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by dxjones 17y ago
This is an excellent tool to get things up and running on the client side for the large number of people who are fluent and proficient in PHP. Even if you are concerned about efficiency, it is still excellent as a fast prototyping method, w
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by dxjones 17y ago
"When one says Sudoku is NP-complete, one should keep in mind that this refers only to an unusual type of Sudoku puzzle in which there might be multiple solutions." http://11011110.livejournal.com/23221.html
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by dxjones 17y ago
What is confusing about this "proof" is there is an implicit trusted third party. Let's call him Charlie. After solving the Sudoku puzzle, Paula needs to give Charlie her solution, ... and a permutation. Victor gets to ask one of 28 po
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Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review(unseen.ws)
10 points by dxjones 17y ago|16 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
If jQuery is open source, and you look at the source, and you see room for improvement. ... improve it. ... or make a constructive criticism pointing out how it could be improved and someone else will do it. Could the code be faster? Sur
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Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles(scientificamerican.com)
11 points by dxjones 17y ago|2 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
It is possible that "black" and "white" are in the same synonym network, perhaps linked by words like "ash". That would be amusing. Someone can check it on WolframAlpha. The networks are "non-overlapping", because of the definition of a s
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by dxjones 17y ago
Hmmm, this posting got 5 pts of karma (signifying interest, I presume), but nobody has posted a comment offering a solution.
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by dxjones 17y ago
Interesting, ... the synonym network containing "black" contains 26,330 words. The entire English language must be partitioned into "K" non-overlapping synonym networks. What is the value of "K" ? I wonder if K = 2, ... and the other synony
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by dxjones 17y ago
Although the discussion of the Kelly criterion is an interesting academic exercise, the analysis does not apply to an actual lottery like 6/49, because it is based on a false assumption: ... "assuming that I can avoid picking the same numbe
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by dxjones 17y ago
When a person writes a reference letter, it is supposed to include both strengths and weakness of the job candidate. This is sensitive information that is necessarily sent directly to the intended recipient. If you require the letter to go
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by dxjones 17y ago
Can anyone decode this jargon: "The performance metric is the lift at 20% review rate." By the way, ... the contest is only open to students.
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Ask HN: How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk from Canada?
11 points by dxjones 17y ago|1 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
"this is a huge privacy concern" ... agreed! Let's hope Apple clean's up Safari's messy behaviour that disregards the privacy of users everywhere.
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by dxjones 17y ago
all those if's, no else's, ... looks like there is still room for optimization. ... and, pipelined CPU's dislike branching code. Are there tricks to do the same computation with fewer branches?
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by dxjones 17y ago
Yes, the difference is related to what gets reported, and how it is defined. I think it is more narrowly defined in the US, and more under-reported.
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by dxjones 17y ago
If you give them ownership of the IP with Option C, then you should ask for a bigger piece of each transaction in your contract, ... keeping in mind they may choose not to renew with the same terms at the end of the contract term (1 year?).
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by dxjones 17y ago
You have a small bug in your HTML: "<<title>" (double <<, oops) It an interesting exercise, to see it implemented using only Javascript. The main thing about Twitter is the actual tweets , not just the faces of the peo
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by dxjones 17y ago
With Option C, do they own the IP? If so, what prevents them from cutting you out of transactions once they are convinced it is working, and they don't need you anymore? If you own the IP, then you should think of yourself as a partner. T
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by dxjones 17y ago
I can imagine many many clients following a particular user on twitter, awaiting commands. Perhaps "zombies"?
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by dxjones 17y ago
Thanks for the save! I hate to see my karma erode.
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by dxjones 17y ago
re: the link to the youtube video of a Google talk about TODO lists ... On the one hand, people's "TO DO" lists may seem trivial, but some of the key lasting archaeological artifacts have been lists of cattle and grain being brought to mark
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by dxjones 17y ago
But if your "geo information" comes from a random web browsing person who lives in "Sunnyvale, CA", this service can tell you the long/lat ... It is the "unstructured" plain text input that people will appreciate about this service.
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by dxjones 17y ago
I think the $5000 for supplies underplays the enormous investment required to build this home. 1500 hours @ 30/hrs manual labour per week (could you do more?) works out to 50 weeks ... one solid man year of construction Next question: What
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by dxjones 17y ago
I'll second that recommendation. I also read Dan's book recently and it was both entertaining and insightful. I'm an academic, so I like that the book is based solidly on research, but it has a nice narrative style that keeps the pages tu
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by dxjones 17y ago
Although I agree with the main point of this opinion piece ("Reading Aloud" is a Good Thing), the author comes across as a bit pretentious when he tries to capture the magical "je ne sais quoi" about reading aloud, and how young people (stu
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by dxjones 17y ago
wufoo, come back!
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by dxjones 17y ago
Google is probably doing retrospective data mining to identify statistical links between possible indicators and actual data on employees leaving ... (e.g., employee tells boss, "I feel my talents are not being used", or increased frequency
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by dxjones 17y ago
How can a person in Canada "simulate" an IP address seeming to originate in the UK to get access to Spotify? It currently rejects visitors from Canada.
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by dxjones 17y ago
great explanation of the "quality fade" phenomenon

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