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Information Architects has patented usage of NSLinguisticTagger? (Writer Pro)(github.com)
1 points by amix 13y ago|0 comments
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by amix 13y ago
JavaScript solver: https://gist.github.com/amix/8063003 ;-)
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by amix 13y ago
One of the problems I see with Github structure is firing people. One of the tips you see most successful companies follow is hire slow and fire fast. I think it's unrealistic that every hire you do will be the perfect match and a lot
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by amix 13y ago
I read this article today: "How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management" 1), which seems to be a much bigger study of how managers affect work and performance. The general conclusion of Google's study is that management matte
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by amix 13y ago
Here's some great commentary of game 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvToX22oG8s
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by amix 13y ago
This is really awesome! Congrats to the team! We have a ton of JavaScript/CoffeeScript code and I really wish we could use something like Dart. JavaScript is great for smaller projects, but once you get a ton of code it really becomes
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by amix 13y ago
And you base this on what? MySQL is used to scale some of the biggest Internet properties in the world and it has been doing that for many years. Stop spreading FUD.
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by amix 13y ago
Postgres got proper non-hackable replication in version 9... And it still isn't that great.
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by amix 13y ago
MySQL was a great database that solved a problem. It did not solve it in a 100% complaint way, it did not have all the features that "dbms experts wanted", but in the early days it was very easy to started. In version 5+ they hav
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by amix 13y ago
One of my employees rents a 1BR in near the main square (Aliados) for ~360euro/month (~480USD), but you can find something much cheaper a bit more far away.
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by amix 13y ago
Porto, Portugal: It has a river, sea and beaches, lots of history, nice weather, great food, nice people and it's inexpensive. It also has Ryan Air, which means that you can visit other parts of Europe cheaply (<100 euros for a roun
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Todoist for Gmail: A more powerful todo app for Gmail(todoist.com)
2 points by amix 13y ago|0 comments
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by amix 13y ago
Scaling DropBox is not only about sharding the data; it's a huge operation that requires management of thousands of machines, complex and fault tolerant algorithms and management of a lot of people (from database administrators, to sys
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by amix 13y ago
Location was important some years ago, but I think it's less and less relevant now. I think you can create amazing technology anywhere (in Latin America, in Europe, in Asia etc.) Skype is a great example of this: they created a billion
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by amix 13y ago
Dropbox does about 1 billion file updates pr. day across millions and millions of active users, petabytes of data and millions of devices. I think it's very ignorant to think that their problem is just solved by using powerful machines
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by amix 13y ago
I remember reading "Hire the Right Customers"1), which kind of goes against this notion to try to please everyone. Some customers are just the wrong customers and not worth collecting. 1) http://gettingreal.37signals.co
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Das Leben der Anderen: East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets(imdb.com)
5 points by amix 13y ago|0 comments
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by amix 13y ago
If you like this remember to donate some money to the project on http://pypy.org/ [I am not in any way affiliated with PyPy, only supporting the project].
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by amix 13y ago
Thanks for recommending us! :-) Our desktops apps are really useful to structuring coding projects and I use it all the time while coding (as Todoist supports shortcuts and outline like nested structures) - - and it's really fast to use. He
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by amix 13y ago
In the Scandinavian countries (or at least Denmark) it's possible to "retire" early (or at least cheat the system and do this), but I would not really wish anyone this. Working on what you love to do is important, especially in the modern s
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by amix 14y ago
One of the biggest problems of switching to PyPy is to know which libraries are supported and what the best options are. For example, how should we connect to MySQL? Or use memcache? Or use Redis? It would also be great with some stories of
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by amix 14y ago
Being born in Bosnia this makes me proud. Go Emil! :-)
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by amix 14y ago
PyCon had 500 women out of 2500 attendance. Gave away over $100,000 in financial aid. Gave away 2500 Raspberry Pi's. Thought kids to code. Raised $10,000 for the PyLadies. Gave permission to publish amazing online videos etc. And then you h
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by amix 14y ago
I think this is a bad decision as the market has moved to other things. And others such as Feedly or NewsBlur already serve this niche well. For the record I haven't used Google Reader for years (and I have over 500 feeds in it as I used it
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by amix 14y ago
Wilson score confidence interval is easy to implement and already proven to work greatly on Reddit, where it is the default sorting algorithm. Do note that Reddit also has down votes and Reddit also has threaded comments. While I agree, it'
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by amix 14y ago
I have actually done quite some research into HN's and Reddit's algorithms (i.e. http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 and http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 ) and I would say that using The Wilson score confidence interval would improve HN's comm
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by amix 14y ago
With currently only 3400 paying users it's only 80K pr. year of revenues (and the profits are probably much lower). It's still far from a good business and this kind of money does not have any kind of guarantees.
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by amix 14y ago
Not being in SV and not following the SV way of building companies I really don't understand the rush, especially for something as important as picking the right investors. This would be like picking your wife on the first date and doing a
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by amix 14y ago
There's an old saying that applies to this: Don't throw with stones when you live in a glasshouse. I can't really give much respect to people that don't follow their own advice and that rant with profanity at people that make a difference i
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by amix 14y ago
I am shocked that it's considered a smart idea to make it possible to execute code from XML files (and that this is the default setting)!?

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