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by adw 17y ago
Vocabulary is overrated! Simple words are the best words; if you can get your story across without jargon, and have it remain compelling, then you've got a chance. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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by adw 17y ago
The thing about Django is Python, really. Ruby looks nice, but Python apps get the benefit of all the non-Django applications it's been put to: fast numerics through Numpy and Scipy, PIL, lxml, NLTK, Twisted, etc etc etc. Of course, you cou
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by adw 17y ago
We're not YC, but Django at Timetric.
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by adw 17y ago
Have a look at Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant too.
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by adw 17y ago
(Again, I'm one of the Timetric team.) We've not so much left it out as not got round to it yet! Counting the number of entries - is that what you're after? - is a nice idea: we were thinking more of a series of values a-la RSS-CB ( http://
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by adw 17y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the Timetric team, though I don't recognise myself from Jed's description!) There's also the API and the ability to build models which get updated when the underlying data's updated. Timetric is much more a time seri
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by adw 17y ago
That'll be happening really soon - in fact, it works under the covers, and we're using it on some data (like http://timetric.com/series/DMrAf_pQRj6jeItUKxpXGQ/ ). It's just not in the UI yet. (You can import data from URLs already; it's th
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by adw 17y ago
We (Timetric, startup I've cofounded) got data on this from the Newspaper Association of America: http://byline.timetric.com/2009/06/07/classified-information...
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by adw 17y ago
One detail: according to Martin Brundle, the BBC commentator, it was more like 60mph (100kph). When Massa was knocked unconscious by the spring, his feet came to rest on the accelerator and brake - both were down when he went into the wall.
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by adw 17y ago
I'd say six months at most. It does mean browser detection - serve TTF to Firefox/Webkit/Opera, OTF to IE - but Typekit, Kernest and Typotheque are all either in the market or in beta with combo javascript/CDN services to handle serving the
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by adw 17y ago
Or were pressured to be under that pressure - we're talking about seventeen-year-old kids here. But, still, it's nothing like this – and, flawed thought it is, there is support for students.
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by adw 17y ago
Yeah, sorry about missing the intent of the joke :) I'm cynical enough to think people'll just take pot-shots at scientists playing outside their perceived core expertises just on principle. Not that I'm a scientist turned startupper or any
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by adw 17y ago
Econophysicists, roughly speaking, model economic systems using techniques from statistical mechanics; not nearly as silly an idea as it might seem at first blush.
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by adw 17y ago
Well, hopefully simonw ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw ) will drop in on this thread himself... But the Guardian were certainly (justifiably) pretty delighted when Simon started working there - check the press release: http://
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by adw 17y ago
Got a source for that? I'm pretty sure that the institution I went to you (hint: it's got more Nobel Prizes than yours) would disagree.
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by adw 17y ago
Actually, it's not that remarkable to have a PhD by 24 in the UK. Our university system's much more intensive than the American one; three years to your bachelors', three years of flat-out research for the PhD. (We don't do quals.) I was
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by adw 17y ago
"Ack in Project" is so much better than the built-in search it's not even close.
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by adw 17y ago
There's also Swivel (swivel.com), Verifiable (verifiable.com) and as mentioned earlier IBM's Many Eyes. You've always got the glowering presence of the Business Intelligence giants (SAP/Business Objects in particular) too... And our startup
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by adw 17y ago
Guitar, bass, keys/electronics (laptop, Tenori-On), and I sort of sing a bit. Used to play violin.
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by adw 17y ago
Shouldn't really reply to myself, but: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/far-right-europe... summarises the situation pretty well.
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by adw 17y ago
The Hungarians got three neo-fascists in too (this mob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_Better_Hungary , who have some particularly scary ideas about a "Greater Hungary"). Geert Wilders' list in the Netherlands are close to as
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by adw 17y ago
I've been working fulltime on a 12" Powerbook G4 (and I've written and released an entire album on the same machine, for that matter). And the G4 Powerbook wasn't especially fast when it came out! Computers have been by and large fast enoug
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by adw 17y ago
That's interesting. I doubt the Pirate Party would get much play in rural Britain; the Eurosceptics of UKIP (common-or-garden get-off-my-lawn types) are cleaning up there. (And the bloody fascists have got at least one MEP. Probably two. s
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by adw 17y ago
I'm not sure it really translates - it's a post-socialist phenomenon, and socialism still seems like a swearword your side of the pond. Take issues like gun control, social welfare, environmentalism... the modern European hard left is, in g
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by adw 17y ago
They're campaigning on a much broader digital rights/anti-surveillance techno-libertarian platform. That's going to appeal to a certain class of (probably urban, young, middle-class) voter.
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by adw 17y ago
Interesting reaction from Tom Watson MP, until last week the UK government minister for e-democracy and (more or less) the Internet: "That Sir, is a seismic result, and a big warning to a very large number of vested interests." http://twit
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by adw 17y ago
I've got to disagree. Around half of UK-national Oxford students come from state schools ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4027010.ece ), and as that article says, that's at least in part because teachers scare their kids aw
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by adw 17y ago
Things like this make me glad to have grown up in the UK. I went to Cambridge, which is (at least academically) as good a university as you can find, and it's a state school. You apply through the unified UCAS system and the fees - around £
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Classified information: why newsprint doesn't pay in the USA(byline.timetric.com)
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by adw 17y ago
This isn't my idea, it's my colleague's, but he managed to get it through my thick skull this morning: it's all about the robots. Wave robots can do anything, including publishing from a wave to somewhere else, filtering and parsing, import

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