futuremint

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by futuremint 16y ago
I thought something like this might be coming after seeing the Chalkboard app. I personally think that apps in this style are better long-term than native apps for most business-y things.
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by futuremint 16y ago
I've always been fascinated by the romantic idea of writing my own trading engine. So I did some research, and most people who have written them will tell you that in cases like this, training on past data doesn't correlate well with curren
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by futuremint 16y ago
Also, you really might want to add some read permissions to your CouchDB on CouchOne. Currently all nodefu global config data is world readable.
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by futuremint 16y ago
If its free, who is footing the EC2 bill? Which gives me the idea: it'd be cool to have a service like this and have it use a user-provided AWS account. So you could use a service like this to automatically manage the EC2 instances, and the
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by futuremint 16y ago
I've actually taken time to think through my personal participation of the internet. I'm always cognizant of what information I'm exposing about myself with every post (including this one). I think one has to be if one wants to protect th
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by futuremint 16y ago
I couldn't replicate it directly either. See this page: http://support.cloudant.com/kb/faqs/im-having-trouble-replic... I just cloned the git repo for Scrumptious and pushed it to Cloudant myself using CouchApp. It isn't that hard.
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by futuremint 16y ago
These remind me of flash stuff on praystation.com 10 years ago!
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by futuremint 16y ago
You can also get free hosting at Cloudant.com as well. I have accounts at both, however at Cloudant they have a pretty nice UI for managing your databases and also give you a slick way to setup rewrite rules. That way your CouchApp can hav
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by futuremint 16y ago
With great power comes great responsibility. No, really! That's not just a cliche. Macros are like guns. See gun ownership debates...
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by futuremint 16y ago
Creativity is an internal endeavor. How your environment effects you internally seems to be different for every single person. This article seems to gloss over this fact. However I do agree that minimalism is certainly a periodic style.
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by futuremint 16y ago
Yep, I visited it on a drive through Kentucky once. Dipped my own bottle, got the t-shirt, didn't have time for the tour though (had 2 little kids with me). It was definitely cool to see where & how its made (and aged!).
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by futuremint 16y ago
He should start stopping at all of the little ports, marinas & marine supply stores on his way and tell them about his website. He should then offer them direct advertisements on his website. Sounds like the ads were actually effective
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by futuremint 16y ago
This. My first thought was "why didn't he use separate accounts?" Of course the mailing address for the checks would be the same. So then get multiple P.O. Boxes. Then I think they require a phone number too? I'm sure Google has some e
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by futuremint 16y ago
Who owns Maker's Mark? It remains one of my favorite bourbons for some reason. I think its one of the best for its price range. I think it beats Knob Creek (similar price) hands down. I think doing bourbon right is kind of like doing win
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by futuremint 16y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Greenwald. I don't read Salon regularly. However the occasional article I have read has been decent.
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by futuremint 16y ago
I'm mildly surprised that a media outlet is actually calling this out at another organization. In my opinion, every media outlet has been complicit in helping the U.S. powers that be try to discredit Wikileaks and distract from the conten
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by futuremint 16y ago
Yeah, the one library I'm using is pretty lightweight. It just does JSON parsing of responses over a socket connection and handles a few HTTP details. I've been really happy with it, and its been reasonably fast in the Cog VM. I haven't ex
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by futuremint 16y ago
Pharo. The latest stable version runs in the Cog VM (a fast JIT VM), and runs Seaside 3.0 great. However, choose your persistence carefully. The open-source Smalltalk landscape is littered with abandon-ware databases. If you want an OODB,
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by futuremint 16y ago
Wait... the naive-Bayes was trained on Yelp data? Isn't Yelp data also crowd-sourced information? I may not be thinking about this right, but it seems to me that training the classifier on crowd-sourced data and then comparing that to M
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by futuremint 16y ago
Ah, ok. Yes, you're right then I'm probably not making "worthwhile contractor fees" then. We're pretty frugal considering we're a family of four living in a very nice part of our city. However we also live in one of the cheapest areas of
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by futuremint 16y ago
Its ok, I wasn't really trying to set off fireworks... just to offer a little of my experience :) I've found that there are quite a few companies that can pay me worthwhile contractor fees yet cannot budget to have a UI guy, a backend guy,
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by futuremint 16y ago
I have an interesting niche for contracting too: I'm pretty good at UI & back-end at the same time. So instead of a company needing to hire two different developers, they can communicate with one person about their overall product easi
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by futuremint 16y ago
Can this be used to edit/manage all HTML5/CSS3 animations? If this is like a Motion for HTML/CSS that'd be awesome.
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by futuremint 16y ago
Maybe I should have said any random combination of gems. Monkey-patching is fine for a small-ish ruby script, but start combining ActiveSupport with some others and you quickly run into weird order-depending loading issues because of the M
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by futuremint 16y ago
I pity the poor sys-admins whose pagers are interrupting their late-night hacking. Visa & MC probably don't care at all (they're swimming in plastic money!), its the front-line guys that are feeling this the most!
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by futuremint 16y ago
Yeah, sorry I didn't make that clear :) PLT Scheme has become Racket... even though its still Scheme. It looks to me like a lot of the core PLT guys were involved in the R6RS debacle, and didn't like what came out of the process so decided
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by futuremint 16y ago
I would like to point out that popularity has nothing to do with software quality. I've found the > popularity == < library quality. See Ruby: as it got more popular in the past decade, your chances of any random gem working in a p
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by futuremint 16y ago
I wrote a small GUI based HTML scraping client about 5 years ago with PLT Scheme. It was a wonderful experience and building a basic cross-platform GUI was pretty easy given the great documentation those guys write along with the language.
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by futuremint 16y ago
Got em all except BASIC, Groovy, Scala, C# & Fortran. Not very interested in those languages anyway. I would have liked to see Haskell & Smalltalk on there. Apparently I do as much reading _about_ programming languages as I do _o
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by futuremint 16y ago
I'd like to see some code and a blog post for this! This is far more interesting to me than the iOS update :)

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