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The GPL and Principles(blog.ianbicking.org)
20 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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The Tragic Death of Practically Everything(technologizer.com)
112 points by dhotson 16y ago|12 comments
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by dhotson 16y ago
This guy is awesomely good at stroking my ego. Upvoted.
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by dhotson 16y ago
Something like Aconex? http://www.aconex.com/ It's got a pretty heavy focus on the building industry though.. perhaps something more generic?
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by dhotson 16y ago
Oh Hi. It's funny who you run into here. :-) I'm a developer at 99designs and we've been using Visual Website Optimizer to do A/B testing. Our marketing guys love it.
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Corrupting the Youth(carlos.bueno.org)
4 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 16y ago
I wonder, if you're downloading a file at this speed, your computer wouldn't be able to write it to your hard disk fast enough correct?
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by dhotson 16y ago
I think you would be surprised. :-) You're right about unbiased news though. It's a myth. You really need to make up your own mind and read various sources to get some balance. I'm pretty sure all news has some inherent bias. Opinion is fin
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by dhotson 16y ago
I agree that twitter and citizen journalism have shown themselves to be quite capable of disseminating information and news. It's still not quite the same as reading a well written, unbiased, in-depth analysis of a story in The Economist or
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by dhotson 16y ago
Yeah, good journalism costs money. To have a staff of correspondents reporting around the world isn't cheap. But I think it's worth it. I think in order for newspapers to survive, people have to learn that they need to pay. Advertising alon
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Photos of mid-century modern architecture in Silicon Valley (flickr.com)
1 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 16y ago
Good stuff! I was thinking about implementing a SPDY server in Node the other week, but I couldn't figure out a good way to do the binary framing part. This looks highly useful.
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Magic pirate arrays in PHP 5.3(dhotson.tumblr.com)
7 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 16y ago
It's true, these small patches make me smile the most. I had a contributor to a project of mine that basically just formatted the README file. I certainly appreciated it. It's nice knowing you're not coding in a vacuum.
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by dhotson 16y ago
It's because the server has to create a tarball on demand, which can take a while. So, instead of having your web request unresponsive for a minute while it's processing, they queue up a background task on the server and give you a "hardcor
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Java Now Running on Apple IIc(desnoix.com)
5 points by dhotson 16y ago|2 comments
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A Node.js chat server in CoffeeScript(dhotson.tumblr.com)
6 points by dhotson 16y ago|1 comments
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Realtime Election Tweets (twitter + websockets + node.js + nginx)(jay.gooby.org)
1 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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Bug or Feature?(blogs.msdn.com)
8 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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Webby Award Winners for Design, Flashblock Edition(louissimoneau.com)
2 points by dhotson 16y ago|0 comments
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The Hilbert Hotel(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
124 points by dhotson 16y ago|79 comments
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by dhotson 16y ago
It's a mathematical idiom common in calculus. For example dx/dt is usually read as "change in x over time". d stands for delta, which means difference or change. .. so you'd read that page roughly as "change in world over time".
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by dhotson 16y ago
The basic data structure behind most text databases and search engines is an inverted index. Basically it's a map of words to a list of documents containing that word. eg {"hello": [1, 2], "world": [1,3,4], ...} (the numbers are document id
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by dhotson 16y ago
I've heard good things about gRaphaël http://g.raphaeljs.com/
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by dhotson 17y ago
Thanks for sharing Jack. For this demo I was really focusing on simplicity and getting the basics right. I just wanted dots and lines but was too lazy to figure SVG DOM manipulation. Raphael makes it really easy.
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by dhotson 17y ago
Thanks jonp. :-) I think that's a good idea. The force directed layout algorithm isn't bullet proof, but it's a good approximate layout for a human to tweak.
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by dhotson 17y ago
Yep, it's currently the same hardcoded graph each time. The node starting positions are random so you get a slightly different layout each time. I was thinking about making edges repel nodes in some way to avoid the problem you mentioned. I
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by dhotson 17y ago
Direct link to demo: http://dhotson.github.com/springy.html
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Force directed graph layout in JavaScript(dhotson.tumblr.com)
22 points by dhotson 17y ago|17 comments
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Explanations of common Java exceptions(rymden.nu)
20 points by dhotson 17y ago|3 comments

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