Lozzer
Re:Lisp in Small Pieces of Clojure, part 3
on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:00PM (#16943335)
I'd add Let over Lambda (LOL) to that list.
Re:A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality g...
on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:12PM (#16879662)
If you belive Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius then the atomic radius of Helium has never been measured, but it is predicted to be smaller than Hydrogen.
Re:Falling Chinese Space Station to Crash This Weekend
on Sunday April 01, 2018 @09:47AM (#16728224)
I think you'd enjoy the book "The Newtonian Casino".
Re:Implement table partitioning
on Thursday December 08, 2016 @08:12AM (#13130051)
Metadata operations on partitions can be very fast. One simple example is date based housekeeping. Deleting a month of data will be quite intensive on most databases, whereby dropping a partition from the table is effectively instant.
Partion switching is also fast. Say you have a summary table that is rolled up by month, but you want to recalculate the summaries every so often. You can build a month into a new table and then switch the new table for a partition in the summary table.
Re:Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption
on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:23AM (#12666870)
Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:15AM (#11252039)
Firstly there are vastly more positions in Go.
Secondly, it's very hard to evaluate a Go position, especially at the start of the game when there are few stones on the board. In chess you can get a long way using a simple evaluation (K=99, Q=9, R=5, B=3, N=3, P=1).
Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux
on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @06:08AM (#11244632)
The last one might be heped by trace flag 4199. You can apply it to individual queries with option (querytraceon 4199):
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/psssql/2010/09/01/slow-quer...
Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime”
on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:51AM (#11018529)
I expect you have enough hardware to factor widely deployed primes. Compound numbers might be a different story.
Re:John Nash Has Died
on Sunday May 24, 2015 @10:59AM (#9596435)
Didn't wear a seatbelt and headbutted the person in front, snapping their neck. Sucks to be them, I guess. But at least you stuck it to the man.
Re:Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of
on Monday May 11, 2015 @05:21AM (#9523506)
design
Re:Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifyi...
on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @03:54PM (#7555584)
I thought https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cfe03f2ddb0052b38081 was kind of neat, as you still have to solve the puzzle a bit after using it.
Re:Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network N...
on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @06:46PM (#6130623)
Admittedly in the UK, but the ISP I use don't have a problem with people running servers: http://www.aa.net.uk/
Re:How our users exploited concurrency and how we fixed it
on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:44PM (#5045706)
For a lot of RDBMS, transaction semantics can be later with different transaction isolation levels. There levels like repeatable read which work in this way, but the default level is usually weaker.
Re:UK still has 13,000 black-and-white TVs
on Thursday January 10, 2013 @06:58AM (#5036489)
If you're watching live (or nearly live) broadcast on iPlayer, you still legally require a license: http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...
Researchers Unlock Formula Written By Ramanujan
Re:Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich
on Saturday November 24, 2012 @05:06PM (#4826582)
CTRL + V
CTRL
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Re:Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
on Thursday August 23, 2012 @07:00PM (#4425328)
If you're parsing from a real time feed, then that's fair enough. But if not $now isn't appropriate.
Re:Tesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked
on Monday July 23, 2012 @03:19PM (#4282603)
Funnily enough if you buy Tesco's electrical goods online and pick up at store you don't get a paper receipt. The security guard (through lack of training) wasn't keen on letting me out without one.
Re:Building a Bejeweled Bot
on Monday April 16, 2012 @06:46AM (#3846817)
I had a go at something similar for the Facebook version a couple of years ago. My main goal was to stop playing the game, but it was also an excuse to try Clojure. At the time it absolutely thrashed my best scores, though I'm sure it won't work with the updates the developers have made since then.
I think it was the first thing I wrote that drove home the power of having a REPL for exploratory programming:
Re:Lets Talk About Something Diabolical: A PyPy Intro (David Beazley P...
on Sunday March 18, 2012 @10:52AM (#3719795)
He referenced a previous talk about the GIL:
http://blip.tv/rupy-strongly-dynamic-conference/david-beazly...
Re:Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users
on Friday March 09, 2012 @09:29AM (#3684140)
More likely HURD
Re:"I've isolated the bug to a database query"
on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:57PM (#3218323)
We have a legacy database we support that creates a new dynamic stored procedure (with the same body) every time it performs a particular operation. How you can have enough knowledge to do this, but not to use a single procedure is beyond me.
Re:Public market newcomers getting crushed in sell-off
on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:05PM (#2861776)
Have the counter-parties insuring Greek debt paid up?
Re:Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Face...
on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @09:00AM (#2758792)
I don't think governments are going to be bailing out advertisers just yet.
Re:War on Urchin
on Saturday June 11, 2011 @08:00AM (#2643691)
No, because you would reasonably requests with different parameters to return different pages.
Re:For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation
on Friday June 10, 2011 @06:33PM (#2642662)
Sounds like your network is suffering from http://www.bufferbloat.net/ .If your OS supports traffic shaping, you can probably fix this by limiting the upload speed there to a fraction under your actual bandwidth. E.g in Linux by using the tc command.
Re:My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs
on Monday June 06, 2011 @08:18AM (#2624427)
It's probably irrelevant, but maybe http://www.method-combination.net/blog/archives/2011/03/11/s... will help
Re:C to Go: Could Go replace C?
on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @05:42AM (#2535784)
From the first line of the man page for yes:
yes - output a string repeatedly until killed
Re:It is good to have friends
on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @09:46AM (#2532432)
I've used an offset mortgage to keep a large cash reserve, but to pay off real estate if I'm not using it.
That's for personal stuff, not sure if there are corporate options.