pangram

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by pangram 8y ago
May I ask why Go was picked as the implementation language?
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by pangram 11y ago
I'm not sure that whether the individual believes there is a reward is relevant. Example: atheist terrorists -- atheistic suicide bomber, say -- would be heroic because they don't believe there is a reward?
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by pangram 11y ago
Why do you find the Aeropress inconvenient to clean? I just dump the "hockey puck" of grounds into the trash. IMHO it's easier than a french press by a long shot.
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by pangram 11y ago
You're aware of core.typed? If not, take a look -- it provides type checking / induction on Clojure code.
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by pangram 12y ago
We switched from DO to Linode a few months ago. I think DO is great, but three things convinced us to move over to Linode. 1) lack of robust logging, 2) we'd get intermittent connectivity problems about once a month (this was in the
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by pangram 12y ago
Yeah, I was surprised by the fact that such a short duration of exercise (11 minutes of exercise twice / week) could have such a large impact on health. I wish there were more details on how much exercise each group had before the stu
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by pangram 12y ago
My cofounder and I were rejected by YC last year. YC provided great feedback, and we took it into consideration, but decided we still thought the idea was solid. We kept looking for funding and eventually found an accelerator that speciali
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by pangram 12y ago
Ideally you'd want to make it adaptive based on a variety of economic metrics -- set it to a particular level, watch the effects on the economy, and then adjust for the next year.
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by pangram 12y ago
That could be caused by the routing, as well, though -- are the servers in the same approximate geographical location?
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by pangram 13y ago
Not free, but I would suspect that paying electronically is at least a magnitude less impactful on the environment. That checkbook had to be produced, shipped to the bank, mailed to you, and then the individual check has to get moved aroun
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by pangram 13y ago
Convenience, mostly -- with an electric kettle you can just hit a button and when it pops back it's ready. Also, if you happen to get involved with something and forget about the kettle, it's not a big deal; not so with the stov
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by pangram 14y ago
Of course, the other possible conclusion from positing that drugs == fast food is that drugs should be legal.
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by pangram 14y ago
I think Psyco was a separate code base, and not an actual progenitor of PyPy.
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by pangram 14y ago
Yeah, I keep my blog posts in text files via git, and just push up to my server using XMLRPC. https://github.com/brool/wordpress-shuffle
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by pangram 14y ago
It's manufactured (mostly) in the United States, which is probably pushing up the price some. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...
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by pangram 14y ago
They assume an upper limit with 100% efficient conversion of matter to energy, so changing the energy production method shouldn't make a material difference. EDIT/UPDATE: Realized you might be talking about the total energy budget (i.e.,
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by pangram 14y ago
There are a variety of techniques to reduce the dimensionality of data (i.e., Principal Component Analysis, among other ways), and you can get better results sometimes by running K-means (or whatever) on the dimensionally-reduced data.
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by pangram 14y ago
Presumably, if you exercise then you'll have more days total in which to be productive (that is, you'll live longer)!
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by pangram 14y ago
It definitely happens; here's a case from last year that the ACLU was looking at: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-pas... The insidious thing about this is not if it happens for people looking for tech jobs (they'
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by pangram 15y ago
Dating does suck, absolutely. But fundamentally it's a numbers game -- the more people you meet, the more likely that you'll find someone that you're compatible with on enough levels. To that end I think that online dating can be really he
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by pangram 15y ago
Fair enough. Might I suggest you put a comment to the effect of "indexes are a work in progress" in the README for now? Would help users that just run into it on Github randomly.
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by pangram 15y ago
A few more features would make it useful for prototyping. The README says that it uses indexes to speed up queries, but it doesn't, at least not in current HEAD (05786eada4); it always queries all the records. It would be nice if it allow
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by pangram 15y ago
Based on a paper in 2007: http://allegro.mit.edu/pubs/posted/journal/2007-erez-trott-w... Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8023570
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by pangram 15y ago
This is exactly my issue with stack-based languages as well; i.e., '(f g h)' vs. '(f (g h))' are pretty easy to distinguish, but both of those would be an identical 'h g f' in a stack-based language.
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by pangram 15y ago
If I recall correctly, APL executes right to left -- so it would return 8 for 2*2+2.
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by pangram 15y ago
I think you mean to say "your Router or Firewall" in the text. ismyportopen.com routes to another site; might want to make it go to the same place as www.ismyportopen.com. Also, it would be nice to have a visual indication when you click
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by pangram 15y ago
Reddit also found EBS to be unreliable; they've moved all their high traffic data to ephemeral storage. They have an interesting summary of their technology stack here: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers...
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by pangram 15y ago
I got a lot of interesting comments from that article. Someone pointed me to this brilliantly evil implementation which can be seen at https://gist.github.com/1679908 (originally from http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html , which se
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by pangram 15y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty dreadful article. This is a better one from our local paper: http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_19501921
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by pangram 15y ago
Out of interest, is there anything you can share about the particulars of your application? We did the same Flash vs. HTML5 analysis in the context of Facebook games, but in our experiments it looked like Flash still won handily in terms o

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