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by dood 19y ago
I also toyed with an idea like this at some point, but it seemed to me that aggregating the big 4 or 5 aggregators is unnecessary, while aggregating much more than that (something like Techmeme but broad-based?) takes you into Google/Techno
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by dood 19y ago
A fantastic and more in-depth video from Ramachandran: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4684607596399338611 <quote>Lecture 6 of 12 of IBM Research's Almaden Institute Conference on Cognitive Computing. This one takes plac
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by dood 19y ago
I've also noticed the absence of something to fill in the gaps in existing webapp development guides. Particularly so, with the apparent and predicted increase in webapp startups. Seems like an opportunity for someone to pull this stuff tog
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by dood 19y ago
It is argueable that the notion of a 'Renaissance' or 'Universal' man is obselete, and has been since perhaps the 19th century or so; I suspect you could live hundreds of modern lifetimes and still not come close to the relative amount of k
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by dood 19y ago
A forum isn't truely a forum until someone has posted spiders on drugs.
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by dood 19y ago
An idea I always wanted to play with: competing learning agents, where the players 'train' the characters somehow (perhaps specifying parameters, or playing against their creations, or selectively pitting one character against each other...
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by dood 19y ago
Are you referring to me? I didn't write this, and in fact I pretty much suck at colour, largely for the reasons suggested in the post, so I found it very interesting. Also, I don't think the author was declaring that all programmers suck at
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by dood 19y ago
Sounds to me like they're looking for cool judgement more than simple flexability; flexability without judgement being a third immature response to the challenge: unquestioningly doing what you're told.
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Why Programmers suck at Picking Colors(betaversion.org)
25 points by dood 19y ago|15 comments
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by dood 19y ago
unsubscribe
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by dood 19y ago
I've hardly looked at Scheme as I came to programming with an unacademic get-stuff-done attitude. Which probably explains why I find Python so appealing, and why I recommend it to others who want to learn a language to use as a tool: it is
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by dood 19y ago
I haven't read his book, but his ideas are interesting. A little taste from TED: [ http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125 ] Also a fascinating and much more technical talk Hawkins gave at IBM's Conference on Cognitive Computing, wat
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by dood 19y ago
Step 1. Buy whichever 'Learn Python' book you like the look of. Read book, while hacking up little programs to amuse yourself and solve your problems Step 2. Read some tutorials on the net to expand your knowledge. Investigate open source p
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by dood 19y ago
Why not cut to the chase and define the joule as standard unit of currency.
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Error Detection In The Gray Matter: Have Scientists Discovered Intuition?(spiegel.de)
14 points by dood 19y ago|0 comments
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by dood 19y ago
Has anyone made an ad-trading site for small web sites? It doesn't even need to be direct swaps: you could make a little marketplace sort of thing (without real money).
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by dood 19y ago
In a small, smart community like this, an explicit upvote is a hard quality metric to beat.
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by dood 19y ago
The problem with this is firstly that it creates a feedback loop, where the more commented something is, the higher it climbs, the more commented it is... Secondly, it'd be hard to extract a quality measure from comments alone - there are a
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by dood 19y ago
An alternative would be using flags, like reddit's 'report', the idea being you only use them for stuff that is really unsuitable, like spam, trolls and stupid stuff.
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by dood 19y ago
So 2006. What he needs is an iphone app with facebook plugin & twitter integration. Which is also a platform.
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by dood 19y ago
Google seems to like news.yc. I week or two ago I did a search for something obscure without using site:news.yc, and it returned a post from this site that had been posted something like 48 minutes before my search.
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by dood 19y ago
I hesitated to post this rant, as I'm far from a mathematician by training, and I'm certain to expose my ignorance by commenting further. That said, it touches on some of the stuff that bothered me about maths around the time I stopped seri
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Set Theory: Should You Believe?(web.maths.unsw.edu.au)
6 points by dood 19y ago|5 comments
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by dood 19y ago
Here's the essay, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False : [ http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-docum... ]
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by dood 19y ago
I'd go for 'tongue-in-cheek'. (not sure if that's largely an English phrase, or if there is a similar American term) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek edit: oh, the book
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by dood 19y ago
I've noticed a significant increase in the amount of blog posts I've read about programming/startups/hacking written by Indians in the past few months. One persons view, certainly, but I have a feeling I'm seeing the beginnings of a trend.
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by dood 19y ago
You can watch Ramachandran explain this and much more of his research into synaesthesia and the brain in this excellent talk: [ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4684607596399338611 ]
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by dood 19y ago
I can see the theory behind lightboxes, but in practice they're generally a bit of pain. Mostly because they're still relatively unusual and unexpected, so they break the flow of normal browsing. But I'd put up with lightboxes everywhere i
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by dood 19y ago
From 11 months ago: [ http://programming.reddit.com/info/jl2a/comments/cjpfw ] " We use postgresql + slony, and are fairly pleased. Most of the time reddit slows down, it's db related, but so far there has always been a way to work through
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by dood 19y ago
A little on sharding: An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407 ] Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding [ http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/95-Partitioning-vs.-.

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