SlyShy

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   Hash Table Benchmarks(incise.org)

   6 points by SlyShy 17y ago|0 comments
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   If it weren't so funny I'd almost feel bad for Cuil. Although it's a little disingenuous, because Cuil's pitch was that their display of results was radically different. That and that they indexed a lot.
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   Wikileaks publishes memos, reports, that sort of concrete evidence. I don't think they would officially publish their first hand reports without first trying to get some kind of confirmation through a leaked government file on them, for exa
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   Thank you, that's very concrete.
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   Can't say I was a huge fan either. And here are your three cents change. ;)
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   I'll do that. I've contributed to some small projects, but I was psyching myself out from working on big open source projects. There are probably all sorts of bugs that would be tedious for the experienced coders to fix, so that's probably
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   Thanks, that's encouraging to hear. There's a group of people who give me advice that make it sound like all companies care about is GPA and the likes. My response was skepticism, because there have to be people who have the experience to e
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   I'm still waiting to hear back from several schools. Still a week to wait.
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   by SlyShy 17y ago

   I took 1901 with Dovolis and that was well worth my while. I'd done Lispey things before, so I was initially skeptical, but that course started a love affair with functional languages.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Thanks for the tips. I've been preparing cover letters so I'm glad to hear confirmation that it's a good idea.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Yeah, we did a little connect 4 AI project, except that you can drop pieces in from the left side and they float to the right, in addition to normal dropping from the top. I actually tied for first place in the tournament. Didn't figure tha
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    Ask HN: Help a Highschooler with His Resume

    21 points by SlyShy 17y ago|32 comments
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    I'v been using http://wingify.com/ and have been quite happy with it. It's by a fellow HN member. Not sure if it fits your exact needs, though.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Not the thread that started this whole thing, but here's the NeoGAF thread about the game's development. It has far more pictures and concept art than the official website. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=381946 (Warning: typ
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    And all this time analysts were saying Google would stand down from its principles on this matter. I quite like this page: http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en as well as the general tenor of these actions.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    It isn't mentioned here, but hashes are a big win in terms of memory savings. The hash representation for small hashes is very efficient compared to keeping top level keys. You can get savings of around 25% by moving data into hashes with f
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    I sometimes wonder if these stories belong here, due to the incendiary properties and tangential relationship to start-ups. Not that I don't think Hacker News could handle the discussion more or less maturely.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Well deservedly so. I use Chrome now, instead of Opera, but I'm using features that Opera first pioneered.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Just develop an eye for observation. It's very difficult for me to go through an entire day without noticing a new opportunity for a start-up. There are some very obvious behaviours you can look for to identify opportunity. Any time you see
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Thanks, I'll edit the title.
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    Ruby official mirror on Github(github.com)

    44 points by SlyShy 17y ago|16 comments
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Gotcha. I'm a big fan of the API examples in the meantime.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    It's weird to me that you aren't using your own product on your website. Or if you are, I looked around for it for a long time and didn't find it. You don't think it would be a natural fit for your own start-up? ;-) You could display all th
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Go become close friends with "someone like that". Turns out hackers are people too. A solid partner isn't someone you recruit and evaluate. A joint venture isn't going to succeed if one person in it forms an entitlement complex wherein "it
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    It makes sense to me. The Wikimedia foundation greatly enriches the quality of Google's search results for the majority of users. I almost always want the Wikipedia article when I search for something.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    I don't think it's a huge issue, but what the point of is when you want to use a non-websafe font, then you've got to use one of these font replacement schemes. And those don't do subpixel rendering. And so you'd use this. Presumably. You c
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Here's a use case of my own. I'm running a script that does sentence tokenization. Since the algorithm is using machine learning, I have a large dictionary of fragments corresponding to their probabilities. Instead of loading that dictionar
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    The title makes this article seem like one of those "good work psychologists, that was obvious to us already" results, but it's actually much more interesting than that.
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    Love this already (that is, the source code is a really useful reference for me).
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    by SlyShy 17y ago

    You need to sell this idea better. Right now it feels very much like a solution without a problem. You talk about stickiness briefly, but without specific and concrete use cases I'm not convinced. You might want to investigate thesixtyone.