babs474

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by babs474 11y ago
I run into this. Files are only partially synced. You end up with broken code. If you are lucky it has a syntax error. If you are not lucky you get mysterious bugs. The work around is to go back and try re-editing the file to retrigger a sy
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by babs474 11y ago
I have been using the ipython console --existing command to connect to the same kernel that the browser is attached to. I can do more complicated coding in that repl (inside of emacs). Then, when I need visual feedback, I do some kin
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by babs474 11y ago
>In general though Groovy/Grails is actually surprisingly good. I'll second that. Groovy is amazing but under appreciated on places like hacker news. Interesting that you bring up python because I find groovy very pythonic in s
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by babs474 12y ago
I think you are right that there are a lot of developer worker bees in MN who are not excellent. However, there is a somewhat tight-knit subpopulation of developers that are forward thinking, talented and excellent at CS. You will find them
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by babs474 12y ago
It's fine if the rules change once in a while but apple should clearly and fairly communicate that to everyone. Now you have to be a part of some good ol boy club with access to the right backchannels to develop software these days?
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by babs474 12y ago
I think you are right they are targeting large advertisers with significant spend. It's a unique approach in that they don't need a lot of granular attribution data, but instead use higher level aggregate data. As a result it&#x27
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by babs474 12y ago
A plug for a former employer but I'd like to add optimine, http://optimine.com/insight to your list of attribution platforms. They've got an elegant and, as far as I know, unique modeling approach that avoids the
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by babs474 12y ago
How about automatically giving you a repl context at the exception and letting you move up and down the call stack. http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/debug/#using-the-debugger
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by babs474 12y ago
Very True. I'm pretty sure that quote wasn't meant to be a critique of the Groovy language, just an expression of interest in Scala. Yet its brought out every time somebody wants to dismiss Groovy. Compare that quote to this[1] pr
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by babs474 12y ago
>Easy to learn for a Java person, but way more productive than Java. Agreed, which is why it such a shame it isn't more prevalent. Along with the features you mention, I'll add, good repl support, which is a must for modern lan
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by babs474 12y ago
I find awareness of groovy very spotty depending on the crowd you travel in. Enterprisey J2EE people regard it as a new fangled something they don't have time for. More pragmatic, hip to it programmers seem to give more attention to sc
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by babs474 12y ago
Gradle is fantastic and hopefully it helps bring awareness to the under appreciated groovy language.
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by babs474 12y ago
You need it for l1 and l2 regularization which is popular these days don't you?
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by babs474 12y ago
I'm not sure about haskell, but in clojure the, run code, reason, run more code cycle is very much supported with the repl. In fact I find the nature of functional code very much helps out here. With clojure, in a complicated system I
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by babs474 12y ago
R and matlab are better, but those tools also have issues integrating into production depending on what you are doing. It's not so much the exact tool you use, but just having a little forethought about how your creation is going to in
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by babs474 12y ago
In practice I find the bigger problem is from analysts/actuaries/statisticians who have a disdain for programming, which sometimes is viewed as a task for mere technicians. Typically your excel model/analysis has not even sol
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by babs474 12y ago
In the case of Om, I believe the immutability of clojure helps out and makes the diffing of databound elements a simple (non-deep) compare. You can end up making an app with quite a number of elements flying around. A neat pixel editor exam
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by babs474 12y ago
This randomly reminded me of an ancient kuro5hin article that I found interesting back in the day. Where the proposal was to use brute force to implement comment search on kuro5hin. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004&#x
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by babs474 12y ago
Prediction markets that don't involve money have also had some success recently. http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-... For an easy to join one that I work on sha
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by babs474 12y ago
I wouldn't frame the question as "what did you do wrong". As other people in this thread have pointed out you may have dodged a bullet. It could very well be that this company is in the "wrong". A better question to
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by babs474 12y ago
tptacek, we all want to hear Willem Pinckaers' take, it is really good stuff. I also want to hear ideas from Akamai, even if they aren't perfect. Perhaps they can lead to good things. Unfortunately Pinckaers' commentary is a
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by babs474 12y ago
I made this comment the other day in a thread about children accidentally clicking on google display ads, but I think it also applies here. The problem is measuring the effectiveness of early funnel ads from clicks. Here is a good presentat
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by babs474 12y ago
This problem extends to more than just kids playing around on mobile games. Here is a good presentation from the quantcast guys about the "natural born clicker" problem. The people clicking on your display ad are probably anything
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by babs474 12y ago
For a prediction market anyone can join checkout https://scicast.org/ Whats neat about SciCast is you can make predictions based on the assumption of how other questions will turn out. eg I think that if the price of bitcoi
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by babs474 13y ago
Also checkout minnedemo[1] for twin cities startups events. And tech.mn[2] for news. http://minnestar.org/minnedemo/ http://www.tech.mn
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by babs474 13y ago
I've always wondered if some programming tools couldn't help out in the legal world. It seems to me version control and diffing tools could be very applicable. I wonder if the concept of branching could help for very complex contr
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by babs474 13y ago
I have heard very positive things about dropwizard, but also consider Grails.
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by babs474 13y ago
I have heard, and this article makes the case that reaction time for people is relatively constant, but that the pros are better at anticipating pitches. They read body and shoulder movements leading up to the ball release. http:/&#x2
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by babs474 13y ago
It is not that black and white though. So many comments are are deleted by moderators for baloney reasons. Moderators have become the new digg power users and they are really hurting reddit. See the recent standupshots controversy. What abo
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by babs474 13y ago
That possibility probably didn't help, but eventually somebody from google told me they wouldn't bring the app back even if I changed the name. You bring up another interesting point about impact to the yale site though. This app

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