments
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    by bgammon 10y ago

    Impermanence could be considered a value in certain cultures. "Disposable Culture" vs. "Repairing Old Stuff" isn't a useful dichotomy. Everything has an expiration date, and often that date is carefully considered a
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    by bgammon 10y ago

    I wish there were footage of a large urban area in China. Would there actually be too much pollution to get a clear shot in most areas?
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    by bgammon 10y ago

    I have no idea what the system is, but it could be something as innocuous as automatic updates. In reality, they probably do send some form of diagnostic information, but since the application is open source, it seems unlikely there would b