TrevorBurnham

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E-commerce recommender applications(grouplens.org)
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Full-text search over the pages you've bookmarked. For me, the Firefox address bar (with its rapid search of your browser cache) has made sites like Delicious obsolete. The only webapp I'm aware of that lets you do this is Google Bookmarks
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Along with the new language version comes a new, completely rewritten Eclipse plugin, which can be installed using the update site: http://www.scala-lang.org/scala-eclipse-plugin-beta-preview
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Sounds like it could be useful. Of course, it would be infinitely more useful if researchers were using a semantic markup language (perhaps Content MathML) so that equations with the same meaning could be discovered regardless of the actual
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
It's a terrifically fun video, no question about it. If you're curious about the story behind it, NPR's Planet Money did an episode on it: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/01/podcast_yo_planet_mon...
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
You're right that Scala is very complicated, insofar as there are a huge number of features and a lot of code is unreadable if you don't know them. It's a stark contrast to the "runnable pseudocode" of Python. But I think there's a tradeoff
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Thanks for the link! I'll definitely try SBT for my next Scala project.
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Definitely Scala. I've worked with Groovy/Grails, which is nice in a lot of ways (mainly ways that are borrowed from Ruby/Rails), but I think the language is hindered by being overly Java-compatible. That makes it easy to learn, but limits
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
This would be funny if it were clever enough that the drawings actually answered the questions. That doesn't seem to be the case with any of them.
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Newspapers occupy an awkward middle point between the breaking news you can find on a myriad of websites and the rich, analytical pieces that can be found in good magazines (like The New Yorker and The Atlantic). Generally, there are more e
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious: No mention of Amazon? Really?
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Sesamouse: More magic for the Magic Mouse(calftrail.com)
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Ask HN: Developer/admin log software?
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Six months of using Scala and Lift(jeppenejsum.wordpress.com)
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
"Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations" by David Warsh (2007). It's really two books: It shows how the academic field of Economics works today, and covers much of the field's history; and it also examines Paul Romer's theory of economic growt
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
Fair enough. You can, alternatively, download and install the trial version of Microsoft Office 2007. http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
The article says of Consolas: "Too bad it’s not free … if it was, it would be #1 on this list." Consolas actually can be downloaded for free, legally. If you're on Windows, you can download an installer for the font directly from Microsoft
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Ask HN: Is QuikPitch as shady as it looks?
1 points by TrevorBurnham 17y ago|1 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
It is "broken." You're right that "it's just a convention that they don't use, but you expect." But it's a convention that must prevent a handful of people from accessing their website each day, or at least causing them to Google "NASA" in
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
I should note that someone did indeed post this article, 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045231 None of the (few) commenters registered objections to the fact that the content was paywalled.
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Ask HN: Should I submit paywalled links?
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
"In the case of low serum cholesterol there's a specific allele associated with Apolipoprotein E. The variant Apo E2 is associated with low serum cholesterol. And because of Mendel's law of independent assortment it will be assigned randoml
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by TrevorBurnham 17y ago
I don't understand the proliferation of cross-language compilers. As an academic exercise, great, but for a large project, surely debugging is going to be a pain when the errors refer to code that you never wrote?
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I recall a time (late '90s) when microsoft.com was similarly afflicted. Seriously. That was back when everyone instinctively typed "www," though. In this case, I'm sure it's a temporary glitch.
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TechStars forces you to get great at presenting(billwarner.posterous.com)
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All the world is play(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition(wired.com)
270 points by TrevorBurnham 17y ago|75 comments