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by plam 13y ago
I assumed they have some fancy javascript thing to take care of that? what would you suggest to use to estimate actually readership?
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by plam 13y ago
good point, I'll keep an eye on returning visitor metric over the next few days
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by plam 13y ago
at this rate, I'm now hoping that I can do an analysis of the analysis of a viral post that also have gone viral. how awesome would that be? :)
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HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?(quantisan.com)
77 points by plam 13y ago|71 comments
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by plam 13y ago
thank you for understanding and clarifying my intent
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How a few screws cost $2000 and a 240GB multinodes cluster cost $50(quantisan.com)
85 points by plam 13y ago|46 comments
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by plam 13y ago
I never wore mine. Got one mostly to be able to go through the ritual with friends. OT: Funny to see that the term 'engineer' is held in high regard in Canada but here in UK there's no such connotation.
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by plam 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, conceptually, probabilistic programming does to equation solvers what declarative language like SQL do to query data. Say you have a model, y = mx + b, and you have some data. Normally you can solve this explicitly
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by plam 13y ago
so what's a good alternative that offers all of security, reliability, good service, about $40 for 2GB/8-cores, multi-locations, etc?
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by plam 14y ago
Cliche but true: Become your client and swim in their circle. I sold a product for business users. I presented myself as an expert in the field and became active in the field. Although the product actually came after the fact as I figured I
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Lingual: SQL queries as Hadoop/Cascading jobs(cascading.org)
1 points by plam 14y ago|0 comments
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Funny business do not cause A/B testing errors(quantisan.com)
1 points by plam 14y ago|0 comments
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by plam 14y ago
in one of the water cooler rooms in the canadian patent office, we have a wall of shame for patents like this. I remember one patent for a stick, and another for patenting the patent process.
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by plam 14y ago
more relational -> neo4j perhaps? not sure what you mean by rotational media
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Flurfunk, a simple Twitter-like service for small teams(viaboxxsystems.de)
1 points by plam 14y ago|0 comments
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by plam 15y ago
where's the rss feed to subscribe to?
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Disruptive innovation is ...(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by plam 15y ago|0 comments
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by plam 15y ago
Could you elaborate on #1 please? Wouldn't a distributed cache defeat the purpose of data locality of Hadoop? Regardless, I guess one could write a tap to Avout to enable this?
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by plam 15y ago
What I particularly like about Cascalog is: 1) Composability 2) Unit testing 3) No installation as it is embedded in your jar.
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by plam 15y ago
Same as why everyone is using QWERTY keyboard when there's no scientific evidence that this particular keyboard setup is king. The benefit of everyone using Qwerty, though, is apparent. So same with 9am starts. So that the team is together
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by plam 15y ago
Quoting from the article, "On one side, I’ve been working on building products, like the recommender system, Talent Match, modeling and finding ways to empower users to use LinkedIn through their products. Groups You May Like was another pr
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by plam 15y ago
From a 30k feet point of view, the difference is that a business analyst or data miner focus on answering questions with data; whereas, a data scientist focus on asking questions with data.
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by plam 15y ago
what's with all the resentments? A few years back, titles like UX designer, UI designer, front-end developer, and back-end developer were non-existent too. Aren't they all just designers or programmers? As a maturing technology tree branche
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Last Random Hacks of Kindness in 2011 is next weekend, 3-4 December
4 points by plam 15y ago|0 comments
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by plam 15y ago
sigh... the developer wanted to use Lisp, then management opted for Java. Typical.
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by plam 15y ago
I'm hesitant to build on these technology without information on the pricing.
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by plam 15y ago
the program probably counts an airport as a flight path's end point. so none of the planes is counted as "in flight".
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Algorithmic ownage(quantisan.com)
1 points by plam 15y ago|0 comments
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by plam 15y ago
Would incorporating a shell company and operating your startup inside a corporate entity be allowable in the UK?
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by plam 15y ago
Perhaps you're plateauing with your current domain or tools. Try other problems/languages and look back a few months later.

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