nimrody

Thanks for the video link. This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsx4I8gkKk is very impressive.

Brought back memories of Phil Karn (AKA KA9Q) discussing this very patent fifteen years ago:

http://www.ka9q.net/patents/

"Typeset by the authors in Minion Pro, Lato, and Consolas, using Go, groff, ghostscript, and a host of other open-source Unix tools. Figures were created in Google Drawings."

groff still going strong... although it seems like Kernighan got tired of drawing using the 'pic' language...

Right. And the advantages of the Gaussian kernel with respect to image processing:

1. It has no negative coefficients (hence the output will always be a valid color value.)

2. It is circular symmetric, yet separable (X and Y may be filtered independently) -- a property which simplifies the implementation considerably.

Regarding CLI: mycli and pgcli are both much nicer than the built in alternatives.

Can you expand on why Cassandra is not good for analytics? Is that because you have to think of the queries before designing the data model? Or perhaps there are other issues?

Gilbert Strang's "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra" is very well written and expands on the topic of matrices as mappings.

The fact that A is updated in-place is an optimization that happens only if you pass a variable and assign the output to the same variable.

It is not a characteristic of the function `plus_diag`. The function itself is completely pure.

What Matlab function edits its inputs in-place? I cannot think of any.

Actually Matlab's pass by value is one of its best properties (as a language). This is how functions work in math and is much easier to reason about.

I really dislike Julia's pass by reference semantics. Even if it enables better performance.

What did you end up using instead of Pandas?

Can you recommend a resource for learning powershell? (Assuming one has UNIX background)

[it does generate annoyingly long error messages!]

It's a language for high performance computing (HPC). I think it's the only one that survived out of three languages competing at the time: Fortress (Sun), Chapel (Cray), and X10.

See https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~achauhan/Teaching/B629/2010-Fall...

Designed mostly for scientific computing on highly parallel machines. Not your typical web-application development :)

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” Hermann Goering

I guess this should be

     u <- Future(uploadPhoto(p))

right?

Not sure if this is entirely accurate. Intel's process tend to be optimized towards high performance chips since this is where the big margins are.

I'm not sure they are ready to devote production capacity (and process development resources) towards very lower power products which are also less profitable.

That was one of the reasons they failed when trying to enter the cellular market.

The one thing I like about React's JSX "html in javascript", is that it lets you reuse all of the host language (javascript in React's case) control structures.

Otherwise Maud has to re-implement if/then/else, iterator methods, etc. But perhaps you could use 'if/then' and other structures inside a $() block.

So do job / company descriptions. A company has to be doing Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud computing these days to be "buzzword compliant" :)

Should be relatively easy to make a tool that uses `losf` or similar to get a list of all running processes that depend on a shared library.

Object files should not be placed in the same directories as source files.

Could you recommend something more appropriate for someone who would like to explore the world of database implementations?

Interesting to read that djb is in favor of automatic exception handling rather than explicitly checking return codes:

"Fortunately, programming languages can—and in some cases do—offer more powerful exception-handling facilities, aborting clearly defined subprograms and in some cases automatically handling error reports. In those languages I would be able to write

    stralloc_cats(&dtline,"\n")

or simply

    dtline += "\n"

without going to extra effort to check for errors. The reduced code volume would eliminate bugs; for example, the bug “if ipme_init() returned -1, qmail-remote would continue” (fixed in qmail 0.92) would not have had a chance to occur."

Contrast this with the explicit error handling promoted by Go (and used in djb's software due to lack of exception handling in C).

The real problem with this type of technology is that you'll see great performance with a small number of subscribers.

So unless they will be able to get enough subscribers the results will still be questionable.

It's easier to connect when you have something in common.

So my suggestion is that you join some group doing things you like - be it art, music sport or anything else that you like and will introduce you to different people (suggestion: not some technical group).

My personal change came when I joined a sports group (triathlon in my case). I was never a good athlete but I did get a change to meet a lot of new people. Indirectly I have found my wife through that group.

The real problem with shell scripts is that they usually tie together a few external commands and tend to pass information around using the filesystem.

This, together with poor error handling is a recipe for disaster: Problems with permissions, insufficient disk space, etc. Instead of stopping when encountering an error, most shell scripts will happily continue break at some other point in time (or worse - destroy valuable data).

Kernighan and Pike's "The UNIX programming environment"[1] is still my favorite despite being old and certainly not up to date.

The book teaches the UNIX way of approaching problems with a set of simple tools that complement each other.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/

What do you do when you want to break the contract? I.e., after 6 months you decide to switch carrier? Now what?

This is probably the price with contract (i.e., it's subsidized by the carrier and the true cost is higher)

asfq1

No pointers.

Range limited types, e.g.

     Type Day = (0..7);

     Days = (monday,tuesday,wednesday,thursday,friday,  
             saturday,sunday);

I usually add a commit hook to run 'mysqldump'. Then you get a matching database snapshot along with the source code.

TIP: For better diff's use "--skip-extended-insert --skip-dump-date".

A nice gui on top of that is welcome (although I'm not sure about the $30K).