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Research and Development at 99designs(99designs.com)
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Workflowy Pro released(twitter.com)
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Asyncronous task queues(99designs.com)
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by lars512 15y ago
Steve McConnell's book "Code Complete" was an eye-opener for me. It also has a whole chapter on variable naming, and is worth a read. http://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Const...
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by lars512 15y ago
Good API documentation serves a bit like a glossary too. I'd be worried about the double-maintenance problem, but I suppose it's always there between code and docs. As long as you name things consistently, I can see how it'd be useful.
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by lars512 15y ago
I'd never considered using a thesaurus for names, but it makes sense if the name you're starting with isn't quite right. Maybe something like Visual Wordnet ( http://kylescholz.com/projects/wordnet/ ) would be useful too.
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On naming(quietlyamused.org)
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I just received emails about NLP and PGM, and still haven't heard from other classes. Does anyone know any of the details around the issues they're facing? Good on Scott Page for getting some Model Thinking videos up nonetheless. https://w
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Coursera's free online courses delayed further(aiqus.com)
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Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing environment for the JVM(github.com)
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by lars512 15y ago
We use Varnish because it's configurable, and have 6-8x more app servers than cache servers. In the future we'll scale back the Varnish layer, since more and more of what it does will be handled via CDN.
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by lars512 15y ago
In our current model, some of our static media are generated asynchronously, but basically on demand. That's the main reason why we don't serve media directly from Cloudfront/S3. We're certainly considering Cloudfront with a custom origin a
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Infrastructure at 99designs(99designs.com)
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The Revolution May Or May Not Be Branded(techcrunch.com)
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Apple sees over 350K digital textbook downloads(venturebeat.com)
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I think people tend to work alone because of the pressure they feel to come up with something independent and original. I went through this process and eventually realised how much more I enjoy working closely with others on hard problems.
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The analogy to text editors is bad though, since everyone can choose the UI they like for text editing, whereas for source control the choice of UIs is much reduced. In other words, I can choose Vim/Emacs, slog away and get proficient, and
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It's a testament to how successful Amazon has been in its cloud offering. We're used to sites going down for one reason or another. What's weird is that Amazon's success has made all these failures so correlated. It's a strange feeling when
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The things which weren't said explicitly but which we can assume are that the original implementer wasn't around any more, and that nobody else understood the system either. With these pieces of information, the decision to re-implement see
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Years back Perl mustn't have had functioning unicode, because I recall programmers working with Japanese text having to use JPerl, a funkily patched version, instead.
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Different cultures vary hugely as to how they use eye contact when talking, whether it's expected or whether it's intrusive. It's interesting to get the reminder that it also varies by individual.
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That's one of the legitimate reasons to switch to an interpreted language, or else Go. Unless you value your compilation off-time :)
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It's relative to your current level of business "success". When your time becomes worth enough at your business, it becomes false economy to be too frugal. This is what the article is all about.
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Latent semantic mapping is a technique which takes a large number of text documents, maps them to term frequency vectors (vector-space semantics), and performs dimensionality reduction into a smaller semantic space. This then lets you deter
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The lsm command for Latent Semantic Mapping(developer.apple.com)
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I'm sure the countries mentioned have income tax too, without the safety nets and social stability benefits you're paying for as a high-income member of society. But that's an entirely different discussion. In Australia, our student loans s
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This article is effectively discussing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which in its strong form says that language constrains the thoughts you can have, and in it's weak form says that language merely influences your thoughts. Wikipedia's artic
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I do something similar with BitBucket and hg. Over time, I've found I rarely need system specific branches any more. Each computer has a .bashrc-local for local shell customizations, kept outside the repo. Otherwise, it's enough to detect t
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Having done a lot of CJK development, I felt that Go's unicode strings were pretty kludgey last time I looked. Go's strings are all utf8, so unless you're working in its ASCII subset alone, you have to manually iterate over multi-byte runes
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You don't miss generics? In my limited time working with Go, the lack of generics felt like a glaring hole in the language. That said, maybe that feeling goes away as you spend more time with Go, and perhaps learn to program it more idiomat

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