Bill_Dimm

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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
No, I haven't. Thanks!
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Perhaps, but they seem to be more up to date than the maps I bought from Garmin for my hiking GPS a few years ago. I bought the 2008 version of their 100k maps for the U.S., and found that Lake Nockamixon (1,450 acres) and Marsh Creek Rese
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Nitpicking, but why are they claiming to provide MAP (mean average precision) scores when their description and equation indicates that they are computing average precision, not MAP. According to the definition of MAP [1] that they link to
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
The problem I have with that argument is that the original post said there were multiple payments that were all reversed later. If the code was so bad, why wasn't the developer terminated much earlier? Doesn't multiple payments
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
So, AOL? When AOL merged with Time Warner they made the various Time Warner magazine sites subscriber-only unless you were on AOL. Edit: Oh, and what makes you think the advertising wouldn't come back eventually? When cable TV came o
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Customers are spending nearly twice as long at the restaurant because they are busy with their phones, yet the restaurant says "the number of customers we serve on a daily basis is almost the same today as it was 10 years ago." H
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
The charts are interesting, but I wonder how meaningful they are. For example, does the sales volume at $9.99 reflect what long-term sales would be, or is the number artificially high because people saw the price drop and thought they shou
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
It sounds like you had a process running over night that needed enough memory to force X (or whatever) to swap. Without the swap, that memory-hungry process would presumably have run less optimally (if it got memory allocation failures and
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
If you plan to hibernate, I believe you need at least 16GB of swap (i.e. the amount of memory you have).
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:au9GY9v...
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Recording/streaming the event makes it very easy to take an out-of-context soundbite... I would have concluded the exact opposite. Making a full recording available allows any attempt to quote part the meeting out of context discove
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Interesting. Some comments: 1) It doesn't mention what file types it accepts. Since it says "presentations" I'm tempted to think .PPT, but some tools for presentations (like SpeakerDeck.com) take .PDF. 2) Why presentat
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Did they give an explanation for the contact info getting changed (assuming you complained about it)? I'm wondering if it might be related to a botched data transfer between them and Enom (which does the actual registrations for NameC
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
They had one called Red Flag Linux, but apparently it shut down recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
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by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Cross-validation (actually, this is mentioned toward the end of the article). Basically, fit the the classifier with a subset of the data and test the predictions on the remainder. Predictions for out-of-sample data will be poor if you ha
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I find long URLs to be annoying in email since you never know if they will get wrapped and broken somewhere along the way. And, if you're emailing a URL to someone you are presumably providing some text to explain what it is, so why d
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Search engine spiders, scrapers, etc. would end up hitting a bunch of dupes when the title change causes a new URL to be generated that really points to the same content (not that spiders don't already have to deal with that mess on ot
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
And, none of that is from the post you replied to; it is from my first post two levels up. The post you replied to is the one where I pointed out that my claim that it feels "sloppy" is based not merely on a few failed installs b
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I tried Ubuntu several years ago, and really didn't think it lived up to all of the hype. I encountered a lot of obvious bugs (perhaps because I was using the 64-bit version, which was probably somewhat unusual at the time) and the ad
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
When I'm buying a laptop, I keep in mind that I plan to install Linux on it, and plan accordingly. You do realize that the laundry list of flaky behavior described in the post are replying to has nothing to do with the hardware (exce
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Well, I was installing pretty common distros on a pretty common laptop, and most people would have probably given up after expending many fewer hours than I did, so I think the risk of a random person trying to install Linux and coming away
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
While clearly anecdotal, my own experience is that things have really not improved all that much over the past seven years. I've been using Linux since 1995, so I remember the bad old days, and things had improved a lot leading up to
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Also, be aware that the muscles you use when running that way are very different (much more calf muscle involvement) and you need to build up to it gradually. I was told once to start off running 15% of the distance you did when heel-strik
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
It responds well to being resized (e.g. to fit on a mobile phone screen instead of a large monitor). Although, I think it is normally used to mean considerably more than the simple scaling being done here (e.g. I've seen designs where
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
That is creepy. I'm not sure whether the publicity from the blog post is going to generate more or fewer customers for the Stripe competitor, though.
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
For many years I have wondered why so many people think that supply versus demand ought to be a linear function. Many curves are linear if you zoom in on a tiny enough piece of them. If there are a million 1x programmers in the world, an
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Yes. It's short for "Tesla's earnings beat expectations in Q4"
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Interesting, but what percentage of people have Apple TV? Is it enough to have that much of an impact? Note: Edited to remove part that was actually addressed in original post.
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
If you have any text labels in the diagram, the font will be consistent with the rest of the text.
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Also, the ones in this article are square shaped, so you can't even see total site growth over time in them, which would be interesting and relevant. I came here to say that (although your other points are good, too). The title of t

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