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by edraferi 7y ago
The genius of Universal Paperclips [0] is that it teaches you the unintuitive ways that exponential systems work. Things seem to move very slowly, then they explode very very quickly. (Assuming that’s the paper clip game mentioned by GP!) [
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by edraferi 7y ago
Senzing and Tamr are two options for this
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by edraferi 7y ago
How do you think Prefect compares to Airflow / Dagster?
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by edraferi 7y ago
Hey David - love what you’re doing with Retool. I think it’s a good solution for the front end piece of this challenge. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Retool focus on working with existing enterprise databases and APIs? If so t
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by edraferi 7y ago
I’m also very curious about this. I have several ideas for niche websites that I would love to build, but I want them to be sustainable without awful adware
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by edraferi 7y ago
Correct. Warren proposes to reinstate it: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/27/to-curb-lobbying-power-eli... OTA isn’t a panacea though. You have to figure out ways to make it financially reasonable for people t
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by edraferi 7y ago
That's a perfect example of UI discoverability fails. The feature is super useful and perfectly hidden. Will use this all the time now, thanks!
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by edraferi 7y ago
> I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my finger down, it let me move the cursor around in a word. Now you have to swipe the cursor to "grab" it and move it around under your f
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by edraferi 7y ago
Maybe allow & incentivize people to add their own videos? Eg you get a month free for every high-quality flow video.
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by edraferi 7y ago
R for the ecosystem, Julia for the performance & future proofing.
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by edraferi 7y ago
I’ve found phonetic similarly algorithms like this to be very useful for data cleaning work, especially when your data generating process involves transliteration. That is, if your users know Language A but your data involves Language B, yo
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by edraferi 7y ago
Which is, of course, exactly what you want. These rules exist because charlatans bilked a lot of consumers out of a lot of money. The financial industry will do this consistently because the incentives are obvious. There has to be some exte
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by edraferi 7y ago
BTW that was probably an illegal act by your employer. They gave you a clearly impossible task then fired you when you couldn’t complete it. That’s unreasonable. You might want to contact an employment attorney in your state for a consultat
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by edraferi 7y ago
That’s a meaningless statement. > Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) are public-private partnerships which conduct research for the United States Government. They are administered in accordance with U.S. Code of F
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by edraferi 7y ago
I believe the distinction you’re looking for is Civil Service vs Appointed positions. The Civil Service is composed of employees who are hired and managed competitively (to the extent allowable by the unions and massive red tape...). Appoin
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by edraferi 7y ago
Almost everything winds up as a department under the executive branch, headed by a political appointee. But exceptions exist, like the Post Office and TVA.
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by edraferi 7y ago
Wasn’t much of this covered by the whole Semantic Web effort? They built a ton of stuff for self-describing data (RDF) that federated over multiple hosts by default (SPARQL), provided meaningful names (URIs everywhere) and multiple tools fo
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by edraferi 7y ago
Looking forward to seeing your project!
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by edraferi 7y ago
Sandstorm kind of still there. They discontinued the free tier for their hosted platform because they ran out of money. The founders went to work elsewhere but maintained the project on the side last time I checked. I think it’s a shame, it
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by edraferi 7y ago
> To understand the current period, I recommend that you understand the workings of the 1935-45 period closely, which is the last time similar forces were at work to produce a similar dynamic. Christ nobody wants to live in 1935-1945. Th
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by edraferi 7y ago
I evaluated several light markup languages a while back for use in technical contracts. Basically I was fed up dealing with MSFT Word’s formatting problems while iterating on complex content with internal and external lawyers. Asciidoc defi
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by edraferi 7y ago
What are you thinking about OFX/QFX? CSV is nice for breadth but some of the specialized formats are pretty nice for these kinds of tools.
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by edraferi 7y ago
+1 I got a lot of mileage out of the triple model when working with social media data. You just don’t know what data patterns you will find when you start looking, and need to support generic queries.
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by edraferi 7y ago
So just add a record separator at the end of each line?
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by edraferi 7y ago
God that game was so hard. Maybe I’m a wimp about rogue likes in general though. I enjoy stuff like XCOM where it’s a puzzle you can reason your way through and use save states to re-try when you realize your plan or your execution of the p
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by edraferi 7y ago
+1
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by edraferi 7y ago
Interesting project. Who’s sponsoring this?
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by edraferi 7y ago
Looks cool, but has a contact form instead of a price sheet.
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by edraferi 7y ago
There’s a start up called TruePic that’s building a solution to this problem. Basically their platform helps you get trusted pictures from users. https://truepic.com/
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by edraferi 7y ago
Sorry about that. People should use these kinds of questions as an opportunity to educate, not brag/exclude/shame. Relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

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