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by doug1001 12y ago
an attention-getting phrase, but not the best one in the post as far as i am concerned--i'm going through our g/h issues just now and adding comments like "poeple let's fix this toxic hellstew!"
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by doug1001 12y ago
with different titles each time linking to the same blog post, this has been on HN at least two-three times.
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by doug1001 12y ago
my experience as well; i doubt any app has such extensive scripting support as Microsoft Excel; OmniGroup's apps omnioutliner and omnigrafle also had excellent scripting support--demonstrable just by opening up an app's 'dict
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by doug1001 12y ago
the author suggests using the blur filter (if you don't know SVG, it's exactly what you think it is) in quantitative plots to show uncertainty (error). This is great idea, as evidenced by the couple of examples he gives.
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by doug1001 12y ago
i have watched these dogs work during trips to North Wales (mine, not the dogs'); in N. Wales, i believe the dogs are border collies (medium length black and white, ~ 10 - 20 kg). A few things in particular i was amazed by--first, the
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by doug1001 12y ago
this is the first i have heard of this library, but i look forward to experimenting with it because it has an important use case: creating 'native' plots etc in the ipython notebook. ipynb which has an impressive display system, e
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by doug1001 12y ago
i remember reading that one in "Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", and indeed it is awesome. My favorite is from the same volume, and i can't remember the name but it's about a day spent at a State Fair with
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by doug1001 12y ago
every time i hear the name freelancer.com, it's attached to a documented record of behaviour so bizarre that you very rarely see in legitimate businesses. The last one, on HN, at least: http://www.reddit.com/r/webd
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by doug1001 12y ago
surprisingly, the title is not 'click-bait'--this bbc post is actually about a herd of hippopotamus--all of which the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar brought to Columbia (or else they are off offspring of those Escobar brou
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by doug1001 12y ago
am i correct that the biggest hurdle to a python 3 driver has been the lack of python 3 support in Google's protocol buffer library? If so then, it seems that the 1.13 release which removes the protobuf dependency, will substantially a
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by doug1001 12y ago
New York Times Article Search API: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/read/article_search_api_v2 everything a dev might ever want to know about constructing a query, calling this API, and parsing the results--beaut
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by doug1001 12y ago
i use NLTK with python 3.4 (and before that, 3.3); NLTK has an alpha release for pyhthon 3; i have not had any problems either installing it or using it.
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by doug1001 12y ago
or perhaps primo uomo, if this cat's male.
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by doug1001 12y ago
i doubt there is any personal bias (from the author of the blog post). The OP has been an active and prolific member of both the Python and R communities for over a decade (don't know what his interest, if any, is in Julia). i have nev
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by doug1001 12y ago
a few years ago, in a discussion about which technologies to use for building an ETL layer, a tech lead for the team which did nearly all of their work in C++, suggested, not surprisingly, C++; in response, a senior dev said: "if the o
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by doug1001 12y ago
so what about the building process in other disciplines--for instance, a multi-story urban office building? From start to finish, this sort of project involves (among others) architects, civil engineers, and carpenters. The task in front of
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by doug1001 12y ago
i have been using diigo for 7 years or so; this is the only bookmarking app (AFAIK) that let's you _highlight text_ and add _stick notes_ on the page you bookmarked--great for research--you can retrieve the bookmarked page and immediat
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by doug1001 12y ago
well if Goldman just offers them their old job back, that should cut down on the recidivism rate substantially.
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by doug1001 12y ago
after reading the reddit thread linked to below, i wouldn't go near freelancer.com; the reddit thread caused me to wonder whether it's even a legitimate business. Three things really caused me to blacklist freelancer.com: (i) the
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by doug1001 12y ago
a high-profile shop taking a public stand against a guy who was filmed mercilessly beating a woman for 30 minutes and who, as far as i know, has never shown a hint of remorse. What's more, you're doing so even though you take a hi
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by doug1001 13y ago
well bad news for any film-maker who wanted to make a spinal-tap-style parody of Silicon Valley...because there's no way you can do better than this story. like the HN Post (about six or so months ago) linking to a story about a compan
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by doug1001 13y ago
i loved this; studying multiple implementations of the same recipe, even if most are not intended to be "exemplary" but rather cautionary, is a great way to learn. This reminds me of a similar effort called "evolution of a py
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by doug1001 13y ago
i would probably turn my auto-complete off while typing that headline.
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by doug1001 13y ago
an old one, but the circumstances arise so often (app updates) and the consequences so severe (shark attack!) that it's probably worth posting: https://xkcd.com/349/
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by doug1001 13y ago
nice list; i think HighCharts (javascript plotting library would fit nicely on it); Apparently for H/C, the community (as evidenced by the busy help forums) is an essential component of their value--the source code is available for any
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by doug1001 13y ago
from the geektime.com OP: Geektime wrote about previously, the lack of the entrepreneurial spirit is really what got them there and the reason that Russia goes from one dictator to the next instead of embracing individual opportunity. any U
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by doug1001 13y ago
amazing--"Touching the Void" for the aviation world. "[E]xtracting myself from the parachute harness, I discovered the source of those flapping-strap noises heard on the way down. My seat belt and shoulder harness were still
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by doug1001 13y ago
the intuition behind the OP seems valid, but i wonder if it would succeed given the American concept of 'vacation.' Americans (compared with Europeans, for instance) view vacation quite differently--in the quantity available (2-3
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by doug1001 13y ago
i just hope this is as far as it goes w/r/t broadcasting these sort of version-control-metrics. I would hate to see a "who hasn't done a damn thing all week" list.
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by doug1001 13y ago
really nice idea--both the pair programming and the code review. My Team is comprised of very bright devs, but i have this uncomfortable feeling that their technical growth is impeded somewhat by inbreeding--eg, during code review, they hea

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