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by ralmeida 13y ago
I had the luck of being taught by Prof. Meira - who is one hell of a professor - while this book was in draft stage. Here you'll find not only a great toolkit of techniques of data mining, but more importantly, a very comprehensive ars
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by ralmeida 13y ago
We have this in Brazilian Portuguese for some cities too. For example, saying "San Francisco" instead of "São Francisco" is fine (maybe because they sound similar?), but saying "New York" instead of "Nova
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by ralmeida 13y ago
I wrote for a music ezine sometimes, and once I interviewed a artist and asked him to say hello to our readers on camera. Since the ezine had no YouTube channel back then, and we were in a hurry, I uploaded the video to my own channel. YouT
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by ralmeida 13y ago
For what it's worth, as of right now the title reads "Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse" (the URL remains the same as the title posted in HN, which leads me to believe the title was changed). The article itself is rat
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by ralmeida 13y ago
Isn't it all overly agressive? I honestly still can't decide if I think it's satire or not. Maybe you'll get sympathy from people who already use OpenERP and share your strong negative opinion about it, but more balanced
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by ralmeida 13y ago
It already exists in ST2. Maybe you're missing the fact that you have to put your cursor over the gutter for the folding arrows to show?
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by ralmeida 13y ago
I don't do TDD all the time, but I used it in a few strategic projects in daytime jobs. I was taught TDD in college by an excellent professor that used a similar approach as the one in the article (write a test, then write the least co
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by ralmeida 14y ago
I too feel a little put off by this. I find it immature and gratuitious, like others have said in this thread. This made me recall that in the examples they have HTML comments reading "le javascript" and "le CSS" if I recall correctly. I ha
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by ralmeida 14y ago
I can vouch for Console2, it really contributes to improve the 'terminal experience' in Windows. I also use cygwin as my shell and apt-cyg as my 'package manager', they make me feel almost on a Unix when I need to code or do some other task
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by ralmeida 14y ago
Sure, but clinically testing a supplement to see if it works is not the same thing as doing a clinical test to conclude that taking a "working" vitamin D supplement is good for you if you have vitamin D defficiency.
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by ralmeida 14y ago
The article says something too broad to be true (that if you're a programmer, you need to take vitamin D). However, a clinical trial would be overkill: you might need a clinical trial to determine if, say, cell phones are bad for you, but y
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by ralmeida 14y ago
That's not an ad-hominem because he wasn't using it to support another point. He has every right to avoid being around negativeness. If you think that this attitude isn't doing him any good, that's also YOUR opinion and he has every right t
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by ralmeida 14y ago
True, but he wouldn't have edited this in if he had not been downvoted first. But I do agree that the bullying and the sarcasm were unecessary and somewhat justified the downvotes.
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by ralmeida 14y ago
I couldn't disagree more with parent's opinion: I don't consider 'scariness' to be transitive in this context (see related comment of soldier being afraid of spiders) and the tone seems arrogant and "look at me, I'm an overachiever" to me.
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by ralmeida 14y ago
I agree that there are several factors involved in the process of absorption for "Calories in, calories out" to be taken as a sufficient guideline for losing weight. However, the point I think people try to make when they use it is that the
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by ralmeida 14y ago
Also, if you keep the current format, you should consider dropping the default selection. It would be good to pre-select if you were actually in a signup process, but biasing your data in a survey like this is bad: you could end up with dat
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by ralmeida 14y ago
Agreed, I hadn't considered this. I take that back.
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by ralmeida 14y ago
That seems a little overzealous for an IP, but indeed I hadn't considered this possibility.
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by ralmeida 14y ago
This. Once an episode of Criminal Minds had a criminal whose IP started with 300-something. That would be immediately corrected if the writing was minimally revised by an specific consultant, which suggests it wasn't. So I'm going with s_he
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by ralmeida 14y ago
The original reasoning can also be interpreted as an instance of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_bias
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by ralmeida 15y ago
About trial versions, a strange idea has just occurred me: has anyone out there thought of offering a trial in two separate periods? For example: 15 trial days = 1 day now + 14 days starting whenever you want it to. This is to solve the pro
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by ralmeida 15y ago
Funny! You might want to improve the visuals of the page, though. As most people agree, design "has an unfair influence on people's first perception of something".
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by ralmeida 15y ago
That might be true in some specific contexts, but I'm sure this topic doesn't regard any of them.
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by ralmeida 15y ago
That's the OP's point, yes, but parent comment asked for a definition.
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by ralmeida 15y ago
I usually interpret it as "I couldn't agree more."
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by ralmeida 15y ago
I know. I would at least add it as an alias to $fetch_column(0), out of sheer readability preciosism =D
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by ralmeida 15y ago
I would just add a fetch_scalar() function. It makes some common operations get very readable: $total_users = $db->fetch_scalar("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users");
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by ralmeida 15y ago
I had the very same doubt the author of the comment you replied to seems to have had. What confused me is that I thought that the 'directioning' these problems to Jewish people was an implicit scheme. After all, simply directing the questio