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by davepeck 16y ago
I suspect Ben Huh is _definitely_ in a position to follow through.
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by davepeck 16y ago
(I want to apologize. I am reading HN on an iPad. I decided to upvote this comment and instead fat-fingered it down, apparently to zero. Why do the voting arrows disappear after a vote is cast?)
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by davepeck 16y ago
Technical analysis has always seemed like nonsense to me, too. I've never once seen an example that seemed to have a firm logical or mathematical foundation. Has an authoritative source ever debunked it?
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Open Data: Messy and Great(davepeck.org)
3 points by davepeck 16y ago|0 comments
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by davepeck 16y ago
I don't think they're exclusive. One corollary of "we will always seek new venues for content discovery" might be "there will always be opportunity in [interesting] new venues for content discovery." Flipboard, Pulse, etc. represent a fresh
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by davepeck 16y ago
"The stuff you care about, all in one place." Except the stuff I care about will never be in just one place. Somehow "more stuff you care about, all in yet another place" doesn't have the same ring to it. To be clear: I don't mean to knock
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by davepeck 16y ago
(Having seen the script: the equations determine, based on past user votes, the probability that each of two Harvard girls will be voted "better looking" in a head-to-head match-up.)
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by davepeck 16y ago
This is a little old, but here was my take on things a couple years back: http://davepeck.org/2008/12/12/meditations-on-microsoft/
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by davepeck 16y ago
It's a great question. The same should be asked of many recent Microsoft initiatives. It's okay to roll the dice, but someone somewhere should have noticed. My friends on the Kin team seem to have been caught by surprise. Those of us who wa
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by davepeck 16y ago
The "let's hate on MSFT for past browser wrongs" attitude is worrisomely common and accepted 'round these parts. It's a strange form of blindness. From where I sit, IE9 looks like a genuine attempt by MSFT to get back in the race.
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by davepeck 16y ago
(This reminds me somewhat of the meta-narrative in Logicomix, about the relationship between madness and mathematicians. Many of the great Logicians did not end well... or _go_ well, for that matter.)
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by davepeck 16y ago
80%, meet 20% :-)
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by davepeck 16y ago
Yep, cold hits are a pain. They're bad for low traffic apps because App Engine will deallocate all resources if your app hasn't been hit in a while. Interestingly, cold hits are bad for apps with spiking traffic, too: as your load spikes, A
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by davepeck 16y ago
Careful with the zipimport approach to running Django: you may see very high response times for "cold" requests to App Engine. If you can wait, it is likely that GOOG will eventually support Django 1.2 via the use_library() call, which seem
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by davepeck 16y ago
This is awesome, in part because the GitHub issues tracker -- while okay -- can be pretty frustrating when used at volume. If someone adds label/tag support to this client, I'll never look back. Would Atlas be required to make that change,
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by davepeck 16y ago
RDoc isn't just an abomination because of its approach -- it's an abomination because of its code. I'm in the middle of a project that requires making RDoc do things that other more modular systems would have little problem with... but to s
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by davepeck 16y ago
Having worked with a few sites that offer both direct-entry and PayPal payment options, I'd say PayPal gets far less than 10% of the transactions. Given that PayPal has more established accounts than Checkout or AMZN, my assumption is that
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by davepeck 17y ago
Think of this as TextMate's Command-T, only better and available from any editor (emacs! vim! etc!)
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PeepOpen: An editor-independent fast file opener.(peepcode.com)
4 points by davepeck 17y ago|2 comments
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by davepeck 17y ago
Cool, I look forward to it. I suppose one obvious next question is: did you do the engraving yourself? What tools did you use? And: when can I purchase Rachmaninoff's Etudes? :-)
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by davepeck 17y ago
This looks extremely impressive and elegant. I'm excited to buy the iPad version -- it's a perfect fit. What format is the purchased music? The engraving is impressive, so my first guess is that it's some part PDF and some part MIDI informa
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by davepeck 17y ago
It is, but with some pretty big caveats. You can't use Django's models on GAE, and a lot of what people think of as "Django" is built on top of Django models (admin, users, and sessions are the top three.) The app-engine-patch team has esse
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by davepeck 17y ago
Just total curiosity, but how many people typically live at Hacker House and how much shared/common space is there?
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Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to the Death(blog.extracheese.org)
2 points by davepeck 17y ago|0 comments
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by davepeck 17y ago
Proteges of Adria are everywhere. My folks live in Washington, DC; I hope to visit Andres' Minibar someday.
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by davepeck 17y ago
Choosing seems even harder nowadays, what with SASS, LessCSS, CleverCSS, etc. I've been using Compass, a set of SASS libraries that (among other things) re-implements Blueprint. I love Compass; I like SASS a bit less (especially where synta
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by davepeck 17y ago
I can imagine two situations where GitHub uptime is critical: 1. You're hosting websites via GitHub pages. I'm hosting both my business and personal websites on GitHub. (Despite the recent outage, GitHub's uptime beats my previous el-cheapo
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by davepeck 17y ago
Thanks for the pointer -- I played with Darcs back in the day. This looks interesting.
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by davepeck 17y ago
In the past two years, some of the most brilliant engineers I've ever had the privilege of working with have decided to throw in the towel at MSFT. It is not a good sign. I am ramping up my sales of MSFT stock, for sure. There is still reli
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by davepeck 17y ago
I left MSFT a couple years ago; my experience was in line with the author's. Microsoft was a strange, fantastic, ultimately frustrating place to work. My blog post on it: http://davepeck.org/2008/12/12/meditations-on-microsoft/

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