WilhelmJ

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by WilhelmJ 14y ago
As far as I can tell, author is talking about FM-Index. It compresses the search data into a much smaller index memory footprint. I tried using it few times, but never figured out how to use it as a key-value data store. If anybody is inter
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
I just want to clarify something here, I am not an idea guy or a business guy. I am a hacker but my specialties are systems programming in C/C++ and I am learning web dev on the side when I get time, but haven't gone that much far. The reas
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Ask HN: Anybody selling their side project?
5 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|6 comments
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Would you swap your country for America? (telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|1 comments
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Zynga debuts at $11 a share, 10% higher than IPO price(allthingsd.com)
1 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|0 comments
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
Didn't understand how the sentiment analysis works, since results look quite not what I expected. I did a test search on 2012 presidential candidates: Obama: 44% positive ("barack obama" is 62% though) Mitt Romney: 67% positive Michele Bach
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
I want to add something from my own experience. One particular company I was interested in had few puzzles on their website. I once worked the whole weekend to solve them as good as I can. Spent lot of time writing a custom cover letter, re
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
The site looks great and very user friendly, but as others have pointed out, the paid-tier-only seems too restrictive. Specially given the motto of treehouse is "Millions of people can't afford a quality technical education, or if they can
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
The article says that over the next 5 years, about 7 Million laptops will be purchased. The price of windows mentioned in the article is about $110 at current rates, which means $770 million order for MS. That definitely is a big order for
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
Not sure if it'll add more credibility to the claim, but interestingly the wikipedia page for Anakam doesn't talk about Founders. And the company's official leadership page is empty! http://anakam.equifax.com/Company/Leadership/
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Ask HN: Where exactly does wikimedia spend $28M+ this year?
23 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|10 comments
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
On a slightly different note, I don't remember top 5 posts on HN all about deaths! I wonder why so many people upvote so many stories related to same subject (i.e. Steve Jobs' death)?
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What Does Your Resume Font Say About You?(jobs.aol.com)
2 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|0 comments
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Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed (newscientist.com)
7 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|2 comments
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
Hi there, You've done some nice work on the project. Since I follow most showHN posts, I think I am seeing this submission 4-5th time in last 1 and a half month with different titles. I tried to search for previous submissions but seems lik
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
When I learned to use vim years ago, one interesting observation was that the biggest thing to learn in vim is efficient navigation. i.e. if you know how to get to a particular logically defined place in the file, you will always be able to
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
There are tons of interesting books I bought, but I have kept on procrastinating reading, since I know that I can always read them later. That feeling IMHO - that I own something and can process it later - is major cause of procrastination
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by WilhelmJ 15y ago
This might help... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828161
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Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5(businessinsider.com)
15 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Build Your Web Startup in Asia(authoritylabs.com)
4 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|0 comments
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Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings(crookedtimber.org)
9 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|5 comments
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Hollywood's Profits, Demystified [2005](slate.com)
1 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|0 comments
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Developer API for Google+: It's coming(news.cnet.com)
7 points by WilhelmJ 15y ago|1 comments