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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I was a little confused by the fact that the post lists Scala as one of the "hipster" languages in the opening paragraph and then starts using it as an example of the java way? Just a slip?
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Hacker News is one of the best looking sites on my G1. For some reason I have never been able to post comments from the phone. I have to go pull up a full browser to post. Any ideas why? Is it just me?
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Not only that but there is an entire student loan industry ( that Obama wants to get rid of) that has a vested interest in expanding the amount of student debt. It becomes so easy for a student to justify taking on extra debt to keep from w
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Does anyone else think that the student loan industry is creating inflation in and around universities? I mean the cost of tuition and books is outpacing inflation. The property markets around those schools remain red hot all the time. I c
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
well this year I bought a condo and want to file for the 8K tax credit sooner rather than later.
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
For several years I didn't file on time, rather I filed for a 6 month extension. Then I would walk over to the I.R.S. office during lunch and request all my reported income. Those are the forms that I used to file at H&R Block. This wa
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I bought an ebook reader app for my android phone and I love it. Now when I am stuck in line I reach for my current ebook rather than the web browser. I like reading at night w/o any lights on. Being able to carry around a library is also
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I wonder if they used techniques from http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia... I am interested in using ideas from that article and incorporating them into a blackjack site I'm building. I'm very interested in th
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Is anyone talking about the potential to not just grab video but to send control signals? What if the enemy could actually take control of one of these drones? Is that channel encrypted? How about sending back false video to not allow the
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
What about the idea of making it easier to sell a house using a "For Sale By Owner" then let more ppl list their own homes on craigslist or wherever they want. If I was trying to sell my home I would want it on every single site out I coul
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I just want to add that I read some of the Turtle Trader books and one more on Trend Following. The last book finally got across to me the point that the trend followers used computers and math not to try and predict where the markets were
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
what about a solution that relies on cameras in the fridge/kitchen area and AI that can tell you are opening a bottle of something? The code would have to detect the various bottles maybe do OCR on the labels and build a db of what is in yo
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I really liked the demo of this, I wonder if any of the new e-readers will support this in the future. Come to think of it this would be a good app for either the iphone or android.
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
In many places you can park one night in the Wal-Mart parking lots. In small towns you can see many people parking overnight. I don't know at what point they would start to mind.
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
My last year of school was spent in a 35 foot travel trailer in Austin. After that I did think about trying to run a small web consulting company using a swarm of RVs to support the dev team. The idea being that we would just pick up and go
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I hope this can lead to more long lasting discussions. Sometimes I find a thread late and want to add something but it seems pointless when the last comments were added more than a day ago. I think this site could be better if there was a
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Does anybody know about these 2 ideas? 1) a site that lets people upload their bots and play bot vs. bot 24/7. The idea is to try and find the best algorithm. 2) A site that a human player plays at against the computer. The computer also t
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I had one semester of Haskell in school and thought I knew a thing or two about it. The last thing I attempted in Haskell was the game of blackjack. The two big problems there were user input, and the random numbers that were used to shuff
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
When Sarah Palin was running for office I heard a British politician remark that Sarah Palin represented the negation of politics. She appealed to people who were fed up with politics and politicians. For some reason Joel's argument reminds
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
When the author talked about scanning the video for "interesting" parts he mentioned pattern recognition. Does anyone know if data compression is used for this in applications? The idea being that if you have 12 hours of cctv footage that
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Does anyone think this would be an interesting problem for AI? I mean while you are coding have some software watch what you are doing and suggest standard libs that you might want to have a look at? It seems like standard information man
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
The biggest problem I have with regular expressions is all the differences in syntax between java, ruby, grep etc. I find that I could use them about every other week but I have to go and google for how to use them in each environment. It
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I'm working on a web based blackjack program. I have a beta up at http://www.barracudafix.com . My idea is to make it easy to learn card counting with this free webapp. I'm using java, spring, mysql, and dojo. I'm thinking of porting
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I have read some other articles about poker bots and the attempts by the site operators to ban them using captchas and such. Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to build an online poker site where the bots are actually encouraged
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
Actually I remember a few years ago reading an article that said that the Federal Reserve was studying the feasibility of embedding RFID tags into paper currency. Doing so would allow the banks to know how long a particular note had been
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by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I wonder if this could be used to write business apps where you want to work with private information but not actually have access to the info? I know many places have huge databases with personal info, like name, address, ssn etc. What