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by samdk 16y ago
That's actually not completely accurate anymore. PG had changed it to take users' average comment scores into account as well. This happened fairly recently, I think. I'll try to find a link later, but I'm just about to eat dinner now.
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by samdk 16y ago
It has optional arguments which make certain things a lot easier and make it much more consistent with the rest of the language. sep is the separator between arguments, so you can do something like: >> print('a','b','c',sep=
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by samdk 16y ago
I kept the i+1 separate because the parent noted that this was a trivial example and wanted to make a point about the more general map-filter-map operation. I wanted to make the point that you can do the map-filter-map in Python more succ
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by samdk 16y ago
I see your point, but I think your Python's not terribly idiomatic and that's a big part of the problem. This is easier to read and understand, only goes through the list twice, and loses nothing in terms of power: [j*j for j in [i+1
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by samdk 16y ago
If you're going to use these for @font-face embedding, Font Squrrel's @font-face generator ( http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ) is by far the easiest way to get it to work across platforms and browsers.
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by samdk 16y ago
The JVM, maybe. Some of the stuff you can do on the JVM, yes. Java? Definitely not.
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by samdk 16y ago
There are two examples listed: http://ecsstender.org/ and http://ecsstender.org/demos/spoon/ . On Firefox 3.6, they both hang (for several seconds) as the JS loads/comes into effect (and the "stop unresponsive script" box comes up). Afte
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by samdk 16y ago
I'm really not impressed with this implementation, at least. Cleaner syntax, maybe, but at the cost of five more JavaScript files for one of the examples. And it looks different in the latest non-beta versions of Chrome, Firefox, and IE,
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by samdk 16y ago
This looks like a very old version of the manual (I'm off to install it and take a look at a newer one) but festival does appear to have voices: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_2... edit That appears to be the
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by samdk 16y ago
I find this study rather disturbing. It never even attempts to actually define "study time". There are about 40 instances of the term's use just within the paper and not a single attempt to provide a definition. I'm guessing that it means
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by samdk 16y ago
I don't know if they're my favorite , but Rory Sutherland's two are excellent, and I think well worth watching especially if you ever think you might be trying to sell something to someone. Life lessons from an ad man: ( http://www.ted.com
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by samdk 16y ago
The Font Squirrel @font-face generator ( http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ) which was mentioned in the article is very very handy if you want to do @font-face replacement. It just works in every browser I've tried it in (inc
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by samdk 16y ago
It'd be nice, but I wouldn't count on it happening too soon: the necessary APIs don't seem to exist. It's based on the gdata-python-client library ( http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ ) for accessing Google Data APIs, and the c
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by samdk 16y ago
My email address is of the form firstname@lastname.com, and I got around this issue by creating an alias for sending in Gmail that's firstname+randomstring@lastname.com. As a security measure it's not perfect, but it's not something someone
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by samdk 16y ago
I'd argue that if you don't focus your efforts on the things that really matter to you you're going to have a tough time transcending mediocrity for entirely different reasons. If you avoid all activities and requirements that you don't e
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by samdk 16y ago
Doesn't mean the data's encrypted on the server-side though. The person running this could probably access anything written here pretty easily. That's a trade-off you make with almost any cloud service though. If you have a super-secret mil
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by samdk 16y ago
This is really cool. I've thought about how a host-proof app might be built, but not very seriously. I actually have a pretty simple project coming up that'd benefit from it, too. Maybe this'll motivate me to experiment. Any resources/readi
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by samdk 16y ago
Before you jump into Scala I'd recommend being familiar with Java and (at the least) being comfortable with the basics of an ML-like language or Haskell. Having had experience with a scripting language like Ruby or Python helps too. Knowing
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by samdk 16y ago
If you're looking for a Netbook, the Eee PC 1005/1008HA are, in my opinion, at least as good looking as Apple's laptop offerings. (They also have the best keyboard/touchpad of any netbook I've tried.)
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by samdk 16y ago
There are already two posts about this on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387043 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387312
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by samdk 16y ago
I'm reminded of Isaac Asimov's short story The Last Question ( http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html ), which deals with very similar issues on an entirely larger scale.
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by samdk 16y ago
The Wordpress.com/Automattic Terms of Service ( http://en.wordpress.com/tos/ ) and Privacy Policy ( http://automattic.com/privacy/ ) are available under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license.
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by samdk 16y ago
All of the time. The universe is pretty incredible. The stories we make up about it don't come close. Douglas Adams said it better than I can: "I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
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by samdk 16y ago
I use my caps lock key as a right arrow key. Reaching for escape in Vim doesn't really bother me, and I find it surprisingly useful pretty much any time I'm typing. I use AutoHotkey ( http://www.autohotkey.com/ ) to remap it on Windows, and
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by samdk 16y ago
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ is another place that has a bunch of good open-licensed and free-to-use fonts.
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by samdk 16y ago
I think you're missing a huge benefit to having investors, which is that you're able to consult with them and get advice, and they have a very real motivation to give you good advice and to help you if they can. YC also has the benefit of a
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by samdk 16y ago
Using a consistent color and style create a consistent look and feel for a brand. That consistently becomes something people recognize, and that's a good thing. You can't measure everything with an A/B test.
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by samdk 16y ago
Talk to people. Don't ask them what they want you to build--they probably don't really know. Ask them about the problems they're having, and work with them to solve one. If you've done a good job of that you'll have at least one happy user,
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by samdk 16y ago
But the data we're dealing with here isn't on the order of a few percentage points. The values range from about 45-85 on most of them, which is plenty large enough to see given a full range from 0-100. And there's absolutely no reason to us
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by samdk 16y ago
The issue is not at all readability. The issue is that the way the data is presented changes your interpretation of it. If you try to puzzle out the meaning from these graphs you can. But even if you do you're going to have to fight with

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