freethejazz

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Meta lays off 1k+ employees, shutting down game studios(bloomberg.com)
30 points by freethejazz 8mo ago|7 comments
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by freethejazz 11mo ago
Came here to say the same. I remember playing around with this back in the day, but using two candles instead of the sensor bar. Yes, it works. No, it’s not a good idea to hold candles that close to your hair.
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Thanks for your work and dedication on this problem domain, Geoffrey! I’ve used optaplanner in the past on several projects and will certainly use Timefold for future projects. This sort of constrain solver is an invaluable tool when you f
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by freethejazz 2y ago
I haven’t seen it in the comments yet, but you can watch Abelson and Sussman teaching the material from this book from recorded lectures in 1986. I still find their description of how to create and group abstractions in various layers to be
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Nifty! I worked very briefly about 12 years ago on a similar concept that was live at chicago.com. Things didn’t work out with it for various reasons but while it was up I found it quite useful. Some of the original team is still in Chigaco
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Depending on how much structure you want to extract before passing the pdf contents to the next step in your pipeline, this paper[1] might be helpful in surfacing more options. It's a review/benchmark of numerous tools applied to
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Only get content if you self-report as a bot? e.g., Googlebot as your user agent? Reading the other comment about it being a game makes me wonder if “finding” the game is the first challenge…
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by freethejazz 2y ago
:facepalm: no wonder it rang a bell… I thought, “I wonder if these are the same folks” and even looked at their route map but somehow missed that key detail. Appreciate the graceful response :)
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Similar cross of art, low power/resilient tech, and sailing I saw at strange loop last year. Non-standard tech talk for sure, but fit right in at that conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Another take on non-linear explorational programming is Black, which is an extension of scheme. Different motivations, but you might find something interesting there. How I was exposed to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr
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by freethejazz 2y ago
Code: https://github.com/amazon-science/chronos-forecasting
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by freethejazz 3y ago
Step aside, Dvorak
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by freethejazz 5y ago
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad... and look for “replaces” or “defaulted to”. CentOS even just installs MariaDB when you `yum install MySQL`
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Scaling Django (at Eventbrite and Lanyrd)(infoworld.com)
3 points by freethejazz 12y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript getters and setters(jtfreeman.blogspot.com)
1 points by freethejazz 13y ago|0 comments
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UI/UX: Microsoft FTW?(jtfreeman.blogspot.com)
1 points by freethejazz 13y ago|0 comments
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What to expect from MongoDB 2.4(jtfreeman.blogspot.com)
3 points by freethejazz 14y ago|0 comments
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by freethejazz 14y ago
I remember seeing this last July or August, but I lost it. So glad it resurfaced!
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by freethejazz 14y ago
well, that's the longest amount of time I've spent on a 404 page...