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It probably could be fast, if you have all your ducks lined up. UAE immigration wanted me to go back to Canada to pick up a fresh notarized copy of my educational and criminal reco…

I bet that a game AI model of a human mind's executive function would actually be embarrassingly simple. Something like a 7 element ring buffer of tasks and their parameters, with …

Ditto, relocated there from Doha. It is conveniently close to a large cluster of AirBnBs, which helps out big time while waiting for a resident's permit.

I guess if that became a bottleneck, they could set up a queue for write requests. Maybe even something more sophisticated that automatically batches similar writes that pile up in…

I just came across Vue.js the other day, while exploring options for quickly banging out small tools. Getting tired of the clutter in a full-featured React project. It offers more …

What? Youtube requires you to add captions manually, or the video is taken down? That's brutal! I thought YT had automatic captioning. Wow, lame.

Thank you for confirming the accuracy of the AWS Lambda test model.

Work will set you free

If the majority decide that you should pay a tax, and you then become obligated to to pay that tax, that's democracy, not dictatorship. That doesn't mean it's good, it's just democ…

This is what I never got about the Java and C++ type systems. If you claim to value static typing, why are you not typedefing your generic floats / doubles to meters and seconds an…

Does node-canvas allow you to select high fidelity algorithms over fast algorithms? A while ago, I wrote a crop tool using browser canvas, and found that the results of a scaling o…

I think that this real value will ensure that it never really dies. If anything happened to twitter.com, then dozens of little MVP short message boards would spring up. In fact, th…

Where did you get this financial data for your first project? Is it a public feed / API? This sounds like exactly the sort of thing that I would like to start playing and eventuall…

(15 minutes later) Just started playing with this, it is much fun. I'll definitely be golfing more on the weekends now :) For anyone else just starting out, I suggest using readlin…

K lang was featured here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561573

Having browsers intelligently render `text/markdown` sounds like a great idea. And while we're waiting on the browser implementation, maybe we can find some sort of temporary worka…

Welcome to the world of "$lang-lang" queries. Go, Rust, please make room.

Or Canadian Pension Plan

LOLolol I just got off a Qatar Airways flight, where they made an announcement asking any passengers with a Note 7 to hand it over. But then when disembarking in DXB (Dubai), I not…

I think I see a way to save print news, but it won't be pretty...

Local news isn't going to be pushed at you front and center, at least not until Google knows most people's home town (or most relevant town). However, when I google $hometown+news,…

That's a pretty bold statement. A billion years should be enough time to convert the entire galaxy into computronium and deploy all over it. Mind you, the author probably won't be …

Do you mean that the detective player's analysis would be, say, an input to the fitness functions of a genetic algorithm? That sounds super interesting. Would you care to elaborate…