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by dschoon 1mo ago
Quanta Magazine is a never ending source of good material. Add it to your feed.
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by dschoon 5y ago
Note that the homebrew package is out of date and will not work with APFS, or with the latest compression codecs.
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Afsctool – apply transparent LZ compression to files/folders on OS X(github.com)
2 points by dschoon 5y ago|1 comments
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NASA's Photojournal from Juno(photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov)
1 points by dschoon 7y ago|0 comments
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by dschoon 13y ago
I adored Eliss when it released. I still use it at one of the single best examples of how a touch UX radically changes the computing experience by aligning software behavior with physical intuitions. Consider multitouch. Conventional mouse-
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Bret Victor: Drawing Dynamic Visualizations(vimeo.com)
5 points by dschoon 13y ago|0 comments
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by dschoon 14y ago
For unknown reasons, ARC has truncated my code-comment. It read: // => `45`, because `this.a` is resolved to `window.a`, as `window` is the global variable used as the method context when we call an unbound function (which is stupid (`n
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by dschoon 14y ago
Yeah, I agree with the other comments -- the greatest JS scoping gotcha involves unbound methods. var o = { a:13, add:function(b){ return this.a + b; } }; o.add(42); // => `55` var add = o.add; add(42); // => `NaN`
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by dschoon 15y ago
I've always heard them referred to as "Generic Functions", though the Wikipedia article is annoying opaque. The important quality (in my practical understanding) is that a generic function's specialization is decoupled from the object syste
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by dschoon 15y ago
This critique reminds me very strongly of Evan Miller's "How Not To Sort By Average Rating": http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... In both cases, the key observation is to realize that the meaning of the number
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by dschoon 15y ago
Huh. http://to.jpg.jpg.to/
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E-PARASITE+SOPA: Hollywood's latest effort to turn back time(news.cnet.com)
3 points by dschoon 15y ago|0 comments
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by dschoon 15y ago
Here's that search-interest graph he inexplicably screencaps in the article, rather than also linking to it: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-5&q=cassand... I added Cassandra, as it's substantially more popular than Riak (
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Web Freedom Advocates Approve of Clinton's Response to UK Social Media Furor(nationaljournal.com)
1 points by dschoon 15y ago|0 comments
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BATS: startup the stock exchange(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by dschoon 15y ago|1 comments
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by dschoon 15y ago
Some of the most frustrating problems I've seen are due to misunderstanding or rare semantics rather than mistakes. Examples might include the specifics of floating-point math, or exactly how numeric coercion works. This is especially bad w
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by dschoon 15y ago
You know, I still have a 50-odd Erlang article queue. So I'm not saying I want every day to be Haskell Day, but I'm also not saying I'd be terribly upset if I had a few hundred articles on Haskell to keep me warm at night...
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by dschoon 15y ago
You might also look into Berkeley JE. It's an in-process KV store, which might be a minor crimp for you, but it's more mature than god and transparently handles paging to disk and shadowing. We used it as durable working memory for a high v
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by dschoon 15y ago
The original post has disappeared. Here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zlciYW0...
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Bayes: Radical, Liberal, or Conservative?(stat.columbia.edu)
5 points by dschoon 16y ago|0 comments
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by dschoon 16y ago
I don't think trivializing the combinations with Python's builtins, looking up the fib primes with OEIS, or computing factors with Alpha is cheating. I hope, in fact, it's the whole point of the exercise: choose the right tools for the job.
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by dschoon 16y ago
David Gelernter is a CS professor at Yale, an author, and as far as I can tell, not really a scumbag. But who knows, he did name his coordination language Linda, because "'Ada' is to 'Ada Lovelace' as 'Linda' is to 'Linda Lovelace'". http:
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Court Documents for Mirror Worlds v Apple(dockets.justia.com)
1 points by dschoon 16y ago|0 comments
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"Event Streams are the Future of the Internet" (2000)(edge.org)
2 points by dschoon 16y ago|0 comments
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Visualization of Racial/Ethnic Divides by City(flickr.com)
2 points by dschoon 16y ago|0 comments
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by dschoon 16y ago
I built and tried this out. I'm rather shocked to see speed and compression ratio better than gzip -9. The results of my unscientific test (compression only): Compressor Size Ratio Time gzip -1 23MB 88% 1.18s gzip -2
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by dschoon 16y ago
Looking at the code, the hooks are DOM listeners that intercept the click to do the redirect. They don't modify the anchor tag, so there's no reason anyone should see them on mouseover or right-click-copy.
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by dschoon 16y ago
Fish shell ( http://fishshell.org ) performs essentially the same sort of completion for many classes of files based on context. I've found the complete subsystem to be quite pleasant compared to bash, and I recommend it to anyone intereste
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by dschoon 16y ago
Related: I've often wondered why no one has found a successful way to brand opt-in ad targeting. You'd have to be big enough for it to matter (Google?), but it would have a tremendously positive effect on both the end-user experience, and o
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Smart People Can Rationalize Anything(habitatchronicles.com)
30 points by dschoon 17y ago|16 comments

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