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Poor Man's Webspider(borderstylo.com)
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by rwolf 17y ago
bored now.
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by rwolf 17y ago
This is the archetype of a story without content. To answer the question in the title: maybe.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I like to hear pro Theora stories as much as the next guy, but the copy: ...We, Fronteers, the Dutch organization for front-end web developers, are increasingly being looked at to provide guidance... Is a little hard to take.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I agree: 2D Boy does not serve as a good example or counterexample of the OP.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Spotting regurgitations of Dunbar's number would make a fairly good drinking game. Bonus points when Dunbar repeats himself.
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by rwolf 17y ago
To put the data another way, the majority chose a higher value. It's not clear that the equilibrium price and the mode are the same.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Reading the article, I too felt that another check was needed, to prevent the hare from sometimes leapfrogging eternally. While drafting a snappy comeback to your comment that there was no such loop, I tried to find the smallest loop that d
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by rwolf 17y ago
Without evaluating the value of the code itself, the associated copy is nonsensical: "I’m going to spare you the geek-speak and tell you straight up — it’s basically programming blocks of code that you can use over again." The smallest prog
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by rwolf 17y ago
The O'Reilly book "Collective Intelligence" is another nice resource for Naive Bayes. I picked it up because of a sidebar describing an improvement I didn't find online (something about a Chi distribution...I'm in a different town than my b
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by rwolf 17y ago
Those are two great examples. I've heard of KNN, but I will certainly be looking into KSVM! My personal recommendation is the Naive Bayesian Classifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_classifier http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.h
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by rwolf 17y ago
I find your use of the terms "close a sale" and "feast" in this context disturbing.
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by rwolf 17y ago
The author suggests the same interpretations in more general terms: "Another idea is that smarter people are more risk averse, and delaying these activities is a byproduct of enhanced concerns about unwanted pregnancy and disease. While not
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by rwolf 17y ago
The first chart fails to correct for time (I'd generally expect more people to be using any service in 2007 than 1999, so the raw numbers don't tell me anything). It is difficult to compare growth rates in the second chart because the two t
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by rwolf 17y ago
Think about this every day: "The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me." ~ Ayn Rand If you aren’t comfortable with this attitude, it’s hard to be awesome. Sorry. You can be good enough without bein
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by rwolf 17y ago
It's unfortunate to call sites with a preponderance of female users matriarchal. Majority is not the same as power.
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by rwolf 17y ago
While there may be a decline in admissions, this article discusses a decline in % enrollment. This is similar to talking about the decreasing average height of Americans: you need to account for the change in demographics over time. It's en
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by rwolf 17y ago
To clarify, they are not seriously suggesting that there are less programmers at this moment than previously, and they are not eliciting stories of why some programmers have left. The question in the title was a setup for asking for applica
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by rwolf 17y ago
What a hilarious abuse of the nice folks at GitHub and GAE! I guess it's the natural progression of those GitHub blogs that have been cropping up... I'm not saying I won't try it--but I'll feel bad.
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by rwolf 17y ago
The examples of companies that have benefited helped explain the hype for me, thanks. I hope I don't sound critical of startups getting excited about a chance to shine--my grumpiness has much more to do with the greasiness of advertising th
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by rwolf 17y ago
I thought the total lack of a blip in 2007 was odd--thanks for clearing that up. edit: http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22techcrunch+50%22%2C+%22tec...
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by rwolf 17y ago
Techcrunch did not start hitting the HN front page 10-20 times a day until the last 12 months or so, and Google Trends ( http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22techcrunch+50%22 ) seems to indicate that I'm not the only one who hasn't heard of th
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by rwolf 17y ago
Job description: regurgitate chapters from pop econ books. edit: the strange phrasing "Ariely also..." in the second section makes me think the writer was regurgitating pop econ chapters themselves, and then decided at the last minute to fi
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by rwolf 17y ago
link: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Suppressed_Texas_Instruments_crypt... New theory: the DMCA is a viral marketing campaign by WikiLeaks. I think I prefer this theory to reality...
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by rwolf 17y ago
The yahoo finance docs are non-existant, but poking around the source for http://www.goldb.org/ystockquote.html should give you an idea of how to use it. delay is 20 minutes.
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by rwolf 17y ago
This is what I love to hear (now to get those Twiddlr kids to let me run a local instance...).
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by rwolf 17y ago
"Find out what other people are saying about...your favorite brands." This sounds like a great resource for ad people, but I simply cannot see myself ever gushing about the new Nike commercial. Sadly, there is probably a userbase for this--
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by rwolf 17y ago
clickable link http://www.thump.in
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by rwolf 17y ago
"...that some are stupid and others are not, and that the difference is determined by nature and not by cultural forces or factors..." Classy.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I don't want to make my own system for storing and retrieving records (juggling flat files?). I don't write my own server (no matter how little the project), and I don't make up my own database system. The SQLite docs are clear, and there a

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