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by andrea_s 12y ago
Actually it bothers me because I am the "CTO" of a 3-people company - when we started, I'd have preferred less glamorous titles, but my partners saw an advantage in using standard terminology to clearly separate our roles...
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by andrea_s 12y ago
I'm always torn when I hear about the "CEO" of such a small company (or, in more extreme cases, the CEO of a one man band) - from one side, I see that it gives a clear impression of how the tasks are distributed within the co
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Poor manners in Angular issues tab(github.com)
1 points by andrea_s 12y ago|2 comments
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by andrea_s 12y ago
It's not so bad after all. http://codio.com , on the other hand... ;)
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by andrea_s 12y ago
How many of the people who are bashing the paper in this discussion are machine learning experts? Especially the overfitting crowd - looks like emotional attachment to one's favorite topics is not really impacted by said person's
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Please note that "cappio" means "loop" (as in, for hanging people) in Italian. Not sure if it's deliberate, but perhaps it's good for you to know :)
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by andrea_s 12y ago
This manifested for me as a large number of "conflicted copies" everywhere inside my main visual studio solution. Thankfully, source control saved the day... But I was really annoyed at Dropbox for a little while.
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by andrea_s 12y ago
For all the hype that surrounds this platform, the live demos are truly underwhelming...
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by andrea_s 12y ago
That's... A fairly long rant answering a short question ("what I think about Quora and its latest pivot"). Not that I'm here to defend Quora, but this level of heat makes me wonder whether the unnamed VC has some ongoing
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by andrea_s 12y ago
I always find myself irked by this kind of message - aside from looking like a cheap shot to drive labour costs down in the long term, I wonder if we are truly unable to find a middle ground between "follow your dreams (and die in a fi
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by andrea_s 12y ago
What does right click have to do with anything? The HTML source code for the page is 25 lines long and contains no markup at all. Which is not a critique, of course :)
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Now we can plug the bttn functionality to send a Yo! message and finally come full circle.
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Statistics researchers in academia definitely express a preference between frequentist and Bayesian inference. So no, it's not limited to philosophers - and I'm pretty sure all but the most forgiving frequentists would not agree w
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by andrea_s 12y ago
I think "of" meant to stand for "often". Which is still a very strong position, but not entirely out of the park - it's quite common (not only in statistics, of course) to encounter situations where not every prereq
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by andrea_s 12y ago
This is awesome. I would be happy to pay for your upcoming "pro" version. Do you already have an in-app mechanism that will warn me when this is available?
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Well, ordering matter in indexes - and clearly building a dedicated index for every field would not work, simplest queries aside. So if I have three fields - a, b and c - and by hypothesis I want to map all possible queries in a naive way,
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Oh, I see, I've missed this detail on the first read. Thanks!
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by andrea_s 12y ago
For simple queries there is virtually no difference (and clearly one should favor what he knows best). But there are cases where you need to build the query object programmatically (and dynamically), and I believe it's a bit awkward to
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by andrea_s 12y ago
One way to approach a behind the curtain automatic index generation would be to gather data about collection usage, and use such data to enable targeted indexes. I don't think it would be feasible to have "indexes for everything&q
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Am I alone in thinking that sql-like syntax is actually a step backwards from building query documents programmatically (MongoDB style)?
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by andrea_s 12y ago
It looks a bit sketchy on windows too, to be honest (I'm using Chrome 36). Aside from the feeling that "it's not scrolling fast enough", it's a bit jittery. Aside from that, the dashboard looks really nice :)
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by andrea_s 12y ago
While your comment applies on a broader sense (we need to test both for cases in which we expect the algorithm to find similarity and cases in which we expect to find dissimilarity - lest we embrace confirmation bias), I believe your refere
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by andrea_s 12y ago
I had never heard of SketchDeck - I don't want to derail, but I'm genuinely interested in understanding their business model. Specifically, it looks like a linearly scalable enterprise (consulting-like: they provide custom design
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by andrea_s 12y ago
Relevant: http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-frontman-blames-brain... (2013) I'm especially liking the title's wording.
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by andrea_s 12y ago
My favourite is missing - http://clearscript.codeplex.com/ It is basically a very friendly wrapper around several javascript engines (including V8) with powerful marshalling capabilities out of the box, and the developing t
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ClearScript: library to add scripting to .NET applications(clearscript.codeplex.com)
3 points by andrea_s 12y ago|0 comments
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by andrea_s 12y ago
sure, but I can't see how this is supposed to increase discoverability of the API... I see "here is something that looks like an enum, and its possible values are gold, silver and bronze. But you can also give 10, 42 or any number
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by andrea_s 12y ago
So, this pretty much works like an enum that can extended with additional numeric values on the fly. But doesn't this implementation kind of defy the purpose of having an enum-like functionality in the first place?
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by andrea_s 13y ago
So, apparently "SQL Databases" are harmful, and a less harmful alternative would be to use "plain old hierarchical filesystems". Sure, why not?