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jader201
8,533karma·1,520submissions·November 4, 2011
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Developer at Kaggle
Email: jerad @ my HN user name + .com
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Sorry for the off-topic comment, but I couldn't help but notice (and comment on) the noticeably slow-loading picture of Alex at the top, only to realize it's a 378KB 500x500 image[1] resized at render…
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Really? I think it will mean more than it does now. The pace at which technology advances seems to be increasing exponentially, at least that's my perception. I can't imagine what will change even in…
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Re: "The fall of Angry Birds", this article should be titled "The fall of paid games, the rise of IAPs". Angry Birds, as a franchise, is doing anything but falling. Just look around the next time you…
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> Here's another crazy idea for shutting down your PC or Laptop - Press the Power Button . You can thank Windows for this. Back in the day when we went from DOS to Windows, this notion of …
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So what about robot vs robot? Will one be the first to make a decision based on the assumption the other will be rock, and then it will choose paper? Will this be the outcome 100% of the time?
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The same could be said about buying books and renting videos, but Borders and Blockbusters are both on their way out. I agree with the other comments that this is the beginning of the end for BB. We …
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I've always thought about this, and to me, a very simple (though slightly inaccurate) solution would be to sort using this formula: (TotalScore - 1) / MaxPossibleScore Such that (using the Amazon ex…
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Hmmm... so this is a poll about polls... about polls? :)
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Yes. And that link is also a duplicate. See [1] for more information. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion :)
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Duplicates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2095628 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2998973 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775943 …
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If you read Pragmatic Unit Testing [1], it talks about how writing tests actually takes less time than building a project without tests, in the long run. First of all, it's possible to actually ship …
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> (which I assume means you are no longer actively updating it) I believe __abc was basing his comment off the assumption that the code wasn't being actively developed, which significantly reduc…