mwhooker

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

could not have said it better

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

this is not funny. this is less funny then when engineers sit around and make puns about ruby idioms

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

this is useless. In the python interface they are obviously lists. Is the author arguing that cpython implements them as C arrays? I don't know because the terms weren't defined.

If the author believes clarity will arise from pedantry, maybe he should start with wikipedia

> In computer science, a list or sequence is an abstract data type that implements a finite ordered collection of values, where the same value may occur more than once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_(abstract_data_type)

mwhooker

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

"10000 year old lamp shows mesolithic man used quantum mechanics"

mwhooker

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

If learning anything makes us worse at something we should just stop learning

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Looks like 10 text books (read: ~$100 each) with no descriptions and referral links to Amazon.

edit for clarity.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

let me save everyone some time:

> Jim Keller, the chief designer behind the A4 and A5 chips used in Apple's iPhone and iPad products has joined AMD as chief architect and VP

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I found this paper on the "semi-living artist" mentioned in the article fascinating. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533587/

Answered a lot of my questions about how the brain was cultured and stimulated.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Not sure if the two are related, but http://youarelistening.to/ has this for a couple other cities.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

ahh, cool. suppose I should have read past the rules

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

seems like per #1 & 2 you could either write a dsl or line-processing library and get it done in 1 line

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

it's not as if we were purchasing one language. It's a stretch goal, with python as the reward. The goal and the difficulty of implementation are not related.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I seem to be getting a lot of gists that are distinctly not application code (ie diffs, make files, random text). I think you could really improve the signal:noise if you let people vote gists as "not applicable" or such.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

just started playing around with it. We've been using hive on EMR with tables stored in S3 (json formatted). using a single m1.large to run run queries over an hour of data was taking 10-15 minutes. Bigquery returns the same query in seconds. For example, extracting referrer domains on big query:

  > Query complete (7.6s elapsed, 583 MB processed)

granted that's with an under-provisioned emr "cluster", so I don't want to assign too much meaning to the results, but they are promising.

I'll run some more comparisons on a larger cluster and update later.

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

FTFY "TSA _agent_ admits..."

mwhooker

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

hmm, z is indistinguishable from py. (at least on my screen).

mwhooker

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

whoops. sorry about that. back up now.

mwhooker

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Here's a lower-fi version

http://107.20.224.248:8000/#pics;funny;humor;comics;reddit.c...

hack the URL to control subreddits

source here https://github.com/mwhooker/procrastinatr

mwhooker

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Doing it client side has a couple issues.

1. you need to block the click event until you get a response from your analytics endpoint. Google suggests doing this by adding a 100ms delay: http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=e...

2. you might get holes in your data for a number of reasons: the user has JS turned off; 100ms isn't long enough for the request to go through; or the user might click off before your script can attach itself to the onclick event.

You definitely don't want to get yourself in a situation where you go down and all outbound links stop working, but if you can fail gracefully, replacing the link makes a lot more sense.

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