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by vishbar 5y ago
That is really interesting! I never had an ant farm, and I'm glad I didn't given what you've said. Are ants similar to bees in that there's one egg-laying "queen" that you have to gather, or can you just gather
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by vishbar 6y ago
Is there not an autoformatter available? We use linting as part of our Python workflow and it works pretty well along with black. There's really not much linting work: just write your code, run black, and it's good to go.
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by vishbar 6y ago
Leaving aside commercial methods or more...shall we say, exotic methods like explosives or elecroshock, bait fishing is generally more effective. I do both: I trot bait when the river I fish is unsuitable for the fly.
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by vishbar 6y ago
Due to the physical architecture of CPUs/etc., data structures that have "worse" asymptotic performance are often quite a bit faster than those with "better" performance. For example, iterating through a small array
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by vishbar 6y ago
Sure, so now instead of just having a source control remote, you’re now looking after a publicly accessible box in the cloud with all the security headaches that brings. Plus you’ve got to manage credentials essentially manually, make sure
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by vishbar 7y ago
I've studied there for an MSc in Computing. It was good. The classes are a bit business-schooly but I got some good support from tutors. Obviously it depends on the individual tutor--the one for my project module wasn't as clear a
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by vishbar 7y ago
Realistically, how well will someone with a nonspecialist knowledge of biology be able to contribute to these projects? That statement's not intended to pass judgement; I'd really like to know as it'd be great to contribute t
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by vishbar 7y ago
Hey, are you OK with UK passport holders?
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by vishbar 7y ago
Scala's for-comprehensions (and Haskell's do-notation) help quite a lot as well.
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by vishbar 8y ago
I'm doing a masters in Computing with them now. I'm enjoying it quite a lot, and it is definitely rigorous (though more on the management side rather than the technical side).
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by vishbar 8y ago
There's definitely a different style of development, in my experience. After a few beers or when very sleep-deprived, I find myself avoiding "analysis paralysis" and just getting something written, even if it's not super
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by vishbar 8y ago
Astrology and machine learning just seem so different. One is a poor attempt at prediction using dubious, shoddy, poorly understood methods that generally amount either to general wooly vagueries or completely wrong conclusions that are no
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by vishbar 8y ago
How does machine learning apply to something like astrology?
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by vishbar 9y ago
I almost always skip the intro of books like this. I didn't skip this one. The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are two of my favorite books of all time.
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by vishbar 9y ago
Visit my new startup's website, http://serverless.blockchain.ai/mongodb !
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by vishbar 9y ago
We use it in production for a Storm-based ETL pipeline. We've not had any problems that have been related to our use of Kotlin.
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by vishbar 9y ago
How is the tooling these days? I played with .NET Core a while ago (before the move away from project.json and just after the move to the dotnet command line tool rather than dnx/dnvm/etc.). I found the documentation for the tooli
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by vishbar 9y ago
.NET has both nonblocking evented IO and standard blocking IO in the stdlib. Most modern libraries use asynchronous IO, however lots of legacy applications still use blocking calls, making them unsuitable to run in the thread pool.
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by vishbar 9y ago
There's a much more immediately practical reason to keep it in-firewall as well: if the utility company accidentally cuts a fiber line outside my house, I don't want to be suddenly unable to turn off my hallway light.
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by vishbar 9y ago
We used it a lot for full automation tests for the UI. It's nice being able to interface with a full-featured browser that can run javascript, etc. And take screenshots when things go wrong.
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by vishbar 9y ago
If Tradfri bulbs use ZLL, is it theoretically possible to connect Tradfri bulbs to an existing Hue network?
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by vishbar 9y ago
I've recently started working in the big data space and it definitely seems like the primary use case for Hadoop these days is HDFS. Spark seems to have entirely subsumed Hadoop MapReduce for most batch processing workloads.
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by vishbar 9y ago
I thought the AGPL only applied to modifications of the AGPL'd software? E.g. you'd have to open source any modifications of the AGPL service you make.
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by vishbar 9y ago
I see what you're saying between Swift, Go, and Rust, but I'm not sure C# belongs in the same category. There are orders of magnitude more real-life lines of code implemented in C# than the other three combined. It's much mor
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by vishbar 10y ago
Even if that is obvious to you somehow, it still needs a study. A lot of "obvious" ideas have been overturned when put under experiment.
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by vishbar 10y ago
I really want to use it as I much prefer Linux as a hosting platform over Windows, but I really enjoy C# and F#. When I last looked, however, the tooling just wasn't there. I found documentation still referencing the outdated dnx comma
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by vishbar 10y ago
I think this is applying a "car insurance model" (sorry in advance for the car analogy) to healthcare. Ignore third-party insurance for the moment as it's not really applicable to health. You don't generally make an insu
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by vishbar 10y ago
I use vim in cmder occasionally. The only way I've been able to use it properly is to disable conemu hooks before I execute it. Basically, I've defined a function my profile to: * Save the ConEmuHooks environment variable value *
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by vishbar 10y ago
Doesn't Bash (or any Unix shell) fail to fit your definition, then? Bash contains an interpreter for a language that, while lightweight, is still a separate interpreted language. In particular commands like cd can't be executed as
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by vishbar 10y ago
It looks like your SFW link is broken

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