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xlorm

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About xlorm

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    Comment #4332175

    I have the same problem. When I first think of something I want to make I get really excited and I start coding and writing down ideas. After a few days or weeks I usually end up i…

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    Comment #2165321

    >When I get a seat, will I be able to deal with the older people on my train squinting daggers at me? What do I do if someone is really mean to me again today? Do I look “disabled …

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    Comment #2158065

    I was assuming po meant some automatic system. If you wanted to use humans maybe you could have moderators do it. I agree that it'd be dangerous to let anyone tag. People on YouTub…

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    Comment #2158053

    That sounds like a fun NLP project. But given the less than stellar performance I've seen in those types of programs you'd probably either need to accept a lot of false positives o…

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    Comment #2077861

    I completely agree. I of course don't actually know how much, but most of the women I know don't seem to enjoy technology or math any less than I do. I was mainly responding to the…

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    Comment #2074699

    If he grew up expecting to be a nanny then wouldn't it make sense that his chances of actually becoming a nanny would be higher?

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    Comment #2074348

    > Perhaps we are hard-wired to enjoy certain types of work. I would guess it has more to do with expectations.

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    Comment #2015479

    It seems like going through CrowdFlower could help a lot. Has anyone used it? I guess it worked for the author. At my last job I was involved in a project where we were going to us…

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    Comment #2015341

    I liked this conceptual introduction: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/

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    Comment #2014644

    Do most mobile translation apps not require internet connections? That part surprised me. I had assumed most apps do the work on a server.

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    Comment #1994541

    Your Chinese restaurant must have a good fortune cookie supplier. Mine are always completely useless (and often false) statements like "You appreciate fine art".

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    Comment #1657647

    Where were you living before you were 30?

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    Comment #1609905

    I'm interested, but I'm not moving to SF until October. I'll message you my email in case you get a late start or want to try to meet around then. I took a compilers course in coll…