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General Archives - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. USGS depth information for Lake Travis. Since it’s rather difficult to find on the USGS website, here is a realtime graph of the changing depth of Lake Travis:. Find more similar graphs on the USGS. This entry was posted in General. November 22, 2011. The famous Admiral Nimitz was born in Fredricksburg). While there we saw this old WWII tank:. On closer inspection, we saw something unexpected and rather cool, here it is blown up:. October 12, 2008. On Saturd...
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Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) are a terrible idea - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) are a terrible idea. ORMs (like Hibernate in Java) are a flawed solution to an imagined problem that should be consigned to the wastebasket of history. Often what people are really looking for when they use an ORM is some kind of database abstraction layer. It is reasonable to abstract the database somehow, but I recommend not using an abstraction layer that seeks to pretend the database is something that it isn’t. In Scala&#...
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. The purpose of software project management. I recently read the article The sad graph of software death. The author doesn’t explain why this is bad, and to me this article and the confused discussion it prompted on Reddit are symptomatic of the fact that most people don’t have a clear idea of the purpose of software project management. In my view, the two core goals of project management are prioritization. A task tracker maintains a record of who is current...
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Add a command to list git branches in order of last commit - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. Add a command to list git branches in order of last commit. This is based on this SO answer. Wouldn’t it be useful if you could order git branches in order of the most recently used, so the ones you are likely to be most interested in are at the top? Here is how, just type:. Git config - global alias.branches 'for-each-ref - sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ - format= '%(committerdate:short) %09%(authorname) %09%(refname:short) '. Now, just type:. Transparentl...
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Programming Archives - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. The purpose of software project management. I recently read the article The sad graph of software death. The author doesn’t explain why this is bad, and to me this article and the confused discussion it prompted on Reddit are symptomatic of the fact that most people don’t have a clear idea of the purpose of software project management. In my view, the two core goals of project management are prioritization. A task tracker maintains a record of who is current...
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Microsoft probably just killed "Do Not Track" - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. Microsoft probably just killed “Do Not Track”. Update (27th Oct 2012): I told you so! Yahoo will ignore DNT from IE10 for exactly the reason I cite below. That the “do not track” opt-out would be on by default in Internet Explorer 10. This is a boneheaded move. To explain why Microsoft’s move is boneheaded, I’ll relate a story from the early days of Revver, the online video sharing website that I co-founded back in 2004. We had decided to let video uploaders...
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Tungle: A wasted opportunity - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. Tungle: A wasted opportunity. Has shut down development, although they still allow people to sign up. Turns out their acquisition by RIM last year must have been an acquahire (technically an acquisition, but really an admission of defeat). Tungle had an incredibly viral business model, perhaps the most viral I’ve seen since Plaxo, solving a problem I and many others encounter on a near-daily basis: Help people schedule meetings and calls with each-other.
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AI Archives - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. Predicting the future, 10,000 times per second. A 1 hour brain-dump of a lot of the cool stuff we built during my time at OneSpot, 2012-2015. This entry was posted in AI. September 15, 2015. The perils of treating a model’s predictions as actual probabilities. With our work on SenseArray. Sometimes all you care about is that predictions are correct relative to each-other. You’re looking for the best ad, or the best match on a dating website. As a specific ex...
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The perils of treating a model's predictions as actual probabilities - Locutus of Blog
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You will be abbreviated, resistance is futile. The perils of treating a model’s predictions as actual probabilities. With our work on SenseArray. We are in the fortunate position to apply machine learning to a wide variety of fascinating real-world problems, as diverse as predicting the likelihood that two people will have a successful date, the probability that someone will click on an ad, or the likelihood that a credit card transaction is fraudulent. The first time we saw this we identified it as a fo...
