spitfire

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   by spitfire 12y ago

   This has long been a dream for architects. Back in the 60's Fritz Haller produced a building system for the Swiss company USM. If you've ever played with the fischer-price toy Construx you know exactly what it was like. The USM bu
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   by spitfire 12y ago

   Because if you ever have a problem with wrap bootstrap you will get no response. I paid for a theme on WB and never received it. Emails to support and phone calls to the registered number for the domain went unanswered. I had to email the t
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   by spitfire 12y ago

   I think there is a sort of "enterprise light" market where this could work. Let the outsourced staff handle most sales, and hand off to the company for the more complex sales.
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   by spitfire 12y ago

   Is anyone else having trouble getting this site to load? When I login I get either a blank screen or an error page.
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   by spitfire 12y ago

   Cool. You mention restraunts/salons/dog groomers. Any plans to move higher up the chain to SaaS enterprise type sales? I haven't formalized my process enough to hand off sales to someone else, but I am champing at the bit to
6. 576.▲
   by spitfire 12y ago

   After I login I either get an error page, or a dark grey blank page... Seems they're having issues. I've tried with adblock/flashblock disabled.
7. 577.▲
   by spitfire 12y ago

   Sent you an email, along with a story about the horrible industry I'm working on.
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   by spitfire 12y ago

   If we're throwing out HTML/CSS why on earth would you keep Javascript? (or also contentiously - HTTP) If we're throwing away the cruft (which I fully support!), lets do things right. That means planning a (light) abstraction
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   by spitfire 12y ago

   Hi Patrick, wasn't expecting you to respond. But here it goes. I have a service which identifies which accounts will pay for accounts receivable. IE: collections agencies. Numbers show it can move the needle double to triple digits dep
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    I'm in the process of figuring out a pricing model for a SaaS service right now and I watched this video in full. There's lots of interesting stuff in this, but in the end I am left no better off. For someone who is actually buil
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    So I'm finding references to jjffe and glffe. But their sites seem to be gone. Is there anywhere one could get a modern frontier first encounters to run on OSX or windows?
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    This was surprising to see here. unRisk is a hugely technical company, doing quant finance with Mathematica. Not the type of thing you normally find here. As to the problem, the second I started reading I knew it would be an operations rese
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Here's the Mathematica version: PrBbeatsA[\[Alpha]a_, \[Beta]a_, \[Alpha]b_, \[Beta]b_] := \!\( \ UnderoverscriptBox[\(\[Sum]\), \(i = 0\), \(\[Alpha]b\)] \ FractionBox[\(Beta[\[Alpha]a + i, \[Beta]b + \[Beta]a]\), \(\((\[Beta]b
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    What in particular is Heroku missing to pass level 3 and 4? Hit and run comments aren't really useful. Some detail and if possible some suggestions for improvement really help. Even if they can't be implemented for some reason.
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Also, if you're of a certain age you remember things like computer shopper magazine. Which, while it had articles, I don't think I ever found one. It was basically a one and half inch thick catalogue. People paid money to buy a th
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    It isn't necessarily scary. The charts show "time spent" vs money spent. But what you really want to know is "money spent" vs "results taken". IE: Which channels drive revenue. on the flip side, you can me
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    The actual paper on the topic. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.370...
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Ahh SCADA systems. Definitely something that should get some serious attention. I'm looking for legacy or underserved complete verticals I can bring some modern technology to. Right now, that's low finance.
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    What industry is this? There seems to be a lot of spaces where a few smart people could make a lot of difference. And it sure beats doing locsomobile amafacegoosoft. EDIT: I am genuinely asking about the industry because I want to find spac
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Any Vancouverites/Van islanders sound off here. I was in Gastown in 2003 trying to start a company, it was still rundown. It is one of the nicest large cities to live in. Vancouver has always had a decent games industry and has earn it
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Any references where you could get structured data about property, demographics, etc?
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    I pick correct semantics NOW and fix performance issues at your leisure. upsert has been an embarrassment for Postgres for far too long now. Particularly obnoxious was the "upsert is hard! Roll your own" stance taken.
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Does anyone know where one could get good data on bee populations, migrations, etc? or pointers to good bee keeping resources which might refer me on to data sources?
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    I had one which, with a bios change was supposed to be able to run an Alpha. Fun fact, the board - the Asus K7M, came out at a time when Intel was putting pressure on vendors not to support the (brand spanking new) AMD Athlon. The vendors w
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    by spitfire 12y ago

    Well, JS is used because it's the only way to run code on a client system. If there were a byte-code available you can bet people would be using other languages. ASM.js exists, and many languages compile to js at the moment. As for PHP
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    by spitfire 13y ago

    I've known a few welders over the years. High end industrial painters also get paid large amounts. I genuinely do think though, that things like welding and painting are ripe for robotization. Even if it starts out as human augmentatio
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    by spitfire 13y ago

    Welders who make $150,000 make me want to make a welding robot, Even if it only handles a small subset of welds. Maybe shop class should become robots and automation class.
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    by spitfire 13y ago

    Delphi/Pascal and Wolfram mathematica are the two things I point people to when we talk about documentation. Every single function had a working snippet example. Mathematica had details and applications for each function, while Delphi&
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    by spitfire 13y ago

    NB removed. I suspect I was being down-voted because of the industry. Outbound recovery attempts refers to calling people up and asking them to pay their bills in the collections industry. The first attempt will be a Dunning letter asking y
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    by spitfire 13y ago

    HMO - account recovery industry. I'm building a service based on machine learning and operations to improve outbound recovery attempts. From customers experience it works very well. I know there are people here who are or have been in