andrix

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by andrix 7y ago
Cool. I'll take a look at the book. I was specifically interested in Python design patterns. I still remember the talk from Alex Martinelli at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJJlVBVTFg , and I just saw there i
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by andrix 7y ago
I wonder if there is an updated version of this wonderful resource by Norvig. I read it about 12 years ago, and I still found it so useful. In general, all the work by Peter Norvig is so clear, simple to read, and enjoyable.
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by andrix 10y ago
This is a great news for OpenData and Data journalist. I think this promote much more the easy sharing of Datasets and also initiatives like the Panama papers, or WikiLeaks.
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Extruct: Python library for extracting embedded metadata from HTML(github.com)
17 points by andrix 11y ago|0 comments
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by andrix 13y ago
I think it's not a fight. RDBMS has been there for many years and they have proved to work in many areas. NoSQL databases born for new needs people was asking to have in their new projects. Both would probably works perfect for many cases,
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by andrix 13y ago
Exactly. It just mention why MongoDB hasn't worked for us.
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by andrix 14y ago
Have you checked http://privnote.com ?
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by andrix 15y ago
I own an HP dm4 ( http://goo.gl/uCRa ) running Ubuntu 11.10, it's not an ultrabook, but everything run out of the box and all working (except fingerprint device - which I don't care a bit about it). HP in my case has been always a choice,
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Google+ reopened invitation period
11 points by andrix 15y ago|7 comments
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by andrix 16y ago
Who am I? I'm a developer and a Computer Engineering student at the public university in Uruguay. What hardware am I using? * 15.6 HP G62 laptop (Core i3 / 4 GB ram / 320 GB 7200 disk / around 3.30 hs battery life) * OS: Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit
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by andrix 16y ago
I'm wondering if this is the start of a set of open source lunching from google of its core tools. AFAIK, sawzall without mapreduce is like a car without the engine, but anyway I'm very pleased to read the code and start trying the language
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by andrix 16y ago
:) Agree. Org-mode is great! It's extremely simple and the best of all is that save everything into plain text files that you can track with any version control system.
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by andrix 16y ago
Emacs. I've used to to code in Vim/Gvim, but I switched to Emacs just to try and learn about Lisp. Emacs has tons of interesting "plugins" to add, and actually I'm using emacs as my Organizer (using org-mode) too. Emacs hasn't anything to
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by andrix 16y ago
Python has Scrapy ( http://scrapy.org ), quoting: "Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, fr
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by andrix 16y ago
The same to me, Asimov influenced me a lot. Also, IMHO, he is one of the best Sci-Fi writer ever and one of his best book is The End of Eternity.
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by andrix 18y ago
Hey! Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay!