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541.
by Drbble 15y ago
Which then all merged into Verizon. The forces of justice win once every generation, but the forces of evil advance every year.
542.
by Drbble 15y ago
What you propose is called antitrust, and it is already law, but is mostly ignored or loopholed.
543.
by Drbble 15y ago
?? All the references are outbound links. A wikipedia page with no outbound links should likely be deleted for non-encyclopedia content.
544.
by Drbble 15y ago
Bing picks crap sites seemingly at random already anyway, so there is no SE to try to O.
545.
by Drbble 15y ago
Sortition is the word of the week! It would be a nice feature to cycle the top N results for a query and give the public and chance to see multiple takes on a topic
546.
by Drbble 15y ago
That's the whole point! To make Google-friendly sites more similar to human-friendly sites. (There's even an xkcd comic about this already.)
547.
by Drbble 15y ago
HuffPo is a spam site that Panda should have killed. Stackoverflow is a unique content sites with practically no human-unfriendly SEO (Except maybe the huge list of related questions that tends to fool Google, where the search term is spli
548.
by Drbble 15y ago
You. Don't know why people say about.com is a spam site. It is a paraphrase site, with long readable content pages that link to other resources. I learn much more and more quickly about tmobile cell phone plans from about.com then I do from
549.
by Drbble 15y ago
Why do people believe links are still a good signal? It is a textbook case of distorting a metric by relying on it. Traffic to (and engagement on) a site seems to be a much better signal, for the many sites that use Google Analytics, at lea
550.
by Drbble 15y ago
Does anyone else find that announcement weird? "over -SEO", is just a kind of low quality content, so been a Google target for years. This announcement seems like it's just trying to scare off SEO fanatics, or an admission that Google has b
551.
by Drbble 15y ago
Meaning Google makes no effort to score your whole page against each word in the dictionary, it only attempts to score 1- to 6-game from the page and inbound links? That's unfortunate.
552.
by Drbble 15y ago
"AI" is algorithms, and it is what a large fraction of Google engineering does all day.
553.
by Drbble 15y ago
Yeah but the debate topic is "don't use classes", not "use Haskell" or "write in a unary lambda style"
554.
by Drbble 15y ago
Google Guice is not hell.
555.
by Drbble 15y ago
Exposed how? Methods can be private.
556.
by Drbble 15y ago
Maybe the reason programmers moved from cobol to OO is because they found OO better? Staying with Cobol was an option?
557.
by Drbble 15y ago
The part about proofs and axioms is completely non-logical. for the past several centuries, proofs have relied on axioms. Euclid introduced axioms (postulates) in order to provide proofs (and precise formulations) for informal statements. S
558.
by Drbble 15y ago
Perfect username. The problem is that Linux ecosystem doesn't have enough QA backing the amount of new and changing code. The is partly caused by inflated egos of the competing distro teams. Ingo is wrong about freedom. Freedom is the cause
559.
by Drbble 15y ago
That is a case of yet another pair of problems, though: Python is incompatible with itself across versions (understandable, I guess), yet it is hard to run multiple versions side by side (major flaw in Python 3 for reusing the unadorned nam
560.
by Drbble 15y ago
It was broadband (well, high speed LAN) on college campuses.
561.
by Drbble 15y ago
Amazon had tools, but not every team used them. I loved the tool Haakon wrote. And there was actually a great third party open source tool back in 2009, whose name I forget, that was bizarre abandoned. It's not like Pivotal sets a high ba
562.
by Drbble 15y ago
And serious women, at least in Israel.
563.
by Drbble 15y ago
Only people who run their business on a random startup webapp. I wish amazon or Google would externalities their pro quality trackers, though.
564.
by Drbble 15y ago
Ah, sorry. Insurance underwriter takes a different view than criminal law, I guess.
565.
by Drbble 15y ago
The Federal Government is pretty good at spending whatever it wants without regard for revenue, though.
566.
by Drbble 15y ago
Or when the new 2nd Ave subway is finished...
567.
by Drbble 15y ago
Intellisense/autocomplete in Eclipse and Vim is the one are of desktop computing where I do get assistance, and it works great. It's not autocorrect, but it's two characters and then tab of crtl-space or whatever and tab or arrow key to the
568.
by Drbble 15y ago
Ack, no, it's 0.01% for 8 people. Slightly more sustainable than I thought.
569.
by Drbble 15y ago
$10/user per year isn't so much....
570.
by Drbble 15y ago
Nice to see the stupid "you are the product" meme subverted.

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