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by dhotson 13y ago
To be honest, I'm not an expert at this stuff—merely enthusiastic about it. I could have some details wrong. My intuition says that a straight average should give you fairly good results.. although antirez talks a bit about bias in Hyp
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by dhotson 13y ago
HyperLogLog counters are one of my favourite things. They're incredibly clever. So also, you can combine this idea with the idea of bloom filters (another probabilistic data structure) in a really interesting way. The goal is to have a
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Teaching the Web(macwright.org)
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These MIT Researchers Want to Turn GIFs Into a Language(theatlantic.com)
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Visualizations of Continuous Delivery(continuousdelivery.com)
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Fashion Quest: Write Interactive Fiction Using Ruby and YAML(mcantelon.github.io)
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by dhotson 13y ago
The appendix of this article has a slightly more intuitive explanation: http://blog.quenta.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df-appendix.html
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0x5f3759df — Fast inverse square root explained in detail(blog.quenta.org)
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Systemd socket activation and Ruby(ku1ik.com)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Hey cool, I didn't know about this. Thank you!
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by dhotson 13y ago
Isn't there a rule about if you're not embarassed about your 1.0 then you're not shipping fast enough? ;-) Basically I just wanted to try out some ideas using WebRTC peer-to-peer video with some clever layout algorithms. When
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by dhotson 13y ago
Screenshot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/07de3da18d8a5587d9480f42e87da8c4/... Bonus pro tip, add a hash target in the url to have a more private conversation. eg http://faces.io/#hn
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Show HN: faces.io – ridiculously simple video chat
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Classifying graphic design tasks with machine learning(99designs.com.au)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Kind of related, I recently made a similar style of visualisation for 99designs.com - http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/dhotson.d2013/page.html Once I got the data into PostGIS and aggregated into hexes (slightly harde
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Show HN: txtcam — webcam for your terminal(github.com)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Also, pretty subtle thing.. but places are constantly moving due to plate tectonics and continental drift. A GPS position describing a location will slowly go out of date over time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glo
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The Britney Spears Problem(americanscientist.org)
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The alien cult that hacked British TV(kernelmag.com)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Check out MapBox if you haven't already. There's still some room for competition. :-)
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Primers — Math ∩ Programming (jeremykun.com)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Yep, sorry for the repost. I figured that enough time had passed since the last time since it's such an excellent article. ;-)
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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)(moserware.com)
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by dhotson 13y ago
I'd also add that you want to encrypt the metadata of the message. As we've seen, the from/to address metadata is often as revealing as the content. How can you build a messaging system where the delivery service doesn't
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by dhotson 13y ago
That was the quickstart version—it's just being pragmatic. The alternative is to audit the setup script yourself, which is easy enough to do. You'd do the same for a tarball right? If you trust the author and want to get started q
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Neither developers nor the language are what's wrong with PHP(jpstacey.info)
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Fixing toxic behavior in online communities(somebits.com)
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Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices(sethrobertson.github.io)
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The Legend of The Oregon Trail(mentalfloss.com)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Yep, this is how I think about TDD too. Testing is a good tool for QA, but I find it's even better as a tool for design. Writing code that's designed to be testable helps clarify responsibilities, dependencies, interfaces, and rel

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