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by n8agrin 17y ago
Thank you
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Ask HN: Isn't there a site that turns one webpage's text into a readable format?
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Wow, this was my #1 req, very happy.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Flag it.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
My condolences as well. Untimely death is an incredibly hard thing to cope with. Take the time you need and know that as you continue on your co-founder's spirit lives on both in your friendship and in your work.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
For a post titled "How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails" the only scaling advice they mention are the technical specs of the site like: Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant is used instead of memcached in some places for caching larger ob
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Maneesh Agrawala was my Info Vis professor in graduate school. His work on auto generated route maps, photography and 3d illustrations is pretty amazing, take a look at his portfolio. Berkeley site: http://vis.berkeley.edu/~maneesh/ MacAr
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Always use "var" to define a variable, unless you know exactly what you are doing. e.g.: var foo = 'bar'; When you don't use "var" the Javascript interpreter breaks out of the current scope and continues to do so all the way until it
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Not sure if it's true, but my prof in college told us that the reason the name was changed was because of the negative connotation of the word "nuclear". Otherwise it's exactly the same technology as NMR.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
If you haven't ever read about how MRIs work, you should. I first learned how MRIs work in college while studying biochemistry. The same technology is used in that field, but called NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance). It is the only medical
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I used to work at a clothing store. I always hated (and still do) having salespeople approach me when I first enter a store and pitch the current sales, new items, etc. so I never did that. I did however greet them for three reasons 1) to a
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Perhaps this is a tangent, but the notion of ...creating a cozy home for unproductive people... resonated with something I learned from a kiteboard instructor, of all people: When I was learning to kiteboard I was out one day for a couple
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I'm more frustrated that the transcriber apparently didn't want to take the time to proof their copy. That interview is hard to read. Many typos, missing words etc.
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Google Copernicus Center is hiring(google.com)
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From the article: Following the close of the acquisition, Aaron Patzer and the Mint team will remain in charge of Mint.com to continue both its principles and its fast pace of progress. We’re not planning to change Mint.com and make it lik
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Intuit Not Out to Change Mint Says Founder(mint.com)
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by n8agrin 17y ago
They may have suffered from Sudden Oak Death. My limited understanding is that because the disease spreads erratically they prefer to remove infected trees in order to prevent others from becoming infected, and to prevent damage being cause
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I read the text. My point is there is no visual aid to help you come to definitive conclusions like "Between 1999 and 2002 we see an exponential decline in cd sales." You can guess but that's about it.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
NYT does a great job of pushing the limits in infovis, but they don't always hit the mark. This vis seems to show an approximate fixed scale on the y-axis, which is good. It means the differences in heights between the blobs are relevant.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
With the power of CouchApp and _attachments, the javascript and HTML files needed to serve the application are served directly out of the database. That statement kind of troubles me. It shows that you're really just offloading all of the
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by n8agrin 17y ago
A brief glance at the code shows that the auth module is omitted because certain classes in the lib (OAuth, OpenID, etc) use the httpclient, specifically the class httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
As SpaceX's chief technology officer, Musk helped design the company's rockets. As Tesla's CEO and product architect, he stepped in to overhaul the car design... Holy poo! That is impressive by any measure. I can't tell you how many busin
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Yext does seem pretty useful for a small business that is getting a lot of calls and perhaps doesn't have a person able to triage the calls. Perhaps they will win, though I'm not convinced. They seem to have setup a big hurdle they'll have
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Is eventmachine's c++ lib really not a "good library"? If not, why?
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That's a poor generalisation, and I assume you've built it on the back of a single observation. On the contrary, my observation is based on comments I've read in many Python community forums, especially when applied to Python vs (your oth
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by n8agrin 17y ago
An observation: Python coders seem to believe that when someone has solved a problem in Python and open sourced that problem every Python coder must use their solution or else they are somehow doing an injustice, perhaps even undermining th
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by n8agrin 17y ago
The templating system they developed looks pretty sweet http://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/master/tornado/templ... . Just played around with it a bit and it's basically what I want: 1) Simple and clear syntax (e.g. they use 'end' not
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Awesome to see more Python webservers coming to light, and fast ones at that. One observation though; anyone else notice that the bar chart is a bit misleading? It compares running Tornado in 4 processes behind nginx to running Django beh
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by n8agrin 17y ago
If you've heard of Dojo, jQuery, MochiKit, Prototype, etc you won't learn much here. It's a post of links and summaries of js libs. I found out about two or three libs I've never heard of, and probably won't ever use. Not much substance.
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I've spent a small amount of time working through the Cappuccino docs and tutorials, but never used it to build a project because it feels like it is so different from the typical JS I'm used to writing. That's not a criticism, just a desc

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