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by sherwin 12y ago
Could you share more about how you've used it for less structured information? I've used Anki for about 3,000 Chinese words, and also some structured information (world capitals / countries). I've been experimenting with
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by sherwin 13y ago
Probably the CS stackexchange ( http://cs.stackexchange.com/ ), or CStheory ( http://cs.stackexchange.com/ ). Unfortunately, neither are anywhere near as popular as StackOverflow, so the chances of getting a go
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by sherwin 13y ago
I think the main point here is to avoid general catches and instead catch specific exceptions. The author raises the interesting point that if it's truly an exception, you're better off letting the system crash all together (espec
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by sherwin 13y ago
Something about this just strikes me as arrogant. Please enlighten me if I misunderstood ... "How does it work? We communicate with Snapchat's servers and pretend to be their mobile app. This gives us access to everything that you
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by sherwin 13y ago
The says that a big barrier to adopting 'open source science' is the prestige that comes with publishing in heavy weight, closed journals. It then draws the comparison to software, and why open source software is quite successful: > Add
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Incremental Reading(supermemo.com)
1 points by sherwin 13y ago|0 comments
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by sherwin 14y ago
Semi related question -- how is this implemented security wise? I took a look at the github repo and it seems to be all clientside JS, and it's just making ajax GET search requests to StackOverflow, then parsing the results. Isn't this prev
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by sherwin 14y ago
The problem with this is that it can take a significant amount of the candidate's time. Scheduling a project (here's a spec, you have 3 days) is a major inconvenience for a lot of candidates.
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How to learn efficiently(anastomosed.wordpress.com)
2 points by sherwin 14y ago|0 comments
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by sherwin 14y ago
I haven't used an iOS device since I switched to the Galaxy Nexus about 5 months ago. How does this compare to Google Now on android 4.1? In general I've been very pleased with voice search on Google Now -- just reading the blog post I wasn
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by sherwin 14y ago
I managed to set up my 2nd gen chromebook with cloudprint, which was pretty straight forward: http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/
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by sherwin 14y ago
I'm not sure having a modal is the best idea -- aren't modals generally frowned upon because they require a mental recontextualization and disrupt the user's flow? I'm just curious if anyone else had this thought. Although I can see why hav
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by sherwin 14y ago
One big problem with this approach: what happens when your email is down? Does a website really want to tie its availability to that of Gmail / other web mail services?
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by sherwin 14y ago
Go has similar functionality: If you only need the second item in the range (the value), use the blank identifier, an underscore, to discard the first: sum := 0 for _, value := range array { sum += value } from: http://golang.org/doc/e
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by sherwin 14y ago
I'm assuming you mean https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ ? Props! I use that site all the time... surprised that it only nets you $10/month
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by sherwin 14y ago
I'm quite interested in productivity hacks and I've adopted / created a few systems of my own. The key insight in the OP, that you'll eventually do what you truly care about, is one that took me a few years to realize, yet unfortunately it'
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by sherwin 14y ago
The biggest problem I foresee here is that there would be no tactile feedback -- it's essentially the inverse of using a touch screen! You wouldn't know whether your "lift-click" actually went through or not, whereas on a normal mouse you g
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by sherwin 14y ago
I think Ruby does a pretty good job with this, as far as an object oriented main stream language goes. For example, the switch case example from the article can be implemented in ruby as case n: when 1: "one" when 2: "two" etc, and the ent
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Sexual harassment isn't a punchline(trueventurestec.com)
1 points by sherwin 14y ago|0 comments
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by sherwin 14y ago
This really makes me wonder what took Google so long. Google practically defined large scale commodity cluster computing with mapreduce (2004). Amazon EC2 was launched in 2006. The closest thing Google has done was app engine, and my unders
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by sherwin 14y ago
I disagree. Certainly some agencies may have data that ought to be examined holistically via CSV (at least for researchers?), but having data available via API is better than the status quo. While this might not set a "high bar for the qual
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by sherwin 14y ago
Funny you mention this -- this was almost exactly what I and a friend did for a final project last semester. we did it in Go, which was probably much more enjoyable than C :)
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by sherwin 14y ago
I used a Chromebook (Samsung Series 5) for an entire academic year as a student. The biggest benefits were having everything synced in the cloud (so you're not too attached to it), extreme portability (super thin and super light, instant o
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by sherwin 14y ago
First, this was a very well-written article -- if you only skimmed the first page, go back and read the rest! I think it describes an interesting founder (well, chairman-founder) dynamic. Second, was anyone else slightly reminded of Steve J
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by sherwin 14y ago
I think the original article (the talk by Phil Libin) was targeted for a more general audience, which qualifies his suggestion not to do a statup. Libin writes: "I’ve narrowed it down, really boiled it down, to one core piece of advice. If
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by sherwin 14y ago
Very nice, but I don't think this improves UX at all. How does having an animation for something help the user understand what's going on? They know something is scrolling because they see the data changing -- a flip / slide / other animati
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by sherwin 14y ago
Well they do have snippets for certain facts: e.g. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... which is almost certainly a broader algorithm that tries to semantically parse out factual information.
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by sherwin 14y ago
The Google Voice app on iOS has a pull-to-refresh feature. Is this patent infringement then?
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by sherwin 14y ago
I think there's actually a surprisingly good analogy to music here: those "play X on the guitar" tutorials. The original artist plays the song, someone else hears it, figures out how to play it by ear, then offers to teach it (probably thei
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by sherwin 15y ago
But that at least is using the bold primary colors associated with Google's logo. The Play logo uses off-colors (this goes beyond the logo, look at the main page: movies/music/apps and games/books are in the same colors as the Play logo). I

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