owlish

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Bug Report Zine: Issue 1(archive.org)
3 points by owlish 7y ago|0 comments
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by owlish 10y ago
I've found it helpful to use relative numbering in normal mode and switch to absolute numbering in insert mode: set relativenumber nonumber autocmd InsertEnter * :set norelativenumber number autocmd InsertLeave * :set relativen
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by owlish 10y ago
If you're getting more traffic than 1 request/s, it's less work to generate a static cached version on the cadence of ~1 second than to dynamically generate the content for each request.
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Baidu uses millions of users’ location data to make predictions(newscientist.com)
2 points by owlish 10y ago|0 comments
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by owlish 11y ago
As developers, many of us work everyday on increasing page hits, creating more engaging user experiences. What are the ethical implications of this? At what point do we become responsible for users' addictive behavior?
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by owlish 11y ago
There was an interesting overview talk on predictive policing at 32c3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIQ2Xhov7D4
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by owlish 11y ago
Could this not also be used in the near future by, say, the LinkedIn app to identify "People You May Know"?
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Microsoft Runs the Largest Botnets to Protect Azure Customers(datacenterknowledge.com)
2 points by owlish 11y ago|0 comments
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by owlish 11y ago
This doesn't solve the problem where the parameters aren't checked at compile-time. Now, hopefully all your codepaths are tested so your builder doesn't throw exceptions in production.
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by owlish 11y ago
This is contrary to the OP's example, where he passes data and num to the constructor, which is how I've seen it used frequently. The Builder pattern is often recommended to "make code easier to read" and wouldn't b
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by owlish 11y ago
I used to be a fan of the Builder pattern (or Fluent Interface), but the ease of use for developers comes at the cost of no compile-time checking. Before, you just had to look up the constructor to see which parameters go where, with the be
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by owlish 11y ago
How do databases like MySQL store data efficiently for querying? It seems like something like protobuf would do well here, though you'd need to generate code for each dataset.
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Study: Algorithmic word analysis can predict schizophrenia(theatlantic.com)
16 points by owlish 11y ago|3 comments
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by owlish 11y ago
I'm curious, what security measures are in place for human vote counters?
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by owlish 12y ago
Posting this from #! right now. > Philip has mentioned that, since CrunchBang has been his project from the beginning, he would like to see the name separated from any derivative that succeeds it. Not sure if the people responsible for t
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Logs, logs, logs(abstractowl.github.io)
5 points by owlish 12y ago|0 comments
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by owlish 12y ago
As others have said, the classics awk, grep, cut, sort, uniq, and scripting languages (perl/ruby for on the fly one-liners) are great for log analysis. One additional tool I've found particularly useful (three actually) is zgrep&
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by owlish 12y ago
A lot of the discussion in here revolves around "not being able to get an interactive GUI up and running quickly". If this is indeed the main problem with teaching programming with Python, there are many ways of tackling this prob
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Detecting gases wirelessly and cheaply(newsoffice.mit.edu)
9 points by owlish 12y ago|0 comments
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by owlish 12y ago
What is the accepted identifier for nodes? I did a rough implementation of Chord once using IP address as the identifier and ran into the issue where the node would see itself at a different IP than others. The obvious solution is just &quo
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Concrete Could Make Wind Towers Taller(asce.org)
5 points by owlish 12y ago|1 comments
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by owlish 12y ago
Peter Norvig's lis.py[1] is an oldie but a goodie. It really shows you the beauty and simplicity of Scheme/Lisp interpreters. [1]: http://norvig.com/lispy.html
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Bestiary of Intelligence Writing (1982) [pdf](foia.cia.gov)
4 points by owlish 12y ago|0 comments
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by owlish 12y ago
According to the article, the receipt just says "Store Number 1", nothing about Starbucks.
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by owlish 12y ago
I think you're looking for something more like :|
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by owlish 12y ago
The issue is more significant than just changing a simple browser user-agent string. To completely prevent fingerprinting, you must also eliminate all browser differences (e.g. vender prefixes). Additionally, remember that the lack of infor
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by owlish 12y ago
Guessing they intend to submit a pull request in the near future. You can see examples on their GitHub[1], but I agree, it's rather odd to post the blog post before submitting the PR to TodoMVC. [1] http://hackers.lookout.co
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by owlish 12y ago
Most of the time, you can just Google "golang" instead.
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by owlish 12y ago
I've been looking at MIT's Distributed Systems class which uses Go (posted here about a year ago). Original Link: http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/labs/lab-1.html HN comments: https://
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by owlish 12y ago
Disappointed that there isn't any innovation wrt tabs; they aren't mentioned at all. I understand Lightspeed aims to be minimalistic, but many of these defaults are just illogical. Default click-to-play at the moment already ruins

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