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vj44

940 karma · joined January 17, 2012

Co-founder & CTO of OnSpecta (www.onspecta.com) - high performance commercial-scale neural networks technology.

Previously Computational Neuroscience researcher and CS student at MIT.

Previously co-founder & CTO of DataNitro (www.datanitro.com) - YC Summer 2012.

Enjoy backend solutions, distributed systems & theoretical data structures & algorithms.

More at www.jakubiuk.net

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vj44··on C++ containers that save memory and time
This is extremely unfortunate - I can see the way the C++ committee argued about this issue (ie. having consistent "erase" interface across different data structures), but it's bound to backfire for many unaware. Especially in a hash table, where you conceptually don't expect erase to provide the successor.
vj44··on The Way Server-Side Analytics Should Be
great job segment.io team!
vj44··on Submittable (YC S12) on Flavorpill's Coolest Lit Mag Innovations of the Year
Great job submittable - awesome team & great execution!
vj44··on Startup Economics
As always, great job smartasset!
vj44··on Show HN: Visual diff for 3D printable models
that's cool.
vj44··on DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
Thanks hkmurakami! - founder.
vj44··on Show HN: Tweetsheets – Twitter directly from within Google Docs
Or you can do the same right from MS Excel (in Python) using DataNitro: http://mit.edu/~victorj/www/blog/2012/08/06/Twitter-reader-i...
vj44··on Server statistics in Excel with Python
Unfortunately with activestate you can't run python from within excel, you've got to somehow run the script at the "outside" (be it shell, some other program etc.)
vj44··on Server statistics in Excel with Python
Let me tell you what's wrong with PowerShell - I've been using it for a while (yes, it's much more useful than the regular cmd), BUT it has multiple inconsistencies with the regular windows shell, in particular when it comes to file paths and escaping white spaces & other characters. I've spent ages debugging such issues and trust me, you don't want to repeat this (also, it's slow, doesn't come with ssh or most other unix tools). Other than that, I have yet to meet anyone who knows how to script in powershell. Of course if you want to, go ahead, but from my experience I'm not going to use it for anything too serious.
vj44··on Server statistics in Excel with Python
http://ironspread.com can update Excel in real time as well - that's what I'm working on for my next blog post, which will be available sometime next week.
vj44··on Show HN: Use Excel as a simple CRM
I would like to see some live data integration into Excel, like pulling server logs into visual graphs in Excel. It shouldn't be too hard with the plugin from http://www.ironspread.com and python, right?
vj44··on Office 2013: Microsoft's bid to win the future
A free non-commercial version will remain available, fear not!
vj44··on Show HN: Scoutzie, 444 best mobile designers for hire.
Great job scoutzie!
vj44··on Office 2013: Microsoft's bid to win the future
You can script Excel with Python using IronSpread, you can get it from http://www.ironspread.com. It's free and it's super easy to import/export data.
vj44··on Show HN: Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, Github, etc.
Super cool, great work brettcvz! Just one note: ctrl-n doesn't work as desired - instead of moving the point to the next line it opens a new (browser) window, as that's the binding in the browser.
vj44··on Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
QuicklyChat looks awesome - good job guys! The program runs fine on my machine too.
vj44··on Show HN: Script Excel with Python
Sorry, it's not possible now. Microsoft's technology is not there yet at MacOS.
vj44··on Advanced Data Structures MIT
The videos are being released after each lecture (the first lecture was last Tuesday, so there's only 1 video available at this time).
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