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by piccolbo 4y ago
Hey author here. AMA (about the book). I know there are many books to read out there so let me add the book has at least one positive review by Poul-Henning Kamp of Varnish-Cache and FreeBSD fame: > You don't need to be stuck on a b
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by piccolbo 4y ago
But that's enabled by the DNS MX record. There isn't anything like that for social AFAIK, so if you wanted to do the same with your mastodon account you are hosed. Some people are saying once you have million followers on mastdon.
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by piccolbo 4y ago
How about the web-of-trust a la freenet https://github.com/freenet/plugin-WebOfTrust ?
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by piccolbo 4y ago
You lose all your followers. It's like going from blacklight@aol.com to blacklight@gmail.com. It's on you to go to you 1M followers and beg them to refollow you. The goal is to go from tmobile to verizon and your grandma can just
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by piccolbo 6y ago
Can anyone name a well-known important software project (say linux, python, tensorflow, angular) that was delivered via Agile/Scum? And some of you may enjoy this linkblog https://againstscrum.tumblr.com/
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by piccolbo 6y ago
What are the shortcomings of Wordpress, Tumblr etc and how did you address them? Thanks
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by piccolbo 6y ago
And when a post starts by lying by a factor close to 2 about the rate of obesity (42% 2018-2019 per CDC as opposed to 71%) what else in this post is trustworthy?
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by piccolbo 6y ago
FYI, Ozonetel bid successfully for the top line ad in my google search [ozonetel], dialpad taking second. You don't get there if you don't bid.
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by piccolbo 6y ago
I am not sure that's what he or she was trying to say. Agree with everything you said about native apps. The question for me is if it's necessary for every page to run javascript, even if it doesn't have any app-like features
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by piccolbo 7y ago
It seems to me the authors make three main points 1) Pay-per-action confuses correlation (action when seeing ad) with causation (action because of seeing ad). Hence click-through-rate maximizes correlation instead of causation. Google knows
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The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising(thecorrespondent.com)
2 points by piccolbo 7y ago|2 comments
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Add lack of support of polar coordinates. But every lib started immature, and altair is quite new. I think they could use a few good PRs though.
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Second that but there is no matplotlib underneath AFAIK. It does html based interactive graphs using a variant of the grammar of graphics, with extensions for interactions. Grammar of graphics means a great, proven (see ggplot) compromise o
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by piccolbo 7y ago
sqrt(N) can be described as "fast" only with significant amounts of spin added. Use ropes instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Should've said a generalized rope, as ropes are generally described as a replacement for strings, but if you replace characters with other fixed size data types everything still works.
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by piccolbo 7y ago
How is that different from a rope data structure?
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by piccolbo 7y ago
That's not the main difference. The main difference is that the profits can not be paid out investors. They have to be re-invested in the company.
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by piccolbo 7y ago
How much does he pay for Electron and React? Imagine the sw world with no OSS, not just your app but no OSS at all. Then you can compare the for pay and OSS models. Not everything you need is OSS and the one thing you sell is proprietary. T
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Try this experiment. When you get to ask questions in the interview, instead of being nice and asking tings like "what's your data science stack" or "how important is testing here" give them a whiteboard. Give your
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by piccolbo 7y ago
I am dumb -- I test at the function level. I have a theory that the likelihood of catching a bug depends on the number of lines being tested, if each can be assumed to do its job. This implies that if a line calls a function that I wrote, I
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Sorry, I am not opening a trello account to report bugs. I am debugging your app for free, just asking not to have so sign yet another one-sided term of service doc. I also have problems with content security policy, see below: Content Secu
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Musk long ago was talking about his calculations about the physical limits to assembly speed. “the output is going to be volume times density times velocity.” https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/elon-musk-confident
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by piccolbo 7y ago
I've used both and have two additional comments. Some of the dplyr elegance comes from the flexible evaluation mechanism in R, whereby mutate(data, col1+col2) works because the second arg is evaluated in an enriched environment. Python
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Check survivorship bias. The name refers to deadly scenarios, but what is fundamental to it is a bias in reporting that depends on the outcome of interest. The concept was first hammered out observing that warplanes never got hit in the eng
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by piccolbo 7y ago
The central limit theorem is in the limit for the number of variables in the sum approaching infinity. In the finite world, the article explains how it's done. The article is saying, the sum of lognormals is not normal. You are saying
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Other decentralized techs had promise but were later re-centralized (FM radio is the first example that comes to mind). It seems to me techies think that the natural tendency to monopolies in the capitalistic economy can be countered by dis
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Can you explain why it doesn't make sense to invest in two email clients? Particularly if you make one of the two premium?
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Besides bundles, the duplication of categories and labels hurts. Labels are second class (can't have a tab for instance) and categories are not user-generated. Lack of abstraction and orthogonality, a.k.a. "tacked on"
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by piccolbo 7y ago
Bundles are like thematic inboxes. So I can go into work mode, family mode, news mode and stay there for a while but look only at things that have not been taken care of yet. If you try and replicate that with a filter, inbox actively preve
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by piccolbo 8y ago
About thinking Fast and Slow, people might want to know that the author has pretty much admitted to major flaws in his research. https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und... While his admis

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