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The Real Book, often considered the Real Inaccurate Book.

I love it. Some of these solutions are things I looked into during the early days of Android, before Google had cemented hegemony on so many things. Namely, Subsonic and K-9 Mail w…

This is generally a good flow, but something that absolutely baffles me is that GitHub changes the commit SHAs when branches are rebase-merged from PRs[0]. This totally breaks a fu…

Discussions like this are always helpful for people with more experience in dynamic languages. My first experiences with Monads, like the one in LYAHFGG[0], left me with the sense …

Agreed -- a motivating example in the Readme would really help people totally new to this concept grasp the how/why of the project.

Agreed -- I found Haskell most confusing at first because of the lack of syntax. My brain kept wondering where the rest of the syntax was. Not to be too dramatic, but I think Haske…

Love it. Every few years, a site like this gets posted, detailing somebody's transition from rooted to nomadic. If you work remotely, this can be an exciting idea.

Upvote -- the sarcasm comes through when this is put into context.

The analogy is a little twisty, but yeah, seeing the files in the directory is probably like looking in through the door, and actually opening them is probably more like trespassin…

The 2D->3D analogy made sense to me -- only being able to see the cross-section that is visible in a current dimensionality -- but I got to wondering if you couldn't use some of te…

This is the thing. Why on earth would you build this insane network to ferry one person in their car, the displacement of which could probably move 8 people using the same footprin…

Thomas Frank's book _What's the Matter with Kansas_[0] explores this pretty well. Some of what he proposes is a bit over-simplified (ie that all conservatives prefer to vote for mo…

"Ronald Reagan started to have a decline in the number of unique words with repetitions of statements over time,” said Sherman. “[He] started using more fillers, more empty phrases…

Additionally, started out life working-class and was working as a longshoreman while attending CUNY; Ta-Nehisi Coates spent some time describing Moynihan's remarkable gifts in an i…

The docs provide a pretty good comparison against the other major players, Storm and Spark (and MUPD8, which I'm not familiar with): http://samza.apache.org/learn/documentation/0.1…

Dammit, I need a crib sheet that puts the tying steps all on one page -- it's a real pain stopping in between steps to scroll down, then trying to get my fingers back into the corr…

This isn't for ads, but if you want to obfuscate Google's profile of you in the background, you can check out NYU's TrackMeNot: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

I just came across skip lists as part of a sliding-window aggregator in Apache Samza's metrics system[0]. So cool! Being able to work with a range of values in somewhere between O(…

That's how I learned it in grade school, yup.

There's got to be a more useful metric than average city density; the 2010 US Census [0] places the 5 densest cities in the US as having a population under 70,000 (yes, I'm quoting…

Looks quite similar to the site one of my coworkers at Meetup had going for a while (hi Greg!): http://mybikelane.com/

Lovely idea, fascinating way to visualize demographics. One comment, and not at all a criticism of the art: I'm not sure if relative property values between neighborhoods really de…

Agreed. I'm sure there are also some examples out there of people who, despite insurmountable privilege, managed to make all of the wrong decisions and end up on the streets.

I see that too. Seems chronological other than this, probably an indexing error.