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by mwexler 12y ago
Dunno, I find that Photos aren't that hard to manage for me as I don't take too many and delete bad ones quickly (though only through a Windows File Explorer; hard to mount into other programs) but I ALWAYS appear to have a 3GB &q
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by mwexler 12y ago
Very cool. I suspect many of these port to R as well, and it would be interesting to compare the code and approach.
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by mwexler 12y ago
While I agree with other commentors that ReactOS in general is slowly becoming irrelevant, I do believe making NTFS a read and write file system via open source would be a useful addition. I did a hunt a little while ago for ways to read a
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A look at the 2014 Mac mini(blog.macminicolo.net)
51 points by mwexler 12y ago|70 comments
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by mwexler 12y ago
Well, it's kind of interesting. The billpay system leverages the fact that most payments for most folks go to companies, and those are all electronic links; the checks are somewhat rarer in the big picture and only to small businesse
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by mwexler 12y ago
I'm not saying that the US banking system is or isnt ridiculous... but in the US, anyone with a bank account can indeed send money to any other account in the world, given the account number, usually for a fee, like many other places;
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by mwexler 12y ago
Actually, this unique cc # per merchant has been available for years. Different issuers call it different things (Citi calls it Virtual Account Numbers, for example: https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-A
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by mwexler 12y ago
They are amazing, and afaik live off of donations. As each of you guys discover Soma, please consider a small donation to the station to keep them going.
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by mwexler 12y ago
What is the "3 forms of ID" Supreme Court ruling the person in the video referred to? I wasn't familiar with that one....
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by mwexler 12y ago
Fascinating read. Thanks for posting. I did get a chuckle out of the header: "21st century operations using 21st century technologies". The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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by mwexler 12y ago
PMML allows you to use models generated by a variety of tools and systems, including external vendors. While you are right that making it core does create some constraints, it also allows them to easily replace portions of the model build
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by mwexler 12y ago
I know it's expected of TheReg, but the opening lines made me laugh: "TransLattice gobbles StormDB upstart for Postgres threesome. Lashes PostgreSQL, -R, and Postgres-XC together for unholy database tryst"
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by mwexler 12y ago
While in some ways quite different from Mongo, it's also used for many of the same purposes. Hence my comment, and hence the article I referenced. The goal of my comment, btw, was to provide some context for the top link, which didn&
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by mwexler 12y ago
For those wondering, this is a variant on the MongoDB document database approach... http://www.orientechnologies.com/orientdb-vs-mongodb/
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by mwexler 12y ago
Ah, 3 words that always seem to show up together: firefox and memory and usage. I look forward to when I see that 4th word, "minimal", in there as well. Yes, I know original post is about an addin increasing memory usage, but I
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by mwexler 13y ago
As always, there are some problems IndexedDB document stores solve well, and others that SQL is really well suited for, and I think it's great to have both options. What sucks is when people say "Sure, we'll support that th
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by mwexler 13y ago
There's similar and then there's alike. I guess it makes comparison easy, but imitation certainly must be the sincerest form of flattery: Compare the look and feel of https://www.linode.com/pricing/ and htt
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by mwexler 13y ago
Yahoo Mail hijacked the down arrow: Looking in the preview pain, press down arrow to scroll... and you jump to a new mail. Very, very jarring and frustrating. I recall they also hijacked a bunch of other keys, none of which made much se
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by mwexler 13y ago
Depends on needs, as there are some pretty sane people who don't want to be IT support for all their friends hosting small projects, and don't want to have to install and manage alternative control panels for them. Bugs, issues,
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by mwexler 13y ago
Well, it's not older than C, but around the same time. Wikipedia shows S (R's commercial inspiration, for want of a better term) was first written in 1976, but C was around back in 1972. And C was adopted by lots of people a lo
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by mwexler 13y ago
Is it really that humour defuses anger in these cases, or is it perhaps that the humour is a way to highlight an issue to people who normally wouldn't care? Perhaps it says that something is now "so bad that it's funny&quot
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by mwexler 13y ago
Curious to understand just how Telenav will try to make money off of OSM: Will they be the "Red Hat" of OSM? Will they sell "custom add-ons"? What might they do to both benefit the community and make money from usage
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by mwexler 13y ago
Groan. Well put, but still, groan. 8-)
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by mwexler 13y ago
Any way to see when this was created? Do these ipython notebooks log create/change events? Just curious to see if this was a recent creation or just a recent discovery...
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by mwexler 13y ago
I did get a chuckle at this backhanded positioning in the very first paragraph (which I highlight in _ _ below). Kind of set the tone of what I expected in the note, but was disappointed to see: "In retrospect, I agree that we could h
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by mwexler 13y ago
Recently exposed to http://0xdata.com/ at Strata NYC and was very impressed. Just another to add to the list of great open source modeling and prediction tools.
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by mwexler 13y ago
I was surprised to read that this is focusing primarily on numbers; I thought one of the values of ReCaptcha was to help improve OCR and deal with difficult-to-digitize text. I realize that house numbers also need digitization for google m
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ReCAPTCHA just got easier (but only if you’re human)(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
2 points by mwexler 13y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 13y ago
... for various definitions of "almost". Depending on your needs, Open/Libre may run circles around Excel, or fail laughably. Just like Emacs vs. Vi, Language1 vs. Language2, it all depends on your needs and available tim
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by mwexler 13y ago
Besides an interesting read, I laughed all over again at the video on the bottom. Worth a reminder if you didn't catch it the first time or haven't "Java 4-Ever" before...

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