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yourcelf
15y ago
Lamson seems to be a solid framework, but after trying to use it for a project I dropped it. Two assumptions it makes didn't work for me. First, it takes over port 25 as your default SMTP server. This is great in that it saves you from de
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I did one too, a few years ago: http://tirl.org/software/sudoku/ I hadn't seen Norvig's article yet then, but I had just taken a course taught out of Russel & Norvig's book -- and I arrived at a similar solution (depth-first search).
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Actually, Larry Birnbaum over at Northwestern is doing exactly that: http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/ They take the coded sports results, and automatically generate narratives using statistical speech models. They h
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yourcelf
15y ago
Stack Overflow? They do have a "careers" section. Not really a way to express a social graph AFAIK, though.
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yourcelf
15y ago
One thing the new readability does that I love: when paging down with the space bar, it puts a spot (•) in the margin where the previous bottom of the page was, and then smooth scrolls. Together, these make it much easier to keep your plac
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yourcelf
15y ago
URLs if it helps: http://www.gitalytics.com/repo/detail/jakewins/olwidget is the repo it got first, http://www.gitalytics.com/repo/detail/yourcelf/olwidget is the more central that it eventually found.
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yourcelf
15y ago
It appears that it just hadn't finished acquiring the data for the profile. It grabbed a minor, outdated fork rather than the latest version. After some time, it's caught up to the more central fork and more believable percentages.
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yourcelf
15y ago
The "contribution" percentages are a little funny. They certainly aren't based on lines of code, or number of commits. How is that calculated? Feels weird when you own a project and have done 99% of the work on it, and it says your contr
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15y ago
Two that I've liked: nearlyfreespeech.net (low cost and strong ethics) and gandi.net (more comprehensive).
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yourcelf
16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We're testing confirmation-less registration now and will likely roll it out later today. It's very important to us that people find it easy to comment (though that's checked by concern for keeping a handle on abu