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Understanding AI: How we taught computers natural language(intercom.com)
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New Features to Supercharge Your Customer Support(intercom.com)
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Introducing the all-new Inside Intercom(blog.intercom.io)
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by jn 11y ago
> and afaik no existing client library supports it I spoke too soon: seems like https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb supports it
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by jn 11y ago
I was in the middle of writing a script to pull down all the metadata from a GitHub repository when I stumbled upon their Migrations API[1]. Designed for moving organizations to GitHub enterprise, this feature creates an archive with everyt
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Show HN: CLI to GitHub's Migration API - export all repo metadata(github.com)
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The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) (2012)(nczonline.net)
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by jn 11y ago
There are a whole range of options, if we have enough warning and invest in the technology[1]. My personal favourite is the gravity tractor: > One more alternative to explosive deflection is to move the asteroid slowly over a time. Tiny
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by jn 11y ago
Agreed. I'm extremely impressed by the quality of that video. Reminds me of the original Surface teaser[1] in that it's surprisingly ambitious and self-confident marketing, for Microsoft. [1] https://youtu.be/dpzu3
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by jn 11y ago
Great product idea. I was quite taken aback by how similar the UI and UX is to Airbnb's though [1]. Of course that's not necessarily a bad thing - it's a much nicer interface than most hotel comparison sites - but it's e
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by jn 11y ago
> because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means https://xkcd.com/150/
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by jn 11y ago
Great work. Looks like Dublin, Ohio is getting categorised as Ireland though: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/country/2015/3/Ireland
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by jn 11y ago
ServiceFrame - Dublin, Ireland - Full Stack Software Engineer ServiceFrame improves the quality of outsourcing relationships. Outsourcing brings together two organisations in an unusual alliance to deliver a set of services. Objectives are
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by jn 11y ago
nearForm[1] sell node.js consulting and software to enterprises like Condé Nast, Universal, Intel and Qualcomm. They organize NodeConf Europe[2]. They're bootstrapped with 100% year on year growth so far and projecting 200% growth this
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Cloud computing company NearForm to create 100 jobs(irishtimes.com)
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by jn 12y ago
Absolutely agree. I cringe every time I see a long blog post with a self-effacing "tl;dr" block, especially when it's placed at the end of the article. Just follow this "journalistic" style instead and you'll
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by jn 12y ago
> in all these "no-sql" datastores [...] there's no way to have indexes I'm confused. I assume http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/indexes/ doesn't cover what you mean by indexes?
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by jn 12y ago
The feature is opt-in, requires a somewhat formal process to turn on, and all users will be notified "via Slack that the feature is active and that their private messages are subject to export". They don't make it clear if it
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by jn 12y ago
> when you start having multiple clients connecting to the database If you assume that will happen, then all the things you suggest are true: the schema is indeed the best documentation, and clients will have to pay close attention to ve
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by jn 12y ago
He said both
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This is thrilling life-extension news – for dictators and the ultra-rich(theguardian.com)
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by jn 13y ago
Mind sharing which incubator that is?
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by jn 13y ago
Have you seen "The Loving Trap"? http://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg (spoiler: it's a parody of Curtis's methods)
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by jn 13y ago
> It is well established that prices RyanAir advertises are not prices passengers pay. Not true. An EU regulation in force since 2008 makes that illegal [1]. Ryanair, for all its other faults, abides by the law. [1] Article 23, Regulatio
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by jn 13y ago
> The homicide division doesn't prevent murders, they solve them. I don't think larrys was suggesting otherwise, just that it'd be interesting to know if the homicide division was reduced in line with the homicide rate. Si