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by lunchbox 18y ago
This is fun, so I'll join in with some wild guesses. - Most people in the news who are making 2009 predictions are overestimating the amount of new tech developments that will happen in 2009. With the economic situation, it will be a genera
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by lunchbox 18y ago
> All of their "flagship" products have a terrible reputation right now You're ignoring Office, SQL Server, Exchange, .NET, and SharePoint, among others. Your list of 3 "flagship" products is quite selective.
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2009 Predictions for Microsoft(blogs.zdnet.com)
2 points by lunchbox 18y ago|0 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
This looks quite promising and I look forward to trying it out. I wonder how it will work compared with my current approach of using Mechanize and BeautifulSoup, along with the threading module.
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Scrapy: New Python web crawling & scraping framework (built on Twisted)(dev.scrapy.org)
92 points by lunchbox 18y ago|19 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
>You could make a Windows forms calculator with only a plus button, with an equals sign available with a CD Key, and people would pirate that. (I've often thought of trying it.) Made me think of this: http://blort.org/~kgasso/images/ho
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Project Pigeon: Ingenious use of pigeons to guide bombs during WWII(andrewmallis.com)
4 points by lunchbox 18y ago|1 comments
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A Software Secretary that Takes Charge(nytimes.com)
4 points by lunchbox 18y ago|0 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
When people think about web scraping in Python, they usually think BeautifulSoup. When I think about web scraping in Python, I think Mechanize. BeautifulSoup is great for parsing already downloaded HTML files, but it doesn't have the same
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Ask HN: Blogs focused on smart software design
3 points by lunchbox 18y ago|0 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
A generally good article, but the last section, which discussed online medical records, was a bit vague. First, the author doesn't distinguish between enterprise health information systems (which doctors/hospitals use internally to create a
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Good point. But http://www.python.org/download/ says in its discussion of 2.6/3.0: "if you don't know which version to use, start with Python 2.6." To me, this advice is inconsistent with the layout on the front page, since most people wh
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by lunchbox 18y ago
The download link for Python 3.0 is now featured prominently on the front page, above Python 2.6. I think this is a bad move, since many Python newbies will probably download Python 3.0 instead of 2.6, and then get frustrated when none of t
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Good program; this is rather similar to LyX. I suggest people try both and just go with whichever one they like better.
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Overcoming Bias: Cambridge meetup(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by lunchbox 18y ago|0 comments
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Switching to Disqus has been a "life-transforming experience"(informationarbitrage.com)
16 points by lunchbox 18y ago|19 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Is the voice/video being transmitted via the Jingle protocol? If so, then hopefully it will eventually be possible for Gmail users to have voice/video chat with non-Gmail users. That would help differentiate this service from the other vide
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Does Nate Silver invest on Intrade (or another prediction market) and make money off of his predictions? If not, why not?
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by lunchbox 18y ago
If you're talking about the Ivy Leagues, it's because those schools are the most selective for people with high test scores and leadership experience.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
OK. But this is quickly progressing into heavy moral/philosophical territory -- we should probably stop here.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
"these embryos" means the ones that are used to do stem cell research. As I said, mainly discarded from IVF clinics.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
This is nothing new -- that's what all the debate on stem cell research is about. It should be noted that the term "viable" is used in a theoretical sense; these embryos would never actually become humans. Embryos are usually obtained from
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by lunchbox 18y ago
This is great news for consumers and for the companies that will make innovative use of this spectrum. (Dolly Parton's expert opinion notwithstanding.)
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by lunchbox 18y ago
> at $1000 for the basic kit Actually, 23andme dropped the price to $399.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
> I don't dispute the fact that the command line makes it easier to do some tasks. I've had cygwin installed for a while now and I use the command line a lot but its power on native linux may be much more. Windows has PowerShell, which
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Nice. This could be combined with a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button to learn your tastes and recommend personalized things, just like Pandora.
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Ask HN: Culture at various software companies
3 points by lunchbox 18y ago|2 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Interesting, but very questionable. The argument seems to be rooted on evolutionary psychology: when times were tough in hunter-gatherer days, men needed women who could pitch in with work to help them survive. Plausible in general, but I'm
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Here's a website where you can make your own facial composites. It only lets you morph two images at a time, but you can morph the output of a morph, thereby combining more than two faces. http://www.morphthing.com/
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Prop 8 is a "way more pressing issue" than AIDS orphans? In what sense?

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