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pjonesdotca

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ruby and scheme hacker living in toronto.
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pjonesdotca··on Ask HN: Implementing a graph database using Postgres tables for nodes and edges?
While the author admits that the documentation advises to use the traversal API (which gives the best performance) he goes with cypher over the REST interface which would never match a direct db connection. It's a fundamental flaw in his comparison.
pjonesdotca··on PyNES: Write NES Games in Python
Obligatory Ruby cousin https://github.com/remore/burn
pjonesdotca··on Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
Great more "ZOMG I'm skirred of AI" FUD. Stop being so afraid of the future.
pjonesdotca··on U.S. Bans Trans Fat
here are several http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/dxrates
pjonesdotca··on Ruins of forgotten empires: APL Languages (2013)
This.
pjonesdotca··on House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal
"When the going get's weird, the weird go pro" - HST

That's about the only thing I can think of if Drudge is saying good things about Pelosi

pjonesdotca··on The Evidence Points to a Better Way to Fight Insomnia
Every time I've looked back on a period when I've woken up every hour on the hour, I find that I was under untenable stress levels. Just a thought.
pjonesdotca··on Survival on a fictional desert planet has a lesson for a drought-stricken state
I love it when a comment gets downvoted with no response. Can't be bothered to explain why you disagree?
pjonesdotca··on Survival on a fictional desert planet has a lesson for a drought-stricken state
Is this a plea for 'letting the markets solve the problem' ?

Because California tried that 15 years ago with their electricity problem and history shows how badly Enron abused the 'markets' for profit.

pjonesdotca··on Mapping the Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment in Every U.S. State
For much of the 20th century and perhaps as far back as the 19th a single earner was capable of not only providing a multi bedroom apartment but also a house. You should look into why this has changed and ask yourself why you are OK with that change.
pjonesdotca··on Mapping the Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment in Every U.S. State
So then by your logic, all the single income families are consigned to only living in one bedroom apartments? This seems like a logic fail to me.
pjonesdotca··on InfraRuby 3.7 – Compiler and runtime for statically-typed Ruby
Wait what? To whom?
pjonesdotca··on Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness
I find the people that think this way are themselves the ones who look to game systems
pjonesdotca··on Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness
I seriously doubt there will be any significant migration to Medicine Hat just for the free housing.
pjonesdotca··on Information Geometry
that's a fantastic idea. Send me an email with link if you ever do launch something like that.
pjonesdotca··on Implementing a Virtual Machine in C
C is not my thing so a few years ago trying to sort out how a VM works, I created a VM in Ruby.

Practical? Not in the least. But, it was a good weekend's worth of fun.

https://github.com/patrickjonesdotca/carban

pjonesdotca··on An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty
Talk to any military brat. I was in 11 schools by 10th grade so I learned a whole different set of lessons from the vast majority of my "civilian" peers.
pjonesdotca··on Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71 demolish caricatures of his thought (2013)
And if that is an interesting topic for a technologist than the work of Bernard Stiegler is fairly essential to seeing where continental thinking seems to be headed. http://www.amazon.com/New-Critique-Political-Economy/dp/0745...
pjonesdotca··on Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71 demolish caricatures of his thought (2013)
Anyone with formal or informal studies in critical theory will be well aware of Focault.

Everyone else should get up to speed.

pjonesdotca··on Existential crisis at Railsconf
I love it when debate gets reduced to someone creating a troll account ( 'railsbadruby' account is 48 min old as I write this ) and badmouthing.

Is this what HN discourse has come to?

pjonesdotca··on Rails API is coming to Rails 5
Actually a good testing suite fixes that issue. It's probably the most bogus "issue" strong type addicts bring up.
pjonesdotca··on Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
This tho: Orenitram won't be available for sale for about six months, the company said, and its exact price hasn't been determined either. But it will be very expensive, about $150,000 a year, according to an estimate by Dr. Mark Schoenebaum, an industry analyst with ISI.

$150k/yr? Is that really necessary?

pjonesdotca··on A mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory?
I wish I could upvote this response more than once.
pjonesdotca··on Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons
I have a feeling that anything other than "free market capitalism" is going to be shunned around these parts. :)

Great read. And the predecessor as well. https://medium.com/@cjdew/the-obsolescence-of-capitalism-340...

pjonesdotca··on Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
Taleb has said before (it could have been in 'Black Swan') that focusing just on the successful massively distorts the reality of the curve. So much so that it would be more important to study as many of the failures than and all but ignore the successes.
pjonesdotca··on Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
That this captures a little spoken about history of the Internet is my main reason for appreciating the article.
pjonesdotca··on KeySweeper – Arduino-based passive wireless keyboard sniffer
Looking at the list of projects also done (by going to root of url) is quite impressive. http://samy.pl/
pjonesdotca··on Marvel Comics API
Fail - to create an account you have to enter a postal code and they limit the length to 5. Just as the limit of a zip code. Canadian postal codes are invalid. :/
pjonesdotca··on Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code
Pricing missing? Why list "try free for 14 days" when there is no price listing?

That makes me question if I even want to take it for a spin.

pjonesdotca··on Github is down
Or not - or just intermittently down.
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