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by doug1001 14y ago
the extraordinary quality of Ordinance Survey maps suggests this was far from trivial, even if an iOS map app was a priority for OS, which i doubt. Anyone from the UK already knows this but for those who plan to travel in the UK, these are
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by doug1001 14y ago
i can actually confirm this one--about 18 months ago, a hotel in SF, refused to honor my reservation ("just couldn't seem to find it in their system, though i had plenty to show that i had one)--turned away from at about 2300 on evening aft
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by doug1001 14y ago
if it's done right, it's never easy. But it can be and indeed should be fun.
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by doug1001 14y ago
gorgeous. The 'grid' view that can be rotated along both orthogonal axes is particularly nice. had no idea that 'Krypton' is really an element.
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by doug1001 14y ago
So the link is to a short story in a literary group blog called MegazineMagazine.com. The title of the story is "Mutamate." The story's author, Miracle Jones, whom i had never heard of before reading the short story linked to her, is an ext
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by doug1001 14y ago
I have always enjoyed reading this guy's blog-definitely worth a look. At least from the posts i've looked at, the blog's primary themes are: (i) Machine Learning , with emphasis on concise explanation of the key components, nearly always
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by doug1001 14y ago
For those who didn't click through to the NYT article: a guy is surfing on Amazon, sees a product for sale, a 55-gallon drum of 'personal' lubricant (which might be the smallest size they sell at Costco), clicked the "like" button and wrote
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by doug1001 14y ago
Question to SW about this favorite books: On my desk I have to say I have only one book: A New Kind of Science. [by Stephen Wolfram] But within reach, I have [N]ewton, Darwin, Euclid, Galileo, Boole, D'Arcy Thompson, Linnaeus."
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by doug1001 14y ago
Can one excel at both prongs? I don't know, but i do know that one person can (and has) created excellent Web Apps, entirely on their own. The fewer people involved in building something the lower the coordination costs (time spent communic
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by doug1001 14y ago
i think the General was making a joke here (which is actually quite funny). The joke is based on a double entendre of Phantom --one meaning is of course imaginary and the other refers to the nickname of the famous USMC and USN fighter pl
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by doug1001 14y ago
excellent! i believe "quite a nice person" is indeed accurate. Reminds me of this toy magic 8-ball i had when i was a kid.
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by doug1001 14y ago
My experience (as an employer/customer) with this outfit (jobvite) was like time travel back to 1998 or so--not retro in a good way though. First, the custom "candidate reports" delivered to us were often poorly parsed versions of the actua
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by doug1001 15y ago
well, experience is just data and so its use in solving problems requires its input to an algorithm, which in this case resides in wetware. In other words, i suppose the value of experience depends entirely on the person who possess it. We
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by doug1001 15y ago
Oh, well. The important thing is that humankind has evolved since then: Never embed an animation effect in our markup.Today's web designer understands separation of content, presentation, and behavior. To 'blink', create a jQuery plug-in A
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by doug1001 15y ago
excellent idea--appreciate your initiative and efforts. if i can help, please LMK. note: to get a custom linkedin url (as mentioned in the OP), it takes like 15 seconds, just to to settings (upper right hand corner drop-down when you cl
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by doug1001 15y ago
A quote from the OP: " Russell said that Google engineers are also developing a proposal for the next version of JavaScript to add class concept. Class is a core element of object-oriented programming language, it is the basis of data and c
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by doug1001 15y ago
why can't he just order his tacos and have them delivered by helicopter like everyone else? [e.g.]( http://www.pcworld.com/article/252412/tacocopter_delivers_ta... "recently posted to HN")
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by doug1001 15y ago
Here's what i find annoying. There are so many StackExchange sites now. I have been participating in SO for about 2 years (15K). One tag i like to watch/answer is "machine-learning." ML questions are now spread across so many SE sites: Cro
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by doug1001 15y ago
one-line-at-a-time. Just start typing at the interactive prompt (e.g., IDLE, included with python); when you finish typing a line, press return and see if it executes. If it doesn't then type it again until it does. But just start typing. I
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by doug1001 15y ago
i believe i read that 37 Signals began this way--one person (designer/architect) in Chicago, the other (programmer) in Denmark.
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by doug1001 15y ago
i just had a look at their homepage (in slick 3D). My initial reaction was--ok these guy are attempting what Linden Lab was trying to do with Second Life-in-the-enterprise (a project that LL eliminated about two years ago, but which showed
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by doug1001 15y ago
remarkably this article was not from The Onion.
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by doug1001 15y ago
curious to know uptake rate for Mac OS X. Sure there's a long list of nested dependencies, but it's only a few that usually cause me a lot of heartburn. E.g., as far as i know, the app advertised here depends on Graphite which in turn depen
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by doug1001 15y ago
i've never applied to YC because of course the bar was always too high; but now i'm comfortable i satisfy their admission criterion.
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by doug1001 15y ago
sure but this only applies to a citizen's inalienable right to make beer (and seasonal ales).
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by doug1001 15y ago
I doubt i can suggest a single resource not already mentioned in that SO Post. So i'll give a domain-specific one in the event that you or other HN readers are interested in using python for matrix computation. Of course, the core libraries
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by doug1001 15y ago
so you are against the idea that every person should have a single number irreversibly associated with them, and which represents their intrinsic worth as a human being?
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by doug1001 15y ago
My sense is that you are on to something. The reason i say that is that a decades-old technique (though by no means primitive or out-dated) used in operating system caches (and more recently in web apps, but far less often) is a Bayesian f
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by doug1001 15y ago
"rapid proliferation of Redis commands"? If the total is indeed, well over 100, that figure is spread among completely different data structures--lists, hashes, strings, sets, sorted sets--so i'm not sure it's even meaningful to compare the
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by doug1001 15y ago
My life-long dream of becoming a TSA Agent is a little tarnished, i suppose. This Post is full of excellent lines. E.g., "Another time, I was bypassing screening (again on official FBI business) with my .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol, an

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