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koolkao

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    Comment #48356105

    Very exciting! sounds like we're finally leaving x86 behind

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    Comment #13547637

    Important question for me as well. As a solo amateur developer I don't have time to keep up with the constant development of all the different platforms. I love the idea of this to…

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    Comment #12427308

    Would love to learn more about this single billion dollar mistake

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    Comment #11526905

    Are there comparable speech-to-text or conversational agent APIs in the Azure or Google Cloud ecosystems?

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    What does IBM mean by “cognitive computing”?

    What exactly does IBM mean by "cognitive computing"? IBM's video ads are everywhere on the net. They seem to promise AI that replaces oncologists, musicians, chefs, etc. What can I…

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    Comment #10144854

    I believe deepstream which received good feedback on HN also solves a similar problem. With such proliferation of self hosted FireBase, can anyone in the know share their experienc…

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    Comment #8503107

    Looks fascinating. Setup of the open source version seems quite involved, are there containers I can use to try it out? For my applications in healthcare I'm often forced to use in…

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    Comment #8418671

    That is fascinating. Can you share some references on this?

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    Comment #7275251

    As a Google Voice user I can't get messages from iMessage, and the sender doesn't get a delivery failure notice.

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    Websocket library on Android

    Novice here. Trying to setup websocket communications between an Android app and node.js on the server side. The problem I have is the lack of consensus on the Internets on which p…

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    Comment #6761755

    what kinds of JVM issues did you run into in deployment? for personal projects I have always used C++, Python, RoR, MEAN, etc. but at work where my role is non-dev, our software de…

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    Comment #6323995

    Thank you for the examples. I made some queries that are analogous to my temporal query needs Here I'm looking for every student, other students with DOB within 2 weeks of the give…

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    Comment #6321810

    I have found SQL to be cumbersome for expressing temporal relationships, eg find all the event As that happen within one week of event B. There's not necessarily a data schema link…

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    Comment #6274722

    interesting! that seems to be consistent with my experience. I can never work at my quiet office where just sitting down bores me to tears and puts me to sleep in less than an hour…

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    Comment #6203455

    > Particularly since Firefox OS is built on top of Android Source? I don't think this is the case

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    Comment #6199001

    great points. I've been a big fan and advocate of android for some time. But I've have been disappointed and still am disappointed by how much hardware is necessary to run even bas…

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    Comment #6198965

    what are some issues you observed?

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    Open source alternative to FireBase?

    From my limited experience with the tutorials, I'm a big fan of FireBase. I wish I could use their framework and their service. Unfortunately since I'm in the healthcare space, it'…

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    Comment #5966538

    Mac only at the moment

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    Comment #4405702

    Can the videos be made available after hours? I'm not able to get time away from work those 2 days. thanks

  21. story
    Help with day job: Algorithmic staff scheduling solutions?

    At a gross level, the problem is simple: schedule an army of staff for one-person-per-day coverage, at any given day the staff is split into 3 pools, each staff has a vacation requ…

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    Comment #205881

    From teh pov of small teams, I think the most important difference is that GAE takes care of systems maintenance completely. No worries about having someone on call to fix the serv…

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    Comment #203959

    "3. The a priori likelihood that your site will be popular enough to demand the scalability GAE can apparently deliver is very low, indeed nil. Are you willing to pioneer on an inc…