room606

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by room606 3y ago
There are probably 50+ manufacturers that use Bosch motors/batteries, however e-bikes that use these components tend to be higher quality and considerably more expensive than VanMoof i.e. Riese & Muller, Canyon, Cannondale, Orbea
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by room606 4y ago
It's called burning bridges. Both domestically and internationally. It signals that Russia is committed to seeing the war through regardless of what the West does and it consolidates power domestically by discouraging any potential con
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by room606 4y ago
AFAIK, only one of the NS2 pipelines has been damaged. Both branches of NS1 are leaking but there has only been one reported leak on NS2
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by room606 5y ago
https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616
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A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance (web.mit.edu)
8 points by room606 14y ago|0 comments
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Mypy - An experimental Python variant with dynamic and static typing(mypy-lang.org)
108 points by room606 14y ago|39 comments
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by room606 14y ago
Can anyone confirm this update does not break VirtualBox on the mid 2011 Macbook Air i7? I rely on Vagrant and am not feeling confident enough to update since the issue appears to be related to VT-x on the CPU
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Can a Kids' Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by room606 14y ago|0 comments
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by room606 15y ago
There's a demo of Siri in the linked Vimeo presentation that starts around 8:00. It's pretty impressive http://vimeo.com/5424527
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by room606 15y ago
If you're lucky enough to be using PostgreSQL with pl/python, you can write your stored procs in Python https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/speeding-django...
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by room606 15y ago
WSGI is fine if you're building short-lived, simple request/response style web apps but if you want to do any sort of async messaging, long-polling, or use websockets i.e. a modern web app - then it leaves a lot to be desired. Mongrel2/Brub
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by room606 15y ago
I'm not certain but I think it was one of these http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/speakers/raymond-hett...
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by room606 15y ago
Misko's blog is brilliant and it is truly a shame he isn't posting as much as he used to Some posts relevant to this discussion http://misko.hevery.com/2008/08/17/singletons-are-pathologic... http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/
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Why personal genomics matter but not enough that you should really care(nytimes.com)
2 points by room606 16y ago|0 comments
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by room606 16y ago
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Breaking Away http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/ http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19...
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by room606 16y ago
Or Pentadactyl - an improved fork of vimperator by it's most active developers. Probably the only thing keeping me from using Chrome as my main browser http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
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by room606 16y ago
I was in the same boat a few months ago and found this PyCon workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss extremely helpful http://blip.tv/file/3632436 http://github.com/jacobian/django-deployment-workshop
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by room606 16y ago
I've not used this app but this is definitely possible and has been covered in the literature. The final link is to a paper presented recently which actually proposes using a mobile phone for this. Would be interesting to see what other inf
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by room606 16y ago
If I were to recommend only one Java book, it would be this one. Definitely deserves to be on the list.
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by room606 16y ago
I have no idea who Dave Paola is. I saw it posted over on coder.io and I thought it might be of interest
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Heroku clone for Django?(djangy.com)
88 points by room606 16y ago|61 comments
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Front End Tech Talk by Facebook Engineering(facebook.com)
2 points by room606 16y ago|1 comments
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by room606 16y ago
Sybase is still quite popular in the investment banking world. GS is a big enough client that their ASE 12.5 installations are still being supported despite it officially being EOL for everyone else...
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by room606 17y ago
Yes, carbocation is correct, we are in agreement. The mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge their complicity in all of this. When all of this was going on in the UK, MMR scare stories were front page news but not once did I see a he
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by room606 17y ago
I was just about to post that link but you beat me to it. It's more than a little unfair that Wakefield is being blamed for the MMR scare when the mainstream media in the UK did everything they could to fan the flames yet remain for the mos