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danedon Daily happiness averages using Twitter

His research specifically mentions the classification of n-grams as a future area of work. (I have been working on implementing his work in python, so I have been diving into this over the past few weeks.)

danedon How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

Writing a canonical server security document is difficult because it depends so much on what the server is doing (what kind of application is it running? how is it accessed?) and where you're starting from. (barebones install? something pre-rolled by your VPS service?)

danedon Facebook ends 'Places' feature

They're just changing it so location information becomes integrated into all the other types of posts rather than being it's own thing.

Makes sense, the old way felt like they were trying to graft foursquare onto facebook.