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by util 7y ago
Simplifying creating an account on behalf of someone else could help, it seems. Then the author could likely have helped out the woman directly, leveraging the trust accrued by her own account. But if the author had her own mobile phone wit
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by util 15y ago
What are some examples of messy Python projects from Google?
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by util 15y ago
http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... http://duckduckgo.com/faq.html#results
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by util 15y ago
"Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance." This sounds a lot like "regression to the mean", that is, people performing better than their "mean" performance level for a time but longer term trend
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by util 15y ago
Sounds pretty cool although the project's homepage doesn't give a hint of a publicly available version: http://dub.washington.edu/projects/reform The main innovations seem to be the example-based scraper and the focus on having end users
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Attaching UI Enhancements to Websites with End Users(cs.washington.edu)
2 points by util 15y ago|1 comments
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by util 15y ago
Both Google and Bing seem to handle it: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom... http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombi... Are there some particular cases where you see them screwing up?
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by util 15y ago
Having access to more wealth gives people more faith that the government will be around a long time, will not do crazy things with the currency. That's not the same thing as the currency having more intrinsic value. (Also, it would not seem
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by util 15y ago
It seems like this in particular applies to most government-issued currencies as well (except that they have very good marketing and market share). Each currency itself has no intrinsic value and depends on "marketing" (reputation of the go
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by util 15y ago
How do you decide who you're going to court?
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by util 15y ago
Wired article with more details: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/6/japanese-artis... The data set referenced in the credits: http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Publ...
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by util 15y ago
No objects = no structs?
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by util 16y ago
A couple people have mentioned the query plan changing in the middle of the night. Is the scenario a single query getting executed two different ways by the same running system? Or is it from upgrading to a new version of PostgreSQL and hit
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by util 16y ago
Wave was developed inside Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
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by util 16y ago
That sounds like a paraphrase of a quote from Whistler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#R...
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by util 16y ago
This basically exists for source code now: http://www.google.com/codesearch
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by util 16y ago
The Stack Overflow discussion points out that the patent hitting rollover menus was going to soon be (and is now) expired: "A long, legal way to say this patent is public domain on 10/5/2010 and these guys are probably trying to snag a nick
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by util 16y ago
There's no irony in advocating using a richer array of types in a dynamically-typed language. In fact, static vs dynamic typing doesn't seem apropos here since it's also common in statically typed languages to use strings for everything, le
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by util 16y ago
"I prefer to uses dashes rather than %20 as it looks cleaner and is more easily understood by the non-technically versed visitor." Isn't "+" the standard alternative, also pretty readable?
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by util 16y ago
They do mention the conferences although not in this light. Interesting.
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Generating Good Syntax Errors(research.swtch.com)
6 points by util 16y ago|0 comments
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by util 16y ago
What does overall US internet usage look like over the same period?
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by util 16y ago
I guess apophenia's alway ironic when there really is a pattern because then you'd have meta-apophenia? (It seems it'd be surprising if there weren't seasonal effects, eg, students looking for a place to live. I almost feel like you can see
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by util 16y ago
Parody of that site: http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
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by util 16y ago
Does the dip in NFLX around noon EST correspond to this? http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX
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by util 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RExcel
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by util 16y ago
Lots going on at Noisebridge in SF: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge In particular, you might want to check out Five Minutes of Fame next week (8 p.m., Thursday). Could be a good opportunity to bump into some interesting peopl
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by util 16y ago
How about encouraging them to read by themselves?
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by util 16y ago
"Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steve Skiena
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by util 16y ago
All the solutions posted here seem to involve generating all subsequences. Could you say more about your approach?

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