twa927

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by twa927 10y ago
I like the idea of composing sentences from some high-level pre-checked blocks (the new Google's Assistant seems to do this also). But this doesn't fit my use cases because when I pasted a sentence with a grammar error, it didn&#x
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by twa927 10y ago
It looks helpful, but I would like to paste a whole document and be told which fragments look suspicious because of low popularity. The site requires putting wildcards and completes only a single n-gram.
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by twa927 10y ago
Yet both "It gives out" and "different ways to say the exact same thing" give many thousands of results. So "5" should be recognized as a template variable or the meaning should be combined from popular fragmen
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by twa927 10y ago
Yes, I remember trying to use Google Books Ngram Dataset [1], but it was too tedious for me to setup and maintain a server with the data for a purpose of a quick-and-dirty tool (that's why I asked for a ready API). Still, using it is p
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Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
126 points by twa927 10y ago|48 comments
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by twa927 10y ago
There are projects on Github collecting learning resources in Markdown documents. You can look at the number of stars and/or commit frequency to decide if it's a good resouce. https://github.com/search?o=desc&q
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by twa927 10y ago
Thanks for the analysis of their benchmark, I wanted to view the details by myself but it required creating an account on their page. > There is no superior "compression" technology Isn't it feasible to employ special enco
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by twa927 10y ago
> 4GL... I think you meant something else there? Ruby and PHP are 4th generation languages and are obviously doing quite well. I meant languages with integrated GUIs and databases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourt
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by twa927 10y ago
So far there were multiple approaches that looked something like what you described: component programming, visual programming, "4GL" languages. Heck, even Steve Jobs wanted to sell software components. But these things failed. &q
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by twa927 10y ago
I think programming is for adults. Programming abstractions we use and ways of thinking are tailored to an adult's brain. I think that "programming" environments for children are SOMETHING DIFFERENT than real-world's pro
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by twa927 10y ago
I think you are severely underestimating difficulty of understanding non-trivial code. Even good programmers would need days if not weeks to understand how software like card processing AI works. And even when you understand the code behind
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by twa927 10y ago
I've seen such thread on reddit's r/startups. But doing it here could bring a different flavor of projects ("hackers").
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Propose HN: monthly “This is my startup/sideproject” thread
29 points by twa927 10y ago|11 comments
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by twa927 10y ago
I'm also surprised that it mostly works with extensions written for CPython. Unfortunately there's a big difference between working in 99.9% of cases vs 100%...
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by twa927 10y ago
How can TOS have legal power for the case scraping? A website is a public property. If I'm visiting it without logging in, I don't have a chance to accept TOS. Imagine a hotel that makes guests sign a document saying they will not
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by twa927 10y ago
I got error when clicking on "save and get new tracking code". BTW, the tracking code sends a request to your server for each ajax request? That looks like a big cost to end user (duplicated number of HTTP requests a browser makes
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by twa927 10y ago
My reflections as a potential beta-user: - the price is very high - the $89 plan will be sufficient for a small website only! - why only javascript analytics when I also have server requests? - the dashboard looks nice - the website could c
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by twa927 10y ago
> Many SaaS companies I know do encrypt their data. You can encrypt backups, but in many other cases you can't do it (sending emails, generating invoices) or it's too much work (error/log aggregators that can leak personal
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by twa927 10y ago
Yes, some people wondered if PyPy is "the future of Python" - but it didn't take over the Python ecosystem. If the initiatives mentioned in the article will yield a 100%-CPython-compatible implementation that is always faster
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by twa927 10y ago
Hi, I recognize you as a PyPy developer. Do you think it's fair to write that "no one uses PyPy"?. I feel there are quite many companies using PyPy, mostly for web backend. You don't see many usages in other usages like
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Ask HN: Server providers missing from privacy policies?
2 points by twa927 10y ago|3 comments
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by twa927 10y ago
One possibility would be to have a third-party service that would handle the instantiation of a service from some declarative description. Say, you specify a docker container and the service would run it and would tell the given server is r
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Ask HN: Proof that SaaS is running specific source code checkout?
6 points by twa927 10y ago|7 comments
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by twa927 10y ago
I wouldn't say they are widely adpoted now . Maybe the switch is happening now? And I'm not sure all the mentioned products are fully abstracted, for example BigTable docs mention "nodes".
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Ask HN: Why “database as a service” didn't succeed?
10 points by twa927 10y ago|10 comments
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by twa927 10y ago
> If it's unit testable, then it has decent separation of concerns But then the separation of concepts is driven by the testability, not the problem per se. It means that there's possibly a lot of complexity just for supporting
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by twa927 10y ago
It's a question about the definition of a "high performer". From management's point of view, it's about implementing features - and it can happen that a person can implement a feature fast but mess up internal code
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by twa927 10y ago
There are some fine insights but generally it's the old view of managers vs programmers as passive workers. For example, the advice for managers to encourage programmers to do refactoring as part of normal (business-oriented) tasks is
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Ask HN: “Beating the Averages” in 2016?
2 points by twa927 10y ago|0 comments
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by twa927 10y ago
> Sometimes it certainly is high, but why inherently? Surely it depends on the particular problem you are interested in solving? Even the simplest "real world" programs do things like: communication with a database, string mani

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