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by drewp 18y ago
One trick for training users on your grammar is to have the program always talk to the user with it. If the program imports my existing calendar and talks about stuff like "lunch with fendale in 3 days" all the time, I'll talk back to the
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by drewp 18y ago
Interesting. My goals are to write home automation and GPS tracking apps, ideally in python. Stuff like that open-garage-door-when-phone-gets-home project. Any UI work would be web pages, so I guess I want a good web browser. I'd suspect th
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by drewp 18y ago
Thanks! Something running s60 is interesting to me since it seems like it would be easier to program. My current phone is a treo 650 (palm), and I am disappointed at how high the barrier to programming it is. I want to be writing blog entri
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by drewp 18y ago
I want something passively uploading my GPS data. What should I get?
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by drewp 18y ago
I don't see how latency would be a big problem for file storage. Home user file reads and writes are very spatially coherent, right? Keep the first N bytes of each file in a local cache, and when the user starts to read a file, you're pre-b
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by drewp 18y ago
That was a great way to handle the subject line (original title plus 16-word summary). Thanks!
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by drewp 18y ago
Why don't you pair it? The advance with opencalais is that they offer a production-level service that's very easy to use and integrate. (Especially when they get normalization working.) Jump start != produce a complete end-to-end solution
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by drewp 18y ago
I agree. Every program seemed to have a few "while (true)" lines, often with comments above them like "// infinite time loop" :( And another example for your earlier point: // print out the shred id <<< me.id(); >>>;
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by drewp 18y ago
There's a nice demo of the classifier API at about 40 minutes into this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXW_5-llD0
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by drewp 18y ago
I will. That page might have been a nice intro to the field, but there's a much smaller version of it that I'm going to remember and that I'm going to tell other people. That's the elevator pitch. It also doesn't help that the "what we do
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by drewp 18y ago
The proof of Proebsting's Law seems kind of silly because running a compiler with optimizations turned off wouldn't actually disable all the years of advancements of compiler technology. It seems quite reasonable that many compiler advancem
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by drewp 18y ago
Why is this so emotional for you? Writers barely know if you're reading, so it doesn't seem worth any stress or "overwhelming" feelings for you to work so hard on selecting feeds or catching up on them.
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by drewp 18y ago
Where are we, on digg.com?! The subject line of this post should have said "eat less" in it. I shouldn't have to go to the article to get those two words.
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by drewp 18y ago
Listening to http://www.sky.fm/soundtracks/ , perhaps. Their library isn't huge, but it's still fun.
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by drewp 18y ago
Don't forget the costs of using a "lightweight" markup: You have to learn some new system of quoting and escaping. I don't know textile or markdown, but I just went over to http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.php and tried to put a &#6
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by drewp 18y ago
http://freebase.com would probably like to gather and hold your data. They have a nice GUI for editing it. People are starting to make other sites that use freebase, e.g. http://www.dipity.com/
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by drewp 19y ago
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=artoolkit&search... for some neat demos of OSS software to overlay computer graphics on real targets
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by drewp 19y ago
http://thecoccinella.org/ "Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. " (uses jabber)
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by drewp 19y ago
Bug tracking shouldn't be hosted, in general. I should be able to declare a bug in anything by posting it on my blog, and people can do their commenting/triage/fileposting/whatever else they do by using Regular Internet Technology. There is
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by drewp 19y ago
Way to scare 'em back to using bottled water again, AP! Yes I know bottled may not be any better, but it will certainly feel safer to people who want to Just Do Something in response to that FUD article.
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by drewp 19y ago
position: absolute vs relative I've had to look up the rules several times now for how the parent box is chosen. I still don't know if I'm making more intermediate divs than I have to.
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by drewp 19y ago
I apologize for the slang use of the word 'hacked' up there. I meant 'vandalized, probably by means that required deep knowledge of a system to initially develop, although the vandal was unlikely the same person as the hacker who came up wi
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by drewp 19y ago
His site was indeed hacked recently, and it was harming my computer inasmuch as it was crashing firefox. I consider the google warning to be late but not incorrect. Here's an email I sent to Joe on 2007-12-17. (It's really hard to make thes
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by drewp 19y ago
This post invites a ridiculous "me too" thread. I think you meant to write "if you read hacker news, please bookmark http://news.ycombinator.com/ if you haven't done so already". Then we can have a real discussion in the comments section,
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by drewp 19y ago
Python totally has more than one way to do it. People sometimes simplify the python approach as 'the opposite of the perl approach', but they're not exactly opposites. The philosophy that makes python distinct is "There should be one-- and
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by drewp 19y ago
newsbruiser: pretty friendly install and web config can't avoid running it as cgi, which sucks once I decided to make my entries in restructured text (huge mistake), I can't easily change to using regular html for new ones, which is what I
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by drewp 19y ago
The advice wasn't "always choose the harder thing". Obviously that's not correct, even generally speaking. Note the part where you're supposed to do this _when you have a hard time deciding_.
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by drewp 20y ago
There would be almost nothing in common with your non-FB "toolkit" and the FB one. Theirs is a way to access the FB database, yours wouldn't be. Hopefully you're not imagining that FB for some reason decided to give away the tools that wou