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thesnark

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About thesnark

http://www.elusivesnark.com http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/thesnark.html

Recent public activity

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    Comment #6158262

    It looks like your emails are stored on their servers? My desire is to have more control over my data.

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    Comment #6158141

    This was my first thought, but after researching for a while it seems pretty complicated. The tutorials I found literally have hundreds of steps to configure everything properly.

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    Comment #5603850

    Is there a description available of the algorithm used to generate the 'cluster diagrams'? Really nice work.

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    Comment #4399418

    Hard not to scoff at with that sensational title.

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    Comment #4398836

    So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.

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    Comment #4368370

    I would be interested to hear what modern features are not possible in vim or emacs.

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    Comment #3255920

    I am the guy who wrote the original post, I think this is great work, I wish I could use photoshop as proficiently! I should say that for my part, I drew inspiration from flight404…

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    Comment #3208230

    I wonder what a fair benchmark test would look like. Would it boil down to an argument of C++ vs Java for floating point operations?

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    Comment #3208206

    Having never used Cinder before, why would someone choose it over processing?

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    Comment #2644355

    Novus in Vancouver is pretty awesome, 40/10 for $65/mo

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    Comment #2592673

    In my experience 90% of scientific data analysis work is: getting the data, cleaning it and transforming it into a form suitable for analysis. MATLAB fails miserably at these tasks…

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    Comment #2592457

    MATLAB is a bad choice for science. It is proprietary, making it difficult to share work among people who do not own a license, therefore making it more difficult to reproduce resu…

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    Comment #2549025

    I like to take advantage of this by approaching the salesman while holding about $300 dollars worth of cables, negotiate a lower price on the tv and then return the cables the next…

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    Comment #2397262

    Hi, This sounds really interesting to me, and I am in Vancouver too. Would you consider putting your email address in your profile? I have a quick question for you.

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    Comment #2290255

    What about Montreal?

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    Comment #2154669

    What would the tattoo have been? :)

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    Comment #1782249

    That we are star dust.

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    Comment #1704991

    Did you read about this: http://www.businessinsider.com/huge-first-high-frequency-tra...

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    Comment #1680027

    Ben Fry (of processing fame) has a group that does this: http://fathom.info/ Can you give more details about the project and the data set?

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    Comment #1650275

    This post can answer far more completely than I can: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375 Vancouver gets a nod from pg as one of the best places to do a startup outside of t…