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by mwexler 14y ago
Hunch also did something like this... and sold for a pretty good amount. So perhaps, depending on how it's implemented, it may meet some folks' needs.
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by mwexler 14y ago
This happened back in March. https://blogs.oracle.com/R/entry/r_execution_in_oracle_datab... . It's a desperate attempt to co-opt the Red Hat approach to riches via open source support. Revolution R has been doing pretty well in this g
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by mwexler 14y ago
There are many more papers and presentations on this topic at Ron Kohavi's MS group's home page, http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx . Most of these papers are worth a read, as they dissect how and where online experimentation
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by mwexler 14y ago
Let's see a couple of plausible use cases for a home router with a remote config capability: * Husband calls wife who is at work: "Joey is visiting for a day, but he says our network is locked. Can you let him on? I don't know how to use
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by mwexler 14y ago
I'll just point out that some people rely on the crowd at HN to help them find good and interesting news that gets lost in the crowds. If one does this long enough, one decides not to spend as much time at other sites, finding deep and enj
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by mwexler 14y ago
Having seen the sturm und drang over the president and the board recently, it's nice to see a site focused on the less important but far more fun parts of being a Wahoo.
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by mwexler 14y ago
Not to derail all these comments about Amazon, but I think Jason's reminder that UX is just a subset of overall "CX" or customer experience is a good one. I spend a bunch of time reminding folks that they can't just look at one page, or on
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by mwexler 14y ago
This was very helpful. I find the constant unwillingness to link the sophistication of Emacs and Vi/Vim to the "simpler" concepts of Windows editors really frustrating, and I always appreciate it when someone extends a helping hand. Yes, l
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by mwexler 14y ago
That's one of the draws, sure. But it's also nice to be able to replicate shell scripts or clever unix file hacks with a complete set of syntax compatible utilities so that less "translation" needs to happen. If you don't need all that ba
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by mwexler 14y ago
That's very clever. However, the ultimate integration of spreadsheet and Python has got to be ResolverOne ( http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/ ) It's a really amazing experience.
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by mwexler 14y ago
You can also tell that they've pretested them. They'll include the "X" over common errors, like choosing the wrong length screw, instead of just putting the picture of the right thing. Cookbooks get dinged for this all the time... recipes
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by mwexler 14y ago
One of his complaints is about truncation and therefore overlapping points. It's very common when you have multiple points occupying the same space to add a 3rd dimension of color ala the hexplot or size of point... or just add "jitter", w
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by mwexler 14y ago
Anyone get it to install on recent Chromes on Win7? 21.0.1145.0 dev-m doesn't think it's installable, and when I forced it through the developer panel, it crashed, restarted, and crashed in a loop til I disabled it. Is it just me?
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by mwexler 14y ago
Hmm... some of the apps mentioned have costs, some require logins, some don't integrate well with other apps, some don't exactly rock the design department. While each of them has something to love, I don't know how much real scale this "r
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by mwexler 14y ago
I suspect it's here because it ties into a) gender issues being a hot topic among developers over the last few weeks here at HN, as well as b) the fact that KP is a power player Silicon Valley and impacts the lives of many startups. Perhaps
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by mwexler 14y ago
Totally not relevant... I read this as "what my 11 year old Stanford curse taught me..." and had to click to see what a Stanford curse could be. Back to your regularly scheduled programming, my apologies for this station mis-identification.
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by mwexler 14y ago
That's a nice thing to say, thanks. As I kept editing my comment, I kept thinking "Pick one side and stick to it... but I can't!"
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by mwexler 14y ago
A link, or links much like this describing the "grammar" of Vim, gets reposted every few months, which is probably fine because it's a good thing to learn and share, but it would be nice if there were a HN "Hall of Fame" which would prevent
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by mwexler 14y ago
Of course, this assumes you are using Git in the first place, or are willing to learn it. Most folks already have FTP/ssh down pat, so git is a big jump from just copying files.
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by mwexler 14y ago
This is the classic denormalized model vs. the traditional database model. The denormalized model, of storing all data in one lump, is popular with nosql systems and object oriented systems, in that all the data you need for one key is all
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by mwexler 15y ago
What a great read. I am always curious what might be a good user experience that lets a user select "time" vs. "precision/accuracy" in an interface. A slider comes to mind, but has anyone seen a clever implementation that lets users choos
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by mwexler 15y ago
When I want snippets, FB and Twitter are great. When I want to see what my friends think are important, and use their filtering, the social nets are great. But when I want the firehose of a select group of sites organized around a concept,
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by mwexler 15y ago
Looks like someone made a "randomize user-agent" for Chrome: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3880536
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by mwexler 15y ago
Look, there are tons of data available in the browser, see http://panopticlick.eff.org/ for a good example. But they are non-stable for reasons outside of the user's control. So, if a user wants to kill her cookies every day, cool, they
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by mwexler 15y ago
The law is the law as it's written and then as it's reflected in court decisions. We can't choose to do what is defined as illegal just because a FAQ says "we probably won't come after you". That's a risk that many businesses can't affor
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by mwexler 15y ago
Reading this reminded me of this recent post by Chris Dixon, which is also a good read: http://cdixon.org/2012/04/14/there-are-two-ways-to-make-larg...
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by mwexler 15y ago
This reminds me of the angst that came when Windows shifted from ".ini" files with clear name=value lines to the "registry", which paid many the bills of consultants, utility programmers, and "fixit-guys" via the fun that is Regedit. +1 for
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by mwexler 15y ago
The blowing on the cartridge is spot on...
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by mwexler 15y ago
This probably matters more when more people use Airplay and devices like it to bounce from mobile to bigscreen. As of now, solving for that edge case seems like a waste of time vs. the far more general case of folks watching video requeste
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by mwexler 15y ago
Just my experience, but there are a whole bunch of optimizations one can make to "official" recent MySQL versions before having to switch platforms, even to mostly compatible ones as mentioned in the post. Yes, Oracle ownership can be a re

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