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sniW

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    Comment #10077885

    It picks up on specific types of rice - e.g. "white rice", "jasmine rice", and "brown rice" all work.

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    Comment #10001114

    Wealthsimple - https://www.wealthsimple.com - Toronto, ON We're on a mission to make investing smarter and simpler for everyone. We develop algorithms to track, manage, and rebalan…

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    Comment #9971700

    Hey there, I’m a programer at Wealthsimple. We're currently looking for web, iOS, and Android devs, as well as engineers with expertise in financial backoffice, financial modeling,…

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    Comment #9471461

    Wealthsimple - https://www.wealthsimple.com - Toronto We're on a mission to make investing smarter and simpler for everyone. We develop algorithms to track, manage, and rebalance c…

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    Comment #6499016

    I believe they'll be streaming it from here: http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames Starts at 8pm PDT.

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    Comment #6470324

    This was our weekend project for the DjangoDash hackathon. To create it, we scraped a bunch of music data from Last.fm and MusicBrainz, and currently have over 2,000 artists from 2…

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    Comment #3788990

    "HipBucket is the Doodle for online payments" was the first thing my eyes were drawn to, yet this sentence is difficult to process--maybe you could reword this? It looks like a coo…

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    Comment #3742363

    Note that this article is from 2010. The most recent code for the Reddit ranking algorithms is here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s... It looks like t…

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    Comment #3011796

    How do "cool points" work? Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for specific artists or tracks. Otherwise, I like the idea and had some fun discovering new artists.…

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    Comment #2315427

    using pure black as the text color is a mistake Why is this?

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    Comment #2057427

    This looks interesting. I'd been planning to learn R for a while, but never got around to it. The main course page includes homework problem sets (with solutions): http://sites.goo…

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    Comment #2050655

    According to this study, "visits to Google properties combined cover 9.85% of all site visits" . Google.com makes up 7.19%, and YouTube.com makes up 2.65%, combined for a total of …

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    Comment #2050618

    After a few months of pair programming, I can only agree. At points, when my partner saw a better way of doing things, it was insightful. In the end, however, we found that it was …

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    Comment #1881209

    If you're just looking for something to put a laptop on while standing, an adjustable music stand works nicely.

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    Comment #1285432

    Researchers at UC Berkley and Microsoft Research have suggested that 3D displays are bad for your eyes: http://www.journalofvision.org/8/3/33/article.aspx 3D HTML could be cool, bu…