thomas11

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   Apache CouchDB is Alive and Kicking(mail-archive.com)

   2 points by thomas11 15y ago|1 comments
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   I'm doing ai-class and I find it just fine. After the first two weeks, all the technology worked just fine - what problems are you referring to? The video editing is also fine. If such minor issues break your rhythm, you might need to rethi
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach (Russell & Norvig), while doing ai-class.com. Great writing for a text book. Coders at Work (Seibel).
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   How do I get my first few customers?(blog.asmartbear.com)

   9 points by thomas11 15y ago|0 comments
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   Thanks for the correction, I missed the "on the web" part.
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   I appreciate your effort. The questions are interesting, and it's educational to read through the answers since the problems are the right size, more than just "find the right Emacs library function" but short enough to read through in a fe
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   The changes are not "random", just because you don't know about the thoughts and testing that went into them. Mac made a huge all-breaking change with Mac OS X. That only occurs every few years, but as you say, Gnome 2 is ten years old. The
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   by thomas11 15y ago

   I see the difference between a server and a library, but both can often be used for the same use case. Just recently I evaluated a few data stores for a project and I didn't care all that much about the distinction. For the servers you're g
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Thanks for posting the summary. I imagine it helps forming a somewhat coherent group. Some of your activities could be a good inspiration for the next HN Zurich meetup, which reminds me...
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    It doesn't say whether you're supposed to give gross or net income. Can make a huge difference when comparing countries or even states.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    I'm not sure if it's "almost done". I bought the MEAP (early access) a long time ago, and for months nothing happened at all. Then a second author came on board to get things moving. A few days ago I got an update from Manning: "What'
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    This article essentially says "practice any sport, whenever and wherever, just keep at it". While that's not wrong, it's not very useful. For me personally, scooby1962's videos on Youtube were really helpful. Great advice on building muscle
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Integrating CoffeeScript and cleaning up JavaScript code are not "real" problems either. Just like with new programming languages such as Clojure it's about improving the tools used to solve real problems.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    With a bug like this, an install script without root permissions can still wipe out your $HOME when messing around in the dotfiles. Scary!
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    I think anything from 200 to 500 would work well. Anything at or over 1000 is problematic since to get that you need to be quite active on the site.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    I think if anything, it's not restrictive enough. The idea is that HN acts as a community filter for membership, and 200 is really not much for an active member of the community.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    I'd be interested in that code. There's lots of static site generators out there already--and like so many procrastinating nerds I wrote my own--but it'd be a nice real-world example of Go and its Template package.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Exactly. He uses Disqus for comments, so it could actually be a static site. No worries about performance, caching, load, security anymore (almost).
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    I'm not convinced it would actually work, but what the OP probably meant is that the pharma companies would pay the certification companies so they could put a "Certified by X" sticker on their packaging. The better X would certify, the mor
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Well, the two gists don't quite encode the same information. In the schema.org example, one would still have to write code to parse the string dates. In the RDFa example, one could link several sites on the shared purl.org URL of, e.g., Fri
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    There's a fantastic paper called "Why Functional Programming Matters" by John Hughes [1]. Most of you here will know it, but it's so good that I wouldn't want any newcomers to miss it. It's from 1984 and IMO still the best essay on the basi
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    The whole piece seems to be based on a false premise, namely that MapReduce is supposed to replace databases. That's not the case at all, it's a way to analyze and transform data in parallel. Afterwards, you can load it into a relational (o
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Strange, mine (4.0.1) doesn't. There's something broken either in the update routine or in your Firefox. The beta is not supposed to be recommended to users of a release version.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Firefox 5 is not coming out. It's a beta. You shouldn't bother friends and family with it.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Ironically enough, made a national holiday in Germany by Hitler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day#Ge...
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Effective Perl Programming by brian d foy is also great, although a handful of the tips go a little into the dark side of Perl tricks.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Sleep deprivation even works as a temporary "cure" for clinical depression, but for most patients the effect only lasts one day/night. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Treatment_for... or lots of other online references.
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    by thomas11 15y ago

    Posted it for the Zurich Scheme/Lisp Users Group, they might be interested: http://groups.google.com/group/zslug/t/ae02022489c8c0d6 .