FlorianOver

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by FlorianOver 9y ago
I once though about fickstarter.com (fick being the german word for fuck)...
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by FlorianOver 9y ago
http://99percentinvisible.org/ http://freakonomics.com/ Both a great in different ways.
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by FlorianOver 10y ago
I really admire Andy Wingo for all his great work. Thank you and the guile team for the the outstanding results!
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by FlorianOver 10y ago
Well there was this guy from my hometown who shared his facebook password to strangers on parties. You never knew what would appear on his facebook account after weekends.
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by FlorianOver 10y ago
>Augmenting people is the same as replacing them. >The person now has a greater output which means you need less of them. Attention, i think this is a fallacy in multiple aspects. Maybe they don't produce more, just higher qualit
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by FlorianOver 10y ago
It depends on the tts plugin you use. We have build and tested several tts plugins. I can recommend Microsoft Bing Voice and the new Google Speech API. Both are very rarely wrong.
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by FlorianOver 11y ago
> By analyzing the past returns of current S&P500 companies, the author is allowing for survivorship bias; Thought so myself. Interesting to see what the result were with data from the beginning of the period.
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by FlorianOver 11y ago
> Because managing databases in Python should be as simple as reading and writing JSON files. Not the best sales pitch. :D
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by FlorianOver 11y ago
Used in production without a hassle for 2 years. For our setup and scenario it was a very fitting and good solution. Easy Setup and easy usage. Recommended.
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by FlorianOver 11y ago
Berlin is a special case. You can stay weeks in cologne without seeing one police woman/man.