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by mwexler 14y ago
Actually, it was originally designed to allow quick access to databases, but grew very quickly. So, no, not a silly reason at all.
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by mwexler 14y ago
For battery usage, I've gotten some good info from the Carat app. http://carat.cs.berkeley.edu/ On iOS and Android. As their site says, "Carat is a free app that tells you what is using up the battery of your mobile device, whether th
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by mwexler 14y ago
That "every other use is generally not good for the consumer" is a broad generalization, I think.
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by mwexler 14y ago
What's great about this is not only that it's a good quick summary, but it left me wanting more. That means I actually feel like I was getting somewhere with it, instead of it being instantly forgotten.
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by mwexler 14y ago
Love that one. The phrase "per capita" carries much power.
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by mwexler 14y ago
You imply that the MAB approach has problems, or at least is not as "sound". Care to state what those problems or issues are?
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by mwexler 14y ago
Will 5.1 or 6 discuss some aspects of the Multi Armed Bandit approach, ala http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/01/multi-armed-bandit-exp... ? Looking forward to the whole series!
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by mwexler 14y ago
Remember all the XML programming languages? I recall Water http://waterlanguage.org/ , for example, getting some buzz in the Boston area during the buzzy time Daniel Lemire refers to...
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by mwexler 14y ago
Impressive: an article about price without the word "demand" or "supply". Or about the standard for "expensive". This could have been interesting, but didn't quite get there. As a consolation prize, I offer: http://gizmodo.com/5019797/ev
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by mwexler 14y ago
Great intro. Any comments on "Land of Lisp" as a book for a "want to learn Lisp" journey?
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by mwexler 14y ago
This reminds me of "The Fantastic Four" movie first released in 1994. Done in about a month for a (relatively) meager budget by Roger Corman, the movie was rushed out solely to keep the option to make a bigger film in the future. http://e
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by mwexler 14y ago
This sounds a lot like the traditional "design a music database" that we used to use as a test question 10 years ago. It's easy to make a single song db, but once you include compilations (album artist different from song artist), classic
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by mwexler 14y ago
Wow. I use Google Reader every day, and I still can't quite figure out what I'm missing by not using all these other services. Somehow, I'm able to share, read what others are posting, and keep up with threads. Most importantly, Google Re
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by mwexler 14y ago
Many companies start there, and then start competing against their licensees. Google is a great search engine for finding credit card deals, and they now recognize that and offer their own credit card aggregation engine: https://www.goo
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by mwexler 14y ago
Longer or more expensive is simply filtering. Agony is creating a new metric. I see those as different. Now, if the metric is useless or synonymous with some of it's underlying drivers, then you are right, nothing there. I find the agon
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by mwexler 14y ago
There's presenting the existing data well (Google) and there is adding value to existing to make it more useful (Hipmunk). I find that Google's innovation for almost every one of their products is in saying "we have oodles of data, how can
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by mwexler 14y ago
I found the experience to be rather annoying, actually. While my eyes aren't great, my clicking/sliding fine tuning is even worse. I understand the issues involved, but I prefer to not have something dependent on dexterity. Otherwise, ju
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by mwexler 14y ago
Other than admitting to piracy, his needs sound like the same as anyone with a music collection of any realistic size. I struggle with many of the same issues around the emphasis on the "album cover" as the unit of organization in 11, so I
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by mwexler 14y ago
Hmm... I've learned from GMail. I choose a mail interface with a clear delete (instead of the nebulous "archive") and the ease of mutually exclusive folders instead of the lack of specificity of overlapping tags, and I got just as much spa
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by mwexler 14y ago
For those in the US, Meccano's are what are now sold here as "Erector" sets. The older Erector sets were actually a slightly different design from the 1920s by Gilbert, but those are long gone and sorely missed by many.
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by mwexler 14y ago
I do find, however, that we create increasingly complex "frameworks" in the aim of flexibility. We then say how "simple" they are after we learn all the complexity, and use "design patterns" and other heuristics to try to hide just how ve
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by mwexler 14y ago
Always nice to have some context. Spark is a distributed computing framework, akin to Hadoop in delivering MapReduce style processing, but with some uniquely capable additional features. It was originally somewhat scala-centric (built on
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by mwexler 14y ago
I don't know, I think it's helpful. It changes the conversation from being about the access language to being focused on how a technology processes data at scale. Well, almost... Notice that even with the shift from "NoSQL" to "NewSQL", m
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by mwexler 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/725/ and http://xkcd.com/386/ both come to mind...
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by mwexler 14y ago
I presume that copy to clipboard could be added to this as well, yes? Cool project.
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by mwexler 14y ago
Agreed: Many groups block FB; if you want any corporate or business use, you probably don't want to require FB logins.
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OSX Save-As Still Overwrites Original Document(zdnet.com)
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by mwexler 14y ago
I'd add: whatever happened to microscopes? I loved getting one of those and a box of slides: bugs, plants, cells, all kinds of cross sections... And what happened to the 160 in one electronics kits from Radio Shack, ala http://www.radio
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by mwexler 14y ago
Good point, but it's linear. It mixes accidental changes with intentional all in one stack. I don't want to have to undo good stuff just to get back to the stuff I lost. Visual stacks, comparison of versions, all of these are helpful...
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by mwexler 14y ago
I keep getting caught by this on Google Docs. I whip in, accidentally change something while scrolling or copying and pasting, then close the doc. Bingo, I've lost information, sometimes entire paragraphs. What a pain. I should have th

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