BillFranklin

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by BillFranklin 3y ago
When I used to work with D3 I found object constancy to be quite an important principle. Transitions between state are often neglected (a full state refresh is easier).
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by BillFranklin 3y ago
As someone who has made a ton of grafana dashboards over the years, be prepared for users to hold it wrong. Data visualisations should fail/degrade in clear and expected ways. Users are often surprised when dashboards/charts hit s
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by BillFranklin 3y ago
I read about this today in Hawking’s final book. The crafts would travel immensely quickly, passing Mars in less than an hour and Pluto in a few days, and could reach Alpha Centauri in about 20 years. Importantly there can be a flyby of Pro
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Breakthrough Starshot Nanocraft open engineering challenges(breakthroughinitiatives.org)
3 points by BillFranklin 3y ago|1 comments
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by BillFranklin 4y ago
The A-10 attack game works! Controls are at http://www.sierrahelp.com/Documents/Manuals/A-10_Tank_Killer... . Also, you can still get EV Nova on a Mac as far as I'm aware. The price hasn't decreased in ab
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by BillFranklin 5y ago
I run Blogosphere ( https://bilbof.com/blogosphere/ ) which aggregates blogs from independent engineers, and uses a recommendation system to find you new posts. This isn’t quite what you asked for as you wanted tech comp
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate the tip on the LSH filter. One thing that has helped so far is restricting the content manually and with heuristics, as it prevents clickbait/controversial/malicious content. If I can impleme
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Hi Adnan! Sorry for the delay, I've added your blog: https://bilbof.com/blogosphere/blogs/33759 .
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
I had a crack at that with the blog directory ( https://bilbof.com/blogosphere/blogs ), but it's pretty limited! One thing I thought would be cool would be an API for similar blogs or articles, pretty much opening u
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Thanks, I've added Jacob's blog! https://bilbof.com/blogosphere/blogs/33758
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Thanks for taking a look, sorry the login on your mobile isn't working, I've added that to my bug tracker. My focus so far has been making sure recommendations are good enough, but it would be nice if one could use the site on a s
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Back in August I had a look at using Latent Dirichlet Allocation ( http://blog.echen.me/2011/08/22/introduction-to-latent-diric... ) for improving how I auto-tag articles. It looked promising but I haven't
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
I started with the contents of my own RSS feed, and then crawled Hacker News for popular blogs, and then crawled the feeds of those blogs (in order to get posts that didn't get upvoted on HN). The time consuming part was manually audit
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Sorry, I haven't added a way for users to add blogs yet. If you could send me a link to an RSS/Atom feed I'd be happy to add more blogs. Auditing blogs for quality is quite time consuming so it'd be a good feature to add
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Hi, I think discovering blogs and articles by other engineers is quite hard. Particularly non-commercial content. I made blogosphere last Summer in order to improve discovery. It’s seeded with personal blogs that have at some point appeared
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Show HN: Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs(bilbof.com)
200 points by BillFranklin 6y ago|48 comments
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Great stuff, and it’s cool you are working with Doug, I enjoyed his book on search relevance :) I’ll look out for more posts from your team, good luck!
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Interesting article! Shopify's approach is cool, it's interesting they're using Kafka to generate datasets. I wonder if the explicit human rankings will get stale (and also be hugely outweighted by implicit judgements in the
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A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”(technologyreview.com)
4 points by BillFranklin 6y ago|7 comments
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
It's interesting that 17% are not satisfied with editor support for Go. The biggest editor feature requests were for code completion and navigating code. Rather than editors being at fault, could these indicate that Go is a bit too ver
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Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report(reuters.com)
1 points by BillFranklin 6y ago|1 comments
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
This is a good starting point to your question, from William Morgan who's attributed with coining the term service mesh: https://buoyant.io/service-mesh-manifesto/ . It's a fair question. Service meshes are a
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
Ah I see, thank you for explaining that. I misinterpreted that sentence.
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by BillFranklin 6y ago
This was an interesting read. Building and selling a company for $875m, that’s amazing! I was a bit confused, did the tech exec just quit without notice when they learned the CEO was pregnant? How would they be able to justify that insanity
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Effective Daily Standups(bilbof.com)
3 points by BillFranklin 6y ago|0 comments
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A AB B Deployments(bilbof.com)
1 points by BillFranklin 6y ago|0 comments
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by BillFranklin 7y ago
I wrote a fast feed aggregator a couple months ago. I’ve found I’ve read HN less because of it, and have read more of what I’m interested in. RSS feeds are fantastic, could still be improved though (eg pagination of feeds). https:/&#x
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Making an Endpoint 50x Faster(bilbof.com)
48 points by BillFranklin 7y ago|16 comments
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by BillFranklin 7y ago
I think a good mobile version of Apple spotlight might do more damage to Google than Bing/DDG. Improving voice assistants in particular, like with Siri, could damage Google unless they’re not careful, since these assistants go beyond s
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by BillFranklin 7y ago
Does PyTorch have a learn to rank module? Tensorflow released a ranking module earlier this year, but I’d like to try out PyTorch.

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