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Re:Words Can Hurt: A Plea to the Ruby Community on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:27PM (#45397204)

I found dhh's comments about the London march misguided. Describing the symbol of BNP/EDL as heartwarming is particularly upsetting. It puts me off Rails, and attending conferences where he is the keynote speaker.

Call an AI Mark Cuban

Posted by nootopian on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:45AM
from the oncall.masterclass.com dept.

https://oncall.masterclass.com/

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Re:Understanding Deep Learning on Sunday November 26, 2023 @04:54PM (#38425385)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425368

What are some foundational ML/AI books?

Posted by nootopian on Sunday November 26, 2023 @04:52PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/suhail/status/1728676402864812466?s=46

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Marriott International Hacking Exposed Data of 500M Guests

Posted by nootopian on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:02AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/business/marriott-data-breach.html

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Why I'm Not a React Native Developer

Posted by nootopian on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:17PM
from the arielelkin.github.io dept.

https://arielelkin.github.io/articles/why-im-not-a-react-native-developer

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New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on Big Data problems

Posted by nootopian on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:02PM
from the nextbigfuture.com dept.

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/new-programming-language-delivers.html

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A few things Apple could learn from the Google Play Store

Posted by nootopian on Friday December 20, 2013 @10:11AM
from the portablepixels.com dept.

http://portablepixels.com/2013/12/20/a-few-things-apple-could-learn-from-the-google-play-store/

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Being Amazon's Free App of the Day (with numbers)

Posted by nootopian on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @07:38AM
from the blog.portablepixels.com dept.

http://blog.portablepixels.com/blog/2013/3/18/being-amazons-free-app-of-the-day

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NaturalMotion raises $11m funding for mobile social games expansion

Posted by nootopian on Thursday June 21, 2012 @03:46PM
from the guardian.co.uk dept.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jun/21/naturalmotion-funding-mobile-games

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Re:The Internet Made Me Sad Today on Thursday February 23, 2012 @06:22PM (#3627251)

I recently appointed a legal firm. Today I saw their ad embedded as copy looking for cheap clicks via google content network. Screenshot here http://portablepixels.com/images/google.png

Seems to me like Google are stooping to new lows. The ad makes me feel like the legal firm I have appointed are selling diet pills and Im minded to terminate my relationship with them. Cheap clicks can be costly.

Show HN: Bit of fun with iOS facial recognition. Add mustaches in viewfinder

Posted by nootopian on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @08:38AM
from the show-hn dept.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/livetache/id483579847?mt=8

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Photovine

Posted by nootopian on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @06:56AM
from the photovine.com dept.

http://www.photovine.com/

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Mobile wallet offered to UK shoppers

Posted by nootopian on Friday May 20, 2011 @06:18AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13457071

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Google buys Beat That Quote… then bans them

Posted by nootopian on Thursday March 10, 2011 @01:29PM
from the davidnaylor.co.uk dept.

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-buys-beat-that-quote-then-bans-them-beatthatquote.html

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Re:Google buys UK comparison website BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7 million on Monday March 07, 2011 @02:32PM (#2298341)

Its a percentage increase and pretty meaningless in my opinion. I was the first employee there and Head of Technology in 2006.

From the original press release re increase: The report reveals that BeatThatQuote.com grew its monthly audience of unique visitors by 1,165% from December 2006 to December 2007. Facebook came second in percentage terms with an increase of just 781% in comparison. http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=369...

Six questions to ask a mobile publisher

Posted by nootopian on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:12PM
from the pocketcyclone.com dept.

http://pocketcyclone.com/2011/02/03/six-questions-to-ask-a-mobile-publisher/

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Amazon buys remaining stake in Lovefilm DVD service

Posted by nootopian on Thursday January 20, 2011 @05:57AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12239314

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Re:Some thoughts on finding mobile developers or finding work as a mob... on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @02:14PM (#2032130)

Yes sure.

Re:Some thoughts on finding mobile developers or finding work as a mob... on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @04:44PM (#2029511)

Were hiring, http://portablepixels.com

Using the body as input surface

Posted by nootopian on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @10:09AM
from the youtube.com dept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgY_RIvDyE

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Opera to introduce browser for iPhone

Posted by nootopian on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @05:45AM
from the uk.reuters.com dept.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6191EU20100210

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Maemo Firefox disables Flash

Posted by nootopian on Thursday February 04, 2010 @07:12AM
from the blog.pavlov.net dept.

http://blog.pavlov.net/2010/01/27/firefox-for-maemo-rc3/

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A First Look at the iPad SDK and the iPad Sample Code

Posted by nootopian on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:11PM
from the raywenderlich.com dept.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/156/a-first-look-at-the-ipad-sdk-and-the-ipad-sample-code

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Murdoch could block Google searches entirely

Posted by nootopian on Monday November 09, 2009 @10:19AM
from the guardian.co.uk dept.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google

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Measuring Online Applications – Structuring a Measurement Interface

Posted by nootopian on Thursday October 22, 2009 @11:22AM
from the semphonic.blogs.com dept.

http://semphonic.blogs.com/semangel/2009/10/measuring-online-applications-structuring-a-measurement-interface.html

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Re:Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? on Sunday December 21, 2008 @10:43AM (#405457)

You might be interested in a UK site http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

IE users advised to switch until a serious security flaw fixed

Posted by nootopian on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @04:16AM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm

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Re:Three levels of addressing the Netflix Prize on Saturday May 24, 2008 @03:35AM (#198668)

You might find this wired article interesting

This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix

Re:Your chance to win a Nobel Prize on Monday May 12, 2008 @04:34PM (#187945)

fascinating, although fold.it appears unavailable currently