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by e-dard 14y ago
I get annoyed when I read things like: "A performed 4.9% better than B", when the comparison is between two proportions. Just say it like it is, without putting a slant on it - A's response rate was 0.6% higher than B's. I don't care if the
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by e-dard 14y ago
No! This crappy iOS app has a glitch and only showed the “cheapest way to store 6TB online” part! That’s amused me somewhat chuckles
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by e-dard 14y ago
I haven't checked, but I would think Amazon Glacier, assuming you only need to long-term archive the data.
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by e-dard 14y ago
Another Flask hacker here. Use it for all internal projects at work. 4 so far in 2012.
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by e-dard 14y ago
I based my PhD thesis on the idea of trading computational cloud (or any, really) resources. I went a little further though, and looked at how to design algorithms for the actual marketplaces, which allowed them to optimise how they compete
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by e-dard 14y ago
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by e-dard 14y ago
So that you provide as little friction as possible to getting people to sign up. For example, with your current button I was reluctant to press it because I would assume there would be a big form on the other side. However, I'm more likely
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by e-dard 14y ago
An alternative to Twitter has existed since 2008. It's called identi.ca http://identi.ca/ The issue is getting people to start using such a service.
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by e-dard 14y ago
Is the point of this that the recipient can only temporarily see it, and not keep going back to it? If so, what's to stop the user doing the equivalent of “menu button and power button” on the iPhone, to take a screen shot?
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by e-dard 14y ago
Ah, sorry, I missed the top of this reply-thread. I was referring to the story, not Facebook. :-)
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by e-dard 14y ago
I don't under stand the confusion in the other replies here. 1) lowercase inputted password. 2) hash password 3) compare hash to db hash (which was from a lowercased initial password).
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by e-dard 14y ago
And by encryption scheme, you really mean hashing scheme. Yup, it's easy to get confused.
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by e-dard 14y ago
We use SearchSpring. Does anyone know if this is an advantage over than? Currently, with SearchSpring we can: - specify result rankings; - add facets to our products and then SS allows the customer to do things like compare products, restri
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by e-dard 14y ago
This is great. However, did I read the article right - by the time they launched they had spent 300K? Here's a question - is it possible to ever do something like this without the requirement of finding 300K via consulting gigs first? I ass
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by e-dard 14y ago
The SO API is read-only, so I assume this app won't allow you to submit questions/answers/comments etc.
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by e-dard 14y ago
Is it just me, or is using a proportional font for the code snippets not ideal? Personally, I can't stand writing/reading code displayed in a proportional font.
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by e-dard 15y ago
Aren't Mixbook the jokers who tried to hire dhh for a Rails position?
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by e-dard 15y ago
I prefer "short but to the point". This is instinctively what I threw in iPython before looking past first snippet: print reduce(lambda x, y: x*y, xrange(2, 6+1)) As a newish Python guy (5 months), I'm interested as to why the pref
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by e-dard 15y ago
(iMac 2011) I had to return an Intel 510 120Gb after about 2 months due to it constantly failing verify disk in Disk Utility and corrupting various files. I replaced it with an OWC Mercury Electra 120GB; had to return that one off-the-bat,
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IPad LTE data connection won't work in UK (among others).(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by e-dard 15y ago|0 comments
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by e-dard 15y ago
Your argument, though, doesn't make Patrick's point necessarily false. Even if Google take more value from people than any other company, they can still provide a portion of that value to n other people, and assuming n is larger than any
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by e-dard 15y ago
I bought an Intel 510 120GB SSD for my iMac before Christmas. I chose it over the Vertexes/Agility models because of the supposed HW quality. After the 6th time of it corrupting various parts of my filesystem (often the catalogue and other
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by e-dard 15y ago
I listen to music all day every day when working (from home) and feel it helps me to be more productive, mainly because I'm relaxed and enjoying it, which in turn contributes to me enjoying my work. However, if my other half comes home and
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by e-dard 15y ago
I'd do something about the kerning of the h1 element, it's not particularly pleasant in my opinion.
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by e-dard 15y ago
(Apologies for being off topic) In the list specifying the rewards for investment on the Kickstarter page, the author specifies investors receive free copies of the iOS game. I was under the impression that Apple didn't allow developers to
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by e-dard 15y ago
The difference in performance between using evolutionary approaches and bandit algorithms is complex and problem dependent. There is no "one algorithm is better than the other". I've used both approaches for a different application and neit
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by e-dard 15y ago
In a nutshell, the problem is that as you add more arms (e.g., landing page variations) the amount of page views you need (i.e., actions tested), in order to learn reasonably accurate reward distributions, grows significantly. Further, ther
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by e-dard 15y ago
I don't think Tumblr are making money at the moment. I mean, they might sell themes but that's hardly going to come close to their outgoings. I guess they're working on the revenue generating bit, as seems to be the case for so many funded
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by e-dard 15y ago
This is neat. Would it be possible to extend it such that you could drop a key file into the password box to do the encryption/decryption?
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by e-dard 15y ago
Surely the mag-safe cables shouldn't get so damaged, because the cable detaches from the laptop under significant strain? In terms of mag-safe on iOS devices, I guess it's not feasible due to it transmitting data.

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