sfphotoarts

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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
What has become of my beloved HN? Doesn't a devout 20 minutes three times a day on HN count as meditation. Next we'll be discussing horoscopes...
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Doesn't work for me Chrome 9.0.597.98 beta on Ubuntu :( Possibly because all HTTP traffic has to go through a proxy server, the company block all outbound traffic, and require a proxy server.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
And those countries produce the top super-models too.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Thanks, that's essentially what I said, but I am curious what you mean by "most followings in common" (you mean people intersect?) I assumed you did some form of semantic analysis of the tweet streams to intersect based on common RT's or li
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
I'd love to hear the concepts behind this, I'm guessing you first do a radial search from current location, yield list twitter handles, fetch last n dozen tweets, extract links, cluster, intersect, introduce. I don't have a 4[] account to t
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
It has Google in the title, instant upvote for any article with Google, Quora or Stackoverflow.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
what's an average person? The only way politics connects with the masses is through voting.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Simplistic means treating complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler, that's exactly what Jquery and its suit of plugins (including Amplify) does well.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
The internet is really many superimposed communities. Expecting the internet, or pretty much anything else to be a certain way is setting yourself up for unfulfilled expectation. The internet is a rapidly changing place and filled with enor
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Doesn't Facebook already have a search feature?
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
often in text indexing the original document is kept for things like snippet generation.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
"Nothing kills a new idea better than taking too much time on it." I feel like this might be true of very simplistic ideas, I don't think it holds in any generally applicable form. Some ideas take time to fully germinate and flourish. Imagi
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
C++ with a JIT is called Java, Seriously though this is misguided. PGO is clearly a step in the right direction but its simply deferred static optimization. Either you optimize in C at the compile time, or with PGO by running a few statisti
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
It's fascinating watching the HN community ebb and flow around topics, there's this collective conscious that discusses programming languages (mostly) and some days the tide takes us to a heavily Pythonic view of the world, and this week we
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
This is not true. The runtime environment for Java is capable of changing the program on the fly in response to dynamically determined bottlenecks. To implement such a system in C would be to re-implement Java. What you cannot do in C/C++ t
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
I read it as more of a politic answer, there's been a lot of inpulse bashing it seems over what appears to be something that they are doing to try and help, not thwart hackers. Encouraging us to get one for the Blackberry is all well and go
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
I was curious about the Redis sets used for social graph storage and using intersection of sets to find nodes in common. Would anyone have an idea about the complexity of this as both the number of nodes in the graph and the number of edges
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Nearly every geek I know has a MBP, and every startup I've worked at uses the same.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
No they are not! apps mostly use the internet for their data, but provide a richer UX than what a web browser can do. The internet is the underpinning of most apps.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
I still don't get it? you tied three words to an email account? for what? Where does it go? What's the use case?
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Well, I can't agree, I thought it was clever and witty and I'm hanging on to the 15 year old inside me that still thinks this is pretty funny.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
It does matter, culture, infrastructure, proximity to events/meetups etc. Walk to see customers, competitors, etc. Can't go to a bar without ending up debating which key value store to use for high throughput write operations, or which pyth
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
Mankind has built a lot of civilization using bigger steamrollers.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
You might want to take a look at http://code.google.com/p/scipy-cluster/ for some code in Python that allows systems like this to be built quickly.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
he calls them epiphenomenon which is correct, their primary property is light production, heat is a secondary feature and not reliable, take for example LED based lighting, or even the low energy fluorescents. But RF was just being a well d
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
To be fair to Quora, it is their service and not some tax -payer funded government program, so they can accept whomever they choose on their site. These are their accounts to loose and I don't see why this is even news, or a blog post. So w
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
This article is good for Sennheiser, I just ordered a pair of the 555's from Amazon for $85
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
or possibly a little condescending.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
you just did.
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by sfphotoarts 16y ago
I think you meant "...has not been..." and I agree with your points. However, one thing I have noticed among my friends and myself with apps is that there really only needs to be a few dozen apps and 80% of the planet are (is?) happy. Look

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