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by aphx 6y ago
Evernote's API also uses Thrift, fwiw https://dev.evernote.com/doc/reference/
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by aphx 8y ago
The reviewer may have been making the same comment in the 2nd and 3rd sentences with "[...] in more sophisticated detail than any other work in print," and, "The book will be of interest [...] to anyone interested in understa
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by aphx 8y ago
In the US criminal justice system (and likely most others), there is no standard for how to systematically compare fingerprint images--as distinguished from scanning a finger itself. The biometric machines are good at saying, "the su
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by aphx 8y ago
What about engaging her in a get-to-know-you conversation? Maybe you'd discover a different way to help (or how to send the money! :) ). Maybe she has something to offer you!
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by aphx 8y ago
Oh yeah, Dollar Street (what that talk is based on) is a great project! "In the news people in other cultures seem stranger than they are. We visited 264 families in 50 countries and collected 30,000 photos. We sorted the homes by inco
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by aphx 8y ago
Good question. Or maybe in the direction of Professor Xavier's machine that (IIRC) taps him into zillions of people's experiences in parallel, but also with bar graphs? Feel everything and then zoom in to the specific? A pretty ef
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by aphx 8y ago
Did a quick skim through what Amazon Look Inside provides. It definitely looks worth checking out (all copies are in use at the SF pub lib). I think I've seen Mr Rosling's presentation on birthrates before, IIRC something to the e
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by aphx 8y ago
We run into similar challenges of scale and experience in humanitarian/aid work. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the numbers of suffering people when the primary dimension of representing them is something like "food consumpti
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by aphx 8y ago
The .db file can change, even if the data/records don't. One approach is to dump the sql to text and store that in git. (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/846665 )
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by aphx 15y ago
"Generally accepted" by whom? In General Aviation (think 4-seat "Cessnas" as opposed to commercial/airlines), you are far less likely to be involved in an accident than if you are driving a car. But GA accidents are likely to be much worse
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by aphx 15y ago
http://motivationaltubing.com/ are the folks that actually designed and built the Maverick.