johnc1231
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3 years ago
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on: State Farm says 105 Kia, Hyundai models ‘ineligible’ for new insurance in LA
Even if you have the immobilizer on your new car, if a potential thief thinks your car is one of the stealable ones, you may still end up with a broken window.
johnc1231
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4 years ago
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on: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
How do they identify a crawler? Can a user not masquerade as a crawler somehow?
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Slack is down
I find Zulip to be a nice balance. Threads are much more prominent than they are in Slack, but aren't clunky.
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
Odyssey is closer to 64 than Galaxy. You don't repeatedly enter the level for different stars, you just enter the level once and there's different objectives that reward you with stars. Definitely not on rails at all.
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work
Another plus one for Zulip, huge improvement over Slack for me.
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”
We do this for our project (
https://hail.is) and it's a game changer. Saves so much time and so many bug reports.
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance
Zulip has been great for our team
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Tribuo, a Machine Learning Library for Java
I don't think netlib-java is LGPL. Where does it say that it is?
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: JDK 15
Having Apache Spark as a dependency kept us locked into JDK 8 for ages. They've finally got things updated now, but I don't know what their hold up was.
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Book
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine
Hail team member here. I'd be curious to hear what the things you don't like about hail are. Hopefully they're things that are already on our road map
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: Oxidizing the Technical Interview
Can you explain that line? I think I am missing something obvious.
johnc1231
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5 years ago
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on: New 13-inch MacBook Pro
In what was does the Nintendo Switch break the standard?
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
I suspect doing that will break down in the case of large Spark shuffles though?
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
I haven't dug into it myself, but Netflix makes something called Polynote that is supposed to add some awareness of the sequence of the cells to combat this
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience
It might vary from field to field, but in genetics Excel is a complete nonstarter, and even numpy is not going to work on sufficiently large datasets. The project I work on,
http://hail.is, was started to help deal with this.
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
Seconded, Zulip is awesome.
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
Yeah, I think the above poster said O(logn) space because that's the size of the line count in bits
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
I've never had this happen personally. What OS is this? I use Firefox on OSX installed through Homebrew, so I have to manually update it with brew. Firefox has never asked me to update.
johnc1231
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6 years ago
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on: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
The Turtle Moves
