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   Notes on "how to clone delicious in 48 hours" (2010)(notes.torrez.org)

   1 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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   Kids Can Code(ilikecode.wordpress.com)

   3 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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   First Steps with Apache Mahout(skife.org)

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   by dhotson 14y ago

   I've just started learning Julia and I'm also loving it so far. It's really well designed with loads of great features (and decent libraries) for scientific computing.
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   MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing(fastcoexist.com)

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   by dhotson 14y ago

   I think it's got to do with preserving north south east and west angles. Also, the distortion is only noticeable when you're zoomed out. When zoomed in most things are in relative proportion to each other.
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   by dhotson 14y ago

   I helped build a similar tool at 99designs. I blogged a bit about how we built it here: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explore... It uses R-trees to index colors in the Lab color space to do fast perceptual nearest n
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   by dhotson 14y ago

   I really liked the idea behind a product called Trendly (unfortunately it got shut down because Twitter bought the team). They had some clever algorithms that simplified time series data from google analytics so that you could see at what p
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   by dhotson 14y ago

   I wonder if some clever anomaly detection algorithms could help with this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_detection
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    Babushka is also great for this kind of thing: http://babushka.me/
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    Some really fantastic new projects here. There were loads of useful libraries and tools I hadn't seen before. Also, I was delighted to see a project of mine (colorific) featured. Thank you Pycoders Weekly! :-)
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    phpsh is probably the best, but I also use Boris https://github.com/d11wtq/boris - "A tiny REPL for PHP"
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    I think "view source" is one of the best features in web browsers. It's nice that anyone can peek behind the curtains and see that web pages aren't magic.
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    Looking at the paper it looks like instead of dealing with exact moments in time (eg timestamps) they have ranges (they call them intervals). From the Spanner paper: "TrueTime explicitly represents time as a TTinterval, which is an interval
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    Show HN: Springy.js - Force directed graph layout in JavaScript(getspringy.com)

    3 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    I made a little website for a side project of mine. Feedback is welcome. :-)
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    How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method(advancedfictionwriting.com)

    2 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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    Bonsai.js: A New Graphics and Animation Library(bonsaijs.org)

    233 points by dhotson 14y ago|28 comments
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    A Short Lesson in Perspective(lindsredding.com)

    11 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    We use babushka at 99designs for setting up servers and development VMs. I highly recommend it.
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    So does this one: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-serverfault-2... ;-)
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    Career Day - A parent introduces programming at her son's school(therealkatie.net)

    264 points by dhotson 14y ago|60 comments
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    TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less(tinytocs.org)

    103 points by dhotson 14y ago|18 comments
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    A similar "image-less" technique I've used is to generate the pattern in JavaScript using a canvas element. eg with canvas.toDataURL("image/png"). The JavaScript code to generate a noise pattern is often smaller than the inlined base64'ed c
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    by dhotson 14y ago

    I had a go at a Rack/WSGI style PHP web server a while ago: http://getkelpie.com/ .. it's using the mongrel http parser wrapped in a PHP extension, so it's pretty fast and reliable: https://github.com/dhotson/httpparser-php I tried it a
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    Memory Barriers Are Like Source Control Operations(preshing.com)

    1 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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    Computing Your Skill — An overview of the TrueSkill algorithm(moserware.com)

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    99designs Buys Germany’s 12designer(blogs.wsj.com)

    3 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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    99designs color explorer(99designs.com)

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    by dhotson 14y ago

    TL;DR They managed to scale their server up to 1 million open connections with a single Java process. Pretty impressive stuff. More here: http://urbanairship.com/blog/2012/05/17/scaling-urban-airshi...