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by jclos 14y ago
I see APIs as a less extreme version of DSLs (in that they share a common language, while building a DSL frees you from almost any restriction), but I honestly don't have enough experience building APIs or DSLs to give you a satisfying answ
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by jclos 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. As much as I like languages that facilitate DSLs, this is an unrealistic view of software development. To add to what you wrote, you have to also consider that all developers in one team have to agree on a common DSL
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by jclos 14y ago
This is just an appeal to worse fallacy. Just because others have it bad doesn't mean we shouldn't improve our own situation.
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IE10 just asked me to reboot my computer in order to complete my install. Did we just go back in time and nobody told me?
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by jclos 14y ago
I have no inside knowledge and I speak only as a research student working on search engines, but my guess would be that Facebook and Twitter don't allow their pages to be crawled[1]. If I recall MS had to strike a deal with both of them so
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by jclos 14y ago
for those without access http://ge.tt/6UxoSsY?c
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I mainly click. I would love to alt-tab but I can't seem to internalize the way it works, which means that I usually alt-tab a dozen times like an idiot to pick the application I actually want.
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by jclos 14y ago
While I like the idea of tabule, I think not targeting Android in education oriented apps is a mistake. A lot of students don't necessarily have enough money to shell out for an iPhone, while cheap Android phones are everywhere (at least th
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by jclos 14y ago
Thank you for these tutorials. I have been willing to teach LaTeX to some of my grad students friends in the biology department (these poor souls still use Microsoft Word) and your link will definitely come in handy !
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Haha I know, I was just being a smartass ;)
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Aren't we all animals?
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I've seen a lot of people in academia be guilty of an even more vicious form of "entrapment": delayed entrapment, where they lure you into saying everything is ok and let you dig your own grave, then come back a month later to bury you in i
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by jclos 14y ago
Something that the author omitted is that one of the reasons for such a tax is to regularize the way companies work with user-generated data. Companies with very strong transparency, good privacy policy and where user data can be accessed b
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by jclos 14y ago
I remember reading (although I can't seem to find the reference) that there was an increase in med schools registrations when the tv show House began. If there is such an influence is there a way to use it for good purposes, like funding ga
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by jclos 14y ago
Windows 7 64bits and a standard usb mouse. I haven't tested the bookmarklet though, I was talking about the website itself: scrolling doesn't do anything and pressing H doesn't display anything either. I went to check the "Alice in Wonderla
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by jclos 14y ago
Works perfectly on Chrome (24.0) but nothing happens on Firefox (18.0).
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From my experience (I haven't read all of them) they cover things that are so different there isn't any real order. From this bundle, "Think Stats" might be a good first book, and then you can branch out to "Programming Collective Intellige
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by jclos 14y ago
Colleagues of mine had a review paper on opinion mining published quite recently at this address if that is an interest of yours: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13278-012-0057-9 or without paywall: http://ge.tt/8qDJWPT/v/0?c
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I don't think they have anything against students hosting TEDx, just against students hosting TEDx without respecting the rules.
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At least a sales pitch tries to sell you something real (usually), which is still better than the crockpot pseudoscience bollocks I've seen in other TEDx. These do much more damage to the TED brand in my opinion.
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Do we really need to even redefine it though? With the massive storage provided by modern email providers, the automatic classification of incoming emails and the fact that we can usually search in our inbox quite efficiently I feel that e-
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I wish we could just go back to plain old e-mail. So elegant, so efficient. Many providers to choose from. I can automatically put them into nice labelled boxes. Everything comes out from one big firehose of information and is automatically
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Well ideally there is nothing you could not learn on your own, given sufficient time and resources. It depends a lot on your university I would guess, so the best thing to do would be to ask older students who took CS classes and left. Not
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I agree entirely and I would just add that if the OP is worried about the time/gain ratio inherent to learning what is essentially an applied field of mathematics he should check if having a minor in software engineering is possible. My bet
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Have you benchmarked it on some standard IR collections (TREC-DUC comes to mind)?
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> Tags are the future but only if someone would be able to automate them completely. Which is why my dream bookmark manager has a "download and index bookmarked page" checkbox. Tags become optional - but you can still search for your st
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I never thought of that but now that you mention it importing and annotating code would be a neat feature.
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Yeah I know (I'm actually on Windows and just realized the news was for the Mac version) but I'd like to have something to automatically back up all my data on a daily basis for instance. I still think Evernote is worth it though, it's pure
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As a PhD student, I use it to organize my research. Instead of having physical notebooks, I have virtual notebooks that I use to note and track the evolution of my ideas over time or when I need to write a report, because it syncs between m
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by jclos 14y ago
I would advise you to get started with these books, which are practice-oriented (rather than theory-oriented such as the Mitchell book): http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/book.html with the Weka toolkit and/or http://www.liaad.up.pt/~l

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