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by adw 17y ago
I'm not sure Google needs to cook that book. People like faster websites, so they'll get more link love, so they'll probably rise up of their own accord. If I'm searching for something to link to - often a news story, if I'm writing for the
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by adw 17y ago
Maybe (ha!) I'm weird, but I really enjoy shopping for clothes. No-one'd call me handsome or dapper, but there's something really satisfying about putting a look together. I never have enough time, though!
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by adw 17y ago
Are they connected with Twitpic ( http://twitpic.com/ ), or are they ripping them off as well?
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by adw 17y ago
The instant headline from this, for me, is that 10% of Twitter users use it to talk: 90% use it, if at all, to read. There's probably something deep here: about the difference between Facebook-style reciprocal friending, where you're probab
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by adw 17y ago
On the Processing front: Ben Fry et al. recommend you google for "processing.org". You can try "p5" too - it used to be at proce55ing.org before they got the non-leet domain, but the nickname's stuck around.
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by adw 17y ago
To be fair, the guide doesn't outright state "use the clearest word", but the implication's clear; the entries for pressurise and for critique , for example. Orwell's essay is fabulous, as you say!
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by adw 17y ago
This is swimming upstream given the progress of the thread, but I loved this. It's an opinionated style guide. If you disagree, that's of course fine - and part of the reason I liked it, I suspect, was that it fits well with my own idiolect
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by adw 17y ago
Hypertable's Microsoft, thanks to the Powerset deal.
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by adw 17y ago
Processing! http://processing.org/ (Not general purpose, admittedly, but very very satisfying.)
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by adw 17y ago
Yeah, that's more or less what happens. What you'd, admittedly naively, want, though, is a way of saying "a new empty dictionary, please", so you don't wind up having to write this kind of thing: def f(a, d=None): if d is None:
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by adw 17y ago
This is a pretty minor thing compared to a lot of the warts here - to be honest, I'm not in the league of most of you as a programmer, I suspect - but two pretty simple things I've found surprising/annoying and have managed to shoot myself
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by adw 17y ago
last.fm did something similar, called Dumbo, for writing your Hadoop jobs in Python.
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by adw 17y ago
My mum learnt to program in Autocode at the end of the Sixties, and went on to do scary embedded stuff in fighter jets; when she went back to work after having kids, she wound up doing crypto. Me? I do web stuff. There's only one badass pro
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by adw 17y ago
There are three of us working at the startup I work at, and we've all got PhDs; chemistry, chemical physics and computational mineralogy respectively. What we're doing has very little to do with any of the science we perpetrated, though!
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by adw 18y ago
It depends how big they mean by "seed", too. Y Combinator's one extreme, half-million pound investments at ten million valuations is the other - I've seen both called seed rounds...
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by adw 18y ago
Another issue, of course, is the product mix of the American carmakers (which doesn't blunt Nate Silver's point, but is at least another contributory factor). Basically, the American car companies bet the farm on SUVs in the '90s in the way