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Figured I'd dust off my old constraint programming language ( https://github.com/dbunker/SABR/blob/master/test/Real/Multip... ) with result ( https://github.com/dbunker/SABR/blob/m…

Turning thoughts into software is what software engineers do every day. At every point along the technology trajectory technologists have created more and more powerful abstraction…

Any thoughts on when the pagination goes live? I can't find any information on it online. Memcache would be a good choice, but I am wondering, if I have a few secondary indexes wit…

I have been using Riak's secondary indexes for my latest project and have generally found them a joy to use. However, I do have to have to question a bit the way they are architect…

Assuming you are using a distributed architecture, there is no way to verify a user without at least one database lookup because the request could be coming into any API server. So…

Assuming you are using only "reads HN" as your a priori, all of us with below average pay should expect higher salaries. If you were to argue that those who read HN and also have h…

People always say that remote working will be the way of the future, but humans remain extremely social animals. So much of what we do is guided by genetics and it seems to be huma…

When I first read 'GitHub-maintained client libraries' I initially thought they meant built in libraries or templated stub functions, sort of like what they offer for .gitignore fo…

I expect people would be reluctant to use a client not sanctioned by bitcoin.org officially, although I'm not sure how difficult that is. It may be as simple as sending an email to…

x86 also has been compiled to javascript ( http://bellard.org/jslinux/ ) QEMU style.

It's a shame he doesn't mention his friend's name at the end of the piece, but if anyone has the right to refer to themselves as "beloved" I'd say it's David Rakoff.

> I see bitcoins as the storage of value, but not method of payment. If this comes true, the bitcoin system is in trouble. Block reward is down to 25 bitcoins a block. It will half…

a learnee is a teacher a teachee is a learner

I feel like what they are describing is more defragmentation than garbage collection. The article uses garbage collection to mean taking sparsely filled blocks and consolidating th…

I'd say it was a business opportunity if it wasn't for the abysmal track record airlines have for remaining profitable transporting humans.

What you have described is more or less Diffie-Hellman. Unfortunately this alone wont guarantee your package's safe passage. If it did Verisign, would be out of a job. The flaw is,…

Unfortunately, restrictions and bureaucracy tend to just favor lawyers who can charge higher to dig through it.

Although much changes with technology, much remains the same. People have had the technological ability to communicate solely through telephone/computer for many years which easily…

I don't know if Poe would be considered a novelist, but he can really blow you away in less than 5 pages. 1) http://www.online-literature.com/poe/335/