spiffworks

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by spiffworks 9y ago
You must be a Richard Herring fan.
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Ask HN: Where do you go to discuss machine learning?
3 points by spiffworks 12y ago|1 comments
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by spiffworks 13y ago
Nope, numpy needs libblas and scipy needs libatlas, both of which have to installed from the system package manager. I slap my forehead every time I move to a new system and find that the pip install in the virtualenv failed.
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by spiffworks 14y ago
CM7 user here. Can confirm that it is vulnerable. Easily fixed by installing a second dialer so that you'll always get a prompt. Also I can't find any info on whether cm7 supports USSD factory reset. Anybody aware?
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by spiffworks 14y ago
Is this right? Java really has better latency than Go right now? And with 2 processors, Go's latency is 25ms for 50 concurrent requests. Anybody with better experience care to comment on this?
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by spiffworks 14y ago
Going through the source code for that tour is also a very good way of getting familiar with the http package and a good introduction to channels.
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by spiffworks 14y ago
I have been really impressed with Go's portability. I recently cross compiled a binary from a Linux machine for an ARM target and had it running from scratch in less than 15 minutes. Go could become a serious option for embedded Linux targe
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by spiffworks 14y ago
https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html Read this first, and read it well.
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by spiffworks 14y ago
> But you know what else is pretty good? PyDev It's not. It's really not. I've heard good things about PyCharm, but the best environment for Python that I have seen so far is Emacs. And Light Table definitely looks like an improvement o
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by spiffworks 14y ago
Thank you!
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by spiffworks 14y ago
As an Indian who cannot access Vimeo, this is what I see. http://i.imgur.com/ojTVQ.png May I ask for a link to the video on another service?
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by spiffworks 14y ago
As someone who once worked at an IIT, money is not lacking, imagination is.
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by spiffworks 14y ago
I very much understand the motivation behind it, it's just the means that is shockingly tacky and uncharacteristic. A slogan contest for the importance of the open web? Really?
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by spiffworks 14y ago
Good heavens. What the hell have they done to Google?
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Software freedom becomes more and more important in this world. Let's hope Google follows their policy with the Nexus line and makes room for custom firmware.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
How does iOS handle multiple apps registering for the same type of URL? In Android, I get a popup asking which app I want to use for this action, and an option to make that the default for future actions. Is there something similar on iOS?
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by spiffworks 15y ago
What is that photo supposed to show? All I see is that the iPad's physical design is as much a derivative of all those that came before as the rest are derivative of the iPad's. Do you really not see the flaw in your argument or are you jus
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Maybe I'm just odd, but social networks don't really bring me any value. I have a few close friends who I stay in touch with no matter where we are, and I do it on a medium that is a little more personal than the digital equivalent of an an
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by spiffworks 15y ago
It was just that these people were happy with having limits on their computers. I guess the difference in mindset is that while normal people want computers to be appliances, we want everything to be computers.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Eh, I can understand the outrage the author feels. I used to be so pissed off when people were contented with their iOS devices. But I have my Nexus One, I can hack the hell out of it, it is state of the art, and I don't really care what a
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Vim is better designed than Emacs for editing. Emacs is just better designed for everything else. To this day, there is no better way of scrolling text than j/k. That doesn't change the reality of Emacs' incredible flexibility.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I agree with you on many points, but there are a few things for which I prefer to have a dedicated shortcut. Specifically, basic functionality such as copying a line. More importantly, by your logic, we shouldn't have the C-k shortcut eithe
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by spiffworks 15y ago
You should look in to one of the functions listed here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyingWholeLines Not having to use 3 keystrokes in the place of one is the whole point of using Emacs.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Nothing is impossible in Emacs, but it did not ship with the function previously, yes. It also does not ship with a function for copying a line. It does, however, ship with a lisp which lets you do whatever the hell you want.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
The system he is suggesting is exactly what /. had, and that didn't work out too well. I have a theory that the decline of any great community begins with a conflict. In the case of /. when the SCO matter started, the issue was so black and
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Sometimes, while on HN, I miss the playfulness that made /. a true joy in the past. If we cannot scorn ourselves, we run the risk of taking ourselves to seriously.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I just started using emacs as my primary editor for work, and I face this all the time. I'm completely sure that most of the things I do can be done more efficiently and with fewer keystrokes. But to stop and think about it breaks my flow,
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Pretty much every Indian language I can think of satisfies these criteria, actually. The lack of centralization and a generally rich heritage naturally gives rise to this, I think. Also, glad to see other Tamil speakers here.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
As you can see, I'm being downvoted, and that's fine. Gruber is a polarising topic on HN. I just find that he has long since departed from any actual insight and instead works mostly with snark and misdirection to the point where it is poin
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Gruber has for a long time made his living off of propping up strawmen and beating them down, much to the amusement of his readers. Everyone knows that Leander Keahney and Dan Lyons are insane, only Gruber goes to the pain of proving them s

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