happyslobro

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by happyslobro 9y ago
It probably could be fast, if you have all your ducks lined up. UAE immigration wanted me to go back to Canada to pick up a fresh notarized copy of my educational and criminal records. I really don't understand why this kind of thing c
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by happyslobro 9y ago
I bet that a game AI model of a human mind's executive function would actually be embarrassingly simple. Something like a 7 element ring buffer of tasks and their parameters, with interrupts. When the bot tries to remember or do more t
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by happyslobro 9y ago
Ditto, relocated there from Doha. It is conveniently close to a large cluster of AirBnBs, which helps out big time while waiting for a resident's permit.
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by happyslobro 9y ago
I guess if that became a bottleneck, they could set up a queue for write requests. Maybe even something more sophisticated that automatically batches similar writes that pile up in the queue. They could use something like Kafka for this...
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by happyslobro 9y ago
I just came across Vue.js the other day, while exploring options for quickly banging out small tools. Getting tired of the clutter in a full-featured React project. It offers more than one strategy for managing state; there is simple two wa
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by happyslobro 9y ago
What? Youtube requires you to add captions manually, or the video is taken down? That's brutal! I thought YT had automatic captioning. Wow, lame.
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by happyslobro 9y ago
Thank you for confirming the accuracy of the AWS Lambda test model.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
If the majority decide that you should pay a tax, and you then become obligated to to pay that tax, that's democracy, not dictatorship. That doesn't mean it's good, it's just democratic.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
This is what I never got about the Java and C++ type systems. If you claim to value static typing, why are you not typedefing your generic floats / doubles to meters and seconds and stuff? It looks like there is a thorough implementati
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Does node-canvas allow you to select high fidelity algorithms over fast algorithms? A while ago, I wrote a crop tool using browser canvas, and found that the results of a scaling operation were unacceptable, due to its fast downsampling alg
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by happyslobro 10y ago
I think that this real value will ensure that it never really dies. If anything happened to twitter.com, then dozens of little MVP short message boards would spring up. In fact, that might actually be an ideal outcome in the long run, espec
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Where did you get this financial data for your first project? Is it a public feed / API? This sounds like exactly the sort of thing that I would like to start playing and eventually working with. I had been assuming that this type of d
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by happyslobro 10y ago
(15 minutes later) Just started playing with this, it is much fun. I'll definitely be golfing more on the weekends now :) For anyone else just starting out, I suggest using readline with the REPL: `rlwrap q`. It gives you history, sear
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by happyslobro 10y ago
K lang was featured here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561573
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Having browsers intelligently render `text/markdown` sounds like a great idea. And while we're waiting on the browser implementation, maybe we can find some sort of temporary workaround to send a markdown parser to the client?
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Welcome to the world of "$lang-lang" queries. Go, Rust, please make room.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Or Canadian Pension Plan
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by happyslobro 10y ago
LOLolol I just got off a Qatar Airways flight, where they made an announcement asking any passengers with a Note 7 to hand it over. But then when disembarking in DXB (Dubai), I noticed a floor to ceiling ad for the Note 7. Epic fail.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
I think I see a way to save print news, but it won't be pretty...
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Local news isn't going to be pushed at you front and center, at least not until Google knows most people's home town (or most relevant town). However, when I google $hometown+news, I get a pretty decent listing. Not sure if this w
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by happyslobro 10y ago
That's a pretty bold statement. A billion years should be enough time to convert the entire galaxy into computronium and deploy all over it. Mind you, the author probably won't be around by then. Probably.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Do you mean that the detective player's analysis would be, say, an input to the fitness functions of a genetic algorithm? That sounds super interesting. Would you care to elaborate on what form the analysis would take, in order to be b
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by happyslobro 10y ago
I used to see ads on TV for pardoning services, that implied that they could restore your ability to travel. Does anyone know if those actually work? If they do, then you might really be clear and free with a bit less than $100MM after, say
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by happyslobro 10y ago
We have similar stories. We even brought in a devops consulting firm, who insisted on a pure AWS / Docker (ECS & co) stack. After a couple months of shocks, crises and occasional all-nighters, I just started deploying backup instan
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by happyslobro 10y ago
The only reason not to downvote, is to ensure that the rebuttal to this common attitude remains highly visible.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Haha, I never even considered that angle. Sorry for jumping to conclusions. Paris was amazing, and the people were merveilleux :)
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by happyslobro 10y ago
As a guy who grew up in French immersion schools in Canada, I consider myself to be fluent in French, although my grammar isn't quite perfect. I don't mentally translate it to English in order to understand it, at any rate. Recent
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Whatever, man. When all that falls on its face, CTOs will be googling for peeps with low level brainfuck debugging skills. But they can't hack BF themselves, so I'll ace the interview with no prep, and scoop a six fig salary. Remo
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by happyslobro 10y ago
It's worse than that, more like blocking the fire lane before the ladder truck can begin evacuating people.
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by happyslobro 10y ago
Open source, hosted as a service. The world needs more of this. Major props for having the courage and wisdom to open source your product. My weekend is packed already, but I'll be back to check this out. I'm just starting to take

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