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sixhobbits
7,546karma·1,281submissions·January 21, 2016
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Genuinely curious - how does installing a Python library through pip 'compromise the integrity of [your] system'?
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"quis custodiet ipse custodies" (who guards the guards themselves) by Juvenal in the first century seems to be the root cause of so many modern issues - from finance, to politics, to automat…
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My thoughts exactly. I recently read Branson's own account of this event, and no - he did not raise money from the tickets. You cannot start an airline on the money raised from <100 tickets. H…
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"But not too easy. There’s always going to be a class of users who aren’t really qualified to use your project. Someone who’s never written any code before isn’t going to get very far with Django…
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parent is asking about this I think: "This is indeed nice for data visualization, while it’s also very helpful in our pipeline because it removes noise in the derived vectors, by forcing a new ma…
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human + robot ≈ cyborg electricity + silicon ≈ solar cells virtual reality + reality ≈ augmented reality -- These always seem impressive in word vector models, but in reality, I imagine that "rob…
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Martin Hart: So... what's the point of getting' outta bed in the morning? Rustin Cohle: I tell myself I bear witness. But the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I la…
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I'm always surprised by how well `pdf2text --layout` works for even complicated looking PDFs. Has been better than most specialised (free) web services I've tried
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I wasn't really in the cloud world in 2006, but AFAIK EC2 was pretty inventive/original/game changing in that it allowed anyone to immediately fire up and use VPS. Although there were (…
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EC2 was released in 2006. Digital Ocean was founded in 2011.
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Really nice! I'm from SA and this is definitely a needed product. Some typos in your copy - consider taking the time to proofread everything or have someone do it for you!
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Same - recently switched from Linux to a Windows 10 laptop. Between the virtual desktops and resizable command prompt with clipboard support (along with git tools for Windows that allow ls grep etc in…
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Even if it were lying outright (and it didn't claim "complete Open Street Maps" or anything akin), it still wouldn't be clickbait. If we want to kill clickbait, we shouldn't o…
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clickbait would be 1) "You'll never believe what we built in only 120GB of Ram"
2) "This is how much RAM you need to run an OSM server"
3) "10 reasons you need this simpl…
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wow. For those too lazy to do the extra search step: http://www.something.com/faq/
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And just yesterday I told someone to visit BBC when trying to connect to public wifi that requires a redirect to a login page first. Guess I'm going to have to find a new go-to http site now
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file_list = !ls So much nicer than messing around with subprocess and pipes.
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I have an old laptop in SA. Could you link to details of the programme?
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I just heard another first hand account of a female computer science masters candidate dropping out shortly before completion due to sexual harassment from her supervisor and no support on the matter …
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"I'm not sure, what the guys did during the audit of phpMyAdmin, but it took me 3 minutes to find a persistent XSS in the latest version." https://twitter.com/totally_un…
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"Mono-spaced fonts are an anachronism as far as I’m concerned; text is easier to read when it’s spaced properly. This is certainly true for my text heavy documents, like this article, but I also …
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Bookmark https://docs.google.com/document/create ? Or am I missing something?
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Great! I already found the variable that defines the space to add before an exponent and recompiled and it works great now. It would also be nice if variables were displays in a maths font (or at lea…
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Definitely a needed product. I've seen too many people creating geometry tests in M$Word. Would be great to see this actively developed. For now, I noticed that x^2 leaves a space between x and t…
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"Nigeria is beating the West at its own board game" I know that the definition of "the West" is pretty vague, but this journalism seems a decade or two behind its time with its &qu…
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A very nice explanation. It's reminds me of Andrew Ng's lectures. Very impressive that the author seems to be a high school student - I'm only learning about these concepts now in Maste…