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by mwhooker 13y ago
could not have said it better
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by mwhooker 13y ago
this is not funny. this is less funny then when engineers sit around and make puns about ruby idioms
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by mwhooker 13y ago
this is useless. In the python interface they are obviously lists. Is the author arguing that cpython implements them as C arrays? I don't know because the terms weren't defined. If the author believes clarity will arise from peda
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by mwhooker 13y ago
"10000 year old lamp shows mesolithic man used quantum mechanics"
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by mwhooker 13y ago
If learning anything makes us worse at something we should just stop learning
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by mwhooker 14y ago
compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
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by mwhooker 14y ago
Looks like 10 text books (read: ~$100 each) with no descriptions and referral links to Amazon. edit for clarity.
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by mwhooker 14y ago
let me save everyone some time: > Jim Keller, the chief designer behind the A4 and A5 chips used in Apple's iPhone and iPad products has joined AMD as chief architect and VP
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by mwhooker 14y ago
I found this paper on the "semi-living artist" mentioned in the article fascinating. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533587/ Answered a lot of my questions about how the brain was cultured and stimulated.
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Pen Type-A: a cautionary tale of manufacturing in China(gist.github.com)
57 points by mwhooker 14y ago|56 comments
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by mwhooker 14y ago
Not sure if the two are related, but http://youarelistening.to/ has this for a couple other cities.
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by mwhooker 14y ago
ahh, cool. suppose I should have read past the rules
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by mwhooker 14y ago
seems like per #1 & 2 you could either write a dsl or line-processing library and get it done in 1 line
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by mwhooker 14y ago
it's not as if we were purchasing one language. It's a stretch goal, with python as the reward. The goal and the difficulty of implementation are not related.
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by mwhooker 14y ago
I seem to be getting a lot of gists that are distinctly not application code (ie diffs, make files, random text). I think you could really improve the signal:noise if you let people vote gists as "not applicable" or such.
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by mwhooker 14y ago
just started playing around with it. We've been using hive on EMR with tables stored in S3 (json formatted). using a single m1.large to run run queries over an hour of data was taking 10-15 minutes. Bigquery returns the same query in second
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by mwhooker 14y ago
FTFY "TSA _agent_ admits..."
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by mwhooker 15y ago
hmm, z is indistinguishable from py. (at least on my screen).
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by mwhooker 15y ago
whoops. sorry about that. back up now.
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by mwhooker 15y ago
Here's a lower-fi version http://107.20.224.248:8000/#pics;funny;humor;comics;reddit.c... hack the URL to control subreddits source here https://github.com/mwhooker/procrastinatr
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by mwhooker 15y ago
Doing it client side has a couple issues. 1. you need to block the click event until you get a response from your analytics endpoint. Google suggests doing this by adding a 100ms delay: http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.
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by mwhooker 15y ago
s/Reward them with fun/Reward them with money/ It's ridiculous to expect more than 40hrs/wk from someone without fair compensation. Need more hours out of someone but can't afford to give them more money? Maybe they should be cofounders. Th
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by mwhooker 15y ago
Surely China is more culpable than Amercan consumers and corporations?
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by mwhooker 15y ago
I started reading this a few weeks ago, and was struck by how much casual magic there seemed to be in India at that time. In the parts describing his childhood, every other page described a mystical experience. It made it a little hard to c
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by mwhooker 15y ago
Did I really just read this? No discussion of what possible regulations might be required, just "sysadmins are untrained. We may need rules". HN bait at its worst.
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by mwhooker 15y ago
I'm in. Though I don't think HN is the place to run the study group.
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by mwhooker 15y ago
very nice. This is something I'm very interested in. I even wrote something like it which uses a bookmarklet, though I believe browser extensions are the way to go. http://omnigeist.com/ https://github.com/mwhooker/omnigeist.js It was m
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by mwhooker 16y ago
with twitter I feel like I'm confined to my "online social circle". Convore seems to get a better mix of people together, oriented around a topic.
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by mwhooker 16y ago
She can also swing a string of solid double entendres, "The difficulty of acquiring this material may have hinted at a great, and therefore pent-up, demand. Then, technology produced the Second Coming: the Internet. And then the Rapture it
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by mwhooker 16y ago
don't forget writing a book on python

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