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by canistr 10y ago
This is a rather ridiculous article to write. Android Studio/IntelliJ/JetBrains IDEs have better linting and code completion than XCode. Not to mention optimizing/auto-imports rather than typing them out in XCode.
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Clustering Similar Stories Using LDA(engineering.flipboard.com)
1 points by canistr 10y ago|0 comments
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by canistr 10y ago
What's interesting to me about the discussion in this article is how many people talked about wanting to adopt Google/Amazon's hiring process and how they liked the 7 interviews/whiteboarding way more than take-home assi
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by canistr 10y ago
+1 to the reputation of Top Hat amongst Toronto devs. Everyone I know is avoiding the place like the plague. Regardless of the salaries touted on places like StackOverflow Jobs.
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by canistr 10y ago
Here is the original report from Citizen Lab: https://citizenlab.org/2017/02/bittersweet-nso-mexico-spywar...
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by canistr 10y ago
Isn't it more customary in the financial world to put out your Sharpe Ratio or ROI as a percentage as opposed to your monthly profit? As others have said, the profit doesn't mean anything if your principal amount is high.
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by canistr 10y ago
It's also important to mention that there were two different batteries (based on 1st and 2nd recalls) with two different flaws.
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by canistr 10y ago
Interestingly enough, Googling "Father of AI" yields several results including John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Turing. Google's provided results point at McCarthy while the first mention of Schmidhuber is at the 9th re
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by canistr 10y ago
I've had similar issues with staging/un-staging causing crashes or just hanging Tower. My biggest gripe is that Tower 1 use to display all your stashes on the side (expanded, not collapsed) by name/date. Tower 2 hides all th
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by canistr 10y ago
I like Tower on macOS, but version 2 is significantly worse than version 1. UI/UX and the number of bugs has been a major pain-point that has made me consider switching to SourceTree. But I still haven't gotten use to SourceTree
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by canistr 10y ago
If the problem is that Facebook provides an echo-chamber that exacerbates the influence of one particular viewpoint, wouldn't the solution be for Facebook to begin injecting opposing content directly into the newsfeed? You can kind of
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by canistr 10y ago
Run to Click. You no longer need to set a temporary breakpoint to skip ahead and stop on the line you desire. When stopped in the debugger, simply click the icon that appears next to the line of code your mouse is over. Your code will run
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by canistr 10y ago
I listened to the podcast yesterday and while the premise is correct, the episode is actually lousy at explaining any of it, discussing anything that happened at the meetings with "leaders", and ultimately had the wrong people dis
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by canistr 10y ago
Reminds me a lot of Waterloo's co-op matching system, Jobmine.
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by canistr 10y ago
I wonder if this will further reinforce the notion of the "Dunbar's number of apps". In the sense that on a country-by-country basis, the disposable income of people could become the limiting factor affecting how many apps t
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by canistr 10y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say that the fad has ended. I would say that since fitness trackers were introduced several years ago, early adopters were quick to realize the limitations of them. However with marketing/advertisements, th
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by canistr 10y ago
I can also attest to the poor quality of the UP bands. I'm currently on my 5th band in 3 years. One lost band and 4 replacements later, I'm really only using them to continue with the sleep tracking. I discovered early on that t
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The Basics of Loop Vehicle Detection [pdf](marshproducts.com)
2 points by canistr 10y ago|1 comments
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by canistr 10y ago
To be fair in terms of human anthropology, people in MENA are still considered caucasoids/caucasians.
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by canistr 10y ago
I disagree, many people I consider to not be colossal douchebags also tend to make the issue of alcohol frustrating and unbearable.
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by canistr 10y ago
This is also the reason why I tend to stay away from Meetups/Startup events/recruiting events/etc. They tend to devolve into awkward situations for people like myself who don't drink or don't want to waste time with
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by canistr 10y ago
Anyone have any thoughts on Communication System Security ( https://www.crcpress.com/Communication-System-Security/Chen-... )? I learned quite a bit from this book in undergrad which is also written by a UW professor (Gu
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by canistr 10y ago
I don't know if I am wholly against DRM because I do like streaming services like Spotify for their convenience. I'm just tired of pirating things. And I do make money as a developer as a result of protected APIs/content. Is
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by canistr 10y ago
A couple of usability questions that don't appear to have been addressed in the video: - on a Mac, if I press the spacebar to show the quick preview and start navigating down the list, will this trigger downloading of all the files? -
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by canistr 10y ago
Interestingly enough, I recall Thrun mentioning some failures with a university partnership on This Week in Startups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHkbKXhihLk
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by canistr 10y ago
As a current Georgia Tech student doing the Online Master's in CS, I wonder this too because it's the primary method of delivery for lectures. For the most part, I'm not crazy about the Udacity platform and the lectures (they
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by canistr 10y ago
Wouldn't mosquito predators effectively die off as well? Birds, larger bugs, bats, etc.
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by canistr 11y ago
I can't seem to find much information with regards to his time studying engineering at Montreal. One article (albeit, the Toronto Sun so take it with a grain of salt) claims he dropped out. And I can't find anything that mentions
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by canistr 11y ago
Is it really a launch if very few people have access to it in a private beta? All this noise on Twitter/FB/HN/etc. doesn't help when we don't get a chance to play around with it. Just saying.
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by canistr 11y ago
This was probably around back then since that's when I roughly started my undergrad and discovered the site. It definitely got me through engineering.

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