edsykes

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by edsykes 4y ago
Cost wise it only makes sense if you have photo-voltaic on the roof. In Germany there is more acceptance of paying more if there is a (possibly perceived) environmental benefit.
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by edsykes 6y ago
If it's a free market economy why would shorting be banned? When it comes to that, why would naked short selling be banned? Free market means the market would decide on whether they want it or not and regulations would be gone.
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by edsykes 6y ago
Not in the same style, but this is the research that the video summary is based upon. https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ It's free
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by edsykes 6y ago
I had a read through this and I couldn't really tell if there was something novel here? I understand that perturbations and generating new examples from labelled examples is a pretty normal park of the process when you only have a limi
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by edsykes 7y ago
just to offset a bit about scrum being bad: I have used SCRUM over 15 years to run teams and it worked. Most of the problems I am hearing on here are culture problems and no process can fix that. Regarding planning, a day per scrum is norma
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by edsykes 8y ago
what can be very bad is if the database provided api is really just a sql executor - binding you to the database without you realising it. Doing rest, but finding you just tied all your clients to your database representation
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by edsykes 8y ago
I wouldn't say any API. More like, there is a class of problems and a style of api design that models the resources very closely to how they are represented in the database - and you often find them in web apps. The style is quite comm
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by edsykes 8y ago
it would be strange, but not impossible and certainly suspect practice. You could proxy through your own vpn and then log the requests and take a look at what it's doing...
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Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Learning)(continuations.com)
1 points by edsykes 8y ago|0 comments
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by edsykes 10y ago
"i'm sorry, i'm on a deadline"
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by edsykes 10y ago
not really, depends on the evaporation rate of the pheromone. If you increase the evaporation co-efficient it's more suited to a dynamic environment
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A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015 [video](gresham.ac.uk)
33 points by edsykes 11y ago|3 comments
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by edsykes 11y ago
i seem to remember they had cds with examples on - does anyone else remember that?
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Audio and graphical visualisation of sorting algorithms(facebook.com)
1 points by edsykes 11y ago|0 comments
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by edsykes 11y ago
it's happening, but there's a lot of work to do: http://www.equalexperts.com/hmrc-digital-platform-as-a-club/
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The goats with spider genes and silk in their milk(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by edsykes 11y ago|0 comments
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Retail report 2015: how we shop, live and look [pdf](johnlewis.scene7.com)
1 points by edsykes 11y ago|0 comments
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by edsykes 11y ago
noted
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Guardian quotes 10x programmers and warns Twitter to keep the best(theguardian.com)
2 points by edsykes 11y ago|2 comments
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by edsykes 11y ago
it's not rendering properly on chrome: Version 45.0.2454.101 (64-bit) on OSX
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by edsykes 11y ago
I don't think groupon's demise has anything to do with investment in technology or otherwise. More, they sold local businesses on the idea of giving away deals on the basis that deal takers would become repeat customers. Small bus
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by edsykes 11y ago
keep going with this - it's genuinely useful - you've actually automated my language learning process.
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by edsykes 11y ago
jobs, green screens, props, sets, computers all built by the director/producer
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Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by edsykes 11y ago|1 comments
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David mccandless information is beautiful on the bbc(bbc.com)
2 points by edsykes 11y ago|0 comments
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by edsykes 12y ago
we've also developed an early version of this. Still very early stages and we aren't making use of all the data yet: http://noise.1self.co disclosure: I'm a founder
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by edsykes 12y ago
definitely true on the inaccuracy. however, in the absence of anything else it is an indication.
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by edsykes 12y ago
I implemented this and extended it as part of my undergraduate thesis was back in 1999. I extended into automatically planning carriers channels in 2G mobile phone networks. Always meant to go back and try this out on today's hardware!
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by edsykes 12y ago
ah nice one, no mention of google in the title so I missed this.
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by edsykes 12y ago
do you mean that you serve the dynamic html from the server so that it appears static to clients, or that you render what happens on the client on the server if the googlebot is crawling?

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