amoeba

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by amoeba 17y ago
This PDF has been the most helpful reference for me while learning R this last year.
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by amoeba 17y ago
I imagine the author chose kWh/day because your electrical bill is measured in those units. This is the most important way of looking at it.
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by amoeba 17y ago
This is a problem with Chronic and not with the webapp. It looks like Chronic doesn't understand the distinction between midnight and noon. *Edit: Looks like a lot more is wrong with Chronic. http://www.timeapi.org/pdt/seven%20hours%20befo
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by amoeba 17y ago
Very cool. Noticed it doesn't always throw an error when it's sent nonsense: http://www.timeapi.org/pdt/first+firday+this+september Gave me the third Wednesday of this September.
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by amoeba 17y ago
Designing and executing experiments is a skill that goes beyond science and beyond entrepreneurship. It will serve you well in everything you do. The big take-away is when you learn to only make conclusions your experiment set out to find.
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by amoeba 17y ago
This paper covers a lot of the basics in addition to the complex stuff I don't understand yet. I'll definitely be keeping it saved as a general R reference as I do more work in R.
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by amoeba 17y ago
Almost the only reason you'd need to use R. I cringe when professors ask their students to use non-free software when equivalent or better free alternative exist.
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by amoeba 17y ago
Their approach to hosting brings along with it some technical limitations. I recently ran into the situation of wanting to store files on Heroku but their system (understandably) does not support it. The way to get file storage on Heroku is
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by amoeba 17y ago
Ditto. No extra scrollbars on that page.
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by amoeba 17y ago
Which is awesome, by the way.
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by amoeba 18y ago
This would be considerably more useful if you would write up your motivations for doing this and follow it with what you learned from the users and why you think this may or may not be an effective tool.
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by amoeba 18y ago
Yeah. The front page is in an odd state today.
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by amoeba 18y ago
This looks extremely interesting but I don't know Smalltalk. Can a Smalltalker offer an opinion?
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by amoeba 18y ago
Everything Buckets.
45.
by amoeba 18y ago
Pipelining and increasing max requests is considered harmful. Please do not enable these. Both Mozilla and WebKit discourage this and for good reason.
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by amoeba 18y ago
Check that you have sufficient ambient light in the room. A bright screen against a darker backdrop can cause eye strain. White walls and a small, low-wattage light can fix this.
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by amoeba 18y ago
The use of www is incongruous with the idea that the text before your domain name is a subdomain. The URL format I expect is (protocol)://[credentials@][subdomain].(domain) and www breaks this.
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by amoeba 18y ago
The presence of a slice of bacon doubles the loss of productivity I've already achieved by being here. Well-played.
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by amoeba 18y ago
This is seriously useful-awesome. Seeing one gem's progress is great. I would love to see a more abstract view of gem ecosystem as a whole and how much activity there seems to be going from failing to working .
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by amoeba 18y ago
Agreed. This has serious implications and I wonder if there are any other potential systems to be tapped. Dolphins cleaning up the oceans?
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by amoeba 18y ago
It runs on Wordpress? It's also not working to any degree at this moment.
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by amoeba 18y ago
Two universities I no longer attend, both of which I haven't been a student of for at least three years, let me log into my student accounts just the same as I did when I was a student. I don't think this is a surefire way of proving studen
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by amoeba 18y ago
Step back a moment and ask yourself if the anecdote is really a case of a student not playing by implied rules. The teacher most likely had an idea of what they wanted to see students do but failed to make it clear. This was effectively a c
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by amoeba 18y ago
This looks like ergonomics defeat. Your elbows should never be on your desk Get a normal or, gasp, ergonomic keyboard Join your screens up visually. The tilt on the MBP is a disaster Bottled water is bad for your health
55.
by amoeba 18y ago
Good on you for taking the plunge and getting something produced. But is anyone else strongly opposed to automated Twittering and all other automated status updates?
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by amoeba 18y ago
This was my first reaction. My second reaction was to wonder why the place for improvement isn't coming in the form of easier access to direct power sources. I want power surfaces that let me place my cell phone down to recharge it.
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by amoeba 18y ago
Who cares what Cory Doctorow thinks about web browsers?
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by amoeba 18y ago
Good reading at that link. Thanks!
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by amoeba 18y ago
I use Reddit a lot and I never use the downmod button but for spam (which I should be using the `report` feature for). I think HN's decision to just have the up-mod button is a incredibly intelligent one. (But spam does still get to the fro
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by amoeba 18y ago
Immediately reminds me of http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/ . I can't seem to create a string that qualifies as stupid text (Demo: http://stupidfilter.org/demo.php ). Apparently I just don't have it in me to be stupid

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