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by simonb 7y ago
Or load it in Metabase (as an macOS app).
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by simonb 9y ago
Looks really interesting and promising, but why didn't they make it front control like the Land Rover FC101.
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by simonb 9y ago
My (ex-)team at https://www.goopti.com used Clojure for the entire data infrastructure, all the machine learning and exploratory data science. I've given a couple of talks about our experience: https://www.youtub
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by simonb 10y ago
It doesn't seem to be limited to just TheCounter https://twitter.com/desantis/status/841952242789974021
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A tiny lisp machine(technoblogy.com)
3 points by simonb 10y ago|0 comments
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Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection(thesocietypages.org)
23 points by simonb 10y ago|4 comments
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by simonb 10y ago
Shameless self promotion: https://github.com/sbelak/huri has a half-decent plotting DSL that uses ggplot underneath.
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by simonb 10y ago
English has become lingua franca beyond the colonies only after WW2.
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by simonb 10y ago
Of course, but all these are manifestations of the same ideological system (that also brought "peace and prosperity").
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by simonb 10y ago
For one, suicide rates in the developed world are on the rise: http://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
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Trump University’s Online Materials Are a Lot Better Than Your University’s(hapgood.us)
32 points by simonb 11y ago|2 comments
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How the armed Predator drone came to be(wired.com)
1 points by simonb 11y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 11y ago
Chinese automaker GAC recently invested in Uber. techcrunch.com/2015/12/21/uber-china-lands-strategic-investment-from-chinese-automaker-gac/ All eyes are on Silicone Valley, but I think China will be the first to al
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by simonb 11y ago
I take it you are focused on B2B?
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by simonb 11y ago
I see this more as a lightweight MS Access replacement.
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by simonb 11y ago
500k in the US, 11M worldwide.
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by simonb 11y ago
I always thought of it as being a kindred spirit to Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
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The post-spectacular economy(justinmcguirk.com)
3 points by simonb 11y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 11y ago
Miners and exchanges.
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Building Analytics at 500px(medium.com)
3 points by simonb 11y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 11y ago
Would Timetravel module work for your use-case: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib-spi.html#A...
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by simonb 11y ago
You can visualise an additional dimension if you factor out the time dimension.
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by simonb 11y ago
An unfortunate limitation of dragit seems to be that all state is global and therefore you can't have more than one such chart on a single page.
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The Revolution in Military Affairs: A Partial Timeline(deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com)
1 points by simonb 12y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 12y ago
another vote for compound indices.
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by simonb 12y ago
His main argument boils down to: there is a risk because I don't know and/or understand the code; but with the reference source code being public, this is his limitation, not the system's.
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by simonb 12y ago
Considering the difference in sample size and make-up, the latest results just show the competition is gaining broader appeal and with it more mainstream languages start to dominate.
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by simonb 13y ago
s/his/her/g
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by simonb 13y ago
You are talking about one specific -- granted canonical -- wallet implementation; there are plenty of others including thin clients: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Clients
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by simonb 13y ago
Cheaper at the onset does not imply cheaper overall. Renault is already fleecing their customers with one of the highest maintenance costs of all makes (higher than BMW for instance).

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