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Comment #9084167
Visualizations like this are always awesome, but it would also be interesting to see the inverse of this chart. Where do countries import arms from?
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Comment #8343833
I love the effort, it is absolutely worth praise. That being said, this is one of the last things I expected to show up on the internet.
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Comment #8303001
What is more interesting is that I can see anyone who has had their accounts breached. I now know that I can collect one of my friend's cell number from the snapchat breach or that…
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Comment #7242059
Is it possible to include him on some sort of design / architecture meeting with your team? That might give him enough to think about and learn from while keeping him engaged.
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Comment #6261293
27 would be correct if each side were independent random variables rather than the cube of a random variable. The way the problem is set up you are suppose to solve for E[a^3] (the…
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Comment #6016051
It is important to note the sample set of the survey: "The researchers surveyed 655 students entering Berea College, a private liberal arts college located in Kentucky, in the fall…
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Comment #5995883
I can understand google trying to protect their revenue source, but actions like this undermine the openness of the platforms that they are trying to promote. Open and free platfor…
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Comment #5961374
This is a very cool use of html as a medium to tell a story and keep the player involved. Defiantly want to see more games in a similar style!
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Comment #5916196
It was really only a matter of time before this happened, regulation of trade (and the taxation thereof) is one of the main tasks of a government.
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Comment #5486466
Pretty cool project, but I feel kind of dirty having js and html being so tightly bound to each other. Do you have a specific use case where pithy would perform faster or be more c…
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Comment #5424642
Awesome idea to help make capturing data more easy, but how will you deal with the problem of the curse of dimensionality? As you start to capture more variables you data begins to…
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Comment #5310566
I have not read this book, but I can say that javascript powerful when you ask the question: what can I do with a closure?
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Comment #5299020
Be careful to not get caught up in making something too pretty. It might help get some initial sign ups, but people will leave quickly if the app is not useful.
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Comment #5125419
The author's argument for this post is rather poor. He states that the raw data plot is noisy and weakly correlated, thus no relationship can be drawn by averaging the data into se…
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Comment #5122426
My problem with this idea is that I don't care if people on facebook know I hit the snooze button and I figure that they would block such notices as spam anyways. Why not just have…
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Comment #5077233
I have to explain this difference to my dad about once a week. Can't we just start calling javascript awesomescript?
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Comment #5068037
Just as a heads up, I cannot scroll to the bottom of your page. I keep bouncing as I hit the bottom and end up with 'Start using Squash' being cut in half. Screen res: 2560x1440
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Comment #5037930
Interesting idea, but it sounds like you are just trying to have someone make a product for 8k which you can go and sell. Can you specify ways that you will be involved to justify …
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Comment #4927220
I never knew that I should use bootstrap and then extend it with custom CSS to make my site look better. I would have never thought to do that! /sarcasm
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Comment #4884126
Regardless of the message the Microsoft is trying to deliver here they could at least make a website that does not make me close the tab in the first 10 seconds. What a mess.
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Comment #4879400
I use an adblocker for everything. I do try to buy stuff from the stores of websites that I like to support them and encourage a revenue model that does not annoy me.
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Comment #4862694
Very true, and if you want to be more specific my definition only works for finite duration continuous time signals with finite second moment. I use this definition as it also work…
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Comment #4862228
You can also think of the Fourier Transform as a projection (dot product) of a signal onto the space of all sinusoids. That's the explanation that made everything click for me.