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by mvzink 12y ago
This is exactly why I think Talko is so cool. Not quite a replacement for email, but has some good ideas.
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by mvzink 12y ago
Epsilon-delta proofs are beyond me, but we still teach calculus in high school. Just because some parts of a field are esoteric without study doesn't mean the field is doomed to obscurity.
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by mvzink 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Seattle or remote A friend and I recently upped sticks and moved from Chicago to Seattle to put our tech chops to use. We've been consulting together for a little over a year, and I personally have been doing it for one
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by mvzink 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Seattle or remote A friend and I just graduated from the University of Chicago, and decided to put our technical chops to use in Seattle. Between us, we have experience with a lot of different areas from database implementati
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by mvzink 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Seattle area For hire: a pair of... - Distributed systems theorists - Database implementors - Web designers - JS coders (Angular anyone?) - Clojurians - Assembl... on second thought, we'd rather n
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by mvzink 12y ago
They seem to approximate with recurrence relations; they cite a bunch of literature about the technique, referring to "cost relations".
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by mvzink 12y ago
The two main inputs to their model are the IR and the ISA.
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by mvzink 12y ago
True. However, as a graduating CS major, almost every non-CS major I know here and at other schools has taken some programming-focused class or done Codecademy or something. Few if any are looking for what we might think of as "tech&qu
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by mvzink 12y ago
Exciting prospect. How about DataScript for your app state + tx-listen/om-sync mirroring transactions? Might require wrapping the datascript/transact! call, and I haven't thought about reading from the cliente. Maybe as simpl
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by mvzink 13y ago
Funny; the article has me thinking about being more open with our humanity on the web, then you reference an apparent brush with death as a sort of backstory—something many, myself included, would be uncomfortable sharing. Thanks for being
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by mvzink 13y ago
Ideally, in the future, yeah. But for now, two reasons I can think of: first, Multipath TCP doesn't cover the same use cases as dispatch. For example, having one proxy only route to low-latency connections (e.g. for gaming) and another
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by mvzink 13y ago
It's not designed around global state. It's true that just about every HTTP router has this "feature", but all it's doing is allocating a "global" server object by default and adding the module-level hel
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by mvzink 13y ago
Great article. One thing I wish got more coverage is testing directives: it's already much easier than most DOM-testing methods (though it can't replace selenium etc.), but doing it well and consistently has proven difficult and I
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by mvzink 13y ago
This is great news. However, all this discussion of "semantic this-or-that makes my site look like shit" or "semantic tags are just for template clarity" and "well at least web crawlers and Readability can make use
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by mvzink 13y ago
I know this is asking a lot, but would anybody like to weigh in with some explanation/evidence for the descriptions of those four parts of the brain?
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by mvzink 13y ago
I actually was going to point out that less saturated colors get... well, maybe not more dramatic, but in-my-opinion-"better" themes. For example, with this one, any but 'complementary' are almost usable http:/&#
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by mvzink 13y ago
If the explosives machinery did indeed detect permethrin, then they still have a lot to account for. Excuse me if I doubt that a white Christian would have faced the same ordeal and found their home burglarized over insect repellant.
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by mvzink 13y ago
No computer science education or IT experience can save you from the hours of unnecessary struggle that are the real price of a Google Apps account.
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by mvzink 13y ago
Re: siblings and increasing writing skill: there are too many blogs. Try writing in private and for literary (i.e. non-tech) audiences. You'll have better chances of focusing on the actual writing, you'll be able to branch out, you might ge
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by mvzink 13y ago
I'm really excited to see people working on security in Go. Security by default is supposed to be one of Go's "features" at some level. (The typical example: your first several C programs probably had many buffer overflow vulnerabilities, b
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by mvzink 13y ago
(Since HN has been in golang hype-mode recently:) a 20-line Go web server that I probably wrote in about 5 minutes but I don't remember because it's still chugging away.
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by mvzink 13y ago
Having written a few web servers (and other servers) in Go, I assure you that you will be surprised how little work it is. However, I think where Go will shine is in highly customizable "frameworks"—not in the vein of Rails etc. at all bu
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by mvzink 13y ago
$ go get github.com/person/project It will even figure out dependencies by checking every import (and you can do 'import "github.com/person/project"' too), and builds the source by default. And yes, "go get" comes with the standar
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by mvzink 13y ago
The thing is, you can do that with interface{} and you don't even need type switching. It's awkward, but considering that the rarity with which interface{} is necessary (at least in my experience), much less interface{} with type switching,
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by mvzink 13y ago
It may be possible to work around that: the trick they use to get full color is that each animation frame is allowed to have its own 256 color palette. So for each block of 256 colors, you have a single animation frame "played" which colors
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by mvzink 13y ago
How could it even go to air? It would be such an incredibly deep and likely harrowing experience that it couldn't possibly be entertaining except perhaps to psychotics—and even if it was funny or something, that in itself would be absolut
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by mvzink 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Chicago - Remote OK Two friends and I have started a software development consultancy. I still don't know if the freelancer thread is an acceptable place to advertise, but our clients have all been non-tech organizations and
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by mvzink 13y ago
I would rather see number of processes varied.
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by mvzink 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Chicago, remote I've been freelancing/consulting for a while, and this summer I'm joining up with two friends (a designer and programmer) who haven't done any contract work before. We intend to focus on web development due to
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by mvzink 14y ago
I'm actually always afraid of this. Since I use Dvorak, should I ever need to log onto a computer with Qwerty, I had better know my actual password—but I'm not sure I do!

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