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Atomic Age bomb shelter opened after 50 years(news.com.au)
2 points by boyter 13y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 13y ago
Classic case of increasing your luck surface area http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...
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by boyter 13y ago
That was the first thought I had. "She looks familiar" check the front page and instantly knew who it was. I love this idea and the implementation is pretty slick. Hope the exposure from the dance video helps push this along. Best
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by boyter 13y ago
They did. The unit tests covered that piece of functionality. The real issue with the story being why didn't any other the other dev's run the unit tests after making the change?
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by boyter 13y ago
https://github.com/raypereda/stemmify Not a Ruby guy so no idea if its any good, but it is the implementation linked from here http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/
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by boyter 13y ago
I love this idea, and want to try it but I have no experience with Docker (on the todo list). I wanted to spin up an instance of Sphinx Search but no idea how to go about doing it. Maybe creating a set of tutorials will help with this. I ca
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Sharemarket darling Xero dubbed 'Apple of accounting'(smh.com.au)
1 points by boyter 13y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 13y ago
Gen Y here. OP nailed it. I live in Sydney Australia and its exactly how I feel.
909.
by boyter 13y ago
The biggest issue is missing messages. You essentially have to have it running all the time to get your "mail", otherwise you miss out on all of the resend windows. I love the idea of bitmessage, but this issue is a major problem.
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by boyter 13y ago
I always thought that Blackberry would be a strategic buy for Oracle. They would then be in a position to provide near end to end business services for enterprises assuming assuming they started manufacturing laptops and PC's or acqui
911.
by boyter 13y ago
You can train cats to like this too. I knew a guy who would take his cat out for walks like a dog. It loved the attention and seemed quite happy wandering around looking at new things.
912.
by boyter 13y ago
Shameless plug http://www.boyter.org/decoding-captchas/ I wrote this a few years ago. Has full source code too.
913.
by boyter 13y ago
http://searchcode.com/ Its a source code search engine with experimental regex support. Why is it cool? For me its because search is something I am interested in and indexing the web is cost prohibitive. This way I get to p
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by boyter 13y ago
Agree. Impactjs is excellent. The documentation is fantastic and its well laid out and while you pay for it its worth the money. Be sure to check if its applicable to whatever you want to create though. You will get a massive boost if you a
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Maptcha: An Experiment in Map-Based CAPTCHA(maptcha.com)
22 points by boyter 13y ago|30 comments
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Freelancer IPO on the ASX(freelancer.com)
2 points by boyter 13y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 13y ago
I actually have considered doing this as a wordpress plugin. The amount of times I have linked to something only to have it die later and loose the content is quite high. A service to do this would be nice, although I cannot see myself payi
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by boyter 13y ago
Its actually fairly interesting technology. A while ago (years?) there was a post about a graphics engine which provided unlimited detail. You could literally zoom from 50,000 feet down to observe a single blade of grass. That technology is
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by boyter 13y ago
I wish Microsoft would go back to their roots. That is developing software that runs on all platforms. I think many would love to have Office available on all platforms. Personally I would be thrilled to write C# with first class support on
920.
by boyter 13y ago
Which story is that in? Not in the linked article unless its being presented a different format for me. EDIT - Gotcha now. Never watched the movie, just familiar with the name being used a few times.
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by boyter 13y ago
Fictional character in the movie Princess Bride. Also the name of a pirate in the 2004 remake of Sid Meiers Pirates also mentioned the name "Dread Pirate Roberts", or fairly close to where the character Bart Roberts refered to him
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by boyter 13y ago
There are a few other code search engines which search across publicly available code though if that's what you are looking for. http://code.ohloh.net/ https://github.com/search?q=malloc&type=Code&a
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by boyter 13y ago
Its also missing some form of lock to prevent slow requests cascading (to the same host or IP) when the next instance of your crawler comes along. I did this once where I had a crawler spin up in a cron job. No problem, unless the previous
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by boyter 13y ago
Personally I consider extracting meaning from the crawl part of the indexing step. That just comes down to how you define it though. In reality its blurry as you need to do some pre-indexing during the crawl to extract meaningful data and a
925.
by boyter 13y ago
To be honest a simple crawler is a very simple thing to write. If someone had issues getting that going I think they are going to have issues with the data volume anyway. LisaG answered why the 3 million data set though and I agree with the
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by boyter 13y ago
Fair point and makes sense. If you publish the rank along with the data itself that would be very useful. Perhaps having a few sets of data? 3 million top pages, 3 million deep pages etc... Personally I would like to see around 20-100 milli
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by boyter 13y ago
Is that really worth it though? I can crawl 3 million pages in less than 24 hours without any real effort on my part. Or are you going to provide 3 million of the most useful pages? Depth or breadth first crawl?
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by boyter 13y ago
Very and probably not very good (Compare Gigablast to Google as an example of why its hard). Not to take anything away from Common Crawl but crawling is often one of the easier things to build when creating a search engine. A crawler can be
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by boyter 13y ago
Sorry I don't. That comment was based on knowing the history of both of them. I believe that Digg had something like 80 employees vs reddit's 5 or so. That's based on from memory. Interviews with Owen Byrne (Mixergy), Kevin R
930.
by boyter 13y ago
The real question being why did they have 178 employees? It sounds almost like they were following the Digg engineering approach rather then Reddit's.

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