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by showerst 14y ago
If you'd like a great non-technical tour of how computers really work conceptually, starting from simple morse-code switches through to assembler, Charles Petzold's "Code" is awesome: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-S
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by showerst 14y ago
Generally in the US any time there's a bus full of kids, there's an authority figure that's not a teacher in charge of discipline. Sometimes it's the driver, sometimes a separate monitor. At least when I was in grade school 15-20 years ago
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by showerst 14y ago
Aside from the earlier mention of 'I want to just let my cat into the house to the exclusion of others' I think it's interesting because if you're not in the computer vision world, you don't see a ton of stories or demos about detecting thi
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by showerst 14y ago
You've got it exactly dalke. I'm not exactly raging against how it is now, since anything on our domain gets a big (hard earned!) credibility bump from many readers, so we do have an advantage. My only complaint is that if I have a smaller
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by showerst 14y ago
You do have a point about crowding, and I actually like the system as it is. That said, as a bigger content provider, I think the system of "Someone almost certainly will submit your content anyway, but with a title and timing that that the
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by showerst 14y ago
Generally true to be sure, but every once in a while we'll write something about internet or entrepreneurship that does well here. Like I said we make it a point not to post our own articles to social media sites ourselves, but we do make t
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by showerst 14y ago
This is a pretty interesting move, but they really need to make sure the rules are ABSOLUTELY CLEAR to those willing to learn them. I work for ForeignPolicy.com, which could loosely be described as a competitor to the Atlantic. To avoid bei
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by showerst 14y ago
New Relic has partnerships with at least a few big stack-specific Hosting companies (EG Acquia, which is a big Drupal host), which I think majorly skews some of these results. The Wordpress vs Drupal numbers and complete lack of windows ser
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by showerst 14y ago
Audio Noob question: I understand 'beat detection' in music to be a really hard problem, are they successfully doing it here in javascript, or is this doing something else?
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by showerst 14y ago
This looks really interesting. Is there a link on the site anywhere to download it as a PDF or Mobi? I'd love to drop it on my kindle but I don't see a link.
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by showerst 14y ago
In general I think that getting into an arms race with scrapers is not something that you will win, but if you have a dedicated account for each user you can at least take some action. If this data is actually valuable, they should put it b
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by showerst 14y ago
I'm not so sure there's much of a correlation between successful investing and having a nice site ... http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ That said, I suppose it's fair to expect that companies funding web technology have passable sites.
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by showerst 14y ago
Do you have permission to be taking these snapshots? The Newseum does something similar for print content and has agreements with all of the organizations so that they don't just Cease & Desist them out of existence. http://www.newseum
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by showerst 14y ago
I'm actually the guy responsible for this site (Web Director at FP). The reason for all of this is that it's a kitchen-sink Drupal install, plus every ad industry service in history. We've been working to cut all of this down, but I haven't
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by showerst 15y ago
You're right that it shouldn't ever have to be the main reason, my point merely is that the punishment is a critical threat to your business, which is something that I think would strike home even among the most misogynistic members of the
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by showerst 15y ago
Absolutely! I guess that I'm not surprised that people could want to set up environments that I consider wrong, or stupid, etc; that happens all the time. My surprise is that a culture dominated by graduates from elite colleges who grew up
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by showerst 15y ago
Here's the thing - It doesn't matter. If you run {startup X}, and your business guy puts out a presentation with women in bikinis that makes one of your female employees uncomfortable, and you don't do something about it immediately, she ha
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by showerst 15y ago
That's _entirely_ different from "If you do anything that will make anyone of {these protected classes} uncomfortable by saying/doing something relating to {their protected class} membership, we could be sued for hundreds of thousands or mi
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by showerst 15y ago
Do these companies not have HR departments? Occasionally idiotic things slip out from employees at bigCo's too, but they're swiftly dealt with. (Which is not to say that there aren't plenty of examples of hideous sexism at big companies, bu
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by showerst 15y ago
Just chiming in to say nice work Mike, and that it's nice to see another former Plus-One'r around these parts =)
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by showerst 15y ago
Bingo there's a good one in English. A good example in Arabic would be قرن, which can mean 'horns' or 'century', and (as far as i know, not an expert) doesn't have any related origin. I imagine if you were writing machine translation softwa
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by showerst 15y ago
I'd be careful about that generalization, since a fair number of scripts require you to be able to speak the language before you can really even transliterate properly. In many semitic languages, they don't write the vowels, which is no pro
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by showerst 15y ago
This is half true; you still can't achieve exact output even with CSS (try viewing even very large sites with FF vs Chrome, they won't be identical to the pixel). Media queries also let you adapt to devices/monitors, but realistically you c
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by showerst 15y ago
Rosetta has improved quite a bit over the last few versions. I tried a copy a few years back and wasn't too impressed, then saw it again last year and they actually had working voice recognition that judged your pronunciation! They also hav
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by showerst 15y ago
We should evaluate the paper on its merits, but the reddit discussion did note that this journal has some credibility issues - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology#Reliabilit...
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by showerst 15y ago
There are three kinds of tech books in my mind - Reference, Tutorial, and Fundamentals. I can sort of understand wanting paper reference books, since it can be nicer to just flip around instead of googling, but it seems silly to complain ab
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by showerst 15y ago
I'm a bit confused by the numbers here. They had 400 appointments and made $500,000 in revenue? Does that mean that they're charging over a thousand bucks to set these things up?
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by showerst 15y ago
If you want store your data in a validateable, language agnostic way, why not apply the same logic to your transformations and templates? ...there are a million oft-argued reasons why not, but that's one line of thinking that will lead you
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by showerst 15y ago
$100k/year with no benefits and a relatively short fixed term, plus the overhead of setting up the contract and having the space/equipment to fulfill it (admittedly those are minor in this case.) In my experience for good contract work like
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by showerst 15y ago
It's not that it isn't possible, it's that given the resources we have, it isn't optimal. Your thesis is wrong not because it can't be done, but because the competitive gains (transportation, communication) don't outweigh the gains to doing

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