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jbnicolai

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About jbnicolai

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    That's essentially what axioms are. Wether it's reasonable or not depends on your intuition of both axiom & implications. This is where the axiom of choice is interesting; many peo…

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    Comment #18214885

    "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" Always resonated with me as a good summary. Where a (naive) frequentist might assume, for instance, that after a 90% accurate …

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    Comment #17553904

    Agreed. The problem is the risk of small, relatively hard to spot & nearly impossible to properly debug mistakes. > A{2,4} -> AA(A|AA)

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    Comment #16007807

    You might enjoy the essay The Tyranny Of Structurelessness, which articulates this exact point, if you weren't already referencing it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7409611

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    Comment #11895140

    You seem to have commited a merge conflict in https://npmcdn.com/nlp-syllables@0.0.4/builds/nlp-syllables.... Library looks fantastic!

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    Comment #11442474

    Thanks! Definitely going to look at these. Can't believe I wasn't aware AWS came with an API gateway service as well.

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    Comment #11440090

    Good question! I didn't include too much context in the top-level question to keep the discussion as broad as possible, and hopefully have advice applicable to others as well, but …

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    Comment #11438585

    Previous discussion related to Kong [open source product from Mashape]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451947

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    Ask HN: Best API management solution

    Considering features such as: * throttling * rate limiting * authentication and authorization * API usage analytics What are the experience of the collective HN crowd regarding the…

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    Comment #11404238

    Just serialize the state in the hashfragment of the URL ;)

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    Comment #10446637

    In the python example you're running a function, while in the grep example you're launching a program (grep) from your shell. To make the comparison more fair you'd store the pytho…

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    Comment #10128701

    So close to haiku, only one more syllable, great embarrassment.

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    Comment #9658257

    Glad to hear! Small plug, but I suppose the only people reading these comments are interested in tmux: https://github.com/tmux-plugins

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    Comment #9633623

    Rather, 'under the hood' it _is_ a lisp (that is, an AST). The powerful feature here is that you visualize (project) the AST into a more concise representation

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    Comment #9626618

    There's VisualReview[0], but only self-hosted. [0]: https://github.com/xebia/VisualReview

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    Comment #9523280

    Made this weekend url tmp[0], a simple plugin/package manager for tmux. See also tmux-fpp, a Facebook PathPicker wrapper for tmux[1] [0]: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm [1]: h…

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    Comment #9510564

    I wrote a small snippet to integrate this with tmux. Simply press for the current buffer to be run through fpp. See a small example here: http://recordit.co/U2TYvbPC9p And here's t…

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    Comment #9507130

    Because didn't exist in the latest version of tmux at the time. I've removed it now though, thanks!

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    Comment #9507116

    I use myself, but works just as well I suppose. Not bound to any OS utilities on OS X afaict. Thank you so much for pointing me towards that vim+tmux gist!

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    Comment #9507095

    You're absolutely correct, although I do all my terminal work locally in tmux as well (and often nest any remote work in a secondary remote session). Liking the plugin you wrote!

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    Comment #9506187

    You're absolutely right, thank you!