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by diamondap 5y ago
Well, it's a cool project overall. Definitely something you can fiddle with. Finding and recommending similar books seems to be a difficult problem. Amazon does a decent job, sometimes, though they tend to push top-sellers, making othe
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by diamondap 5y ago
The ability to read the opening pages of the book is really cool. The results were pretty good for the searches I did, like a search for Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes bringing up a number of Dean Koontz books. It would be nice to have a
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by diamondap 5y ago
I worked at Hotelicopter, which was a hotel meta-search engine written in Ruby on Rails. We were bought out by the six major hotel chains in the US and re-branded as Roomkey.com. To get us started, they agreed to push a lot of traffic at us
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Race to salvage US F-35C fighter jet that crashed in hostile South China Sea(theguardian.com)
3 points by diamondap 5y ago|0 comments
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by diamondap 5y ago
Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score is a brilliant and enlightening study of how trauma and all kinds of negative experiences are literally stored in the body as tension, which, when chronic, can become debilitating inf
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by diamondap 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. Since I turned on Verizon's spam blocking feature, all texts from Verizon are marked as junk. (And I didn't even configure that, Verizon just blocked itself out of the box.) Anyway, I found the message
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by diamondap 5y ago
Yes, the same.
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by diamondap 5y ago
Paul Bradley Carr’s satirical thriller is a darkly funny page-turner and a very good read.
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1414° – A scathing Silicon Valley satire(adiamond.me)
3 points by diamondap 5y ago|3 comments
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by diamondap 5y ago
There's a fascinating podcast (with transcript) at https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/21121... about linguistic studies that show blue to be the last color named in virtually all lang
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by diamondap 5y ago
The two practices have quite a bit in common, including the need to break down a very large, hard-to-grasp problem (a novel or an application) into a set of smaller easier-to-solve problems (objects, functions, chapters) that fit together i
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by diamondap 5y ago
Yes. The author contacted the actual Louisiana attorney general with whom Abagnale claimed to have worked. The AG said Abagnale never worked there. The author also dug up the records of the bad checks Abagnale wrote against the airlines. He
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by diamondap 6y ago
I wrote a similar app for archivists to push materials into preservation repositories. I used Electron, since it has good cross-platform support. The source is at https://github.com/aptrust/dart with documentation at
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Building Performance, Availablity and Reliability(sheprador.com)
1 points by diamondap 12y ago|0 comments
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Can someone else patent my ideas under first-to-file?
3 points by diamondap 14y ago|1 comments