dhotson

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   Jump Point Search (JPS)+: Over 100x Faster Than A*(gdcvault.com)

   2 points by dhotson 11y ago|1 comments
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   Breadth- and Depth-First Thinking(kevinlawler.com)

   1 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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   Prompts for Programmers – strategies for programmers stuck on problems(kevinlawler.com)

   1 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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   DynaFlash: High-speed 8-bit image projector at 1,000fps with 3ms delay [video](youtube.com)

   176 points by dhotson 11y ago|11 comments
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   Papers We Love(github.com)

   4 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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   Every comment on Reddit ever as a torrent(reddit.com)

   5 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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   Hyper Island Toolbox(toolbox.hyperisland.com)

   1 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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   Swift 2.0: Control Flow and Error Handling(austinzheng.com)

   2 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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   Culture for the “A” Player(engineering.benefitfocus.com)

   1 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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    Lessons Learned Developing the 99designs Tasks API(sitepoint.com)

    2 points by dhotson 11y ago|0 comments
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Boyer-Moore (finding a string in another string) is a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_sear...
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    Libsass 3.2 preview release is out(github.com)

    1 points by dhotson 12y ago|0 comments
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    I made something similar to this using a combination of 256 color mode and unicode halftone characters for "dithering" between the foreground/background colors. https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam Another
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    I managed to dig up one of my old 3d demo projects: Source: https://gist.github.com/dhotson/686036fb771fbbca8c48 Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/4fpaYtO.png .. it's not as embarrassing as I expecte
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Oh wow.. the community is still going: http://www.neobasic.net/ Marcade, Alias, Chaoticmass, Sciolizer.. any of you guys hang out here? :)
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Very cool! I made something similar that runs in your terminal: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    I found it a little bit ironic that one of the companies protesting NSA surveillance and collection of user data.. was LinkedIn. https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Hey Peter, Swiftly lead dev here. Just wanted to say this is very cool! I was a little bit surprised to see us in your examples. We've been looking into improving our end-to-end testing tools, but it looks like you guys have already ta
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Very cool! I've read that LDA doesn't work well on short documents. Your approach of concatenating all tweets for a user appears to work quite well. One other technique I've seen is to concatenate multiple tweets together tha
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    Hash Collision Probabilities(preshing.com)

    3 points by dhotson 12y ago|0 comments
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    Mature Optimization: An Introduction(carlos.bueno.org)

    51 points by dhotson 12y ago|14 comments
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    What I tell all new programmers(josephg.com)

    3 points by dhotson 12y ago|0 comments
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Yep, it's that balance between abstraction and indirection. Abstraction can be a great tool, but it comes with the cost of added indirection. You want to aim for the sweet spot in the middle somewhere.
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Hey guys, original author here. Thanks for taking a look. Questions welcome. :)
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Isn't that true for a lot of tools? Including programming languages?
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Very cool! Slightly related... I reckon a command line / ncurses version of Excel would be really useful. Am I crazy? e.g. something like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Lotus-123-3.0-.
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    by dhotson 12y ago

    Neat! I made something similar for OSX: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam / Screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/7301 I used halftone characters to do "dithering". Someone forked and
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    by dhotson 13y ago

    If you're into this kind of thing, definitely check out the NASA color usage research lab website: http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov
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    by dhotson 13y ago

    The first thing I searched for in the README was "constant time". This whole thing has got me curious about techniques for formally verifying software. I'm a complete beginner on this topic, but I assume there are tools to he
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    by dhotson 13y ago

    So I think this is roughly what antirez is talking about with 'registers' for a counter. From the article: The standard error of HyperLogLog is 1.04/sqrt(m), where “m” is the number of registers used. Redis uses 16384 registe