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This is so dang cool. I’m sorry that all people can do is complain!
Just want to say I’ve ridden in this car. It’s a hoot
Posted by
willf on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @06:21AM
from the encyclical.ai dept.
Posted by
willf on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:33PM
from the jonmagic.com dept.
I so hate timers. I left immediately. Sure, have a count up timer for those who what it, but make sure to allow it to be turned off permanently
My wife is a Wend, and so we visited this area in Texas. One of the things I found interesting was that there was a local paper that printed articles in German, English, and Wendish (Sorbian) – there’s a link in the Wiki article. The church we visited was so beautiful.
Let’s normalize recursive CTEs.
Because commas are much more common than tabs and so there is less escaping needed
I had to take down my wordle10.com website (a 10 letter version of Wordle).
Sounds like firing to me!
Posted by
willf on Thursday May 16, 2024 @04:46PM
from the downpour.games dept.
Posted by
willf on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:31AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/willf/compression_classification
Fast scikit-learn implementation of “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/To be more fully developed ...
> I have reported all of my experience to the ScalaCenter in 2019. I was hoping to see concrete actions, such as building a reporting mechanism, to protect minorities in the community. Unfortunately, I am not aware of such actions taken.
That sounds like a community failure, not just One Bad Guy.
Posted by
willf on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @01:32PM
from the kickstarter.com dept.
I think two-sided dice have the wrong behavior: they only roll ones.
The Anabaptist/Baptist branches are also pretty inaccurate.
Here is some more information:
Reverb is looking for a senior, hands-on developer capable of
interfacing with the Amazon EC2 API and others, who would be responsible
for building internal tools to manage our software infrastructure. This
would include both back-end workflow as well as user-interface components.
Duties and Responsibilities
Experience with Cloud deployment tools/scripts for AWS Cloud Services
Nuts-and-bolts understanding of RHEL, CentOS, performance tuning,
monitoring
Puppet or Chef automated deployment tools
Nagios, Cacti, other monitoring and alerting systems
Apache/Nginx support, configuration
MySQL, Java application deployment
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP
Experience managing high-availability systems
User interface development using javascript (Play-Scalate a bonus)
Low-level operating system exposure for application and
infrastructure deployment
Experience with both performance and error monitoring & alerting
systems
Track record in a high-uptime, high traffic application infrastructure
Reverb Technologies, San Mateo, California: DevOps
http://helloreverb.comWe're looking for a great DevOps engineer. You'd be a crucial part of our development team. If you're interested, or just want to know more, send me an email at [email protected].
Reverb Technologies is the the company behind Wordnik.com; Reverb for Publishers; Swagger, Atmosphere and Scalatra; and other specialness soon to be revealed.
Posted by
willf on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @09:35AM
from the willwhim.wpengine.com dept.
Posted by
willf on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:29PM
from the willwhim.wpengine.com dept.
Posted by
willf on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:06PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.
Posted by
willf on Friday February 22, 2013 @09:32AM
from the willwhim.wpengine.com dept.
Reverb Technologies (aka Wordnik) has a number of good positions available including: iPad Visual Designer, iPad Interaction Designer, Full-Time Web and Mobile Designer, iOS Developer, Frontend Hacker, Server Engineer, Machine Learning Expert, Computational Linguist, and Analytics and Data-Mining Expert. Job descriptions are at
http://www.helloreverb.com/jobs/ (where you'll also see a bit about what it's like to work here).
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you want to apply or have questions — and check out what we're building at http://helloreverb.com (as well as http://wordnik.com, which just got a bit of a refresh).
This is like asking when humans stopped being monkeys.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you're just back at square one — or perhaps a little ahead, given the good will involved. Of course, you've lost a little time, too.
Posted by
willf on Thursday January 03, 2013 @03:37PM
from the tech.wordnik.com dept.
Wordnik (San Mateo, California) has lots of jobs available, as we build out [Related Content](
http://wordpress.wordnik.com/) and other interesting new projects:
* Product Manager
* Product Marketing Manager
* Marketing Manager
* iPad Visual Designer
* iPad Interaction Designer
* Full-Time Web and Mobile Designer
* iOS Developer
* Frontend Hacker
* Server Engineer
* Business Development Associate
* Machine Learning Expert
* Computational Linguist
* Analytics and Data-Mining Expert
Check out the details at http://www.wordnik.com/jobs or feel free to contact me directly at [email protected]
Posted by
willf on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @01:21AM
from the tom.preston-werner.com dept.
I suggest a better lesson to learn is to not join competitions in which the difference between a winner and a loser is measured in ridiculously small numbers.