mwhooker

could not have said it better

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

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)

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

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

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

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

edit for clarity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

FTFY "TSA _agent_ admits..."

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

whoops. sorry about that. back up now.

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

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.

s/Reward them with fun/Reward them with money/

It's ridiculous to expect more than 40hrs/wk from someone without fair compensation. Need more hours out of someone but can't afford to give them more money? Maybe they should be cofounders.

This of course with the assumption that 70hrs/wk @ 2 months is the equivalent of ~ 3.5 months of work at 40hrs/wk, which I don't buy.

Surely China is more culpable than Amercan consumers and corporations?

I started reading this a few weeks ago, and was struck by how much casual magic there seemed to be in India at that time. In the parts describing his childhood, every other page described a mystical experience. It made it a little hard to connect with my life, and by extension, trying to understand how it might have affected Steve Jobs. My only (cynical) explanation is that the magic was a result of a yogi cult of personality, which Jobs was able to use later on.

I'd be interested to hear what other people thought if they've read any of it.

Did I really just read this? No discussion of what possible regulations might be required, just "sysadmins are untrained. We may need rules". HN bait at its worst.

I'm in. Though I don't think HN is the place to run the study group.

very nice. This is something I'm very interested in. I even wrote something like it which uses a bookmarklet, though I believe browser extensions are the way to go.

http://omnigeist.com/ https://github.com/mwhooker/omnigeist.js

It was mostly a vehicle for me to learn coffeescript & node.js, so it's got some rough edges.

with twitter I feel like I'm confined to my "online social circle". Convore seems to get a better mix of people together, oriented around a topic.

She can also swing a string of solid double entendres, "The difficulty of acquiring this material may have hinted at a great, and therefore pent-up, demand. Then, technology produced the Second Coming: the Inter­net. And then the Rapture itself: broadband."

don't forget writing a book on python