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by hassy 15y ago
Pure trolling for traffic. Reading source code is a very ineffective way to learn beyond the "micro" level. I consider erudition, a sense of history, and curiosity to be some of the most important qualities in any professional. Someone who
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by hassy 15y ago
HN is so easy to game - it takes very few votes in a short period of time to get something on the front page. The guy probably sent the link around to his buddies - I've been on the receiving end of a number of such requests (and ignored th
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by hassy 15y ago
> Surely the right thing to do is to write your systems in such a way that you can pull out (say) a file-system explorer written in flex and replace it with one written in JS in as easy a manner as possible. Especially if it was indee
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by hassy 15y ago
> I don't believe real time is very hard. At scale it is. More here: http://www.quora.com/Hunch/Is-Hunch-actually-doing-anything-... (this one got a vote from one of the founders) http://hassy.posterous.com/my-favorite-startups-hun
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by hassy 15y ago
Don't forget that Hunch's system is real-time (this is very hard), and is more than just scalable collaborative filtering for items of the same kind. They can ingest a Twitter or Facebook profile, infer your "taste profile", and start recom
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by hassy 15y ago
> What is ebay thinking? Impressive back-end tech (the recommendation engine) that can now process millions and millions of items on eBay to help increase sales (something like a quarter of Amazon's sales come from recommendations).
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by hassy 15y ago
I am somewhat disappointed since Chris Dixon has said Hunch would be in it for the long-term. (I've followed Hunch since it's early days* and always wanted to see it go big.) $80m is a nice pay-out though, the systems they've built have the
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by hassy 15y ago
> First, understand that CoffeeScript is JavaScript - but without its idiosyncrasies. ...and a different syntax. That's my main objection to CS. I'm already working with 5 different syntaxes: Python, Javascript, Erlang, HTML, and CSS.
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How to get a Knuth cheque(kevinlawler.com)
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by hassy 15y ago
My entry is more of a joke (it won "The Play Your Own Game Prize") as I only had a couple of hours to spend. The code is here: https://github.com/hassy/obf-onion
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by hassy 15y ago
He wants to put his money where his mouth is. What's wrong with that?
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by hassy 15y ago
This is very cool. If you want to play with topic modeling I'd suggest starting with Mallet ( http://mallet.cs.umass.edu ) For an idea of what topic modeling can do, check out http://bit.ly/wikitopics which provides a web-based UI for bro
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by hassy 15y ago
The title of the article is misleading. Yearly revenues do not necessarily mean technological innovation. There is plenty of innovation in Europe (and a lot of it gets sold to US companies who get to increase their annual revenues with it).
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by hassy 15y ago
Yandex and Mail.ru IPOs I would guess.
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by hassy 15y ago
Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels like. It'll probably improve your understanding of Javascript.
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by hassy 15y ago
I think "www" will make a comeback with increasing popularity of non .com/.net/.org TLDs. "whatever.io" looks like a web address to most of us here, but not to many others, even computer-savvy "normals".
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by hassy 15y ago
You forgot another popular choice: "consultant".
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by hassy 15y ago
Looks like he's running them on OSX which means they're likely to work on BSDs too.
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by hassy 15y ago
Most mathematical symbols haven't been in use for longer than a couple of hundred of years. Leibniz's now standard calculus notation was introduced near the end of 17th century.
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by hassy 15y ago
This "guy" studied electrical engineering and computer science at Caltech and UC Berkeley, I am sure his grasp of mathematics is ok. Perhaps you should try to stop feeling offended at his proposal and try to see where he might be coming fro
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by hassy 15y ago
Highly recommended reading by the same author: http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk (To pique your curiosity: read it to understand why Hipmunk is awesome - there's much more to it than just that of course)
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by hassy 15y ago
And less than three years ago we heard that the next decade would be very tough, from Sequoia no less. The hunt for suckers is on.
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by hassy 15y ago
> Personally I'd love to see the term "front end developer" lose some steam. I don't think it will. There will definitely be more dabbling but the APIs and environments are so different it'll still make sense to specialize.
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by hassy 15y ago
There are two solutions to this. First is to have some kind of flow control between producers and consumers (send/wait for reply/continue). Second is to pull messages from sender whenever receiver is ready, perhaps with some rate-limiting o
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by hassy 15y ago
The GC in Erlang VM is also per-process which allows it to be soft real-time. An application can be using gigabytes of memory, but it it's split between thousands of processes, garbage collection can be very very fast because the GC only ne
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by hassy 16y ago
That reason is likely to be jQuery included in every other project on Github.
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by hassy 16y ago
pdftotext can produce garbled output, especially from two-column PDFs.* Depending on what you need, scripting Adobe Reader may be an option as it does a better job. * I did a sizeable data mining project a while ago which required convertin
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by hassy 16y ago
That's true. I wasn't responding directly to the article, but just wanted to share a convenient solution to the problem of "I want my private stuff synced, but I don't want to trust Dropbox or anyone else with it".
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by hassy 16y ago
A great feature of OSX is the Apple Disk Image. [1] It lets you have a single file, with AES-256 encryption, that can be mounted and then used as a disk (put files on it, create folders etc). Perfect for keeping anything sensitive in Dropbo
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by hassy 16y ago
Stick it out, you will get used to it. Comma is AND, semi-colon is OR, and period means END of function definition. LFE is probably your best bet in case you never learn to like Erlang's syntax, as it's only a thin layer above Erlang to pro

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