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by BryantD 8y ago
To be fair, this is true of many of the candidates. Bernie's got a store, a donate button, and a big animated gif of Bernie looking cheerful. Gillibrand explains what she cares about, but doesn't have any serious policy platform.
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by BryantD 8y ago
This is a really interesting conversation but I really want to read the full proposal. As many have noted, what about AWS? Does Apple's App Store count as a platform? What does the data clause mean? Etc.
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by BryantD 8y ago
I'm a big fan of making this transparent, but "every location visited" is inaccurate clickbait. The article would be more useful if it explored how the selection of locations was performed.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Anonymized is unfortunately not useful for this -- you need to be able to get to the reddit user names. I don't see anything in there that would provide number of comments they make in the culture wars thread, and that's really wh
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by BryantD 8y ago
If there are 10 right wingers and 10 left wingers, but the right wingers post 10x as many comments, that's a rather different scenario than if they're posting equal numbers of comments.
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by BryantD 8y ago
"On the last SSC survey, I asked who participated in the thread, and used that to get a pretty good idea of its userbase." I think this is worth drilling into. Scott's data shows the user base, but he slips into "I took
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by BryantD 8y ago
The supplemental index was relatively tiny -- just new pages.
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by BryantD 8y ago
All over. I didn't stick in search; I wound up working in online games for a long time. David Henke, who ran engineering and operations as a whole for a while, went on to Yahoo and then LinkedIn. Barry Rubinson went to Transmeta -- rem
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by BryantD 8y ago
True, but after the period I'm thinking of. By 2001 when the layoffs started hitting hard, Google already had a massive advantage.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Nah. We weren't using that many servers. Today, that absolutely would make a difference. Back in the day we could run a top ten web site on well under 500 servers, and it's not like we were paying list price for Alphas anyhow.
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by BryantD 8y ago
To be fair, I'm an ops guy, not a search engineer. ;) It's valid to say AV might not have implemented the basic concepts as well and I don't want to devalue Google's innovation. It just annoys me when people assume PageR
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by BryantD 8y ago
No offense taken!
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by BryantD 8y ago
I can't remember one way or another but I think you're right about the importance of the defaults.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Two indexes: the supplemental index (refreshed frequently) and the main index (refreshed less often). The latter is the one that wasn't refreshed for an unusually long period of time.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Internal issues I'm not comfortable talking about in depth. It was a combination of technical problems and political problems; I expect any specific person's opinion of the percentage breakdown of those factors depends a lot on wh
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by BryantD 8y ago
This article misses one of the primary reasons for AV's demise -- we didn't update our primary index for several months just as Google was gaining mindshare. A ridiculously high percentage of our front page links were 404s, while
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by BryantD 8y ago
Or https://github.com/fnproject . I think best practice is to think of serverless deployment as a technical operations technology, rather than as a methodology to eliminate the need for technical operations. Don't lose
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by BryantD 8y ago
I have good news for you! Sacco was hired as Director of Communications by FanDuel about 6 months after IAC fired her from a similar director-level position. She was promoted to VP at FanDuel two years later, and she is currently the VP of
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by BryantD 8y ago
> How you made the leap from, "Defending oneself from an accusation inherently entails discrediting the accuser" to, "knowingly lying and needlessly insulting people is okay" is a mystery to me. Ah, I'm sorry tha
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by BryantD 8y ago
Agree in part, disagree in part -- but nonetheless it's a pretty significant episode of public shaming, and I have a hard time imagining a really high quality article about the subject that doesn't cite it.
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by BryantD 8y ago
No, he did not say such a thing. I'm not specifically addressing Kavanaugh, I'm pointing out a flaw in your logic. You made a general assertion, which I'll quote again: "Defending oneself from an accusation inherently en
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by BryantD 8y ago
> Defending oneself from an accusation inherently entails discrediting the accuser This reduces the question to a black and white decision, which is unreasonable. I see two major flaws here: 1. You're eliding the difference between
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by BryantD 8y ago
I have a pretty simple algorithm for articles about the dangers of public shaming. If they fail to catalog GamerGate and the online shaming of Zoe Quinn as an example of the problem, they are probably not a balanced look at the phenomenon.
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by BryantD 8y ago
The other respondents to your comment put it very well, so I'll just say that I agree. It's not an invasion. When the President lies, it's OK for a reporter to call him or her a liar.
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by BryantD 8y ago
We have the transcript of the exchange. Can you clarify what you mean by "political opinion generation"? ---- Acosta: I wanted to challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in the midterms
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by BryantD 8y ago
And we all get to decide whether or not we think that instruction was appropriate. Personally, I don't. The federal government answers to the people. If we, the people, are not well-informed about what the federal government is doing,
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by BryantD 8y ago
Maybe not! The last half of the article is all about the faults; the closing line of the article (before footnotes) questions whether or not Apple is making the right maps at all. And the footnotes are relentlessly negative about Apple: &qu
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by BryantD 8y ago
All of this, yes. The problems with ascribing value to ideas based on how controversial they are should be obvious. This is possibly the by-product of investment mentality: investing in bad companies is punished financially, but does not ap
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by BryantD 8y ago
Mostly because I believe that, while it's important to maintain healthy skepticism around privacy and security issues, I also believe that we don't benefit from cynical hyperbole.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Last week Facebook was reasonably transparent about a hack affecting tens of millions of users.

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