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by lsb 17y ago
He says it's for R and MySQL, but R is just reading CSV in his code. It looks like you can use Postgres, or SQLite, or even code in a general programming language.
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by lsb 17y ago
To be fair, you can get the small EC2 down to $30/mo if you prepay, and Slicehost can go down 20% too.
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by lsb 17y ago
You can flag comments, if you go to that comment's page. PG, what do you think about having the "flag" button on the comment?
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by lsb 17y ago
So I'm assuming the appropriate response is to come, and buy the same amount or less?
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by lsb 17y ago
We're currently T -4 hours from the raison d'être.
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by lsb 17y ago
The task they did do, that needed doing, was causing a shift in thinking that was tantamount to the shift you undergo when you learn Prolog, having only been exposed to Assembler. By abstracting away the storage model, you can reuse the sam
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by lsb 17y ago
Far better than the linked article. And, slightly, distressing: I would be quite concerned about the quality of a product if the chief arbiter of taste for that product professed a dislike for jazz because of an inability to predict what's
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Google Translate does Text-to-Speech(translate.google.com)
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by lsb 17y ago
And, further, show more prominently the sellers that have the best conversion rates, which you both could monitor via an intuitive analytics package.
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by lsb 17y ago
Hagiographic is Greek, from "hagios" = saint + "graph" = writing, meaning "writing about someone as if they were a saint". DH0. Name-calling. This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. We've all seen comment
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by lsb 17y ago
Unrelatedly, one of the challenges in analyzing modern text with traditional NLP tools is that the tools usually expect standard English, whereas the text is rather colloquial, and the punctuation is for timing purposes, when present at all
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by lsb 17y ago
It's like a choose-your-own-adventure version of the Eames Brothers' "Powers of Ten" movie!
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The server's falling down, but that looks beautiful, and quite useful.
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Imagine all the satellite engineers, dismayed that people use GPS to geocache junk in tupperware around the world. Imagine all the thousands of man-millenia of research in CCDs and computer networking and systems engineering and UI design j
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by lsb 17y ago
Lispers, I found this interesting, from 1:30: -- "Do you miss laziness, from Haskell?" -- "Yes. Absolutely. I have macros in Erlang to simulate it, and I used them all the time." Are Lisp's macros more popular for transforming code, or fo
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by lsb 17y ago
WMA? That's a disappointment.
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If you're not folding functions, but parts of functions, that's a sign that it's poorly divided up, and a refactor would benefit it.
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by lsb 17y ago
I'm getting 10k uniques a month and SQLite is working fantastically, as the db behind one Sinatra process, behind one Thin.
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by lsb 17y ago
Yup, Skype had that half a decade ago. Problem is that if there's a big Windows update that everyone installs, a large portion of your network goes down.
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by lsb 17y ago
He had, what, 10 man-years of experience at this sort of thing, at most? His opposition had what sounds like a man-millenium of experience, and he made A$5M off of them.
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by lsb 17y ago
At the point when you'd need to vertically scale up from shared spinning platters to a SSD, you probably want the performance boost of running on the actual machine. ServerBeach has some Power Servers on sale that you can upgrade to a SSD
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by lsb 17y ago
Michael Mitzenmacher, at Harvard, had a paper in the 2003 IEEE Data Compression Conference that gave empirical evidence that translations compressed to roughly similar sizes (using the Bible and the EU texts), but had wildly varying sizes u
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by lsb 17y ago
1. /australia|new ?zealand/i 2. "Some people, when they see a problem, think, Oh, I'll use Regular Expressions. Then they have two problems." -jwz
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by lsb 17y ago
So here's a question: why not have a background process that keeps asking Y! every 57 minutes?
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Font technologies such as TrueType/OpenType are extremely powerful. A glyph in such a font actually may use a small programs to deform the shape radically according to resolution, platform, or language. This is used to chose an optimal sha
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by lsb 17y ago
Do you go running and/or biking outside? I've been mostly cycling around the river and the minuteman.
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If you can avoid showing that loading icon altogether, take it out. Precache the AJAX request as soon as you can, if it won't overload your server, and don't make the user wait.
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by lsb 17y ago
Rails' ActiveSupport has a similarly nifty feature, where 15.days.ago is a valid Time object, and it all just works out of the box.
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It's less similar to RoR and more similar to Cappuccino or something. More often than not, the choice of language is far less important than the choice of programmer and the comfort in the target language and the amount of pre-debugged libr
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by lsb 17y ago
Yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846620

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