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by dmv 11y ago
Not really if you define (as Amazon would) efficiency as order throughput and cost-per-order. Humans are typically more expensive than robots per hour: robots cost upfront and then maintenance + energy, but if those sum up to an hourly rate
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by dmv 14y ago
Recs (therecordstream.com) is great for this. A JSON log file would be interpreted as its native record format, so you can use all of its processing tools (like recs-grep and recs-collate and recs-sort).
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by dmv 14y ago
This is nice, simple experiment design. However, I'm really surprised they only ran this once - or indicate trial counts and indicate range/distribution. I'd be curious if video transcoding is so consistent that a single measurement is enou
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Why we are fascinated by lists(theawl.com)
2 points by dmv 15y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 15y ago
$55 million (Tepper) in 2003 was the previous price...
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by dmv 16y ago
If this is appealing, I recommend trying RecordStreams ( http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/ ). I use it for ad hoc Big Data command line analysis almost daily.
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VC scores with both early and post-IPO equity(techflash.com)
1 points by dmv 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 16y ago
More to the point, Berkshire Hathaway itself had only 19 employees as of the 2006 letter.
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Facebook is the first to jump into ARM servers(semiaccurate.com)
2 points by dmv 16y ago|2 comments
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by dmv 16y ago
FloatingData, "How to make a US County thematic map using free tools" http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-th...
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by dmv 16y ago
Consider the MOTOFONE. Fancy e-Ink display, but has battery life measured in days. Designed for the third world market, it can text message... badly, and that's it beyond good call quality.
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Victor Niederhoffer on being wrong(slate.com)
2 points by dmv 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 16y ago
I found this relevant NANOG37 (2006) presentation pretty interesting about Comcast's IP space problem: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/abstracts.php?pt=MzQ5J... "Managing 100+ million IP addresses"
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by dmv 16y ago
Checkout by Amazon, Amazon Simple Pay, Amazon Flexible Payments Service https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/index.htm ...and yet, people don't run to it.
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RescueTime (YC 08) CEO to step down(techflash.com)
47 points by dmv 16y ago|12 comments
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Yahoo's TCP Traffic Analyzer(developer.yahoo.net)
2 points by dmv 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 16y ago
NitroPDF does a remarkably good job translating PDF to Doc and RTF. I think the application (windows :() is better/has more output options, but they have a free web service: http://www.pdftoword.com/
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by dmv 17y ago
Or as a pdf on the same site: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/travel-complexity-notes...
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by dmv 17y ago
Are you doing this on the site listed in your profile? From what I can see with a 27ms RTT request, there is a 9ms pause after the GET ACK and content -- and then only 4 full packets before an RTT. That's close to the limit of my initial
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The Garage and the Penthouse(blog.redfin.com)
1 points by dmv 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 17y ago
Having the body control to produce false, seemingly involuntary signals - while suppressing true involuntary signals - implies a level of physical mastery to the extent that you, likely, already possess a substantial advantage in the bout.
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The Most Efficient Way to Type(flowingdata.com)
2 points by dmv 17y ago|1 comments
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by dmv 17y ago
You replied to a comment about backing assertions up with facts, with "yet there are no homeless there". I do not live in San Diego, and "there" implies that neither do you. So let's look at facts before making points through assertion? Th
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2009 Feltron Annual Report - OCD Made Sexy(flowingdata.com)
3 points by dmv 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 17y ago
I found this blog post to be far more useful than (the cited) Daniel H. Pink book, Drive.
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by dmv 17y ago
Actually, it is not trivial to programmatically extract plain text from a PDF in a consistent format. In many cases it is easy, but the PDF format is visual first and content second, resulting in plenty of opportunities for Captcha-like pr
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by dmv 17y ago
Not a folk tale, just a visible representation of the local competitive environment. Animals in the Galapagos are generally less flighty because the entire ecosystem is not very competitive: everyone lives off the bounty of the sea. The b
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Lost Sleep Can't Be Made Up, Study Suggests(livescience.com)
29 points by dmv 17y ago|14 comments
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Time For A Slow-Word Movement(forbes.com)
2 points by dmv 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 17y ago
No, they are probably not looking for that answer - but failure to accept them (with working code) would be a negative corporate indicator. An interviewer shouldn't look for answers like that because it requires some amount of fibonacci do

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