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by dougk7 12y ago
This article really nailed it. I spent two months last year in the D.R Congo and in those 2 months I had approximately only 4 hours of coding. Electricity was reliable only between 11PM to 5AM and we spent New year's eve in the dark. M
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by dougk7 13y ago
The Bible How to win friends and influence people The Alchemist The Charisma Myth
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by dougk7 13y ago
Whisper is great, I've used it for various projects. I don't know what state of the art will be but you can possibly look at Logstash.
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by dougk7 13y ago
I minimise costs by using a mix of GAE and AWS: Host the main application on GAE but for background services use AWS. E.g I use AWS SES for mails and S3 for storing uploads and blobs. Also storing objects that don't need indexes as pic
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by dougk7 13y ago
* Google Research * Microsoft Research * Yahoo Research * Google Scholar
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by dougk7 13y ago
Same here. Ramanujan, Taxi, Hardy, Erdos, "The man who loved only numbers" but couldn't recall it's importance.
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by dougk7 13y ago
Elasticsearch is really awesome for keeping large amount of searchable data. I used it in a previous application where we stored millions of items a week. For data retention I had different indexes with different TTLs, depending on the type
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by dougk7 13y ago
This is nice. Feature request: Add a safe-search setting.
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by dougk7 13y ago
+1. If you just replace "smaller" with "less armed", you get the history of most Sub-Saharan African countries in a nutshell. Unfortunately the schools there still teach more history about medieval Europe than post-colon
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by dougk7 13y ago
In addition to vukmir's suggestion of Robert Sedgewick's Coursera video lectures (which have some animations to help visualize the data structures operations), I find "The Algorithm Design Manual" very useful for intervi
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by dougk7 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Full stack developer, primarily backend. I've worked extensively with backends of systems doing lots of NLP, ML and IR tasks (classification, stream processing, sentiment analysis, clustering, search) and I'v
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by dougk7 13y ago
I'm originally bilingual (French and Lingala). I've been living in an English speaking country for the last 10 years, moved here as a teen. It still takes me a lot of effort to pronounce some sounds. e.g some words borrowed straig
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by dougk7 13y ago
Same on Chrome 24, using Ubuntu. I just copied the Download like directly and will play with it later. http://parall.ax/parallax/downloads/jsPDF-0.9.0rc2.zip
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by dougk7 13y ago
What I discovered is I may be too poor to own art but I can create it for people who are rich enough to own it. With time and the right opportunities I can increase the price until my name == expensive art.
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by dougk7 13y ago
PCI is a great book. One book I'll recommend after reading it is "Mining of Massive Datasets" ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html ) - Chapter 9 especially. It goes into more depth than what&#x2
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by dougk7 13y ago
I came here to suggest the same book. I didn't do all the problems but it was definitely the best commit hour companion I've had.
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by dougk7 13y ago
Fascinating read, my memory wasn't as vivid as this person's but I didn't need much effort to recall anything. Like you, it all changed with age. It was really wonderful sometimes because I didn't need to read textbooks,
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by dougk7 13y ago
I'm working on a side project in this space and I'm interested to know more about why you're winding down the T-Shirt company. Please drop me a mail
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by dougk7 13y ago
I constantly scored around 15K without Googling or anything until I got bored and wrote this function: https://gist.github.com/dougk7/5633920
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by dougk7 13y ago
Any recommendations for great books on DevOps or iOS Programming?
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by dougk7 13y ago
Graphite is an awesome service. On the code side, I use Metrics ( http://metrics.codahale.com/ ) for Java and for Python I use scales ( https://github.com/Cue/scales )
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Ask HN: What e-commerce platform do you use or did you create your own?
1 points by dougk7 13y ago|0 comments
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by dougk7 14y ago
Thanks. I've done it.
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by dougk7 14y ago
It's still not showing - thanks for letting me know though.
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Ask HN: Where's the "more" link in "saved stories" gone?
1 points by dougk7 14y ago|4 comments
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by dougk7 14y ago
Yes we haven't had a "World war" and your intention isn't to minimise things but you've just minimised things - those wars are not simple conflicts. The second Congo war alone took more than 5 million lives. Although officially over, lives
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by dougk7 14y ago
I first familiarise myself with what the project does and read the docs, especially if there's an overview of the architecture documented somewhere. Then clone the project locally and open it in an IDE like Eclipse that will allow you to qu
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by dougk7 14y ago
Maybe Carrot2 http://project.carrot2.org/ is worth looking at
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by dougk7 15y ago
Friends of the Congo: http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/films-a-videos.html has some great resources about this. Another classic is Heart of Darkness (although a fiction, it tells much about colonialism) King Leopold's Ghost is also a grea
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Ask HN: Open Source project using MySQL as a schemaless datastore
1 points by dougk7 15y ago|1 comments

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