simon_kun

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by simon_kun 15y ago
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
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by simon_kun 16y ago
I love this work. It would be nice if there was some representation of the similar country area - kinda like a cartogram ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram )
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by simon_kun 16y ago
What does Mixpanel think about adding statistical significance where appropriate? Take the Fbconnect and nonFbconnect users vs song engagement in the video. The chap in the video was fairly certain there was no significant increase, but vis
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by simon_kun 16y ago
This game is perfect for the 3DS
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by simon_kun 16y ago
Not the answer you were looking for, but you could run the Java lib with JRuby, or use the JS lib with Ruby/V8 and "The Ruby Racer" ( https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer )
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Rubinius and the Mandelbrot bench(rfc2616.wordpress.com)
9 points by simon_kun 16y ago|0 comments
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by simon_kun 16y ago
I especially like the tiled approach to data streaming that Polymaps implements, though I wonder if it's inefficient if you have really large polygons and a small grid (I'm assuming that if a polygon intersects the grid it'll be streamed ra
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by simon_kun 16y ago
The real interest is in seeing what the downstream value added services do with this. For example, I'm interested to see what changes this makes to the Heroku offering. It seems to be a perfect fit for their product.
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by simon_kun 16y ago
You may like these AS3/Browser JS benchmarks: http://jacksondunstan.com/articles/712
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by simon_kun 16y ago
pgAdmin3 + SQLEditor ( http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/ )
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by simon_kun 16y ago
datapoint: I've been using PostgreSQL (and it's GIS extension PostGIS) with Rails for over a year now. Some minor issues along the way, but never ever going back to MySQL.
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by simon_kun 17y ago
The interesting bit is where David gets sucked into Calcanis' "more money is best" angle (and in some respects, JC's brain really lucked out on picking up on this weakness). From what I can tell, DHH is much more focussed on Quality of Life
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by simon_kun 17y ago
The thing that gets me about most of these flash "explore" widgets (including Street View) is that they don't update the URL with the pitch/yaw/zoom/lat/lng information, making the cool stuff you find pretty hard to share around.
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by simon_kun 17y ago
I can't speak highly enough about Brightbox (the managed VPS service Antonio recommends). Somehow they have managed to tread the fine line between a very comprehensive and well configured service with great addons (Comprehensive management
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by simon_kun 17y ago
It would be nice if they included PUT's into this equation too. Many large datasets are not one big file, but billions of smaller ones. I realise it raises the offering out of the bandwidth arena and into actual server capacity to handle th
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GIS on Rails(tokumine.com)
3 points by simon_kun 17y ago|0 comments
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by simon_kun 17y ago
Basically, you need 2 things. 1) A better search interface and reference manager. If you are on OSX, Papers by Mekentosj is a fantastic option. 2) A citation search engine aggregator specific to your field. Something like Web of Science/kno
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by simon_kun 17y ago
I use both rails and django, and my impression is that although both frameworks were released at roughly the same time, they are both at very different points of the hype curve, with rails pulling out of the Trough of Disillusionment, and
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by simon_kun 17y ago
er, it's only for Bing to provide search results. Yahoo's been here before with Inktomi.
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by simon_kun 18y ago
Well written, humorous intro to statistics using R: http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Introduction-Michael-J-Craw...
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.NET MVC vs Ruby on Rails. Ding(tokumine.com)
24 points by simon_kun 18y ago|15 comments
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by simon_kun 18y ago
One of my favourite graphs for explaining the power of git is the Rails traffic graph at github: http://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/impact . Track right until the beginning of April '08. That's when Rails moved to git.
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by simon_kun 18y ago
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/ Not the right price, but the PDF support is build right in. alt.binaries.e-book.technical will finally realise its promise.
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by simon_kun 18y ago
Yeah, but 18yr olds?! come on!!
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by simon_kun 18y ago
Does a state that shores up an ailing media form because of personal links and dresses it up as a "present for the children" not bother anyone a tiny bit? Newspapers are dead, get over it.
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by simon_kun 18y ago
Take the caps out of the URL and look again...