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by rshaban 11y ago
A link to the IBM press release: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47107.wss "At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its industry-leading Analytics and Commerce p
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IBM Invests to Help Apache Spark(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
114 points by rshaban 11y ago|31 comments
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Using Data Science to Measure a Musical Revolution(priceonomics.com)
1 points by rshaban 11y ago|0 comments
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by rshaban 11y ago
"Based on the success of these research advances, we formed a startup company, Monoidics, in 2009. Monoidics joined Facebook in 2013, and since then we have adopted the continuous development and deployment style practiced at Facebook
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by rshaban 11y ago
"For anyone who has been programming in a modern language such as Ruby [1995], Python [1991], Clojure [2007], Haskell [1990], etc, and who was put off developing iOS apps by Objective-C, Swift marks a new era." You say modern but
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by rshaban 11y ago
... most of these are intertwined. Is there more significance to your comment, or is it just a nitpick?
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by rshaban 11y ago
"and, in fact, early implementors wanted to be able to store their Unicode code points in high-endian or low-endian mode, whichever their particular CPU was fastest at, and lo, it was evening and it was morning and there were already t
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Joel on The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003)(joelonsoftware.com)
10 points by rshaban 11y ago|1 comments
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by rshaban 11y ago
Knowledge of how to get around in Beirut, and much of the Arab world, is based on contextual knowledge and history. People have shared space, and this shared knowledge serves as the basis for spatial communication.
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by rshaban 11y ago
"Metascala is barely 3000 lines of Scala, and is complete enough that it is able to interpret itself metacircularly. [...] The goal of Metascala is to create a platform to experiment with the JVM: a 3000 line JVM written in Scala is pr
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by rshaban 11y ago
You're kind of missing the point, TheShrek. The point is to prove it can be done.
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by rshaban 11y ago
Likewise, any tips for learning Scala without knowing/learning Java first?
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by rshaban 11y ago
This was a great read, thanks for sharing.
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by rshaban 11y ago
I'm pretty curious about who this "Sterling International Consulting Group" suing Lenovo is, their website ( http://www.sterling-consulting.com/ ) 404s...
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by rshaban 11y ago
"Notably, Lenovo did not preinstall the Superfish program on any of its computer models that were marketed to businesses or more sophisticated computer users." That's a particularly damning accusation.
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by rshaban 11y ago
It would seem from the context of his statement the latter, especially given that he built C++
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by rshaban 12y ago
This is much much better than the hassle I had to go through building Sublime syntax support for a language a few months ago. Glad to see the Sublime team are making themselves competitive!
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I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across the World, Became a Celebrity in China(buzzfeed.com)
7 points by rshaban 12y ago|1 comments
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by rshaban 12y ago
The Secondary skills distribution chart seems the most interesting to me -- it seems to indicate that Python users are more interested in other programming languages and general Computer Science (C++/Java, Unix, machine learning), whil
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by rshaban 12y ago
Abstract: "Social networks help to bond people who share similar interests all over the world. As a complement, the Facebook "Like" button is an efficient tool that bonds people with the online information. People click on th
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by rshaban 12y ago
"Last updated April 22, 1996."