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by bsaunder 17y ago
"Comparison" is a bit of a stretch... I'd say more like a list.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I've prototyped a similar concept in Perl (still a bit rough). I think this is a powerful concept.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
You're probably right now. I started down this road in 2006 when the JavaScript VMs weren't there yet with performance. At the time, it was a night and day difference (from don't blink to good-golly-what-are-you-doing). Also, I tend to l
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by bsaunder 17y ago
"Looking at things like anaphora resolution and how far we have progressed in the last 20 years, I'm not optimistic we'll make the deadline." It may just take a new perspective on the problem. Just look at the changes in the internet over
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by bsaunder 17y ago
The fact that most js frameworks willfully ignore #2 has been one of the reasons I've avoided them. Doing a lot of DOM manipulations in code feels about as efficient as making tons of system calls to an OS. Much better to do a few larger
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I agree. Further, I think the creation process is similar (start with an outline or rough draft and make revisions). The more extensive the later revisions, the more painful they are to make. Even the smallest change later on in the proc
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by bsaunder 18y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage_problem and http://www.fcsm.gov/working-papers/RLT_1997.html
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I've been tackling the same problem (in a similar architecture recently (though more real-time oriented)). Some other suggestions: 1. Hash the names (with something like Text::DoubleMetaphone) and select from this list rather than tro
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Hard to tell if that name will be a good choice or a flop.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Any chance of publishing several front page algorithms and letting users set a preference for one? Or even better somehow letting people suggest/test custom ones?
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Oh, I'm right there with you on the IDE v editor issue (maybe vim though). My point is that the daily life of a (typical IDE) programmer in 2009 is very different than one of an emacs developer of the 60s/70s. I agree there has been a lot
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by bsaunder 18y ago
This post resonates with me. Without getting too hung up on the typesetter extinction, I think the general notion that the task of "coding" will change is almost a given. Even the early assembly coders of the 60s would be hard pressed to
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Ask HN: Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page?
30 points by bsaunder 18y ago|25 comments
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Has anyone tried tying a session to the client's IP address? Seems like this might make the session cookie harder to use externally (could still use XSS to perform all the attacks from the browser though).
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Yeah, he could at least put an artificial delay in there. ;)
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I'm personally fascinated by the notion that efficiency and transformation seem to be intertwined. Hard problems can sometimes seem simple with a slight transformation in either the problem description or the data. Even the article is sug
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think all of your points boil down to the same mantra as the article: 1. is the human variant. 3. finding which thing to "do less" of (benchmarking/profiling seem to be the "do less" ways of doing this task). 4 from the low level CPU per
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Canviz - Graphviz in javascript(code.google.com)
1 points by bsaunder 18y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 18y ago
This is an interesting idea. You'd have to watch out for usage spikes that would end up dropping a large number of messages (kinda like paging... I suspect this gets worse quickly as the same message is sent multiple times). If you put so
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Common Lisp's library problem(ilc2009.scheming.org)
1 points by bsaunder 18y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Maybe he was getting harassed and created a new stealth id?
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Wonder if they would consider open sourcing their engine?
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Coke's New Spin on iPhone Advertising(minyanville.com)
1 points by bsaunder 18y ago|0 comments
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Op-Ed: Who's Afraid of the Future?(minyanville.com)
4 points by bsaunder 18y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think you are both right. IMHO, a B-tree is a structure, but generally it's more of a meta structure. When you are doing something with a B-tree, you generally care about the contents of the tree, not the actual tree. The tree just ha
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by bsaunder 18y ago
You mean like airtrax? ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmC4KPvOfg I think people should be encouraged to reinvent wheels. Sometimes it's the firm foundations of something that everyone takes for granted that need to be questioned and
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by bsaunder 18y ago
No, we mine it. We may discover more of it. But in ground reserve quantities are generally factored into the price of the stock of gold mining companies. So it is rather finite, and the more we explore and mine, the less likely we would
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think there are plenty of important things for people to do (automation, biotech, energy). Unfortunately, I think they are getting harder and harder to do (and ergo fewer and fewer people have the skills necessary to do them (retraining
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Sometimes thinkgeek.com has interesting stuff.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think complexity is a necessary part of the equation, but you can push it into different places. The key is to keep the APIs and libraries simple. Unix got it right. Lots of small utilities that are designed to be chained together. It

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