lincolnq

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by lincolnq 18y ago
A friend of mine runs innocentive.com, which is a smaller-scale instance of this sort of thing.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I'm working on a site that does exactly this! It learns pretty well what you want to read (based on voting up/down on everything). It's mostly based on correlating your preferences with those of other people. My site is http://newsbrane.co
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by lincolnq 18y ago
..or you are the founder. :P
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Excellent hack. I don't get a good perspective on why the hedge funds didn't see it coming, though.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Whaat? My undergrad CS department didn't have anything this focused on a single technology or programming environment. The most specific was the software engineering course where you learned how to use Java and C++ and XML, but the point of
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I have consistently observed this and been frustrated at decision-makers for making what looks like fear-driven rather than rational decisions. I like this article because it gives a hypothesis that explains this. But how do you educate peo
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I agreed with the article too, but I feel like it was because it was flattering, not because I could tell that it was necessarily correct.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I was reading the beginning and thinking "Gosh, I could really use a local business search," and it's true - I've had a terrible time with Google and Google Maps trying to do that exact thing. I want businesses of a certain type that I can
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I think number theory might help. I don't know much about it, but the way most number generators work (as I understand it) is that they are a representation of a big number which is the internal state, and that internal state completely tra
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Cute. Exploits the fact that the maze is divided in two parts (two connected components -- a left and right wall) by the path through it. I didn't understand the technique at first and had to stare at it for a few minutes. If your maze is n
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I should point out that I do use OS X for games, web browsing, and casual programming tasks. It's a good OS, but I can't live with it when I'm really trying to be productive.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Better user experience? Not for certain kinds of work. If you're in the terminal a lot, for example. The OS X Aqua terminal really blows, and its X11 terminal isn't much better. I never have any problems with terminal settings under Linux,
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by lincolnq 18y ago
The video squeals with a high-pitched noise in the background which makes it very hard to watch. Also, some more editing might be worth it: cut out those uhm's and ah's, get a decent mike and make it sound nice and professional. I like the
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Okay, then. A monad is fundamentally a data structure -- an abstract data structure, with a known set of operations. With the State monad above, the data structure is a tuple (s, v) -- the 's' is the state, and the 'v' is the value. The who
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Ugh. The nuclear waste metaphor is really lame. Try this: My goal is to perform an inorder traversal of a binary search tree which stores integers. I wish to multiply each value in the tree by its index in the inorder traversal, so the min
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Wow. This blows my mind. I have to beg people to email me instead of trying to IM me, talk to me, or (God forbid) send me a Facebook message. FTFA: "You can do something as simple as calling people instead of e-mailing them. If you work on
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by lincolnq 18y ago
In other words, unlike reddit, the rating of a story changes over time. Stories get one free upvote, so p-1 compensates for that (new stories have no points). Dividing by a power of time makes the number of upvotes that a story receives in
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by lincolnq 18y ago
That would require them knowing what each individual user's rate of refreshing the page was. This is a reasonable balance between showing newer stories and showing stories which were very popular. Many more articles are posted than make the
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by lincolnq 18y ago
No. The rating doesn't change unless people vote on it, and is a function of the logarithm of number of votes.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
My astroturf detector is going off. This looks like one of those guerrilla/viral marketing campaigns. Where does this come from and who is doing it?
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by lincolnq 18y ago
You probably meant: vectorDotProduct = zipWith ( * ) (and this doesn't even include the sum) map ( * ) has type Num a => [a] -> [a -> a] which is not really what the dot product should be.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Disagree. The police interviews are designed to get people to say things that will get them convicted. This is a hackable system -- a social hack, but a hack nonetheless. (It might also be argued that the real hack is the police interviews
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by lincolnq 18y ago
For me the quality of a keyboard is based entirely on how well my wrists and fingers deal with typing on it. I have been using a Kinesis keyboard for nearly a year and it makes my finger pain nearly go away. When I use my laptop keyboard in
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by lincolnq 18y ago
Use Linux for Linux like environment. Trust me, it works better.
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by lincolnq 18y ago
It's probably too late for you in this case, but in the future, it's probably a good idea never to read patents. (not legal advice) That's the policy I keep -- I don't follow links with 'patent' in the URL, because it's much worse for you i
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I would dearly like to be able to create links between objects, which follow when I move the objects around. I've tried about a jillion whiteboard/flowchart type apps and none of them do this, but yours could! This is because I often find m
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by lincolnq 18y ago
I wouldn't agree that patterns suck. When they restrict the way people think, that's bad. I don't think that good programmers tend to fall into that trap, though. Instead, patterns are simply abstraction, and naming a pattern is simply givi