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by user24 16y ago
... and feeding that data back into their own search results, rather than just using it for analysis to see how your competitors are performing? If I'm in the business of giving horse racing tips and I read your tips to see what your strike
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by user24 16y ago
I have a suspicion what you'll find is that Bing use the toolbar to match $current_page_content with $clicked_page_content. When $current_page_content contains obscure words, that becomes the only signal, and so bing's engine will naturally
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by user24 16y ago
I think the reason behind this is struggle. The original killed cars as soon as they started struggling (the load hits the ground). The latest allows you to watch bad implementations struggle to traverse the landscape. That's all. There's p
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by user24 16y ago
I joined reddit when I was supposed to be writing my MSc thesis; my karma soared to a few thousand pretty quickly. Karma is an odometer, counting up how much time you could have been spending doing something else. It does pay to take a step
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by user24 16y ago
XUL isn't cross browser. Though a xul.js which allowed you to define webapps in XUL and it converts them into HTML on the client side would be an interesting project.
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by user24 16y ago
Interesting timing - Just today I blogged about HTML5 and how it still doesn't fully address the needs of web apps - http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/01/what-is-the-point-of-html... Seems like there are a few projects filling this gap - ba
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by user24 16y ago
Yeah, I applied as a mature student to an MSc program and was accepted. At the time I had a first class IT and Philosophy BA, 4-ish years commercial programming experience, and an E grade at AS level Psychology.
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by user24 16y ago
I completed my MSc in Computer Science at Oxford in 2009. My undergrad degree was a joint honours IT and Philosophical Studies BA (UoW Lampeter). From my (limited) knowledge of how comlab/Oxford works, it looks like students will be splitti
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by user24 16y ago
Yes, my problem was with people then wanting to iterate over said hashmap, not with using it as a hashmap in the first place. I could have worded that better, thanks. I mean if you're going to want to iterate over it, you should probably be
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by user24 16y ago
for...in loops also have the drawback of iterating over inherited properties. eg if I extended the prototype of Array with some method, then for...in would iterate over that method too. traditional for loops incrementing until length is rea
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by user24 16y ago
using newtonsoft's json.NET would count? edit: http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspx
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by user24 16y ago
re: diversity, wouldn't lack of diversity be a consequence of the selection method? That's what I found with the genetic algorithm for hello world I wrote (which I fully admit is decidedly less complicated than GP). When I simply culled all
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by user24 16y ago
then they're hurting themselves as well as me. Hurting themselves by putting up a barrier between eyeballs and their content. I mean it's such a silly short sighted pattern. "I know, we've a really popular village noticeboard which people h
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by user24 16y ago
In response to the auto-playing video advert on that page: I have nothing wrong with advertising on the web, I'm not against commercialisation of the web. I fully understand that the economics of the web require that we trade easy cheap acc
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by user24 16y ago
This, I think, is the source code which accompanies this book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321
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by user24 16y ago
funny, but rather pointless...
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by user24 16y ago
someone set up us the bomb? edit: I know, I know, but I couldn't resist ;)
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by user24 16y ago
That's a rather simplistic view of the article, don't you think? You really think that none of the reasons are genuine, all just made up as linkbait?
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by user24 16y ago
yep. Plus the domainer websites are awash with news stories about domains selling for thousands, so plenty of newbies think it's going to be easy money.
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by user24 16y ago
Related Poll: Which website are you visiting right now? # Hackernews # Reddit
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by user24 16y ago
darn those pesky environmental laws. edit: oh wait! We'll just dump it in Asia instead! Yay!
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by user24 16y ago
aw man, I opened this in Fx and Ch, hoping they'd done some html acrobatics and got it displaying completely differently in each browser but, actually, their site looks exactly the same in every browser...
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by user24 16y ago
http://www.comicfuckingsans.com (my little parody of the comic sans hate)
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by user24 16y ago
that's not what stop words are. Search on google for a definition.
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by user24 16y ago
each decodes to exactly 383 chars.
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by user24 16y ago
> encodes to exactly 8 times it's own length really? I have strlen(decoded-text) at 383 chars, and qbf as 43 chars, giving the encoded as 8.906976744186 times the size of the original...
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by user24 16y ago
I have the top five as: ; (12 times) I (11 times) * (10 times) - (10 times) 2 (10 times) and for the quick-brown-fox sample he posted in the comments, I have: ! (14 times) # (13 times) C (11 times) , (11 times) U (10 times) So I'm not convi
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by user24 16y ago
> It looks to me like this is an issue rooted in friction between those folks who spend a great deal of time here and those folks who spend less time here. Those folks who are here a great deal see all the duplicate submissions and find
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by user24 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. I understand a little more about what you're trying to achieve now. And actually I agree with you. > Lots of submissions get votes because they are, in PG's words, "intensely but shallowly interesting." Agreed. The
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by user24 16y ago
ah - I wasn't sure. ;)

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