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by yannis 17y ago
This reminds me of blackhat SEO techniques! (see http://www.nigritudeultramarines.com/ ), nevertheless +1 very neat idea!
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by yannis 17y ago
Just a little less of mainstream would be nice! I don't mean things like what is happening with Google and China right now but in general there is too much mainstream.
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by yannis 17y ago
If they are all hackers they will simulate the situation using a genetic algorithm based on ant colonies and sail away:) If they are lawyers they will debate the issue until one dies and they will never sail. If they have a background in ma
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by yannis 17y ago
Three cheers to the team!
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Build Your Next Web Application with Erlang(weblog.miceda.org)
25 points by yannis 17y ago|4 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks Ryan, your essay is very interesting. I like this: We ARE "losing something important" by training our brains to act as indices (or creating personal habits, as you suggest) instead of the libraries themselves.
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by yannis 17y ago
When Mayer says her "mind has evolved" to the point that it can only recognize and process information that has been digitized and uploaded Is it possible that too much Googling has led to parts of Mayer's brain to atrophy?
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by yannis 17y ago
Site seems broken down (shows me std Drupal help for can't connect to database and points to install.php) Something went wrong? Slashdot effect?
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by yannis 17y ago
The United States needs to learn to function as one power in a complex system that it can neither escape nor dominate. It also needs to view other nations successes in pulling their citizens out of poverty not as a threat but as an opportun
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by yannis 17y ago
I am not too sure what you were trying to achieve (all I could see was three or four widgets) and the page kept refreshing every few seconds. Can it be useful? I think it can but it needs a lot of work. Firstly are you looking at the dashbo
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by yannis 17y ago
I was fascinated to discover that one of the most popular authors with over a 100 million sales is promoting 'piracy' on his blog! (See also what he had to say at http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-466.html )
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Pirate Coelho(paulocoelhoblog.com)
28 points by yannis 17y ago|4 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
So when the mobs came to burn the place down no one was there to stop them. Hmm.. there were no mobs involved, the first destruction is attributed to Caesar at around 48BC. I appears that the library was then rebuild and destroyed again i
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by yannis 17y ago
This guy is a crackpot who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Serious? I don't know the person - and the article was so and so - but the credentials of the author are stated as: 'Ray Tallis trained as a doctor, ultimately becom
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An Engineer's Guide to DNS(developer.yahoo.net)
3 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
My most recent startup created a marketplace for customers to buy and sell virtual goods for their 3D avatar The author in a way has answered his own question, when he wrote the above. Entrepreneurship - the way understood by the rest of
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by yannis 17y ago
I would stick with a framework especially during the initial phases of the Project, especially if you are new to Python. I am also fairly new and I found that I learned more by peeking my head in Django's codebase than any other book! Agree
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks, I somehow missed it.
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by yannis 17y ago
Does anyone know if this is going to be released as an open source Project, I couldn't find any info on the site.
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by yannis 17y ago
Yeah I think they work differently in general. From my experience they do not benefit from iterative development the same way we do. They do but they iterate when solving the problem, usually on paper. This is partly true in my experience
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by yannis 17y ago
It is surprising, but the human brain is wired to think logarithmically, it is only by years of training that our brains get re-wired to do otherwise. Stanislas Dehaene has done a lot of research in this area ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by yannis 17y ago
Some on the spot observations +1 for this: It is as if Steve Jobs™ has kidnapped them, implanted something terrible, and returned them – as iZombies.
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by yannis 17y ago
It is actually a forever/infinite loop unless you break out of it with code like this: var i = 0; for (;;) { log(i); i++; if (i > 10) { break; } }; In a way is recursion, it is equivalen
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by yannis 17y ago
Here is my 2cents on top of all those! This is a valid for-loop in JavaScript for (;;) {} (Saw it for the first time in Crockford's jsLint)
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by yannis 17y ago
A very informative post. I have used Alchemy and I am very impressed with their Named Entity extraction.
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by yannis 17y ago
Max, I thought you would have given it a lot of thought and so did I, that is why I called it borderline. I am with you when you say that these persons have opted to allow their information to go public and that Facebook effectively has let
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by yannis 17y ago
Simple strategy .. but so borderline ethical.
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by yannis 17y ago
There isn't really any major difference IMHO. The panelists discuss learning from a screen versus learning from a book. I got interested in the article and posted it here trying to find out if there is a difference in the way the brain take
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Does the brain like ebooks?(roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com)
24 points by yannis 17y ago|14 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
wordpress + newspaper theme + plugins

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