JoshCole

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by JoshCole 16y ago
I was thinking along the lines of words that carried the concept of implied doubt rather than requiring it through inference. I had been reading LessWrong and noticed someone talking in the comments about how the writing lacked nuance due t
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Sometimes hitting yourself with a hammer can be a good thing. It depends on what you know and how it is being applied. For example, when your treating your head as a nail and coming at is a doctor who specializes in the treatment of acne, y
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I was brainstorming what words would fit the "X is Y" where X is a thing and Y is one word that describes your opinion. I could only think of things like "my pet peeve", "annoys me", "is something I don't need" and other things that weren't
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by JoshCole 16y ago
People using clojure can get selector based scraping using Enlive instead of JQuery [1]. It also ends up doubling as a templating library. I use it for templating on my website and I use it to scrape Hacker News, though that project the scr
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by JoshCole 16y ago
What happens if you only overwrite a bit if the bit that was there before writing is different? This way your not overwriting every bit, so guessing at the previous bit can lead you astray. Or is that impossible?
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The Dead Speak(whattofix.com)
6 points by JoshCole 16y ago|1 comments
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I've read a book by Niel Postman where he points out that the medium your working in changes how you craft a message. I believe he was right in stating that a text-based medium promotes reasoning to a greater degree. The same sort of idea i
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by JoshCole 16y ago
My favorite book was probably "Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman." I liked it, because it was fun to read, especially when he played a practical joke. A bit farther down the list would be the newest Wheel of Time books. Brandon Sanderson annoy
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I might be interested in this for some of my heavier books. I got an art history book for one of my courses earlier, picking it up is like picking up a gallon of milk. I'm not looking forward to lugging that around between classes. I don't
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by JoshCole 16y ago
If this wasn't a joke, this would be way wrong. This article is so focused on the computer aspect of getting away with this that they forget the physical world. There is such a thing as a camera and if your going to be going about installin
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by JoshCole 16y ago
At first I thought you were trying to say that 'they' couldn't be singular. To save others some time, it can. I double checked and made a post to correct you. Than I realized what you really meant.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I second this post and want to mention that support for this exists in Chrome as well. You don't even need to grab an addon. The searchable bookmarks site, trunkly, turned me on to this feature. I nearly posted a Tell HN when I realized wha
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I got bored halfway through this and didn't finish it. The section on the conference itself felt so much like the Onion I think it could be copied verbatim into one of their articles without seeming out of place.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem... This data visualization suggests that saying that St. John's Wort isn't really snake oil.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
One thing I'm finishing up is a bot written in C++ for a slightly popular chat program. First thing I've ever written that I expect someone will purchase.
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Ask HN: Best data analysis blogs?
9 points by JoshCole 16y ago|4 comments
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I actually was really excited when I saw this originally. I made a point of going through all the bots posts to see what you were doing with it. I got the impression that you were trying to tweak the bot to the point that people would find
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I'm working on a plugin for a chat server for my uncle and building a site for the hacker news communities. More news on the latter once I've finished.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
A question highly related to this: If I was interested in recording myself while coding what program would you recommended? It doesn't have to support live streaming. The only real requirements are that I could turn it on and forget about i
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by JoshCole 16y ago
The chat seems to suggest that this isn't actually live. Apparently it is just looping a video of him coding at some point in the past. The "Live Steaming" text will be red, not gray, when he it is actually streaming live.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Have you tested whether it leads to more or less sign ups?
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I think your defining "human" based on norm. I would prefer to define "human" based on a humans ease of use given familiarity with the notation. I prefer this definition because if you use what I take to be your definition you get oddities
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Nice, hopefully more sites will do this.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
An API that I found useful: http://www.wordnik.com/developers
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I'm just using my laptop at this point. I think it has a lot to do with what is convention. Why should I be using the slightly more powerful computer given that my laptop can travel with me?
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Hopefully Clojure, which I suppose is another way of saying Java.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I find it far easier to parse the current implementation as a reader. I have a bit more trouble parsing it when I'm writing a script that scrapes Hacker News. Speaking of which, if anyone wants some Clojure code that converts a Hacker New's
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by JoshCole 16y ago
There were only a handful of Lisp entrants while Java had more than any other language in the competition. I agree with you that we shouldn't read much into this. I also think we shouldn't be reading much into the posts about how it was Lis
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Yea. If you get the same program in two different languages, you would expect the faster language to win, it can do a more thorough search. I glanced at the results of the previous competition and the first page was drenched in C++. It is t
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Lisp has average performance in Google AI Competition(jcole.posterous.com)
2 points by JoshCole 16y ago|4 comments

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