chapmanb

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by chapmanb 15y ago
The PDF is currently available, although I couldn't find a direct link so it may be a temporary mistake: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6062/1518.full.pdf Supporting online material: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2011/12
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by chapmanb 15y ago
I had the same struggle and originally used viper-mode + vimpulse to ease the transition. Recently I've switched to Evil, which is excellent and requires very little configuration to give you vim-like navigation with all the other good thin
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Pigs, Bees, and Elephants: A Comparison of Eight MapReduce Languages(dataspora.com)
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by chapmanb 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'd be very happy if this inspired better solutions. My goal was to solve a problem that was slowing down my work, and I reached for multiprocessing from my toolbox since that's my first choice to run work in parall
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by chapmanb 16y ago
I would say that learning Lisp is definitely worthwhile and will improve your Python coding; pg's essay argues for Lisp better than I could: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html You'll want to not just read a book, but also get hands on exp
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by chapmanb 16y ago
I learned Clojure with Joy of Clojure, the early access version, coming from a Python background with very little practical experience in Java or Lisp. It's an excellent book. The biggest advantage for my coding has actually been in my day-
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by chapmanb 16y ago
The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/mreid/annotatr I remember seeing it last year and it doesn't look to have been worked on recently. A great proof of concept, but it'll be hard to sustain development motivation: there aren't good
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by chapmanb 16y ago
I can second the System76 laptop recommendation. I got a Lemur laptop from them last year: http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&produc... Sound, wifi and the camera work fine and it's been through a couple of Ubuntu upgra
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by chapmanb 16y ago
Felix Salmon's thoughts on the difficulties with SoBi's business model: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/08/11/why-small-s... An interesting take since Felix is very pro-bike.
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by chapmanb 16y ago
I work standing with my laptop on top of a chrome wire shelf: http://www.theshelvingstore.com/Chrome_Wire_Shelving_s/34.ht... They are available in a bunch of depths and heights and are easy to adjust. You probably won't be moving them up
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by chapmanb 17y ago
Sanuk sells thin flexible shoes. They are a bit casual, but a few styles are work friendly: http://www.sanuk.com/products/341027 VivoBarefoot is another alternative, although a bit more expensive: http://www.terraplana.com/vivobarefoot.p
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by chapmanb 17y ago
There I was brainstorming ideas to replicate the hierarchical database/collection/document management that MongoDB and CouchDB offer. One solution I have used, and became disenchanted with, was combined keys with all this information munged
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by chapmanb 17y ago
Yes, that's right. For the test I ran the tyrant server with: ttserver test.tcb#opts=ld#bnum=1000000#lcnum=10000 d specifies a deflate encoding. The type of database may also make a difference on loading times; in this case it was a B+ tree