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by msbmsb 14y ago
I did the same thing. Tag next to the entry-way light switch for changing to an "at-home" profile, tag next to the bed for switching between night mode and morning mode, tag at work, keychain tag for switching between car mode and quiet mod
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by msbmsb 15y ago
Anything that I already know very well (and like, of course). What that is will depend on the day/mood. The main thing is that I find I work better with music already known over silence or new music. My brain can kind of just go along with
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Could Watson parse a snowclone?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by msbmsb 16y ago|0 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
The google map linked in the article[1] contains many entries that don't quite fit the oddness of some of the die-offs people are talking about. For example, [2] refers to 150 tons of tilapia that died because of being farmed too densely. [
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Country names/adjectives: English,England,British,French,France,German,Germany In most cases the adjectival form of a country tracks pretty closely to the nominal form (e.g. France vs French and others) except for the case of England vs Eng
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Exactly
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Also interesting, the 1700s were not kind to the numbers "six" or "seven": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...
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by msbmsb 16y ago
The parsing of contractions/words with apostrophes is broken/unsupported: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can%27t%2Ccouldn%... vs http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=t%2Ccan%27t%2Ccou...
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by msbmsb 16y ago
one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree... In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".
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by msbmsb 16y ago
I can't upvote this enough.
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Link to the Chrome branch's tool source code: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/...
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Inside Google’s (open source) Compact Language Detection tool(globalbydesign.com)
2 points by msbmsb 16y ago|1 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6273202.stm Larger lung capacity, larger heart, lower lactic acid levels, higher Vo2 max. Also: "Spaniard Miguel Indurain, who took five successive [Tour de France] titles, had lungs so big they displaced his st
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by msbmsb 16y ago
How does this compare to other question answering systems?
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by msbmsb 16y ago
I like how they're sharing features with each other.
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Very interesting mashup. I like how they've decided to share features with each other instead of just one incorporating those of the other.
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Googlish Google's secret code language - wdyt?(dondodge.typepad.com)
2 points by msbmsb 16y ago|0 comments
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Life After OOP [OOP-GP](cplusplus-soup.com)
1 points by msbmsb 16y ago|1 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
All diff views are returning HTTP 301s instead of the commits for me, same for everyone else? I really like this viewer, definitely much easier to quickly browse a repo than normal. Also, link to original HN post by app author: http://news
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Weekend Project: Add PubSubHubbub Syndication to Your Site or Blog(linux.com)
1 points by msbmsb 16y ago|0 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Ask HN: How is the avg in my HN profile calculated? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648811
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Tech Blog Frenzy(notsorelevant.com)
1 points by msbmsb 16y ago|0 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Got it.
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by msbmsb 16y ago
I looked for a prior submission before posting - search and browse. Somehow I missed it.
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You probably misunderstand XML(lemire.me)
71 points by msbmsb 16y ago|29 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
No problem. That nextweb article is misleading.
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Ask.com is not shutting down. They are ending their in-house general crawling & search system to focus on the Q&A aspect. These articles[1],[2] have better details. They will be continuing to offer general search results on ask.co
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Buzz post from a Googler on the release: "We have inflicted Sawzall on the world." http://www.google.com/buzz/100587561646339426146/2Ehn2s7Nf1D...
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Definitely. Many professions have some kind of portfolio of previous work to demonstrate to a potential employer. Since it's common in the development field to not be able to show any source code you have written from a prior company, any k
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by msbmsb 16y ago
On a post made a day later... tear

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