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by scottdw2 11y ago
This seems to be, quite obviously, an attempt at free marketing. They want to be able to point at the corpus of products influenced by SO, and say "see, we're pretty cool". Seems misguided to me.
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by scottdw2 11y ago
There are several connections between Lambda and functional programming. 1. The snippets of code you run in Lambda are called "cloud functions". 2. Lambda applications are generally event driven and stateless, which is a very func
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by scottdw2 11y ago
Your code looks correct. I would expect something closer to 50ms in the warm path (300ms in the cold path seems about right). I'll take a look tomorrow and see if I can reproduce what you are seeing. I'm not super familiar with AP
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by scottdw2 11y ago
Lambda has a fairly generous free tier. Here are the details on pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ You get up to 1M requests / month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month. A default la
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by scottdw2 11y ago
Are you using Node.js or Java for your Lambda function? If you are using "Node.js", you may be seeing slow times if you are not calling "context.done" in the correct place, or if you have code paths that don't call
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by scottdw2 11y ago
In a leader election, a node won't vote for a candidate that doesn't have a record it believes to be committed. Thus, writing to a majority ensures that when the leader dies, the new leader will have all the committed dats. Thus,
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by scottdw2 11y ago
A few things: 1. You don't have to round trip to every member before acking a write request, only to a majority of them. 2. If you use the right data structures for your state machine (like persistent data structures), you don't h
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by scottdw2 12y ago
This is a nitpick, but it is lazy. It's not represented in head normal form, but it's still lazy. The limitations you mentioned are not an artifact of the implementation being eager(because it's not eager), but instead are an
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by scottdw2 13y ago
Something like that may work for digital goods. You deliver some digital assets, the key to which can only be derived if a particular crypto currency transaction is performed. But if you are delivering physical goods, there's going to
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by scottdw2 13y ago
There's an interesting split here: between contract validation, contract enforcement. Both have typically been handled by courts. Contract validation is typically very "human centric". It centers on questions such as "wh
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by scottdw2 13y ago
There are already 1M apps in the App Store. There's already too many apps, so preventing "over choice" isn't their goal.
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by scottdw2 13y ago
A shelf space analogy doesn't make sense. With a real shelf, there is scarcity. Only so many shelves can fit in the store, and only so many products on a shelf. The marginal cost of a virtual good is zero. Apple's ability to suppo
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by scottdw2 13y ago
In war, identity is a defined "negatively". That is, not by describing positive attributes to you, but by describing negative attributes to the enemy. "We are the opposite of x", hence we fight. If you neutralize the abi
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by scottdw2 13y ago
Is there any better way to change someone's mind, to change their fundamental mode of thought, to alter their perceptions and manner of reason than to educate them? Here's an even better question: if your enemy thinks like you, ta
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by scottdw2 13y ago
That's the whole point. It's disruptive technology: not as good, way more accessible.
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by scottdw2 13y ago
This bothers me. I know this is a bit of a 'libertarian fantasy', but I think the constitution ought to be amended to contain something like the following: 1) No person shall be subject to any criminal penalty exceeding one year o
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by scottdw2 13y ago
The key take away from the article SHOULD be: don't rely on ntp if you don't have to. There are people who have to. They run their own atomic clocks, and worry about things such as precision delivery of nuclear ordanance. Then the
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by scottdw2 13y ago
I won't argue that constraints can lead to innovation. All art exists in some medium. Constraints are therefore inherit. Here's a simple question: what spurred Picaso's decision to paint in Blue? Was it adherence to a protoco
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by scottdw2 13y ago
Sigh. Not about the original article, but about the top comment in the original article. It presumes that Picaso, Bansky, and Monet can't paint like each other. Probably not true if you actually have Picaso, Bansky and Monet. In any ca
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by scottdw2 13y ago
Actually he has admitted he was wrong about the iPhone, thinking of it as a high end phone instead of a low end (but very convienient) computer. The author of the article, I think, makes a "phalous leap" from "He was wrong ab
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by scottdw2 13y ago
The most interesting part is that the difference in votes is exactly equal to the number of individuals marked as "not voting".
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by scottdw2 13y ago
Actually, no they couldn't. Patents only apply to the right of "first sale". You can resell any patented invention without the consent of the patent holder.
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Jupiter, Moon To Align On Christmas Night(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by scottdw2 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottdw2 14y ago
Jason has a point: You can maximize revenue by focusing on delivering higher value features to more lucrative customers. But, you need to be careful when following his advice. Blindly following the principals of "revenue maximizing resource
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by scottdw2 15y ago
If there was a sudden dramatic rise in the number of cases approaching trial, the natural response would be to increase the value of plea deals until the number of trials drops to a managable level. As the supply of plea deals increases, an
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by scottdw2 15y ago
See my comment below. I don't think you quite understood what I meant. I'm not saying the code was written in scheme. I'm saying there is a product that allows you to write scheme macros to manipulate a database of machine code IR derived f
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by scottdw2 15y ago
No... the product allows you to write scripts to manipulate its machine code IR database in scheme, and then spit out the machine code as nasm assembly, assembly them, and then run the appropriate linker in the same way that was used to pro
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by scottdw2 15y ago
The payload could have been modified (to obfuscate its origin / source language) using a product named codesurfer/x86. http://www.grammatech.com/research/products/CodeSurferx86.ht... If it has access to source code, it can instrument the
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by scottdw2 15y ago
The US constitution also grants a right to a jury trial in "all suits at common law where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars". All US judicial authority derives from the constitution. Given a controversy under the jurisdic
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by scottdw2 15y ago
No. Government is force. Airlines, like most businesses, are subject to market forces. If Delta said "we have to search the data on your computer before you can fly", you can choose not to fly. Someone would have a strong incentive to provi

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