yosh

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by yosh 8y ago
Yeah, this is Erlang: fib(0) -> 0; fib(1) -> 1; fib(N) -> fib(N-1) + fib(N-2).
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by yosh 13y ago
Having recently run into some non-obvious crappy performance characteristics with I/O in Erlang, I'm curious if you have any pointers to docs or code that shows how to use Erlang I/O correctly so it's fast?
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by yosh 14y ago
I'm curious, why would you write that game in Node now, if you already know Erlang? From my perspective, Erlang is a better fit than Node for all the problem domains that Node is good at. I understand using Node if you don't know Erlang, bu
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by yosh 14y ago
Probably Musion Eyeliner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musion_Eyeliner
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by yosh 15y ago
Weekends are forced vacation too. It'd be great if companies adopted a "floating weekends" policy too, for the same reasons I outlined, but no company I've come across seems to do so, officially (you do see unofficially here and there bosse
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by yosh 15y ago
Forced vacation isn't freedom. If August isn't a convenient time to take a vacation, and the employee would rather work, let them work and take that chunk of time off at some other point. If taking that time off another time during the year
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by yosh 15y ago
There's actually 5 charging stations that Tesla installed on the 101 between SF and LA. If we got serious about electric cars, higher charging station density would help with long trips. And I agree, SF<->LA is not a long drive.
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by yosh 16y ago
FWIW, the longest stretch of interstate without services is I-70 in Utah, at 106 miles. I don't think I-80 has any >100 mile stretches without gas, but possibly 80 mile stretches. Off interstates though, the west can get pretty empty. T
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by yosh 16y ago
Reasonably good presentation, but this stuck out at me: > One team that started with Erlang and moved to Java so they could find programmers. Think about those scenarios. If the people you are hiring can't pick up Erlang in a couple of
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by yosh 16y ago
I've also used private ETS tables for this.
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by yosh 16y ago
Kayak's got them now actually, but only schedules, not prices.
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by yosh 16y ago
git ls-remote will help you to get the hash of HEAD. It's much cheaper than doing a zero-depth clone.
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by yosh 16y ago
Yeah, here's a paper on that topic: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/where_do_mama2...
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by yosh 16y ago
I've noticed that sorted sets have noticeably more overhead than the other types.
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by yosh 16y ago
T-Mobile is fine in the mission in my experience.
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by yosh 16y ago
http://www.thinkwiki.org/ is a good resource for figuring out Linux compatibility. I also recommend Thinkpads. The T and W series are good too.
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by yosh 16y ago
Careful with casting strings to ints like that, it'll break on architectures that require aligned accesses, i.e. if you try to load a uint32, the address of the memory location must be a multiple of 4. x86 happens to be fine with non-aligne
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by yosh 17y ago
> No security check, no long waits, no cattle herding. Not all trains. With Eurostar (Paris<->London) there's a security checkpoint with an x-ray and metal detector, along with passport control.
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by yosh 17y ago
Yeah, but tweets aren't limited to the GSM 7-bit character set, so if you tweet in say, Russian, 140 characters is too much, because the whole message needs to be encoded using 2-byte characters. Twitter's limitation is based on thinking
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by yosh 17y ago
Not to impugn on your care packages, but if your friend wants such more often, there's a store in San Jose that sells them: http://www.aussieproducts.com/contactus.asp (They do mostly mail order it seems, but they have a storefront in SJ)
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by yosh 17y ago
It's interesting Kogi BBQ is mentioned, because that to me is an example of the dysfunction around Twitter. Twitter started out as an SMS service, yet these days they cannot reliably deliver SMS messages. Kogi is awesome food, so whenever I
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by yosh 17y ago
> Even the editor of Bon Appetit wrote about it, How many other food trucks do you think she writes about? Major PR score! That's probably more due to the fact that Kogi made the New York Times and the LA Times, than due to direct Twitt
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by yosh 17y ago
> Yep with -arch i386 it appears to work but the profiling info it returns is all zeroed. That's the story of OS X since from when it was first released. For example, you'd have some functionality advertised as being in the system libra
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by yosh 17y ago
Traffic in SOMA is a lot less around evening rush hour, because there isn't a mess of cars backed up on the streets leading up to the I-80 enterance. Traffic is worse , however, around the other bridges in the area, since the interchange
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by yosh 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldfell 5,300 had to be evacuated from the island of Heimaey due to an eruption in 1973.
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by yosh 17y ago
Huh? Plenty of things needed more than 4 GB RAM in the 1990s. Scientific and database applications, to name a couple examples. That's why IBM, Sun, HP, SGI, DEC, etc. were all shipping 64-bit machines then. There were also a lot of contorti
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by yosh 17y ago
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
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by yosh 17y ago
I thought it was a shoplifting deterrent. SD cards and the like have bulky, hard to open packaging to make it harder to conceal when walking out of a store. Amazon doesn't need such deterrents, so I'm glad their finally using their clout to
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by yosh 17y ago
I agree that worrying about leaking info to competitors is silly, but... > If they aren't good enough for your team and your competitor ends up hiring them, what does that say about your competitor? There are a number of reasons you may
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by yosh 17y ago
I disagree. Writing multiplatform makefiles without explicit conditionals is cumbersome and ugly, mainly because the problem space contains so many exceptions. In this case, purism isn't really practical.

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