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MLPR and TESL, as much as I like them, won't help you much when you have massive amounts of data, i.e. too much to fit into memory.

If you mean "gaps in my education" or "basic things that I don't quite understand", you could try studying some high-quality texts. Look for books written by extremely smart people…

https://xkcd.com/297/

"How is it possible to operate profitably at that price?" It isn't: Air Berlin, Monarch, Primera, Small Planet, Azur, Cobalt, VLM, PrivatAir, Icelandic carrier WOW.

Better give up eating vegetables, too: people die working on farms.

It's called "Death by GPS".

Bring Martin Beck out of retirement.

Not just nylon ropes, but multi-fall ropes: in the early 70's, we didn't trust a rope after it had taken a hard fall. You can't learn a big-wall route if you have to retire your ro…

From personal experience, I can tell you that $6K/month is not exclusively a Silicon-Valley phenomenon. Basically you cover it with whatever SS, pension, savings, and other assets …

Excellent except that it is dated. GHC, libraries, and tooling have moved on in ten+ years. I would buy a new edition instantly.

Go read Ronald Coase's "The nature of the firm". And if your work _can_ be structured to minimize the transaction costs, you might as well go to a low-wage country rather than mess…

With some exceptions such as siblings of current students, the schools are not strategic actors in the Amsterdam problem. If you meet the entrance requirements, you're eligible, an…

Back when DCVS was just becoming a thing, I started with darcs and rather liked its model. I soon discovered that darcs had a nasty problem of quietly accepting large binary files …

The U.S. was the dominant whaling country at the time of Moby Dick, but there is little in the book that assumes a knowledge of American history, culture, or literature. It's a can…

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/crispr/

Because we're Abel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_group

Be careful about performance comparisons: If you are using the GNU compilers (and the appropriate compiler flags with gcc), there isn't much difference in performance --- and there…

"Yet another monoid tutorial." This time in Hacker News comments. And lots of them. :-)