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Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | pclark: > You need to confirm your email address to play Taxi Mogul. Please proceed to the activation page.ugh. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | cperciva: Run a taxi company? Thanks but no thanks -- that sounds far too much like work to me.I'm sure this game must be more entertaining than it sounds, but you might do better if the website makes it more clear where the fun part of the game is. |
good books about military strategy? | phdmageddon: While older books may be interesting, they are totally archaic. I would read things by communist revolutionaries and other practitioners of asymmetric warfare. There are going to be very few 'real' wars in the future, because the countries that could engage in them all have nuclear weapons, which basically precludes a full scale engagement of any kind. However, large countries still have belligerents that are too small or close to have to worry about being nuked, or are intermixed with 'friendly' populations, or the state is precluded by international pressure/bribery from engaging in anything overt (ex: Israel). |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | r7000: Spelling Nit to fix immediately: "Purchased cars are delivered immideately"BureauPoints seems like an odd name at first. |
good books about military strategy? | kingkongrevenge: "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" is the best book on the psychological dimensions of war that I'm aware of. |
good books about military strategy? | kingkongrevenge: > for some reason I have wondered about this (maybe for strategy game development...).It's OK, you can be honest here. Your Kraut blood is imbuing you with an inexplicable and overwhelming drive to invade Poland. Reclaim your heritage! |
Goal Setting Software | eoyola: If you're an Emacs user, I suggest the Org Mode package. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | hotshothenry: you guys need a better looking website coughemail mecough =D |
Looking for part-time PHP coders | hotshothenry: email sent =) |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | annoyed: i placed the waypoints but wasn't shown the resulting route...the routing needs to be explained more clearly |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | Mystalic: Okay, I'm going to rail into you. This is only because it will help you out in the long run1) Your website looks like a slipshod piece of junk. It's a crap blog format with some images. Where's a video overview of the game? A column showing recent scores and users? A smoother interface? Come on, there's tons of things you screwed up on.2) Where's the hook? I need a 6 word hook, a tagline, something to say "Maybe I should keep reading about this." Nothing.3) I don't give a damn about taxis, so why should I give a damn about your game? At least with other games, I'm building a galactic empire or taking over the world. Those far more attract to imaginative personalities that play these games.4) What's the reward?5) Your logo's a piece of junk built with standard templates in photoshop. The lack of effort in your logo shows.There's an entire lack of effort on the front-end and a lack of hooks to get me to EVER play this.And what's the business model? Advertising is going to make you money? Not in this market. Freemium is dying.This is jumping on an ancient business that's dying out rapidly. The Facebook application is the only positive I have.Sorry if I was harsh. This is how I feel, and I hope it helps. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | ars: Add a guest mode, where I can try out the game without registering. Registering is the point where I stopped, even though it looked interesting.Make sure you can covert a guest account into a real one by registering if someone is interested. |
good books about military strategy? | fdschoeneman: I highly recommend John Boyd. His presentations are a bit dense, but you might try reading the biography of him written by Robert Coram first. |
how much karma do I need before I can downmod stories? | brk: divide by 0 errorThe feature you requested does not exist. |
how much karma do I need before I can downmod stories? | scorpioxy: If i am not mistaken, you cannot down mod stories, just comments. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | imasr: Loved it!
To all the harsh comments, do not forget it's not a google beta. These guys are probably working their ... off to create an original gaming experience, that as far as I could see, is really adictive, took me 1 minute to start playing and really really liked it.
Great work. Congrats! |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | teej: Here are a few critiques solely from the game & Facebook perspective:- You've got an iframe app and you have both horizontal and vertical scrollbars (on mac FF at least). Get rid of them, they drive people insane.- First time experience is pretty horrid. The "tutorial" is 20 click beast that goes through every aspect of the game at once. Make the game learning process a little more progressive. Don't let me do all 50 things at once. Give me one thing to do, and once I've done it, unlock another 2-3 things I can do.- User interface, as has been stated already, could use some re-work and some polish. That being said, my old app (Warbook) looks terrible and still got pretty big.- The virtual goods + advertising model is solid in this space right now. Ignore what other people are saying against it, you're pretty close to a great revenue model. Just remember - people buy virtual goods for two reasons: to "speed up" time and to gain social status.With all that said, I think the game concept is pretty novel. Hopefully other people find it fun. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | cellis: I just tried playing your facebook app. I've gotta say you should just do this a facebook app and nothing more. 86 the website or hire a designer. Do not waste people's time: i am not going to enter text into any inpot boxes to get started playing your game. Perhaps this is because you hit me with too much text to start out with. Pictures are worth 1000 words.People see login fields and cringe. On the facebook app a instructions form came up. I clicked through as far as i could but I'm very ADD and there was nothing to keep my attention, and since the app didn't catch my attention, I didn't even read the instructions. It needs to be painless. My suggestion for you (and anyone that wants to build a facebook app) is to add e.g. MobWars , Playfish and play them. See how long and how many gestures you have to do to start having fun.Kudos for googlemaps integration though... and releasing! Its tough i must say. |
good books about military strategy? | jedi_stannis: I'm reading The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene now and am enjoying it, I have also previously read the 48 Laws of Power by him which is written in a similar fashion. Very extensive and uses a lot of historical examples from both military and other fields such as politics and business. |
Ad Network that serves to Adobe AIR apps? | icey: I don't understand your question. Do you have an AIR app that you want to embed ads into? |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | trevelyan: I signed up and it dumped me on a page that looked like a blog. Lots of buttons I could press to do things but no idea what they do. And this page was clearly not fun. Why does it look like a bad blog and why aren't I doing something fun at this point?So I disable the tutorial because it's the most prominent button on the page (I'm thinking that maybe it gets me into the FUN part faster, although if I need a tutorial it isn't a good casual game). Aha - now I see that activation is required. Genuine wtf moment. I can take a tutorial without confirming my account but nothing else? Honestly, if you are going to insist on email confirmation, do it BEFORE you show people your actual game page. Right now you are making a bad impression and then pushing people away.Review: I need to give you my email address. Then you want me to LEAVE YOUR SITE and go to a more addictive site. Now I am wondering why you need to verify my email address at all? If you really need it and I gave you a bogus one then give me a way to change it. Have I just signed up for daily spam? Trust meter starts tilting downwards.If you have a free service it doesn't matter if your users are anonymous. Why harass them? And if you ARE monetizing traffic you STILL shouldn't worry about authenticating email addresses. Not unless you want to send a lot of email, in which case you send the authentication note but don't send anything else until they've confirmed. It's a tinyint field in your database (email_authenticated). If people have fun they will do it.We run a paid site where authentication actually matters and don't care as much. Every now and then we have a payment come in from someone who is not in our system. It is sort of a problem, so we write the person who pays and say, "which account did you want to upgrade?" Email authentication is a good way to prevent yourself from spamming innocent third parties. That's about it.All that said, I think this could be a cool service. The concept is fun. I want to like it. But I have no idea what I should be doing after signing up and you are pushing me away from your service and haven't thought through how to get someone INTO actual gameplay. Instead it is WALL, WALL, WALL. So I leave. I've got about 6 tabs open and when you sent me away to Gmail I didn't come back. |
good books about military strategy? | RobGR: A lot of the suggestions here seem to follow the philosophical advice from generals meme, like the people who read Sun Tzu to learn how to better manage their sales team and etc.The best book I know of in the "detailed stuff, like how to use tanks, planes and so on" area is James F. Dunigan's "How to Make War". It's a little cold-war oriented but still pretty applicable, and the first chapter is helpfully titled "How to Become an Effective Armchair General". Given that wars are usually massive economic and logistical operations, it has a lot of charts and tables to that effect, showing the number of shots per soldier killed over the centuries, tonnage of explosives per plane, etc.Just by glancing over the charts you can see the basic history of military activity -- the Civil War being the first "modern" war in terms of slaughter, economic mobolization, and etc; then a period of regression to small wars, before WWI and so on.As far as "how to use tanks" and so on, that is often considered tactics not strategy. There are books written on that stuff, however; how many people should be in a small platoon and how they should move, leapfrogging each other so one moves while the other keeps the enemy ducking; how two tanks can use their light machine guns to clear each other's close-in areas that they can't see or shoot at themselves; the strategy of having a tank attached to a platoon of infantry so they work together; etc.But I don't know of one single book that collects all that. If I had to find them I would probably look at the some of the publications of the Army War College, and I would go to a gun show and find that guy who is always there with a lot of field manual publications, and ask him. |
good books about military strategy? | rokhayakebe: What are you up to? |
good books about military strategy? | popschedule: The 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene) |
good books about military strategy? | pg: Along with the Anabasis and Caesar's Gallic Wars, I particularly recommend Johnnie Johnson's Wing Leader, Hanson's Western Way of War, and Oman's Art of War in the Middle Ages. |
good books about military strategy? | rchiniquy: <i>analysis of historical battles</i>I'd love to see a book of this nature concentrated on the Civil War. |
Hacking Mail Server | icey: I think Zed's Son of Sam may do what you're after:http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/sos/index.html |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | fizx: dmoz |
good books about military strategy? | jaspertheghost: I would recommend:
1) The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli (read by Napoleon)
2) Certain to Win by Chet Richards (talks about OODA loop by John Boyd) |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | okeumeni: Yahoo directory is a good start. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | alex_c: I've never done something like this myself, but what about using something like http://www.dmoz.org/? |
c++ or iPhone? | nickfox: Well, I've made my decision. I'm going to go with iPhone programming. I've actually done enough c++ programming to know what it's about. Having never done any iPhone programming, I can't make a real comparison. The library has an online copy of "Beginning iPhone Development" by Mark and LaMarche and I will work through that after working through Apple's Objective-C book. Thanks for all your input. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | soult: Wikipedia provides dumps of it's link table: http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html |
Upsides and Downsides of Facebook Integration | Spyckie: A suggestion - your question is too vague. At the very least, tell us if you're looking at Facebook for mass marketing or integration with your site.Without any context, I'm going to assume you're asking about Facebook as a time waster. It does have tremendous power to draw people who already waste a lot of time to waste more time. In this aspect, the opportunities here are terrible because this market is already flooded with games, social comparisons, or super poking your friends to death. |
Hacking Mail Server | briansmith: Make all of the <whatever>@isms.pk address aliases of a single mailbox (or forward them all to a single mailbox). Poll that single mailbox for email.Or, try something like http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/sos/ |
What's up with Rapleaf ads *everywhere*? | jaspertheghost: What websites are you talking about? I haven't seen any Rapleaf ads. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | xenophanes: could you google the dictionary and use top 10 results from each? i don't know if this is decent idea or not. maybe someone will tell me :) |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | m_eiman: I think it's a fun idea, with three area that can be improved:1) Like the others are saying, you need to find a (better) designer2) Playing the game seems to be a massive time sink.
I could never spend that much time on a game, regardless of how good it is. And I don't think it's just me, pretty much nobody with a job could spend a few minutes every half hour to run their taxi company. Which ties into..3) Too much micro management.
This is mostly a personal preference, but I'd get tired of micro managing my cabs pretty soon.Things that would make it easier for me to play:a) Make it possible to play in a rewarding and competitive way spending no more than a quarter to half an hour per day.b) Less micro management, but that should be a requirement to achieve a) anyway.I can see the Challenge thing as a mini-game, maybe it could make it on its own as a game widget. Maybe make a Wordpress et al widget that doubles as a game and as an ad for the "big" game?You have an interesting idea, looking forward to see how it evolves! |
good books about military strategy? | mgk: The best I've read wasn't a strategy book per se.
1776 - http://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226712 by David McCullough was full of useful insights on General George Washington and how he used his smarts to defeat the enemy. He wasn't a great strategist, but very pragmatic (like counting the number of shoes on the feet of his “army’ to asses their battle readiness) and willing to take risks. It book was also entertaining as Hell. |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | andrewljohnson: This site charges $250 to put you in front of a bunch of angels. They claim 5% get funded. Has anyone ever gotten funding through this outfit?I'm considering applying for my company - www.trailbehind.com, after we launch our new version next week. |
Sample of code ? | cperciva: "Here's my website, go look at some of the open source code I've published" tends to work well. The more code you throw at people the better -- that way it's clear that you're not hiding a large volume of garbage while showing them a few good lines of code. |
Sample of code ? | suhail: Perhaps you can just say "here's something I've built, completely by me."--I don't seen how a few lines of code is going to say much, writing neat code is like comp sci. 101. |
Sample of code ? | defunkt: This is where contributing to open source really comes in handy. For one of my earlier jobs I was unable to show any code from previous employers but had a project on SourceForge. From what I heard, it helped land me the job. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | gojomo: DMOZ, Wikipedia, Yahoo Directory are the classic broad starting points. You could also begin with the top 100, 500, 1000, etc. sites from some ranking service (like Alexa), or top N results from major search engines on queries of special interest.Depending on how you order discovered URLs and sites for crawling, it may not make too much of a difference where you start a truly web-wide crawl: you'll quickly reach major hubs, and everything else, after a short period. Then it's a matter of where the crawler chooses to spend its attention: which paths, how deep.If you keep crawling 'over and over' you may want to pick what you revisit based on your own followup analysis, not the seeds of your first crawl(s). |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | Cunard2: Thank you. I had the same question. |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | point: If you're dumb enough to pay money for this, you're dumb enough that your site will never make any money. The only ones who will get rich from this are the owners of the site - they are selling you a dream, and you are paying for it.Spend the money on some proper SEO services instead, it will do you more good.And let me give it to you square - your site will NEVER get funding. It's not hot, it has little potential of becoming huge. It's the type of site that can make solid money, but only by targeting the users directly. When you are making good money, the angels will come to you.If you are trying to raise funding for your site, you are in the business of dreams, not reality. |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | amobilebiz: Angelsoft has two business models. One is where they charge entreprenuers to essentially pitch their angel members. The second is they provide a platform for angels and even some VCs to automate their application process. With this model the process is free to the entreprenuer and the angel or VC covers the cost.While I believe the first model is useless money spent, I do believe the second model is much better and entreprenuers should not avoid filling out an angel groups investment application based solely on the fact they use Angelsoft to process the application. I have utilized the process myself and while I did not get funding from (I did get face-to-face meetings though) the angel groups I submitted to I found the application process easy and organized. I am familiar with several groups that utilize the Angelsoft platform and all are very reputable.Long story short, blindly sending your business plan to just about ANY investment group (excluding YC and similar models) is not going to get you anywhere. Introductions and networking are the only true way of having a chance at any investment. I can think of other things to spend the $250 on than a membership with Angelsoft. On the other hand, if you have interest in a specific angel group or VC and they point you to Angelsoft to submit your business plan, etc... know that (a) it is free for you; and (b) that Angelsoft is a legitimate platform for submitting your application.Note that I have no affiliation with Angelsoft other than I have utilized their platform to submit to several VCs. |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | matthias: The live activity monitor is pretty nifty. |
Sample of code ? | rchiniquy: Code is not always requested just for the purpose of representing the applicant. Sometimes interviewers (like me) just want to have code to hand which you are guaranteed to be familiar with; It's nicer to reference code you've actually written to ask specific questions about, say, stack vs heap usage or OO design. |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | alain94040: As much as I like the creator of AngelSoft, I think the $250 offer is wrong. AngelSoft provides good value by unifying the application process to many legitimate groups out there (angel forum for instance). One thing I hate is when each web site has a slightly different format to ask me about my business. TechCrunch has a template. YC has one. It goes on and on.So AngelSoft is successful in that regard, with the hundreds of groups using them. The fact that they tried to monetize it by charging rookie entrepreneurs, well... it depreciates their brand. |
Mechanical Turk and beta testing | satyajit: Aaarrgggghh ... I wanted some insight from the HN community and got none!! |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | mdasen: So, you can just think of this like a math problem. To get a score, you can take the reciprocal of the person's age (so, someone 30 becomes 1/30) and then (for readability's sake) multiply it by a constant (say, 30) to make someone 30 a 1.0, someone 31 becomes .96, someone 35 becomes .85, etc.If you want it to vary more or less from that norm, you can use exponents and logs. In your example, you wanted .8 for 31 and .5 for 35. I think raising it to the 4th or 5th power will get you around that mark. So, you can make it really sensitive to change in value or really insensitive to change depending on the log or exp that you use.Likewise, do the same thing with sales (only in this case, since higher is better, we don't need to do the reciprocal thing). So, 100,000 becomes your baseline and that's a 1.0 (just divide by 100,000). Here, linear looks good since a person drawing 200k should be twice as good as the person drawing 100k, but you could use exponents or logs just like the previous example.Then, you multiply them together. So, someone 30 years old who gets 100,000 in sales has a 1.0 rating. Someone 25 years old with 100,000 in sales has a 2.0736 rating. Someone 35 with 500,000 in sales has a 2.69 rating. And so on.The SQL would look something like this: SELECT *, (POW((1/age)*30, 4)*(sales/100000)) as the_awesome_score FROM table_name ORDER BY the_awesome_score
Basically, the difficulty in fuzzy matching is creating a common measurement. Once we have both items on a common scale (here with age 30 and 100,000 in sales being a 1.0), you can just multiply them and then you have your score. You can easily adjust the numbers to make it more or less sensitive to change on either side of the equation to suit your needs. |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | russell: I don't have a compelling need for a framework. If I had the need for such a query, I would probably write a simple query to gather a superset of the candidates, or not, if it looked like most of the records would be in the set. Then I would write a Python program that would rank the candidate according to whatever. It could all be done in SQL, but Python would be quicker in elapsed time to a solution.If this were a frequent run, I might do it purely in SQL, but not a framework, SQL is sufficiently high level that I dont see much of a gain. |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | Tangurena: If I were doing this, I'd look into writing CLR code to integrate with SQL Server 2005/2008. As long as you could define classes and functions in .NET, you could use them as datatypes or functions in SQL Server. For membership, you might want to define them as functions in code, separate from the db.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345136.aspxhttp://www.amazon.com/Professional-SQL-Server-2005-Programmi...a 31 year-old is 0.8 Young...why not 0.7 or 0.9?Well, that depends on the problem domain. If you're dealing with US Presidents, 31 would be 1.0 young. And 50 would probably be 0.9 young. If you're dealing with dogs, 31 would be 0.0 young (I'm not aware of any dogs living more than 29). Sit down with a bunch of domain experts (one at a time) and poll them. You don't sit them together because they'll probably say things like "yeah, that answer."I've not done much research into this for quite some time (and way back then, I was interested more in GIS). And a quick survey seems to say "nope, no frameworks."
http://www.lcc.uma.es/~ppgg/FSQL.html |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | paul7986: My constructive feedback...This is game, when page loads let me start playing the game right away. Not read about the game. I read a little but ultimately left cause there was too much text and no interaction.You use a lot of buzzwords free and stuff like that, but that just adds to why I left. Too much text ...I just want to load page and play a game and interact right away! Id like to learn the rules by interacting with the game along with some text and a link to help page if need be.hth |
Rate my sister's voice | andrewljohnson: My sister recently joined a blues band, and I hadn't heard her sing in years. And she really blew me away with this song.Blinded by brotherly love, or does she sound as good as I think? |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | frig: Sorry not to be more specific, but someone did almost exactly what you're sketching. I'll get back to you once I've found the paper, or if I've not found it again.At first pass this might be it, but it looks different from what I remember:http://www.lcc.uma.es/~ppgg/FSQL.htmlWhat I saw basically translated "fuzzy" queries into equivalent SQL queries.Actually just spin through these:http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&client=s...There's lots. |
Term Sheets | suhail: Read Paul Graham's essay on it =) |
Term Sheets | alain94040: Thousands of people have access to thefunded.com. It's the best resource out there to answer your question, together with my other favorite: venturehacks.comAccess to thefunded is restriced to CEOs usually. If you don't qualify, it's going to be tough to answer all your questions here :-) |
Term Sheets | rms: http://venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacksAlso just apply for access to The Funded. You're a CEO, right? :D If there's some specific info you want right now send me an email and I can send it to you. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | bemmu: Registered for account, was happy there was no confirmation email. Wanted to get quickly to core game, so dismissed tutorials. I tend to believe that games should be self-explanatory, going over tuts isn't much fun. Got a taxi and was very confused trying to double click around the map. I got near what I believe may have been the passenger I was supposed to get, but didn't know how to pick them up. Tried clicking all over the place, gave up and closed tab. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | ii: It would be great if you put a big shiny button on your website: "Play now" or "Test drive" and let people try it without registration.Also, I think if you start charging money for premium services and make some features paid-only you will immediately look more serious and increase satisfaction from game for those who pay, it's human nature.Just my 2 cents. |
good books about military strategy? | sam242: Hmmm, guess no-one here is in the military? The (American) military branches all publish their own reading lists, updated annually, that'd be a great starting point.
http://www.af.mil/library/csafreading/
http://www.history.army.mil/reference/csalist/csalist.htm
and the National Defense University has a big compilation:
http://www.ndu.edu/library/readinglist/PMReadingList.html |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | arthole: because your fuzzy allocation is going to change from table to table, it would probably be best to keep a master table of fuzzy allocations.something along the lines ofcolumnname, lowvalue, highvalue, weightthat way, you could keep all your weightings for whatever column you wanted to test on and do your joins on the low and high values.it would also make it easier to modify your weightings and see how the queries you generate change their results without having to change any sql. And if you wanted multiple kinds of weightings for one column name you would just add a name field.eg:create table fuzzy
(name VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
colname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
lowval DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
hival DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
weight DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (name, colname, weight),
INDEX fuzzy1 (name, colname, weight),
INDEX fuzzy2 (name, colname, lowval, hival),
INDEX fuzzy3 (name, colname, hival, lowval)
); |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | enki: signup required. ugh.i won't register before i know if i like it. |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | statictype: Sorry, ompletely unrelated, but I also recently looking at doing some 'mining' on NBA stats. Where do you get your raw stats from? |
What are some (good) hacker movies? | Xichekolas: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus JourneySeriously. The timeline in those movies is an awesome puzzle. Not quite Primer, but the same vein. |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | tsally: So did you link it because of the interesting subject matter or the fact that there is actually a serious discussion happening on reddit? |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | s3graham: And linkage for the lazy:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446507http://www.transmoggit.com/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/9876/transmog.htm... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | jgfoot: this is awesome.Automating the first 50-80%? Try some very simple natural language processing, with a human being acting as a sanity check. If the PHP documentation for a function is "upper case" and the Python documentation for something also is "upper case," then the two might be similar... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | inerte: Hey :)- A submit button; I typed "trim" and it did nothing :p Had to change language's dropdown or click a suggestion;- SEO! There's no unique url, with proper title, for the entries. None searching for "trim in python" will find... my blog post is getting 2 or 3 visits a day from people searching "python trim" and/or "trim in python". And I am not even on the first page. Aactually depending on my browser and language settings, I am (5th result).- Filter duplicates (I entered string.strip is PHP's trim twice)- Suggest the relationship the other way around. If you know that trim == strip, why not say "hey we think strip == trim"?How to automate? Do some similar text search thing. For example, you can get the function definition for trim() on PHP's manual, if you match against sections of Python's manual, you can offer your visitors suggestions, and let them one click away to approve the connection. Easy to do?...Anyway, it's soooo nice to see someone implemented HTFITIP... and I really liked the clean design! And the name! |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | mattmcknight: It looks like a hard part is going to be method scoping. For things that aren't in the global namespace, it's sort of hard to give a single answer, because you are asking two questions (e.g., which object or module and which method or function?). It might be better to pick the object/module first, and then the method/function. |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | bayareaguy: This was a hot topic in databases 20 years ago and there have been
various academic projects which implemented user defined types and
operators to do this for systems like PostgreSQL.Most of them haven't produced any useful code but a quick search
turned up this more promising site:
http://calypso.cs.put.poznan.pl/~sqlf_j/en/index.php SQLf_j is a query system, that enables fuzzy queries to relational
database managements systems (currently: MySQL and PostgreSQL). The
queries are written in SQLf which is an extension to SQL. SQLf_j
works as a translator, that translates fuzzy queries to standard,
SQL queries, and executes them with RDBMS.
There also seems to be some interesting stuff here:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~juliano/Fuzzy |
good books about military strategy? | pingswept: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today by Max Boot. Just published in 2006.http://www.amazon.com/War-Made-New-Technology-Warfare/dp/159...I don't agree with the guy's politics, but his view on the melding of technology and military history is pretty interesting."My major conclusion? Simply that it's not enough to acquire first-class technology. You also need the right organizational structure, training, and leadership to take advantage of that technology. Today, the U.S. is the undisputed leader in high-tech hardware, but our government bureaucracy is still designed to fight mirror-image adversaries from the Industrial Age--not nimble, decentralized foes like Al Qaeda." -- Max BootSee also: http://www.cfr.org/publication/10313/war_made_new.html |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | jonursenbach: This is pretty sick. Nice job. |
good books about military strategy? | kicker: http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/index.htm
has very good accounts of naval battles against the Japanese.Highlights:
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/vella_gulf.htm
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/savo_island.htm
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/leyte_gulf.htm |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | hboon: It is probably better to build such a framework on top of a search engine rather than SQL. |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | johngunderman: I use SVN with the repository hosted on the same machine for all my lone projects. |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | ctice: "Shucks, the transmogrifier doesn't know what PHP's count is in PHP."hehe |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | SapphireSun: Awesome!I couldn't figure out how to submit it though :(I know it's probably a bad idea, but I feel wistful for the original "How the fuck is ___ in ___?" |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | patio11: The most important thing: ANY source control is better than NO source control. It is 10,000 times more important that you pick one package, learn it, and USE IT than you pick any particular package. (Source control isn't useful until you've made it a routine part of the workflow.)I use SVN, because that is what I got started on and that is what I know. It works fine, for allowing me to go back to known-good versions of the code, and for allowing stupidly easy Rails deployments through Capistrano. But really, any of the alternatives are probably just as fine.[Incidentally, my repositories sits on a machine that gets backed up daily. That is, similarly, a good-enough-for-now solution. There are other alternatives: use a dedicated provider, put it on a machine other than the deployment machine, use distributed source control, whatever. Any of them works as long as the answer is not "source control on the same machine you spend most of your time on", and heck, that still captures a good deal of the source control benefit, come to think of it.] |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | andr: What about Scala? |
good books about military strategy? | jamesbritt: Che Guevara's book, Guerrilla Warfare, is quite good. |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | bayareaguy: I'd say Mercurial because1. in terms of design, performance and features it's about as good as git. sure it may be missing this or that but see point 5 below.2. in terms of end-user complexity it's about as easy to use as svn (which everybody knows)3. 99% of the code is in cleanly written Python and highly portable4. http://bitbucket.org is great and they offer SSL for free private repositories (at github only paid plans offer SSL)5. it's easy to hack (provided you know Python)I'll grant that the last point may not matter to the lone web developer but personally I like things that make it easy for me to tinker with them when I want or need to. |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | tow21: Any chance of adding Javascript as an option? I spend half my life tripping up over Javascript/Python inconsistencies, this would be immensely useful.Also, I'm not convinced your google account sign in thing works right; I clicked on it to login to google, and then google didn't know where to redirect me to. |
good books about military strategy? | uuilly: I've been waiting years for someone to ask this question :)Wishlited this last night on amazon:
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power by Victor Davis HansonHave read these and enjoyed these:General Warfare theory:
History of Warfare by KeeganIntel:
Intelligence and War by KeeganCounterinsurgency:
"Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll. For a really enjoyable experience read "The Great Game" by Hopkirk first.The Civil War deserves it's own category. Watch the PBS dvds, actually buy them. If you're hungry for more dig into "The Civil War" by Shelby Foote is hefty but it's satisfying.1776 is a classic."Blind mans bluff" is a great book about submarine warfare.For more current stuff Robert Kagan is probably the most informed pundit on war and military strategy.WW-II
"The Last Lion" books 1 and 2 are about Churchill and they involve lots of military strategy. You should also check out "The gathering storm + the other six books Churchill wrote on WWII.Man I could go on forever. I have "Panzer General" and "Caesar's Conquest of Gaul" on my nightstand...Enjoy...PS: Once you're well versed you'll hear people referring to Clauswitz a lot. When you're sick of hearing his name and you want more than the wikipedia entry go read "On War." Art of War goes w/o saying as well... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | Tichy: There is another game based on Google Maps where you play a truck driver.From a hackers perspective I like the idea of using Google Maps, but as a player, I guess I am more into fantasy and epic battles. I felt no desire to try being a taxi driver. |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | revorad: This is awesome. What about VB? :-P |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | mseebach: First impression: Nowhere near enough swearwords :)Also, if I type "trim" and hit enter, I get imagick_trimimage. If there's an exact match, I very much probably want that. |
Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? | vaksel: just to clarify...do you mean YourBusinessName@gmail.com? |
Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? | Zev: Why not just secure all of the domains? |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | defunkt: Any DVCS. $ mkdir solo_project
$ cd solo_project
$ git init
Similar steps for hg and bzr. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | pg: What makes it so hard is that you can't recognize words as words so easily. You have to decode them letter by letter. I studied classical Arabic in college, and at the end of a year I could only recognize a couple hundred words as words.I doubt there's any solution besides practice. Perhaps you could optimize practice by making flashcards of the most common words and training yourself to recognize them quickly. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | jlc: Sorry, I don't have any specific tips. I studied Russian in college and didn't find Cyrillic to be a barrier at all. I just learned the sounds and with a week or two of practice, it seemed natural enough.I've lost much of my Russian (such as it was) through disuse, but I can still read the alphabet just fine. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | Morieris: Take a class. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but personally I have only been able to learn languages in a classroom setting. For me, classes in Japanese and Spanish have proved effective, but self-taught German or Russian via websites, books, or tapes just never worked. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | arstotel: write an algorithm that compute the factorial of a given whole number |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | RiderOfGiraffes: I found this really useful ...http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LearningLanguages.html?HNWorks for me too, even with Cyrillic. I've not tried it with Japanese yet 8-) |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | arstotel: how to write an algorithm |
Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? | sam_in_nyc: ...I'm surprised by the lack of input. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | gruseom: This isn't the kind of tip you are asking about, but...I studied several languages academically (by taking courses and/or studying books). It finally dawned on me how utterly inefficient this is, and I will never make that mistake again. Next time I want to learn a language I will move to where it is spoken.Among the many problems I expect this to make easier is that of an unfamiliar alphabet. It wouldn't remain unfamiliar for long. |
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