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by aidanf 11y ago
Since Google Reader shut down, I've basically switched my behaviour to subscribing to sites via email and especially looking out for good curated weekly emails. Here are my favourites at the moment: iOS Dev Weekly : https://
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by aidanf 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote. Location: Ireland. Experienced Rails developer (9 years). I’ve worked with several large rails codebases and high-traffic rails sites. A few things I can do: * Help scale your rails app, find bottlenecks, improve perf
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by aidanf 12y ago
This is very confusing - you might want to think about another name or at least changing your design. The name, logo and theme/color-scheme are all very similar to sendowl. So much so that I assumed that this was another project by the
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A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing(kadavy.net)
8 points by aidanf 12y ago|1 comments
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by aidanf 12y ago
Started working on a book about Swift and released early versions of the first 11 chapters. http://www.swift-tutorial.io/learn-swift
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by aidanf 12y ago
One of the big problems with AB testing is that the people running tests within a company often don't have a strong understanding of the statistics behind the tests. And unfortunately, they often have little interest in performing stat
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by aidanf 12y ago
This looks really interesting! But I can't see any way to subscribe to book updates. A mailing list (my preferred means of subscribing to this kind of stuff these days) or an rss feed to get notified when new chapters are ready would b
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by aidanf 12y ago
"Being available to our customers is my #1 priority (after helping you make insanely delicious meals)" So it's your #2 priority then...
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by aidanf 12y ago
Also http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
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by aidanf 12y ago
The parent's tone doesn't come across as belittling to me - it seems more like a playful, joking form of sarcasm - although I guess tone is difficult to decipher on the web. Nevertheless, there's no harm in a little humour, a
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by aidanf 12y ago
PageRank evolved from Kleinberg's Hubs and Authorities[1], which partly evolved from work in ranking research papers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
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by aidanf 12y ago
If you were a freelance programmer, you would be much better off taking the time you would spend building a time-tracker from scratch and instead spend it on billable client work at a much higher rate than $5 per month.
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by aidanf 13y ago
Some background context in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/liftweb/7vvVPmi53Kc/S0kaJ-j2...
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by aidanf 13y ago
FWIW, I tried a different url [1] on both services and I thought the Aylien results were better in this instance. [1] http://www.football365.com/john-nicholson/9170607/He-Who-Pan... .
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Mother Fukushima(theinertia.com)
23 points by aidanf 13y ago|18 comments
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by aidanf 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
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by aidanf 13y ago
This article looks like linkbait, and poorly written linkbait at that. There's very little of substance in it, and nothing in the way of comparison with other languages that might alternatively be used. For example, consider the paragr
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by aidanf 13y ago
If you want to play around with data, here's another good list of open/free datasets: http://bitly.com/bundles/hmason/1
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by aidanf 14y ago
I saw on your blog post that you use clojure - could you give an overview of your technology stack and how clojure fits into it?
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by aidanf 14y ago
Also you can run Weka from the command line http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
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by aidanf 15y ago
Here's another interesting case-study in exploiting a bad RNG. It's from 1999 and shows how the authors were able to exploit the weak RNG at planetpoker.com to predict the sequences output by their card-shuffling algorithm. http://www.cigi
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by aidanf 15y ago
App looks nicely done, but I would never use it. I live close to several surf spots and I surf every day that it's good. Like others have said here it's not in my interest to tell others when it's good. My ideal surf session is when the sur
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by aidanf 15y ago
The Little Schemer (196 pages) Programming in Haskell (171 pages) are two that spring to mind.
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by aidanf 16y ago
I'd like to see a bit more of what this site is about but everytime I go to http://minomonsters.com/ I get redirected to facebook. It would be nice if I could view the site and learn something about the game without having to authorize it
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by aidanf 16y ago
You could set this up with unison( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ) if you want to go the self-host route.
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by aidanf 16y ago
Indeed. This is really bizarre behaviour. The full links are shown in non-clickble text beside the links. But the links actually point to shortened bit.ly links. What's the point of using shortened links here at all?
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by aidanf 16y ago
Any decent rails book will have a section on common security flaws and how to avoid them. There are plenty of web tutorials on the same topic. All the flaws in the linked article are very basic and should have been avoided if they took the
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by aidanf 16y ago
I've used Unison ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ) to get a dropbox type setup running across several machines.
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by aidanf 16y ago
I'm always wary of posts like this. It's tagged as book review but there isn't much detail about the book in question. It is effusive in it's praise of the book but gives very little detail of why the book is good. And it contains two affil
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by aidanf 16y ago
Well last week we had a post about posterous adding markdown and syntax-highlighting and it got 99 points on the front-page. Now we have this post, about them adding the ability to create pages, on the front-page with 17 points after 1 hour

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