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by fnl 13y ago
> It's nice to see suffix arrays being used in the real world. You are apparently not working in Bioinformatics. Suffix arrays are used a LOT here, but rather the more advanced stuff like the BWT. Although, maybe Genomics and Next G
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by fnl 13y ago
Interesting assumption of yours - where in my post did I identify [myself] as a Buddhist?
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IBM Developing Software Ecosystem That Mirrors Human Brain(slashdot.org)
1 points by fnl 13y ago|0 comments
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by fnl 13y ago
Seems Paul "rediscovered" what Buddhism teaches us: You need to loose your ego to achieve Nirvana. With the difference that the Buddhists also tell you a method for going about this... :)
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by fnl 13y ago
True, but we all know from marketing/propaganda lessons that frequent repetition is the only way to drive a point home in most cases... :)
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by fnl 13y ago
OP here; patricia-trie is my pure Python (2.7+) implementation of the PATRICIA trie. It is geared for effcient look-ups of string collections on unstructured text. While it cannot beat the C-wrappers of the MARISA trie, I believe this is cl
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A patricia.py trie for efficient string look-ups(github.com)
1 points by fnl 13y ago|1 comments
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by fnl 13y ago
I think your estimate might possibly be to high: According to what I've been explained by friends who let rooms via AirBnB, you don't fill your rooms or apartment with "average" city rates. You will have to be on the lower end to do that an
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by fnl 13y ago
no wonder, given their pricing - I almost dropped of my chair when I saw them...
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by fnl 14y ago
Funny conclusion: Java stays roughly the same between the two graphs, if you "join" C and C++ in both graphs, they, too seem rather similar, and JavaScript probably got a bump because the second time, "HTML/CSS" was added as a "programming
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by fnl 14y ago
> The second issue is the lack of tab sand-boxing. A fairly large part of my job is testing for edge cases in our products. Our products are JavaScript heavy. I often find issues which crash the browser... well.. they crash Firefox. In
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Towards information storage in synthesized DNA(go.nature.com)
2 points by fnl 14y ago|0 comments
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by fnl 14y ago
My condolences to all US travelers who now will have to either pay outrageous roaming bills, be criminalized, or buy a second (unlocked) phone...
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by fnl 14y ago
Alex provides summary about the main difference of ES vs. Solr, ie., the distributed, dynamic indexes vs. fast static index search speeds. Here is an somewhat older article highlighting this difference in numbers (search time) and explainin
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by fnl 14y ago
Very, very little actual facts - but maybe I missed something?
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by fnl 14y ago
this is flawed: the presence of an answer post does not mean that the author actually got an answer...
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Riposte: A Trace-Driven Compiler and Parallel VM for Vector Code in R(justintalbot.com)
1 points by fnl 14y ago|0 comments
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by fnl 14y ago
> And no, using arrays is not an automatic violation of first normal form. One of the conditions of the 1NF is that each row and column contain one and only one value. While a NULL might be disputable, using multiple values as shown in
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by fnl 14y ago
well, at least upgrading to version "2" is free for existing users
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Why sales of stamps flourish in tough times (and an outlook...)(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by fnl 14y ago|0 comments
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by fnl 14y ago
> I'd estimate 9 out of 10 people have all their documents in a single flat folder, which they only access through their word processor or whatever they use to open them I could not agree less: Most people I know follow about the regula
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Twitter suspends accounts unfavorable to Sarkozy(internetsansfrontieres.com)
65 points by fnl 15y ago|12 comments
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by fnl 15y ago
Nicely done! Just, the "How" in the title is misleading... ;)
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by fnl 15y ago
OK, so the Facebook API is probably (one of) the most used API nowadays, maybe even before Google APIs. Assuming out of N developers each has the same chance of "dislike" for some API, it seems to me this pie-chart just nicely shows -roughl
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by fnl 15y ago
Quite good post; As I commented there - the only thing I think should be there, too, is the pattern to make bind available in pre-ES5
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by fnl 15y ago
I absolutely agree - and not only does the article barley scratch what is Unix standard anyways, and the more tricky questions such as piping, exit and error states, or the environment are left out. Kind of disappointing, in my opinion.
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by fnl 15y ago
Maybe this is true for US cit's. But if you think a bit more out of the box than just "States", the author has quite a point. Just look at what some gov'ts in less well of countries with regard to FoS now are doing in terms of monitoring Pe
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by fnl 15y ago
Lambda-calculus and monads are not necessarily Lisp-specific, neither would I call his syntax that (if only because he uses Haskell ->s instead of Lisp ()s :). See http://www.lfcs.inf.ed.ac.uk/reports/88/ECS-LFCS-88-66/index... . I lik
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by fnl 16y ago
I really had a good laugh at your last comment (same-sex topics) - although I guess that was serious, right?
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by fnl 16y ago
If I have no Surrogate Range CPs in a string, it is far easier to work with UTF-16 than UTF-8 at the byte level, because all chars are constant size. For UTF-8 that only applies to ASCII. And SRs characters are extraordinarily rare, while n

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