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by sadiq 18y ago
This isn't actually a half bad idea. Letting interested developers play with a subset of their index and then giving access to the full index for promising applications could potentially help them innovate against Google.
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by sadiq 18y ago
If speed of execution is a key requirement, beyond C++ and some good programmers, your main options are Java and C#. I use Java with Struts on Tomcat for a couple of projects and it's served me well.
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by sadiq 18y ago
Just out of interest, have you thought much on how you'd go about doing automatic matching? Would it be feasible to use one of the SIFT implementations out there?
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by sadiq 18y ago
Might it make life easier if you just ran Linux as a virtual machine with something like Virtualbox? You can run samba on it and export the filesystem over to your Windows host, allowing you to work with all the stuff with Windows native ed
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by sadiq 18y ago
A brilliant piece of satire. Best part was: "It’s interesting to see how the demise of Linux as a consumer platform... contrasts with the starry-eyed hopes of the open-source project." Classic.
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by sadiq 18y ago
While they seem to be down at the moment (they were working this morning), Andrew Moore's introductory probability lectures are really good if you're involved in any kind of machine learning. http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/
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Ask YC: Good books to take on a week away?
10 points by sadiq 18y ago|38 comments
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by sadiq 18y ago
I've spent a fair while using GP in some of my research. If anyone's interested in more information or current applications: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/ The above has a huge collection of papers dedicated to it and is fairly up
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by sadiq 18y ago
I'm a little confused as to how they handle different types of products under an SKU. For example, an iPhone with a short, abused life is going to carry a different market price than a nearly new one. Or have I misunderstood the site? edit:
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by sadiq 18y ago
Unfortunately they still don't seem to support Java, nor have an ETA on when they plan to. The pricing change seems to make this even more of a problem, since you're now paying for the extra CPU usage.
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by sadiq 18y ago
Breathtaking? Having wasted time watching the video.. it's a tabbed file browser, ftp functionality and shows a WYSIWYG webpage editor. Either Vista's seriously lowered expectations or the author's got bad Asthma.
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by sadiq 18y ago
Having a look through the utilities, these seem to be pulling the data from here directly. Would it not be more efficient to co-ordinate with pg on some kind of organised periodic data dump that could be mirrored efficiently? I've got a de
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by sadiq 18y ago
This will be great for gnash. I'd love to see desktop Linux distributions shipping with a solid, open source flash player. Firefox has hung one too many times when trying to play flash content over the last year or two, so much so that I us
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by sadiq 18y ago
Hrm. I can't seem to edit my post. Anyway, the mirror is: http://sadiq.uwcs.co.uk/ycombinator-news20080424.tar.gz
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by sadiq 18y ago
I'm trying to pull it down to one of our university boxes so we can mirror it. It's going a little slow at the moment though (eta 10 hours). I'll update with the link as soon as it's done.
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by sadiq 18y ago
I don't know, there's a fair few people out there in the community using Mono and a comparable high-level competitor could tempt many away. That requires things like java-gnome to be top notch but it's getting there. There's also always Jam
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by sadiq 19y ago
I wonder if there's startup milage in a good way of estimating website traffic/exposure? For one, what metrics external to the websites could you use to measure traffic? The Alexa toolbar approach skews things towards the kind of people wil
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by sadiq 19y ago
This article wanted to make me comment on two issues. 1) Decent abstraction layers ease the moving process. In my current project I was unable to decide on which datastore system would best cater for the project, so I simply abstracted the
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by sadiq 19y ago
Isn't that apples to oranges then? If we used the full time then we'd be comparing a modal form of advertising, the commercial break ad (which takes control of the channel) to a passive concurrent advertising akin to a translucent logo in t
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by sadiq 19y ago
Just buy from somewhere that is know to offer a refund on the Windows tax easily, provides their systems with no OS preloaded or something like the Dell Ubuntu offerings.
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by sadiq 19y ago
Big whiteboard also does wonders for holding mental state. In the office we've got some great big windows running down one wall that we use as scratchspace with special markers. Works a treat.
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by sadiq 19y ago
Check out clang, it's looking pretty promising.
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by sadiq 19y ago
If you're running Linux then it's probably worth steering clear of cheap RAID cards (if you're using them for RAID). Linux's software RAID performance is ridiculously fast these days, it left all the cheap cards we had standing and even giv
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OOXML looks to have cleared ISO.(blogs.zdnet.com)
4 points by sadiq 19y ago|1 comments
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by sadiq 19y ago
I tend to recall Kipling's poem If, crucially: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;" http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
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by sadiq 19y ago
I wonder where the tipping point comes in? That is, the point where there's a substantial enough non-Windows marketshare that ISVs can't go with Microsoft's proprietary development solutions and practises due to the need to go cross-platfor
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by sadiq 19y ago
I was thinking of an actual business idea. Providing some kind of higher level abstraction in a pay-as-you-go utilisation, hosted on ec2 and maybe backed on to simpledb. You'd really want to throw memcache in there as well. I wonder how eas
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by sadiq 19y ago
I wonder if there's potential for offering some kind of SQL engine that sits atop SimpleDB. In the same way that MySQL used to sit atop of BerkeleyDB. Could even run the engine on EC2.
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by sadiq 19y ago
The term 'Engineer' is so widely abused in many parts of the world (such as the UK, where I live) that I may be msinterpreting your use, apologies if I am. I believe there's a fundamental reason there's distance between the two. I'm on to m
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by sadiq 19y ago
Thanks!

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