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I can see tweets without being logged in now. In particular, I can see them if I come from e.g. Google or Reddit.

Their parents are interested in having them get a sense of possible career paths. I have never met the kid before. I honestly don't even know what this entails - I'm worried writing code is not a very fun spectator…

I currently have a Python script I used to notify me whenever my cronjobs fail. My crontab looks like this: 0 0 * * * job_monitor.py --to user@email --cmd my_cron_script.sh The script is quite useful - it automatically…

I'm not referring to the much talked about speed of k. Instead, one idea I really like in k is how the database is the programming environment. The standard e.g. python + postgres setup suffers from having the data…

Honestly, I find React pretty cool - it's quite easy to get started and build a simple dynamic SPA. It's actually fun writing stuff in the React declarative style. My setup consists of a Flask server which js bundles…

I'm particularly interested in setups that work well with Python + maybe React. In a previous life, I used to write a lot of q/kdb code and I used a plugin that allowed me to send lines from an open vim file straight to…

As you may or may not know: >>> [100,11].sort() Array [ 100, 11 ] From the Moz dev docs[0]: "The default sort order is ascending, built upon converting the elements into strings, then comparing their sequences of UTF-16…

I am in the proccess of building a system which is capable of showing data as of a past point in time. For that, I am building a set of bitemporal tables in a database (together with some adjacent binary storage…

I'm looking to set up an environment which makes it as easy as possible to run arbitrary code on a grid. The main issue I am running into is how do I synchronize my code across all machines on my grid? I want to be able…

I am familiar with the process of selling data to "regular" businesses, but academia is uncharted territory. What are the things to keep in mind when either selling research data to universities or parntering up with…

I run Slack on Firefox and it's gotten to the point where the app is unusable, mostly because of the ridiculous memory consumption. This was noticed not just by me but by my entire team. So, at this point, it makes…