egl2019

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by egl2019 7y ago
MLPR and TESL, as much as I like them, won't help you much when you have massive amounts of data, i.e. too much to fit into memory.
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by egl2019 7y ago
If you mean "gaps in my education" or "basic things that I don't quite understand", you could try studying some high-quality texts. Look for books written by extremely smart people who are trying to explain the ide
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by egl2019 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/297/
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by egl2019 7y ago
"How is it possible to operate profitably at that price?" It isn't: Air Berlin, Monarch, Primera, Small Planet, Azur, Cobalt, VLM, PrivatAir, Icelandic carrier WOW.
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by egl2019 7y ago
Better give up eating vegetables, too: people die working on farms.
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by egl2019 7y ago
It's called "Death by GPS".
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by egl2019 7y ago
Bring Martin Beck out of retirement.
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by egl2019 7y ago
Not just nylon ropes, but multi-fall ropes: in the early 70's, we didn't trust a rope after it had taken a hard fall. You can't learn a big-wall route if you have to retire your rope after every long fall.
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by egl2019 7y ago
From personal experience, I can tell you that $6K/month is not exclusively a Silicon-Valley phenomenon. Basically you cover it with whatever SS, pension, savings, and other assets they have. When those don't cover it, you make co
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by egl2019 8y ago
Excellent except that it is dated. GHC, libraries, and tooling have moved on in ten+ years. I would buy a new edition instantly.
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by egl2019 8y ago
Go read Ronald Coase's "The nature of the firm". And if your work _can_ be structured to minimize the transaction costs, you might as well go to a low-wage country rather than mess with a remote, medium-wage team. I worked w
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by egl2019 8y ago
With some exceptions such as siblings of current students, the schools are not strategic actors in the Amsterdam problem. If you meet the entrance requirements, you're eligible, and that's all the schools are allowed to say. In
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by egl2019 8y ago
Back when DCVS was just becoming a thing, I started with darcs and rather liked its model. I soon discovered that darcs had a nasty problem of quietly accepting large binary files that it could not manage -- you only discovered that the fil
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by egl2019 8y ago
The U.S. was the dominant whaling country at the time of Moby Dick, but there is little in the book that assumes a knowledge of American history, culture, or literature. It's a candidate for "the great American novel" only b
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by egl2019 9y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/crispr/
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by egl2019 9y ago
Because we're Abel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_group
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by egl2019 9y ago
Be careful about performance comparisons: If you are using the GNU compilers (and the appropriate compiler flags with gcc), there isn't much difference in performance --- and there shouldn't be. There are a few FORTRAN-only compil
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by egl2019 9y ago
"Yet another monoid tutorial." This time in Hacker News comments. And lots of them. :-)