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This is exactly why I think Talko is so cool. Not quite a replacement for email, but has some good ideas.

Epsilon-delta proofs are beyond me, but we still teach calculus in high school. Just because some parts of a field are esoteric without study doesn't mean the field is doomed to ob…

SEEKING WORK - Seattle or remote A friend and I recently upped sticks and moved from Chicago to Seattle to put our tech chops to use. We've been consulting together for a little ov…

SEEKING WORK - Seattle or remote A friend and I just graduated from the University of Chicago, and decided to put our technical chops to use in Seattle. Between us, we have experie…

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Seattle area For hire: a pair of... - Distributed systems theorists - Database implementors - Web designers - JS coders (Angular anyone?) - Clojurians - As…

They seem to approximate with recurrence relations; they cite a bunch of literature about the technique, referring to "cost relations".

The two main inputs to their model are the IR and the ISA.

True. However, as a graduating CS major, almost every non-CS major I know here and at other schools has taken some programming-focused class or done Codecademy or something. Few if…

Exciting prospect. How about DataScript for your app state + tx-listen/om-sync mirroring transactions? Might require wrapping the datascript/transact! call, and I haven't thought a…

Funny; the article has me thinking about being more open with our humanity on the web, then you reference an apparent brush with death as a sort of backstory—something many, myself…

Ideally, in the future, yeah. But for now, two reasons I can think of: first, Multipath TCP doesn't cover the same use cases as dispatch. For example, having one proxy only route t…

It's not designed around global state. It's true that just about every HTTP router has this "feature", but all it's doing is allocating a "global" server object by default and addi…

Great article. One thing I wish got more coverage is testing directives: it's already much easier than most DOM-testing methods (though it can't replace selenium etc.), but doing i…

This is great news. However, all this discussion of "semantic this-or-that makes my site look like shit" or "semantic tags are just for template clarity" and "well at least web cra…

I know this is asking a lot, but would anybody like to weigh in with some explanation/evidence for the descriptions of those four parts of the brain?

I actually was going to point out that less saturated colors get... well, maybe not more dramatic, but in-my-opinion-"better" themes. For example, with this one, any but 'complemen…

If the explosives machinery did indeed detect permethrin, then they still have a lot to account for. Excuse me if I doubt that a white Christian would have faced the same ordeal an…

No computer science education or IT experience can save you from the hours of unnecessary struggle that are the real price of a Google Apps account.

Re: siblings and increasing writing skill: there are too many blogs. Try writing in private and for literary (i.e. non-tech) audiences. You'll have better chances of focusing on th…

I'm really excited to see people working on security in Go. Security by default is supposed to be one of Go's "features" at some level. (The typical example: your first several C p…

(Since HN has been in golang hype-mode recently:) a 20-line Go web server that I probably wrote in about 5 minutes but I don't remember because it's still chugging away.

Having written a few web servers (and other servers) in Go, I assure you that you will be surprised how little work it is. However, I think where Go will shine is in highly customi…

$ go get github.com/person/project It will even figure out dependencies by checking every import (and you can do 'import "github.com/person/project"' too), and builds the source by…

The thing is, you can do that with interface{} and you don't even need type switching. It's awkward, but considering that the rarity with which interface{} is necessary (at least i…

It may be possible to work around that: the trick they use to get full color is that each animation frame is allowed to have its own 256 color palette. So for each block of 256 col…