astletron

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by astletron 9y ago
Did anyone else read that as revered _dictator_? Current political climate is clearly having an effect.
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by astletron 10y ago
I can think of many cases where I prefer a text-based interface to a phone call. I can't think of any case where I specifically prefer a bot-driven text-based interface to a human-driven text-based interface, though. If chatbots let
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by astletron 10y ago
Sometimes you eat the jellyfish. Sometimes the jellyfish eat you. I guess.
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by astletron 12y ago
"Nighttime will be a different story. The brightness of Betelgeuse’s supernova is about the same as the quarter moon." This will last maybe a couple of weeks, but we don't expect it for 100K years.
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by astletron 12y ago
You reckon you could have guessed the input to this word cloud without being told what it was?
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by astletron 12y ago
Agreed. I've been using Beta by Crashlytics as it is nice and cross-platform and works with ios7. Downside is the integration process and management console are a little tricky. http://try.crashlytics.com/beta/
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48 Crazy Ideas Coming from the $2B Stealth Startup Magic Leap(fastcodesign.com)
5 points by astletron 12y ago|0 comments
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by astletron 12y ago
I applaud brave move to base this on (the slightly terrifying) Wordpress because you seem to have made an "eyes-open" trade off between best and fastest implementation.
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by astletron 12y ago
There can be only one Joe: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
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by astletron 12y ago
John Calhoun would have wanted it this way.
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by astletron 12y ago
I 'saw' it first? ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892747
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by astletron 12y ago
"If we are right and it takes 5-6 years for search to mature globally (instead of 2 or 3 years)" Hard for me to believe that search will 'mature' in even 6 years. Seems to me like there are at least 10 years of work and
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Be My Eyes – Help blind people 'see' thru a mobile app(bemyeyes.org)
1 points by astletron 12y ago|1 comments
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by astletron 12y ago
Is there an avenue for a Joe Schmo investor like me to get some exposure to the marijuana market? I'd definitely put some dollars behind the future of that commodity.
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by astletron 12y ago
"I should mention that I have no real opinion on the language itself; I’m not a languages person (C will do, thanks), and that’s not the part of the system I have experience with anyway. Rather, the runtime and toolchain are the parts
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Twitter’s new R package for anomaly detection(r-bloggers.com)
62 points by astletron 12y ago|15 comments
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by astletron 12y ago
I live and work in a city of 300K people. My experience here is that companies have high hiring standards that border on the unreasonable (e.g. min 5 years of Ruby experience for a junior level job) and have little interest in training. T
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by astletron 12y ago
Please consider the environment before printing this config?
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by astletron 12y ago
I've always thought about this as heap and stack people - those that are good at managing ideas with random access and those that prioritize the recent. A discussion between mismatched memory models can be difficult. An old (and reve
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by astletron 12y ago
Is there any correlation between population obesity and local temperature distribution? That is, are Alaskans generally thinner than Hawaiians and Swedish people thinner than Tunisians (correcting for other factors to the extent that is po
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by astletron 12y ago
You should build first for users (and customers, if they are not the same group as your users). I suggest making a guess at what platform your users prefer and focusing on that.
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by astletron 12y ago
We're a generation of coders raised by email. I'm wondering if another email is really the answer we need.
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by astletron 12y ago
Worked terribly in Safari on iPhone 4s. No excuse for that at this late day.