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by RobinL 12y ago
Flickr does have one huge selling point, which is the 1tb account size for free accounts. Combined with a python upload bot, you can backup all your photos and videos for free to private albums. The newest version of the UX is also very ni
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by RobinL 12y ago
Great visualisation and nice to see it properly accounts for all considations. I live in London. Unfortunately, as the calculator shows, change in house prices is overwhelmingly the most important consideration in buying if you're thi
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by RobinL 12y ago
I really like my Surface Pro but Microsoft need to fix Windows for very high DPI screens. Yeah, if you fiddle enough you can change most settings, but often it's too much effort so I just strain my eyes. I find myself sometimes wishin
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by RobinL 12y ago
The neutrality point is kind of interesting because if the sound engineers start adjusting recordings to sound best though Beats headphones (or other audio 'enhancers'), then the recording will actually sound 'worse than inte
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by RobinL 12y ago
I suppose an interesting comparison is the Gangnam Style video on Youtube, which has 2 billion views. If he had 2bn plays rather than 15,000 he'd have made $560,000, which doesn't really sound like that much to me considering Gan
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by RobinL 13y ago
Amazing how little code is needed to make this!
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by RobinL 13y ago
I use of both Python (pandas) and base SAS at work for UK government. I have lots of experience in SAS, and enjoy using it. The macro language allows for very succinct solutions to difficult data manipulation problems. However, given SAS&#x
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by RobinL 13y ago
What a great illustration of how investment bubbles can rationally occur.
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by RobinL 13y ago
A nice illustration of the central limit theorem! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem This means there's nothing special about 3 - the more times you add uniforms together, the more normal it become
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by RobinL 13y ago
Nice, simple and fun. There's a bug in an error message in the 'Compare' feature. If it can't find one of the two actors, it always says it can't find the first one. e.g. http://www.cinemabuff.net/c
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by RobinL 13y ago
Great write up, thanks - wish I'd had this when I got started with pandas because the thing I found tricky was converting the SQL I knew into its pandas equivalent. One thing I would point out for new users is the .loc and .iloc functi
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by RobinL 13y ago
I imagine it's an extension of the 'terrarium' example which is used to demonstrate OOP in javascript in the first edition of this book.... [edit - yes - it says this at the bottom of the page!]
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by RobinL 13y ago
Sounded implausible to me too. Perhaps its the number of videos currently being viewed such that e.g. viewing a 60 second video would effectively count for 60
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by RobinL 13y ago
Ah yes, thank you!
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by RobinL 13y ago
Nice use of d3 that really adds value. I'll use this as an example next time I do time series training at work. Could I ask what you've used to make the animation repeat? From a quick search I noticed you aren't using setInt
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by RobinL 13y ago
You're assuming they live as they want to. Read this and think again: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Envy-Lives-North-Korea/dp/18...
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by RobinL 13y ago
Thanks for this Mike. My work is more efficient, more enjoyable, and better because of d3. A lot of this relies on your quality, clear tutorials and documentation.
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by RobinL 14y ago
Your assumption though is that they will spend the money on the 'fish' rather than the 'fishing rod'. Is there any evidence for this? And if they did buy the fish, are we sure that really was worse than the rod?
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by RobinL 14y ago
I think in general this is a fantastic idea. Often, charity is too presumptuous: the giver purports to know what the receiver 'really needs', so rather than giving money they give something else. I think this is shortsighted as it's very
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by RobinL 14y ago
I'm currently in the process of learning Javascript. I've use Codecademy to get started in the basics. In terms of books, I've used The Good Parts, Javascript: The Definitive Guide, and Secrets of a Javascript Ninja. The thing I've strugg