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User Clickstreams Lead To A 'Map Of Science'(scientificblogging.com)
1 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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by dood 18y ago
Thanks, had a brainfart and forgot I could just read the code ;)
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by dood 18y ago
Interesting, any idea how this works? Edit: doh, source here: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability-...
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by dood 18y ago
TV is stuggling to accept the inevitable transition/metamorphosis into a TV-computer hybrid. Neither won or lost, they will simply converge. People like sharing big-screen audio-visual entertainment in shared spaces. People like shows and m
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by dood 18y ago
I think the article is pretty much right about 2001: the book and film were both developed by both Clarke and Kubrick at the same time, though the book was released later [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_(film)#Writing ]
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by dood 18y ago
Are you suggesting that a cryptic regex is as easy to read as [:] or [::-1]? If you know python, that syntax is clear at a glance, dense regular expressions are not comparable. Basic language features don't need comments, difficult to read
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by dood 18y ago
But [:] and [::-1] are not neat tricks, they're basic features of the language, and are immediately understandable once you've learnt about slices. Practically the opposite of a cryptic regex. The purpose of comments should not be teaching
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SciPy 0.7.0 released(jarrodmillman.blogspot.com)
3 points by dood 18y ago|1 comments
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by dood 18y ago
I nice simple improvement might be to put the 5 newest stories at the bottom of the front page. A little more visibility could make a big difference.
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by dood 18y ago
A criticism of Shirky's essay, which IIRC was fair: http://www.peterme.com/archives/000558.html I'm fascinated with tagging, ontology and organizing information, and consider current methods badly flawed; so much so that I tried to make a
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by dood 18y ago
I'm already ambivalent about karma, but I think the highlighting is wholly a Bad Idea: * it strongly encourages gaming and groupthink, already the biggest problem with social news sites, especially karma-based ones, while discouraging contr
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by dood 18y ago
Mindfulness in Plain English: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html A good place to start.
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by dood 18y ago
Looks like a promising beginning to a recommendation-engine startup. It's good to see pure machine-learning based startups get going. I'm looking forward to a lot of interesting stuff happening and massive growth in this area over the next
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by dood 18y ago
Almost certainly made up (or hugely exaggerated). However, if it were true a better title would be: Hierarchies are Dumb at the Top.
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Lord Kelvin and Being Usefully Wrong(paul.kedrosky.com)
15 points by dood 18y ago|2 comments
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What Will Change Everything - The Edge Annual Question 2009(edge.org)
9 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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One World, Many Minds: Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom(sciam.com)
2 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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by dood 18y ago
See also the Ship of Theseus paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by dood 18y ago
It isn't really about community vs corporate support. He is making a much broader point that the internet (and other modern tech) is enabling like-minded people to work together to produce stable and effective systems purely for the love of
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Implement first, design later(itworld.com)
2 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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by dood 18y ago
I find it a little odd that no decent news recommenders have emerged (I expect they will eventually). Possible reasons: - The recommendation problem is very hard (or the solution-space is very large) - Good recommendations require lots of u
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by dood 18y ago
The article's title is poorly chosen, it offers very little advice or insight into "how to kick the habit" beyond what most people already know.
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by dood 18y ago
Just realised this is effectively a dupe [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373900 ]. I should have checked if the direct link had been submitted. Looks like a lot of people missed it last time around, and it yielded some different comme
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Feedback Army: website feedback for $7, inspired by HN post(blogoscoped.com)
52 points by dood 18y ago|24 comments
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by dood 18y ago
I'm pretty sure this would just subconsciously train me to procrastinate elsewhere. At least when procrastinating on HN there's a chance I'll learn something about programming or business. I find this idea and noprocrast a tad bizarre. HN h
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by dood 18y ago
The smalltalk object system is a nice simple example: A Smalltalk object can do exactly three things: Hold state (references to other objects). Receive a message from itself or another object. In the course of processing a
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GvR answers 20 top questions from his section in "Ask a Google Engineer"(neopythonic.blogspot.com)
2 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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by dood 18y ago
Good point, would have liked them to talk about possible ways ameliorate this factor.
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by dood 18y ago
Always going to be worth watching, but kind of a shame that they had to talk on such a basic level. I'm sure a 30 minute conversation with those two could be very interesting. Wasn't a whole lot more than them explaining that the system is
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by dood 18y ago
People beta test websites for 5 cents?

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