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by adatta02 18y ago
The article is much more alarmist than I feel like the original PDF intends the data to be. It seems like an obvious conclusion that a few well capitalized brokerage and investment firms would be majority stakeholders across several markets
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by adatta02 18y ago
(mt)'s gs offering has been absolutely terrible for us. Since the summer uptime and support have both been equally awful. The only redeeming quality of the gs service is the insanely large storage (100gb).
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Using Yahoo Pipes for the "enterprise"(shout.setfive.com)
3 points by adatta02 18y ago|0 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
strangely enough I was poking around Android this weekend as well - http://shout.setfive.com/2009/02/23/hello-android/ all and all, pretty smooth experience. now if only we had some Android phones...
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by adatta02 18y ago
Unfortunately "Q: Is the spending data on recovery.gov available in a format (like XML) that developers can use to create mashups and gadgets? A: Not at this time. But, as new systems are developed to capture the allocations and expenditure
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In-depth reverse engineering of USB missile launcher(dvlabs.tippingpoint.com)
4 points by adatta02 18y ago|0 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
This is pretty interesting also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation_cascade especially considering the events of the last few days.
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Mob-mentality @ price of wine(fattyfatfat.com)
1 points by adatta02 18y ago|0 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
It seems like what the PHP team really needs to do is drop backwards compatibility with PHP4+ (on the road map for 6 maybe?), clean up the OO implementation, and then implement closures and anonymous functions. What they need to NOT do is r
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Advice: how to convert SQL data?
2 points by adatta02 18y ago|4 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
Pretty neat - according to the blog post ( http://dragonosticism.wordpress.com/ ) it isn't a Seadragon app though
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by adatta02 18y ago
symfony here also
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by adatta02 18y ago
Go Jumbos!
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Amimarginalized.com: Our experience with Appjet(shout.setfive.com)
18 points by adatta02 18y ago|2 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
just to name a few: argument passing, process scheduling, register allocation, big vs little Endian - I realize this is a weak list but personally I expected more stuff to have some reasons behind the decisions.
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by adatta02 18y ago
After I took a compilers class (or an operating systems class for that matter) the thing that really stood out is how much stuff is dictated simply by convention or remains a "black art" where only a few people really understand how it wo
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by adatta02 18y ago
we used the Turk service to basically do OCR on about 3k images - http://shout.setfive.com/2008/11/20/artificial-artificial-in...
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Poll: What experiment to run on AWS mechanical turk?
11 points by adatta02 18y ago|13 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
I drink while I'm coding pretty routinely. I can't really tell if it makes me any more productive but it definitely holds up the programmer stereotype. There is also that sense of urgency that you have to get stuff done before you get to dr
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by adatta02 18y ago
The issue seems to come down to trust. How can you trust any third party to be acting in your best interest? The situation comes up anywhere where you don't have domain knowledge of the project. I've seen several people get burned by shody
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by adatta02 18y ago
sorry for not making it clear - the bitmaps all ready had text inside of them so we were basically looking for OCR.
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Artificial AI-Our experiance with AWS Mechanical Turk(shout.setfive.com)
6 points by adatta02 18y ago|2 comments
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Guestimating the election with twitter(election.setfive.com)
4 points by adatta02 18y ago|7 comments
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Wikia Search launches WISE - extensible search(re.search.wikia.com)
2 points by adatta02 18y ago|0 comments
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by adatta02 18y ago
check out http://novanix.com/ I realize the website looks shady as all hell. But we use them for EVERYTHING and we've never had a problem. Their support is also top notch. Usually answers+fixes <30 mins.
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by adatta02 18y ago
check out the symfony framework for php - http://www.symfony-project.org/ It has MVC architecture, is decently fast, and has an active community behind it.
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by adatta02 18y ago
solr might also be worth a look. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ It's based on Lucene also but has JSON/XML connectors to alleviate some of the pain of using Nutch.
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by adatta02 18y ago
Google will also "fill in the blank" according to this http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&... matches "Olympics" but perhaps more interesting is http://www.googl
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JS/PHP front end for GNUPlot(shout.setfive.com)
2 points by adatta02 18y ago|0 comments